Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-13
RDLAR PLEXUS
|WALLOP DOWNS
| AD IN SEVENTH
michigan Bearcat" Claims Blow
I Is Low, But Referee Stout
Rules Otherwise.
By Ed W. Smith.
ILwAUKEE, March 13.-won-
II derful fight!

. derful fight!
W Wonderful fighters!
Wonderful crowd, wonderful arena,
onderful night, wonderful every
|hlng'
And after 1t was all over, the cheer
had died out, the throng had sift
ont the entrances, and the jani-
" was wltching off the lights, Willie
Rtcbie. worlds champion lightweight
las back in his dressing room, won
bring whether he really can whip
is terrible bearcat from Michigan.
vicious Ad Wolgast.
He bested Ad by a slight shade in
Auditorium Arena here last night
4 the presence of a throng that set a
.scord for limited round glove con-
|ksts II not in the whole world, at
kast in this section of the globe.
here was about $4,000 to be cut
n bv those vitality interested in the
ruggle Richie getting a fiat figure
4 Il 400 per round, while Wolgast
In his manager, Tom Jones, fiirted
I'm fate. won, and took what re-
bained of 70 per cent of the house
Sfter paving the financially rapacious
hampton.
D[TCHIE had the shade last night
II merely on the cleverness of ms
hitting, his ability to drive home
Mean cutting left hands to the Vul-
&erable point, his general skill in the
3cxing art. but, most of all, a knock
Hown that he scored in the seventh
tund
It was the knockdown and the gem
.ral way in which 1t was brought
bout that gave Richie the shade de-
u sion over Wolgast.
II all came about in the middle OF
be seventh round, and was sudden
happening. Wolgast had been shoot
hg his injured left and his entirely
bod right into the mid section of the
Hampton with what looked like tell
* effect, for it seemed as II Ritchle
8 as getting tired and whiting.
With amazing rapidity, his express
hon never changing, Richie switched
lis attack from head to body, and,
Having Wolgast's own game, began
Il shoot them into Ads ribs.
q A left landed a trifle high up INTO
be chest, and as the champion swung
5hrough into the attack with his pow
rful right, Wolgast dropped to both
tnees, then fioundered up until he
Eested on one, and then. his gloves
Mapped over his groin and an appeal
u his eyes to Referee Stout, he SLOW
arose to his feet.
4 Stout shook his head in token that
fe considered the blow fair. Stouts
Urn waved. but it never will be known
fhat the count was Stout probably
Doesn't know himself, since he halted
she toll Of seconds, resumed, and, then
Is he saw Wolgast was going to con-
Inuc the contest, he discontinued 1t
Entirely.
Wolgast plainly was in distress
The punch aimed at the solar pleXus
tection, was Just a trifle high to bring
Rbout Carson City result, but II hurt
! ust the same, and Wolgast barely
feathered out the round. He was
Tagging and worried, tired out, spent
for the time being. and Richie, see
ing his chance, stepped in with a
feavy left and a hard right hook to
he head. They rocked Ad to the
feels as the crowd screamed wildly
Tor finish. The bell came to VOL
fasts rescue just then.
IN ITCHIE saw his chance in the
eighth and in response to the
Frantic appeals from his corner to
look his left, tried to put over the
|nlsher, 1t was too late. The bear
tat refreshed with the minutes rest,
food still in the center of the ring,
Forced Richie to make the pace, and
men did little fighting of his own.
Richie, himself tired and put to
fftremities, held Ads head with his
Ell and hit with his right. AID jerked
pose. slashed a left to the body, but
ne steam was gone. From then TO
ne end OF the round 1t was a pulling
fnd hauling match, but with the
POUND in Ritchie's favor.
II can not be settled in ten rounds,
ME question between two of the
freatest Dutchmen that ever inhab-
''ed the Queensberry arena.
On Wolgast's showing lest night
gaJcnie must give him battle over
lne long route, irrespective of the
|u'come of impending contests