The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-06
|sn't II Funny Something Always
Happens Just as WoIgast Is
About to Box With McFarIand7

COPYRIGHT. 1919. By The Pres pubilshins %.
fThs New York World
.0AD news-that about wolgast
Isn't II funny that something al
ways happens Just as the light
weight champion IL about to box bout
nth Packcy McFarlandf For ''yahs
and yshs" Packsy has camped faith
Iuliy on the Cadillac crustacean's trail
end when Il seems that he 10 just about
70 land Addison slips silently back Into
his she'll and Ia seen no more.
Last time their meeting was deferred
Il the suggestion Of the athoritics. ana
vany people still think that Wolgat
and his manager didn't shed any otter
Ssars Of disappointment. This time VOL
vast has sustained an apparently se-
-ssre injury TO his right arm while
-eranking his motor car" which may
keen him out OF the ring for month
3r two"
Z The most curious thing about this
:Sareless cranking by wolgast 10 the
event that Immediately preceded It.
Woisast discovered In q newspaper
INV days ago an item relating to the
new Federal law prohibiting interstate
commerce In moving pictures OF boxing
1Atchos. when "A signed to meet
facky in q ten-round bout In New
Fork he had q notion that about 100000
Douid be fair remuneration for his In
Valuable services. After much dicker-
NJ he accepted q guarantee reported
y b Sn.soo. with . 800 bonus for sign
Mg. Another report 10 that wolgast
sscsivsd his 800 and . guarantee OF
3S,ooo for his thirty Minutes work,
9th . percentage. and nfty-ons per
cent. OF the moving picture money.
TIE champion thought that the pictures
Uouid be worth . fortune. He was told
that the Mcfarland Wells pictures did
not pay expenses. whereupon he ex-
eiaimed: Huh! But I'm In these. ana
ri slam . couple Of sosks into Pack
bye ribs thatn make EN- worth
Jico.oo"
%, when ne learned about the new
law and figured out Just how much less
the pictures would be worth because
they could bs shown only IN New York.
wolgast sat down and scrubbed Indus
triousiy on a telegraph blank. The re-
suit OF his work was suggestion that
Il wouldn't annoy him at all to DO Of
fered about $4,000 more to make up for
the moving picture slump. He didn't
make q regular demand-just gave the
promoters Ut the bout q gentle hint.
The gentlemen with the money In
formed wolgast that. desolatsd though
they were over the thought that they
wouldn't be able TO load the champion
down with another armfui Of yellow
backs, such was the unfortunate state
Of Affairs.
And the next day Ad cranked his car.
IF course. this may be merely one
more of the misfortunss in the
career Of woigast. Perhaps he
really hopes for . ten-round bout with
Mcfarland. snd won't be happy uu he
sets 1T. He had Q genuine attack of
appendicitis on the day before his bout
with Freddie Welsh. and was forced TO
cell that OF. II the champion really
has Injured his arm. far be Il from all
who follow the sport 20 wish to see
hun In the ring with McFarland, He'll
need two good arms when he meets
Packsy. Nolgast may have been a
little unfortunate. cracking an arm on
3 sscond-rster immediately after win.
ming the championship from Nelson.
and having that rebellious appendix
and running counter to his motor cal
crank. There's no doubt that when he
10 in action he's n game a. they make
'sm. and a. aggressive and cockey and
ssif-conndent . little champion a. tn,
ring ever owned.
have seen a number OF people who
lat At the ringisde when woigast boxed
Rivers q short time ago. and they on,
and all say that wolgast nghting In Lo'
Angeles In q twenty-round bout IL en-
tirsly unlike the Wolgast who boxes no.
decision bouts In the East In his regu
lar nights. where decisions go" he hai
always shown himself 10 be the hotties
tamaie that was ever wrapped In
small package.
YOHNNY KII.BANE'S light and air!
style OF boxing In the bout wiz
Dundee and Dundee's fig dancinI
didn't make much OF hit. Kilbln'
showed too strong an inclination TO re
gard the affair as a burlesque. Thos
who sat In the rngside box seats want
ed 10 see what kind OF a boxer the new
champion Is II he can't do any bette
than he did against Dundee he'll neve
BE- O. popular a champion as Terry Nc
Govern. George Dixon and tho rest a
the old-timers. Boxing isn't ~ a mat
ter Of head bobbing and interminabl
feinting without taking advantage G