Show WOLGAST TIRING OF STAGE 81 AGE w WANTS TO RETURN TO RING BY W W I San Francisco Francl o March 25 Local pro promoters promoters I who expect to reap a rich harvest when the crowd Is gath ath erin in late June Juno and early July are U naturally trying to secure the best cards possible Next to Johnson and Jeffries a contest between Sam Langford and Stanley Ketchel looms up as the biggest probable moneymaker but Ketchel has stifled all speculation on this particular point by signing to box Langford six rounds at Philadelphia late in April Next to Langford and Ketchel the pro promoters promoters Q would like to have something with Ad Wolgast in it but here again l there is a rocky road to travel j Wolgast they the say Is tiring of the show busIness and would like to get back into ring costume He said as much the other day but at the same time Intimated that his Ills next fight would not take place in San Francisco Ad told his friends that ii he lie had hal promised to fight for Uncle Tom McCarey lare of Los Angeles and that he was wast looking forward to a bout with Owen Moran at the Vernon arena Opinions Differ I Th Thre re is evidently a difference of I on the subject of fighting between t and Manager Manage Tom Jones for forthe fort forthe the t e latter declares he ha will not allow Wol WoI Wolgast Wolgast gast to fight until late In the year Jones j says sais that when theatrical dates are art filled Wolgast will wilt go to his home in Cadillac Mich Mleh for a good long rest restI I want Ad to be in the best possible condition when he stacks up against the fellows who have challenged him writes Jones Once Onea ha ho begins fighting again he will often and over long dis distances distances distances probably as It will be necessary for him to defend his championship Until Jones and Wolgast are of a mind as to when the fighting season Beason will re ic reopen reopen open for the little champion It is little use of the promoters bargaining for Wol services Battling Nelson Kelson who Intimated before leaving San Francisco that his next fight would be Cyclone Thompson now de declares declares clares clams that all his energies will be con concentrated concentrated concentrated In an attempt to force Viol Wol Wolgast gast into a return match At least that thatIs Is the news that comes west from men who are close to Nelson and If It the In Information Information Information formation is reliable Jim Griffen and the rest of them may as well abandon their plans for bringing Nelson Nellon and Thompson together in June or July Nelson Anxious Sid Hester who is away traveling with the pictures says that the desire to fight Wolgast a second time possesses Nelson to the exclusion of all other prospects of offers of matches He Is simply brimful of confidence writes Hester and seems to be aching to get another whack at the new cham champion champion champion pion In his show at Milwaukee the theother theother theother other night Nelson made his usual lit little little littie tle tie talk in which he lie claimed he be was still fresh in the fortieth round when the fight was stopped st Said the Battler Cans Gans licked me worse than Wolgast did and aid I came back and licked Gans Cans Britt trimmed me and what did I do to Britt Well Yell Ill do the same for this kid Wolgast |