New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-17
Personal Touches Here
and There in Boxing
BY EGOE

IneTe WAY q IdilOW NaHuAS StSoAOA4 Va
traordinary of the boxing commission
last night TO determine Just how badly
Ad Wolgast had been injured in his
fight with frankie Whitney at Atlanta.
Reports from there had said that VOL
CASTS eye had been badly cut, and Fred
Wenck wanted TO know whether VOL
CAST would be in condition to box
Leach Cross at the Harlem Sport
ing Club tonight. Sam Wallsch.
brother-msnager of Leach. supplied a
medico in the person OF James b.
Thompson. DR.. Thompson Is the Red
Cross surgeon whenever there are
bouts on at Madison Square Garden.
He went 20 the Pennsylvania Station
to meet Wolgast when he got of the
train. There was such a crowd there
that the doctor ordered Wolgast TO re-
pair TO the commissions office in Park
Row, where Wenck was waiting for the
medical report on Ads eye.
The party ,trooped into the commits
sion's Office little before 8 o'clock. An
examination Of Wolgsst disclosed the
cut not over his eye, as the wires had
stated, but high up on the top of his
head. The hair had 10 be cut away to
get at it. His left eye, however, was
badly discolored. DR.. Thompson ex-
amined the cut carefully, and said that
a stitch would hold IL together during
the bout with Cross, and that there
was no danger OF II being reopened.
Wenck was inclined 10 censure Wolgast
for engaging in contest before he had
fulfilled the contract with John the
Barber.
Johns contracts contain a clause to
that effect, but it is printed in small
type at the very bottom of the articles.
Wolgast claimed that he didn't see the
warning line. Wenck told him that he
could 60 ahead with the Cross fight, but
that II he botched things he was
liable to a six months setdown because
of breach of contract.
While Wolgast was sitting for the
doctor in the commissions Office the
question of the Fulton-Willard fight
came up.
at will be over in two rounds" said
Wenck. Jess will knock him out in
short order"
Don't be so sure Of that" said VOL
CAST. "Let me tell you that Fulton
hits beautifully, and again don't be sur
prised if he knocks Jess out"
"How is ne going TO knock him out II
Cant hit him WHERE? On the bot
tom of the feet?" asked Wolgsst. lie.
me tell you that he can hit and he will
hit Willard, and II he does Jess will
know something about II. He's go.
more than a dub's chance against Jess
and don't you forget IL. Speaking OF
hitting, / will say right here that
never met a better hitter than Whit
ney. He ha. a puzzling way of shift
ing from left to right with both hands
and feet. Why ne had me dizzy trying
to figure him out When he shifts he
can whip his right over for a hook
exactly like q man uses his left He's
a dangerous customer"
Battling Levinsky will &c. a step fun
Their to the big time stuff by meeting
Jim Cofey's eparring partner at the
Olympic Club on next Monday uight.
Jack Connors, q big raw-boned Celt,
has been doing the heavy work In the
Coffey camp and is getting so good tina,
he thinks It high time that he step out
for himself, with a view of meeting
his employer In ring.
John Parnell pardon Jawn), John
PATRICK Dunn announces that Jack
Dillon was really unable TO meet Tom
Cowler at the Broadway Sporting Club
because Of bad hand and an equally
bad ear. The report that cams from
the West that he had fought Jack
Reed at Toledo wasn't true, says John.
Dillon had TO have an operation per-
formed on the hand and did not fight.
Boer Rodel was the man who fought
Reed.
Ted Lewis and Willie Richie are 10
fight at the Garden on January %, and
when it came TO getting down to train
ing they found that they had selected
the same training camp. Both APP
peared at Billy Grupp's gymnasium.
Yesterday Lewis was just finishing his
daily grind when in walked Richie, all
dolled up like a Christmas tree. yell
low gloves. cane. spats and all that sort
of luggage, dontcha know.
who. yonder perspiring athlete
boy" said Richie to Grupp.
That's Ted Lewis. OF England"
drawled Bill. 81 fancy he is the youth
that you are TO fight"
"You don't tell me- And training on
my home grounds. toe. Well. I'll bs