The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-06
40 Usual WoIgast and HE Man.
ager Insist Champion Was
Robbed.

A d wOLGAST 10 finding life
"A full Of hard bumps. They do
say that Ad and his man
aser. the glib and slippery Tom
Jones. are In . rage over the New
Orleans reports Of Mondays hght be-
tween Wolgast and Joe Mandot.
Naturally the champion and his man
sger can see only wolgast The other
fellow 10 . mere outsider: . Blinking
wretch whose unworthy ambition Is
10 rob Wolgast Of his lightweight
title. Wolgast, no doubt, and Jones.
agree In the opinion that the title
should Of right be wolgasts private
property as long a. he cares to hold
It. All champions have that notion.
would not say that woisast 10
showing signs OF having gone back"
Just because clever Joe Mandot can
give him 4 tough time Of II In Q ten
round bout. woixast was In GOOD
shape when X. o. Brown put him over
the Jumps In sig rounds In Philadelphia
and In ten In New York. People who
thought woi8ast was on the slide at
that time were convinced OF their mis-
take when the champion turned around
and stopped Hogan IN less than two
rounds. Just after lighting little X. o.
and setting At least mono the best Of
II. WolEast knocked out Memsic, La
Grave. Hogan. Burns and Moran In
succession.
% although Msndot stayed ten rounds
and finished we'll hardly consider VOL
gast . back number. He'll have to be
whipped and laid nat on his back be-
fore he Joins the has-bsen class.
n ATTLING NELSON refuses to
stay put" A few months ago.
- after being we'll hammered up In
number OF nights. no told the presS
Of the country that he knew when he
had enough and that he at last rea-
Used the inability Of any man to be
not human" forever.
Now Bat In out again. shouting chai-
lenges and telling how. ut ne feels
and how sure he 10 that he can whiy
wolgast or Mcfarland.
I sense q feeling of desperation n
this last statement Nelson must hav,
Q longing for just one more Of the bis
purses such as he banked after hi
hghts Of . few years ago. He'd Ee
q slice Of big gate with either VOL
.sest or Mcfarland. and no one know
Il better than Bat His end would b,
something to retire with. at any rate.
Nelson has been Safeguarding Pack
ey Mcfarland In signed statement
published In some Of the Western pa
psrs. II wouldn't be At all surprising
II Mcfarland became suficiepuy In
censed to sdGn up for a match witt
Nelson. Bats present attitude. whel
no u the back number and McFarlan
the boxer In public favor. contrast
strongly with his actions toward Nc
Farland when he was champion.
Al that time Nelson boxed once wit
young Mcfarland in Rats show. Nc
Farland gave him a much hercer hGh
than Bat had anticipated. Bat tried
induce the timekeeper to call time. bu
that ofYicial, who was enjoying the fur
refused and let the second round 3
for Ave full minutes. When he foun
that he had to. Bat burkled down grim
y to night for his life. McFarian
roughed and slugged with him to IN
his manager. Billy Nolan. to take NJ,
rarland, too, no that Bat wouldn't
asked to nRht Packey himself. Nols
refused. But. although McFarlar
challenged Nelson often after that.
rkver was able to force the Dane I'M
a match. It's different now, with NJ
.Farland a great card and Nelson Loo
ing for the coin along the outside.
WE noticed several uncomplimenta
statements In certain newspape
4 about the undesirable things that a
dlstantiy associated with boxing-t
betting. drinking. etc. But gambli
and drinking can be associated wi
anything.
For instance. did any Of the reads
OF this column happen 10 NJ In
tie card game. Just for recreation. CO
ing down from Boston the evening
the Harvard Princeton game?
trains were well worked by ca
shsrpers One pair that worked betws
Boston and New York was very s,
cessfui. One was an old man who did
look like a sport: the other youni
ma