Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-03

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how to avoid Wolgast's body blows
and he knew all the time how TO get
TO his man himself Thus the third
round was the turning point of bat
tie that looked to be made to order
for Wolgast
Welsh. in the fourth round, went
on a brand-new tack. He boxed VOL
CAST all the time. He led and he
landed and he repeated again and
again with lefts and rights and some
rights and lefts to the face. He
spared beautifully. and his footwork
was elegant. He hit Wolgast when
ever he wished to, and instead of
clinching, as in the early rounds, he
ducked away out of harm and at
times made AID look foolish. VOL
CAST landed several body blows in
this round, but Welsh did far the
letter work. He had Wolgast buffa-
loed and Ad even went SO far as to
chase after Welsh, he became SO elu-
sive. 1t was the Englishmans round,
though the fight was still young.
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Then came the fifth round and the
broken bone in Wolgast's wrist. As
IL to make believe he was unhurt,
Wolgast was particularly active dur
ing the early part of this round, but
Welsh kept away from him much of
the time and boxed him at long
range. AID, of course. had the use OF
his left hand only, but he did land
two or three hard blows to the body
with it. When Wolgast came back to
his corner after the session was over
he sank heavily in his chair and re-
marked to Jones, his manager:
TITS gone, Tom; it's gone"
Jones knew what was up, as Ads
right arm hung useless at his side.
There was much whispering and
finally it became noised about, and
eventually, of course, reached Weleh's
corner. It was all over now.
O.
My what q difference it made ia
Welsh's fighting. For the first time
in the fight Freddie assumed COM
mand from the very start. He sent
two hard lefts to Wolgast's face ana
he landed lefts until he became tired
of. it. Poor Wolgast. of course. had
no protection. his right arm dangling
at his side. AID now and then fought
for the body, but Welsh had him
studied to nicely and Ads
one-arm attacks were futile. Welsh
even became desperate and sent a
left and right to Wolgast's jaw that
sent him staggering up against the
ropes 1t was the Englishman's
hardest blows of the fight and they
hurt Wolgast Still Ad was game
and he took his beating and he took
his minutes rest and he came back
in the seventh round for more.
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The seventh round was all in favor
of Welsh, though Wolgast made a
desperate effort to get home a telling
left hook to the body. Under the
strain and under the pain Wolgast
was weakening, and he was very
slow. This made Welsh appear fast,
and he beat AID at every stage of the
game.
The eighth round came and again
Wolgast toed the mark. He was
plainly in trouble. yet he did not
complain. He rushed as if to
slaughter, but Welsh simply side
stepped, walloped him in the face
with lefts and smiled at him in de-
light. The round was Welsh's at
every turn and Wolgast, though far
from thoroughly beaten, looked to be
hopelessly out of 1t as far as a de-
cision was concerned. After taking a
good humping, his manager, Tom
Jones, called over Billy Roche, the
referee, to his corner and told him to
stop the bout. This Roche did. but he
took the whole responsibility. The
ending was pathetic and some Of the
fans didn't believe 1t was on the
level and booed the announcement.
But Wolgast's arm was broken just
the same.
C.
Manager Johnston sprung several
innovations at the old Garden last
night, and that these innovations did
not meet with the approval of "the
gang is putting it lightly. Around
o'clock in the afternoon about hun
dred and fifty of the gentry from the
east side swooped down on the Madi-
son avenue entrance to the Garden
expecting to be welcomed, as was the
custom when Billy Gibson was the
manager of the Garden fight club
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