The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08
HOPE WOLGAST
HAS CONE BACK
WITHOUT FAIL
Friends Are Elated at Show.
ing of Michigan wild
Cat" in Bout With
Joe Rivers.
WILL FORCE RTTCHIE
INTO RETURN MATCH
Oilfeld Fight Fans Believe
'eKid' Kenneth Is Coming
"White Hope;" Easily
Defeated Pelkey.
By Tad
By w. W. NAueHToN.


~ AN FRANCISCO, Feb. lis Ad
~ wolgast coming up again or was
~ his recent showing with Joe
Rivers nothing more significant
than fash in the pant
OF course, if you take Ad 3 word for
it-or for that matter, the word Of his
manager. "Cherokee'F Tom Jones-the
Michigan Wildcats claws have sprouted
again and there is trouble ahead for
ali who attempt to halt him when he
starts to mount the steps Of the light
weight championship citadel. ad:l wo,o..t
"Nothin' to it," echoes Jones.
s'I always knew that I would recov-
or, - SAYS Ad in letter to the writer.
HWhat allied me was simply the linger-
ing effects of the knitting they gave me
at Los Angeles. / mended slowly In
nv fights afterwards. I felt numb
ness and stiffness in my right side, es-
pecial]y where the surgeons made the
cut, and the weakness extended down
my right leg at times. But it g all gone;
took my medicine and / waited, and
Wolgast is himself again. Just watch
me. And above all, watch the way l II
corner that boy Ritchie and force him
to sign with me. -
Chance to "ShOw."
1t will all come out, Of course. II
WoIgast has thoroughly outlived the ef,
fects of his appendicitis operation and
is experiencing renewal or return OF
his former fighting dash, tho truth wlll
out. He is still popular enough among
the admirers Of QueensbeTy Pastime
to warrant promoters handing MN oS
casionally and by mis- work we shall
know him.
If he continues to do as well as he
did in the affair with Rivers, there will
surely be Wolgast boom. There may
he and there have been champions
whose hold on the affections OF the pub
lie is and was notably slight, put dyed
in.the wool fight followers always re-
tain warm spot for the wildcat.
l.. Sullivan. Bob Eitzsimmons and Bat,
fling Nelson. men whose right to call
themselves champions was beyond ar
pument. For these reasons, Wolgast, II
he begins 20 climb. will receive many
hearty boost
n WoIynst qualities again for place
among the best sellers IL viii be inter,
esting to watch If he falls into an old
rnt i have reference 10 the distaste
for training which for while seemed
10 have become constitutional with ham'
SHED at Training.
That wolgast had come to hate the
Grind of the road and the gymnasium
was patsut 10 all who had knowledge
of the way he prepared for his later
contests in and around san Francisco
n NAV be that ''the lingering effects
of thc knitting az hc terms ~, caused
exertion OF amy kind 10 become irksome,
hnt whatever the reason, ADS tram
INC, got to lie Joke. 80,
II he had not been such vain little
wasp II might have been dirferent
When chided By his well-wishers Tor
negIectina his work he used 20 say, -
don 4 need much training TO hex this
fellow and be really felt that way
about it, too
For solne reason. unexpected sethaeks
d;d moi seem to bear any lesson Tor
him. Fropi his appearance when he en-.
tered the ring TO box Joe Azevedo, az
oakland, IL Is doubtful IL he could have
made the slightest pretense OF undergo
ing preparation.
Now. the writer is not IN 3 position
Ia say whether Wolgast viii be success
fuI in the demonstration that tins slump
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