The San Francisco call., 1913-10-22
~ OR the first time In two years
r Ad Wolgast has come out of

- OR the first time In two years
Ad Wolgast has come out of
regular scrap without hurting
that left wing of his-his best
winner. he says. 1t was the left
that he broke on Jack Redmond's
hard head on a June night in Mil
waukee in 1910, and three months
later, when he thought his money
Garner had mended. nicely, he re-
broke 1t on Tommy Mcfarland in
Fond du Lac, Wis, in almost the
same spot The Michigan German
was the title holder at the time.
and was toasted all over the
country for his misfortunes.
which few believed were as bad
as he stated. He was idle after
that until the following February.
which was in 1911. and then he
started out on new campaign.
~ Ut In every one of his contests
X since he had trouble with his
= arm or his wrist, which he
regarded as an outcome. OF the
old fractures. As q matter or
fact, the arm never has been the
same. although he scored a half
dozen knockouts with 1t. and
against such good men as George
Memsic, Antoine Lagrave, One
Round Hogan. frankie Burns,
Owen Moran and Joe Rivers, in
addition to welding 1T pretty well
in several no decision battles.
But always after a contest he had
to give the arm. wrist and hand
plenty of treatment to bring them
back into shape, and for days the
soreness would be there and both
er him horribly.
-HE other night in Milwaukee
he whaled the life almost out
: of Battling Nelson. using the
left arm with a great deal of free
dom and then waited to see what
would happen. To his keen de-
light the following day there was
but little soreness there and this
now has passed of entirely. This
gives the Michigan man hope that
he is I'm for a real comeback stunt
now and that he can go along far
more confidently than he could
since the second fracture. He has
got to show something pretty
good now, for his battle with
Charley White-October 24-is but
a short time or and he will have
need then OF every ounce OF his
fighting strength.
X X X
YvYOLGAsT's left hand In his
w best weapon and he knows 1t.
W He uses his right mostly for
defensive purposes and for hit
ting at the body when he is fight
ing a man he can get close to and
In crouched position. Then he
slams out vigorously and can do a
lot ,of damage with II. IF I
haven't got my left haRd | might
as well get right out OF the bust
ness" Wolgast told me. It's
the one I have used in all of my
fights to bring a man down. andI
have yet to see an opponent that
/ couldn't hit with it. no matter
how clever he may be. Even
Ritchie felt the weight OF II more
than once and everybody told me
he was so clever that ] might as
well leave my left hand in the
dressing room for all the good 1t
would do me when 1 faced him. I
didn't find 1t so, however
y X x
- AT NELSON really has retired.
X He hasn't the slightest incli-
nation. he says. to try 1t over
again, being very well content
to know that his old enemy VOL
CAST couldn't carry out his threat
and stop him in five rounds. With
this rather chilly comfort Bat is
going to leave 1t for the newer
generation and will In the future
devote all of hisstime to bolster
ing up his property interests In
Hegeswisch and elsewhere.
\
vt develops now that the real
reason Nelson accepted terms
: for that match with Wolgast
was because he really needed the
ready money. He has plenty OF
property which may develop into
an independent fortune for the
veteran lightweight, but 1t will
take lot of time, and In the
meanwhile the Dane must have
coin. Hence the Milwaukee, af-
fair that ended SO disastrously