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Show 'WOLGAST JERAINS FOR MANDOT BOUT Chlcapo. Nov 1 Adolph Wolgast. he lightweight champion, in tow of Manager Tom Jones, breezed in and out;of town on hio way to tho far south to battln Joseph Mandot, the pride of Dixieland, on November A at New Orleans. WolgaBt looks much better than when In this city last year. He wne down to 2ti pounds In his fight with Rivers and when he came through Chicago from the coast did not scale as big as 133. Now he Is romewhat over the lightweight notch, looks healthy and strong, with the old confidence con-fidence in his ability to beat anything that walks shining from his snapping eyes. Jones and Wolgast met Emll Thiry. Packey McFarland's hustlina: manager, mana-ger, and there was the usual talk of a match betweon the Cadillac wild cat and the south side Irishman. Nothing Noth-ing except talk resulted. Wolgast frankly admitted that he looked for the toughest kind-of a battle bat-tle from Mandot Along that line he eald: "Mandot la the best of my legitimate lightweight rivals, so I expect to get Into one tough little argument on tho night of November 4. lie Is a good boxer, a nasty hitter with the right; hand and ablo to poke your face out J of shapo with hjs left He'll give iao I a fight, all right, but 111 beat him jjlist as I beat Rivers, Morap and nil the rest, I "I was not myself In my fight with Ritchie, so soon after my operation, I But I'm the old Wolgast now and you know what that means. I'm good enough to stick Mandot right now. but of courae, 1 expect to travel some distance dis-tance to accomplish the trick. 'How will I beat Mandot? Oh, with my old system of body punching I know Joe Is game, but his best friends admit that he cun't stand up under a lacing around tho ribs ' Wolgast may take on a couple of short fights at Memphis and Cincinnati Cincin-nati after the Mandot affair, then Jump west for a Thanksgiving day kittle kit-tle in San Francisco Willie Ritchie is his piobablo opponent. |