The San Francisco call., 1913-10-22
You See, It's This Way
By ED. w. SMITH, Calls Eastern Fight Expert

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r. OR the frst time I'm two years
Ad Wolgast has come out Of
regular scrap without hurting
that left wing OF his--his hest
winner, he says. 1t was the left
that he broke on Jack Redmoad's
hard head on a June night In Mill
waukee in 1910, und 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
since he had trouble with his
arm or his wrist, which he
regarded as an outcome OF the
fact, the arm never has been the
same. although he scored half
dozen knockouts with IT.. and
against such good men as George
Memsic. Antoine Lagrave, One
Round Hogan. frankie Burns,
Owen Moran and Joe Rivers, in
addition to welding it pretty well
In several no decision battles.
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to give the arm. wrist and hand
plenty of treatment to bring them
back into shape, and for days tho
soreness would be there and both-
er him horribly.
THE other night i'm Milwaukee
he whaled the life almost out
: of Battling Nelson. using the
left arm with a great deal OF free
o1om and than 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 in 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 of and he will have
need then of every ounce of his
fighting strength
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vvyOLGAsTss left hand Il his
w best weapon and he knows 1t.
He uses hts right mostly for
defensive purposes and for hit
ting at the body when he IL hght-
ing a man he can get close to and
in a crouched position. Then he
slams out vigorously and can do o
lot of damage with 1t. IF I
haven't got. my left hand I might
as well get right out of the busi-
ness" WoIgast told me. TITS
the one ! have used in all Of my
fights to bring q man down, and
have yet to see an opponent that
/ couldn't hit with 1T. no matter
how clever he may be. Even
Richie felt the weight of 1t 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 IL
would do me- when. i faced him.
didn't find it so, however,
- AT NELSON really has retired.
* He hasn't the slightest incli-
nation, he says, to try II over
again, being very well content
to know that his old enemy VOL
gast couldn't carry out his threat
and stop him in Ave rounds. with
this rather chilly comfort Bat il
going ito leave. It for the newer
generation and will In the future
devote al Of. hts time to bolster
Ing up his property interests in
Hegeswisch and elsewhere.
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TT 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 50 disastr0usly