Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-05
PHYSICIANS SAY
WOLGAST F0ULED
One Medical Man Declares He
Saw Illegal Blow, and Exam
ination Confirmed Him.

LOS ANGELES, July 5Dr. A. N.
Smith, DR.. L. W. Burt and DR.. Bying-
ton examined Joe Rivers Immediately
after he had reached his dressing
room yesterday, following his bout
with Ad Wolgast. DIR. Smith stated
that he saw the blow struck and that
it was a deliberate foul" Drs. Burt
and Byingtons agreed that the blow
was foul and very painful.
AL Harder, official timekeeper for
the club. said that it was just nine
seconds before the round was to end
when Rivers went down. Several
seconds elapsed before Referee WEIGH
began to count.
II don't know how many seconds
Welch had counted before 1 rang the
BELL" said Harder, but l do know
that after I had rung the bell ending
the round WEIGH gave the decision to
Wolgast."
For twelve rounds Wo1gast and
Rivers fought like catamounts. In
the thirteenth there came a blow
which landed low, and both boys in
an instant were sprawling and writh-
ing upon the floor. Wolgast was de-
clared the winner by Referee Jack
WEIGH. Then bedlam broke loose.
There was a demonstration, lasting
more than half an hour, by 1000
excited spectators, but it was handled
throughout by less than a dozen po-
1icemen without violence of any sort.
Referee WEIGH stands disputed by
Rivers and by thousands of spectators
In his decision that Wolgast won by
a knockout. The Mexican fighter
claimed a foul, and in his dressing
room he displayed what he claimed
proof of it. Wolgast said he also was
fouled, but last night in a conference
with Promoter Tom McCarey, of the
Pacific Athletic Club, Tom Jones, his
manager, said he did not believe the
foul inflicted upon the champion was
intentional. Jones said Wolgast
stumbled over the feet of Rivers as
the latter lay PROSTATE and fell upon
his a~dversary's knee. Wolgast faint
ed and was carried to his dressing
room. AS Wolgast was taken out the
spectators jeered and ''booed" him
while they struggled in frantic eff
forts to get into the ring where
Referee Jack WEIGH stood for a mo-
ment in hot alteration with the an
gered manager and seconds of Rivers.
WEIGH left the ring after reassert-
ing that Rivers's claim of foul was
unfounded; that he had counted ten
seconds on Rivers and that the gong
ending the round did not intervene
before he had completed the count.
McCarey maintained silence. So
did Jones. But Joe Levy. the mana
ger of Rivers, repeated his offer
made in the ring to let the little men
fight 1t out at once.
End Came Suddenly.
The end came suddenly. Both
boys, CORY from head to belt, their
faces pulled and cut. were fighting
near the ropes on the north side of
the ring when Rivers suddenly col
lapsed. Wolgast, previously in the
same round and in several other
rounds, had struck Rivers rather low,
and when Rivers went down there
was a sudden shout of foul. In an
instant Wolgast was down on top of
Rivers, grooming. Wolgast rolled off
Rivers's body, his features convulsed.
WEIGH Immediately began counting
and was still counting when he
reached down and helped Wolgast. to
his feet. There were shouts thai the
bell had ended the round while WEIGH
was counting. The arena by this
time was in an uproar. Al Holder,
timekeeper of the Pacific Athletic
Club, shouted that he had rung the
gong.
At this point Rivers, his face con-
torted with pain, scrambled weakly
to his feet and squared away, ready
to renew the battle. WEIGH waved
him back.
That's an outrage. and it won't
go here" a dozen angry men who
had scrambled through the ropes ex-
claimed to Welch.
''It will have to CO." the referee re-
piled. at was fair" and slipped out
of the arena.
Weich's Statement.
WEIGH said later:
"Wolgast was clearly the winner.
Just before Rivers went down VOL
CAST had landed a heavy left to the
body below the pit of the stomach,