Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-04
AID WOLGASI IS
GOING BACK
FAST
Was Lucky to Get a Draw with
Murphy on Washington'S
Birthday - Not so Good as
When He Lost Title to Scrap
per Richie

When He Lost Title to Scrap
per Ritch;e
That AID Wolgast is going back fast
is the opinion of the critics who saw
linn fight Harlem Tommy" Murphy
en- Washington's birthday. Here is
the story of the mill. as written by
Harry b. Smith in the Chronicle;
With AID Wolgast, one.time cham
pion lightweight Of the wOfSd. Keeling
end groggy in tae last two minutes OF
the final round and holding fast to
Murphy, after a squirt in Ahe early
stages that had Slapped his strength,
Jim Griffin raised the hands of both
men in token of draw decision lac
yesterday afternoon at Coffroih's Daly
City arena.I
AS he did so Tom Jones started
after him. and in haif-hearted fash
ion that indicated ne 5ida: mean what
he was saying, started protest.
From the<opposite cornar Jim Buck
ley and his cohorts let ont a hoIler
that could be heard throughout she
arena. so indignant were they that
au,,.liy hadn't beea declared the win
ner 81
On the whole, e WASH a bad deci-
si,m tia. Referee Griffin gave, and
wbi1a Wolgast was lutky in that hi.
received as fair AZ an even fdeak.
Murphy's lead was hardly sufficient
tu have declared him the victor.
II was Wolgast's worw from the
thirteenth round sop up through the
sixteenth that enidlel MIN TO copsld-
Grafton and the uldisputed fact that
his body punches tired Murphy and
slowed the New Ycrsar down on &C.
cas- icEs. II it had heea absolutely nee.
Q. tsIy to give the win to one man 6
another. there is no question but that
il was Murphy's edge.
After standing stomsch punches fer
five rounds that would have caused
the ,orGinary man To drop, Harlem
Tommy spurted at tie close TO such
effect that Wolgast was forced "a.
come to e elinch and never 1ookef
more tired at any STAGE Of lac contest.
whether Murphy could have Won
with five more rounds TO go, is q maot
cd question. The chances are. how
ever. that the fastener would have
cleaned up in good shape. He was Gel
fainly much the fresIar Of the pair
wien they were finiss.n., and, from
appearances, Wolgast had wound u
his last rally, with nothing more to
offer.
Wolaast isn't'th san.e.
ii the fight proved arfthing at all,
It is that Ad Wolgast IS by no manner
of means the same be- thai beat down
Battling Nelson at Rics.mond, or even
rs good as the day he lost to Willie
Richie on a foul in ....e same arena
az yesterday afternOe n.
Jones may make excuses that WsA-
gnst didn't have a sufficient training
and was hardly In trim, but With alt
the explanations he can offer, WolSast
was a disappointment yesterday lie
mad nothing of those qualities that
caused some one to name him the
michigan wildcat, and although there
were times when the little German LAD
lad started him famous old-tiEe raj
lies. he wasn't up to fighting on mis-
tintoes from gong to gong, and the
effort when he did make the attempt,
tired him.
His loop-the-loop punch, with which
he has scored in the past, was foiled
by Murphy, and the Irishman from
New York town on many occasions
out-fought Wolgast in the clinches
and out-generaled him in the maneuy-
ering. Murphy's straight left, to-
gcther with his left and right upper
cuts. that were short blows, but none
the less deadly, raped the Dutchmarn
time and again, and even when the
rallies were at hand Murphy proved
that he could stand head to head with
his opponent and fight Ad into a
clinch
Neither is there any question but
that Wolgast tired more easily than
has been his CUSTOM and, if the writer
is any Judge. his blows, while deliver
ed convincingly enough, from the
standpoint of the man outside the
ropes, lacked their usual snap and
destructiyeness
Apparently Wolgast not Only boxed
himself out OF a title last Thanks
giving day, but he is still on the down
grade. This isn't said by way OF hola-
ing Murphy cheaply, for that would
be unfair. but merely as a. result OF
the match and the comparisons that
must naturally come.
If wolgast's performance was dis
appointing. both to himself and the
banner crowd that gathered, Il must
be said for Murphy that he made
good. 1t is true that his punch was
not as damaging as his supporters
might have desired, but he worked
SO. cleverly that for twelve rounds ne