El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-09
WoLgast Says Watch Him;
Claims He's Coming Back
Michigan Wildcat Asserts His Claws Are sprouting
Again, and His Manager Confirms; Will He Have
Patience Enough to Train Prop
erly? Is Fans Query
By W. w. NAUGHToN.

= AN FRANCISCO, Calf, Feb. g
Is Ad WoIgast coming up again
- or was his recent showing with
Joe Rivers nothing more significant
than flash in the PAM
OF course, If YOU take Ads word
10Y 1t-Or for that matter the word
o. MS manager, Cherokee Tim Jones'
the Michigan Wildcats claws have
sprouted again and there is trouble
aheau Tor all who attempt to halt
Elm when he starts to mount the steps
adel
4 always knew that I would recover"
says Al In q letter to the writer
VI nat allied me was simply the lin
serlng effect Of the knitting they gave
me at Los Angeles. L mended- slowly
IN my fights afterwards. felt a
numDness and stiffness in my right
especially where the surgeons
maze the cut-and the weakness .ex-
Iended down my right leg at times
huL II an gone I took my medicine
ana 1 waited, and WOlgast is himself
again just watch me. And above. an. !
watch the way III corner that how
Rltchie and force him to sign with
Truth VIII Ont.
III VIII all come out, of course If !
olgast has thoroughly outlived the /
eIIects of his appendicitis Operation !
ana IS experiencing a renewal or re- 4
turn of his former fighting dash. the 4
truth VIII out He is still popular /
NAAOA6n among the admirers of
QueensDerry pastlmes to warrant Z
promoters handling him occasionally.
IL ne continues to do as wei as he 4
DID In the affair with Rivers, there ]
VIII surely be a WOlgast boom There
may be and there have been cham
plons whose hold on the affections of +
tne PUBIC IS and was notably slight
but dyedintheWOoI fight followers al
ways retain warm spot for the wild
cat
In this respect he classes with John
L. H., .s 2GLlIVff54, Son FItzslmmOns and
BaIullng Nelson, men whose right TO !
call themselves champions was beyond (
arg lmenL For these reasons WoIgasf !
~ ne DeBlns TO climb, win receive
many a hearty boost.
VIII He Like Training Betters
If WOlgast qualities again for q
place among the best sellers it will he
interesting to watch if he falls into [
an old rut 7 have reference to the dis
taste for training which for awhile Z
seemed to have become constitutional !
That WoIgast had come to hate the
grind of the road and the gymnasium
was patent TO all who had knowledge I
or the way he prepared for his Iafer
contests in and around San Fra1c iseLgi
II may be that the lingering effects
Of the knitting" as he terms it caused
eXerlon Of any kind to become irI-
some but whatever the reason. Ads
training" got to be a joke
If he had not been such a vain If /
Tie wasp II might have been differ
ers for neglecting his work he used
70 say 7 don't need much training
70 lick this fellow and he really felt
that way about il. too
For some reason, unexpected set
backs did not seem to bear anv les J
son for him. From his appearances
when he entered the ring to box Toe
Azevedo, at Oakland, if is doubtful if :
be could have made the slightest pre-
tcnce of undergoing preparation. S
Now, the writer is not in a Dosf- Y
ton to say whether Wolgast will be O
successful in the demonstration that 4
this slump in fighting ability during T
he past year or two was owing to 7
The. operation for appendicitis III / b
make bold to say, though that he will
rot be able to demonstrate very much II
1nless he trains more conscientiouslv
han he did for some of his bouts
Turing the last half Of the year 1918. ia
Kid Kenneth In Strong. a
That they think a lot of Kid Ken e6
ieth down in Taft Calf, is evidenced be
~ a letter I received from a snort / co
Who signs himself, "a Bugge." Incl az
cntaQy I wish my correspondent had -
eld to the graceful style in which ea