The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1922-04-27
|LIGHTWEIGHTS IN
GREAT CONTEST
Julius Wirth of Oakes and kid" Fo.
garty of Bismarck Keep Fans
on Toes for Ten Rounds
VISITOR NEARLY KNOCKED OUT
Roth Men Show Ability to Take IT.
as Well as Inliict Punishment

Those who like to see lot of action,
considerable blood and little COM
edy in a boxing program all had their
tastes satisfied Saturday evening at
the Legion show held in the C. NJ. C.
hall.
Kenneth Espeland, who always gives
the crowd it's moneys worth, took on
Lawrence Brennan in the three round
opener. The kids put up good ex-
hibition, both assimilating several fair
soaks and returning them in kind
Elmer Olson and Francis Brennan
put on another three round installment
of their quarrel, coming out about
where they started after several min
utes of real boxing. Brennan still
manages to use straight right to
good advantage and Olson seems to
me somewhat the more active of the
two. Neither of the boys lost any
prestige Saturday night, and the aud
ience appreciated their work.
In the semi-windup Ted Bartlett and
Jimmie Sides traded wallops for three
two-minute rounds. In Jimmie, Ted
finally found an opponent who could
make him extend himself and the bout
was interesting from start to finish.
Jimmie very plainly wanted to make
joke Of the affair, but Ted seemed to
take it rather seriously, and they had
several exciting mix-ups, but no great
amount of damage was done, which
was just as we'll, anyway, because no.
body cares to see the home boys beat
each other up very badly.
The main bout between julius Wirth
of Oakes and Kid Fogarty of Bis
marck turned out to be the real ar
ticle. The visitor and his retinue of
handlers, which included such men as
F. w. Roberts, Battling Krause and
w. O. Lundquist, came down thinking
they were in for simple workout
with out man being counted out as
climax, but that part Of it at least
was postponed indefinitely However,
julius had an interesting evening, but
he was very generous and divided it
up pretty evenly with Fogarty. The
Kid clouted Wirth in the left eye with
his elbow in one round, causing the
optic to turn nice blue and swell up
quite proudly. 1t bothered Julius a
bit, but was plainly an accident and
no attention was paid to it. The Wis
itor packed good wallop and man.
aged to tantalize his man with long
left, landing oftener than Wirth, but
on damage done julius had the long
end of it. On three occasions he had
his opponent groggy, but failed to
knock him out simply because he did
not follow up his advantage.
The Bismarck boys were generous
in their praise of Wirth, Roberts stat
ing that with proper handling he will
be world beater. Fogarty said he
would not consider return match for
at least six months, so he couldn't
have figured that he had much the
better of it.
Julius was not in the best condition
Saturday, either, as he trained down
too fine. Next time he will know bet
ter than to try to make 1873 pounds.
If he fights at about 100 or 131 he
will be fit as fiddle and somebody is
apt to be we'll entertained.
The Legion management has been
unable to agree upon terms with Hale
as yet, but a bout may be arranged
later on.
Wirth is putting Cakes on the map
in a pugilistic way, and we ought to
get back of the youngster and give
him all the help possible. They're
talking about that "Oakes scrapper"
all over the state already, and that is
good ADVERTISING.