The Washington herald., 1914-11-03
,Ish Wins Fight From Ad MoIgastin the Eighth Round
Fight Is Halted
In Eighth Round
Ad Wolgast Breaks Arm and
Referee Roche Gives Freddy
Welsh the Battle.
WILD CAT" IS BEATEN

New York. Nov. 2-According to Ref
cree Billie Roche, Ad wolgast. former
light-weight champion Of the world. bat.
tied for twelve rounds with a broken
arm against Freddie Welsh. the English
title-holder. at Madison Square Garden
last night
Roche says woIgast broke a small
bone In his right forearm In the middle
Of the NTH round by hitting the cham
\ pion on the head. At the close Of the
eighth round. during which the stocky
\ Michigan lad took q terrific thumpfnR
from Welsh. wolgast staggered to his
corner and slumped into his chair, his
arm hanging limp at his side. Roche
made q brief explanation and stopped
the nght which had been growing rather
one-sided every round after the third.
A big crowd rushed into the ring and
surrounded Wolgast. even while weIsh's
seconds were still working on the Eng
lishman. not realizing that the tight was
over, and II took some time to clear the
ring 20 Wolgast could leave Roche said
the former champion wanted to continue,
but he would not permit II. As a matter
kof fact, the best Wolgast could have
hoped for was more punishment He had,
no further chance against the English
man. who had commenced to pound him
numerically.
weleh's stomach may be q BIT sore
tomorrow, but otherwise he should feel
no Ill effects of his meeting with the
former champion. During the earlier
rounds Wolgast managed to get in some
smashing body blows, some landed pretty
low, but Welsh fed him thousand raps
to the face by way Of return.
Never hard. the champion slammed the
tough Michigander with right and left
hand time and again without seeming to
bother Wolgast, but the latter was grad
ma lrar kka
Always q rather light lightweight when
at his best, wolgast seemed almost fat
under his rs pounds tonight, and while
he seemed to have all bis old stamina at
first, 1t did not last long. Fighting from
his familiar awkward crouch. the right
hand drawn across his face and pumping
his blows from every angle at welsh's
body, the little Michigander gave his ad-
mirers something to yell about for a few
minutes, anyway.
He let the champion whack him with |
both hands in the face during the first
round to get close enough, to dig his |
glove into Welsh's body. always pulling
the fight, but even at the close Of that |
round the Michigan boys left eye was |
pushing up, and finally the Englishman
broke il open with a straight arm poke
In way, the fight was about as antici- |
pated ...... |
wolgast was no match for Welsh at |
boxing, and the Englishman's title was |
never in danger. Many spectators say |
they saw Wolgast's arm drop limp in the |
fifth after he had swung a hard blow at |
the champions head. but he fought along
about as he started. with the exception |
that he seemed to be growing weaker.
In the sixth Welsh pasted Wolgast .
with straight lefts by the score. and |
wound up with fierce left and right to
the Jaw that hurt the Michigander. !
Rough and tough, his hair rumpled over
his eyes, and his face swollen and bleed
ing, Wolgast kept charging in, head down
and his hands failing away at his body.
The champion was obviously trying to
knock out his man He tried to make IL
q fight rather than a boxing match, but
the more he hit Wolgast the harder the
ex-champion seemed to try. Every
round after the fourth was pretty much
alike up 20 the sudden ending with VOL
CASTS chances diminishing every moment,
but up to the fourth 1t was q good battle.