Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-07-01 | Page 7 | Rivers and Wolgast Who Meet Thursday

RIVERS AND WOLGAST WHO MEET THURSDAY I b 7 1 IL S J I Before Joe Rivers and Johnny Ku- Ku bane met mot on the field of or battle last Labor day tight fight experts of California Mexico and nd a a few tew critics elsewhere freely treely predicted that tho the Mexican would be featherweight champion disabused them of or this Idea Idea but now tho the same experts are de declaring do- do daring claring that Joe will wf beat Ad Wolgast I and thus become champion chapion of or the tho Ugh lightweight t class i With the passing months Rivers I has taken on added weight an and muscle and encouraged b by a few victories at a higher poundage than previous actually thinks that he will win on Independence da day He Is very ery speedy speed shifty a puncher and strong It is said one side of ot his Jaw jaw Is weak aside from that he has no handicaps handicaps He can undoubtedly Wolgast but can cnn he ho take take tho the gaff gatt that Ad will wi give him If It ho Is able to do so ho will less win If it not ho he must still go title title- tte- tte Up to the tho time Rivers was waa knocked out b by Kilbane he had been ble blo His marvelous record of victories victor victor- I lee ies most afloat of or which were sleepers created a a great furore throughout southern California Since his defeat b by the now featherweight champion he has been carrying on In the same sensational manner He has beaten Conley the Kenosha ItalIan stopped him In nine rounds In March last ho met Jack ack White of ot Chicago It I was Rivers Rivers' RIver first scrap as a lightweight but he hewon hewon hewon won handily and the bout was stopped stop stop- pe ped in the round In that tl fight h Rivers showed that he had hade e everything that he possessed before his second contest with wih Kilbane and more power In his blows blows Now he Is regarded as aa a n better beter lightweight than I he was as a 3 feather