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Show AD KNOCKS OUT A " SMMTB Uses "Crippled Left" on Kid Alackey, Who Goes Down for the CSunl. By International News Service. SAX FllANCJSCO, Nov. 21. When Ad WolgasL was training for his recent light with Joe Mandot in New Orleans, an ancient darkey referred to him as "that III LI o bundle of fuss. ' That probably describes heller than anything else the lightweight champion's training day ill the iSea) Itock gymnasium. With only a brief letup at midday, Ad was at It. from early, morning until htf in the afternoon and. not a thing in the training line was overlooked. At nightfall night-fall his sparring purl pers were a sorry looking bunch and at least one of them Kid Muekey, a l.-os. Angeles product gently slumbered while Wolgast's training train-ing staff applied restoratives. "I Just wanted lo convince some of the wise ones that it was my appendix and not my stamina, that thoso I.os Angeles doctors got," declared .Wolgast. tonlghl. "There has been too . much talk about this thing and I ain getting 1 1 red of it. A few days ago, in addition to being a physical wreck, my left hand was oul ot commission. Jf you happened to notice today it was this crippled loft that pul one of my sparring partners down for the count. Next week Itltchie will be In n position to give you more definite information infor-mation on it." Tho 200 light fans who watched the champion's workout came away from the Seal Itock gymnasium firmly convinced that the Wolgast thai Itltchie will meet next Thursday afternoon Is a different one from tho one Willie hanunurca around the ring for four rounds lait spring. Tho only criticism that could he made on Ad's ivcrk was his judgment of distance, which was not of the best. But. Ihls fault can bo easily remedied between now and light time, and It now seems to be a- foregone conclusion thai Wolgast will stop Into tho ring a prohibitive pro-hibitive favorilo over the local boy. Ritchie put in a busy day at Shannon's and ;it the conclusion of his work announced an-nounced that he io now below the i:iS-pound i:iS-pound mark. |