Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-02 | Page 11 | Ad Wolgast Loses Fight to Azevedo

P JOB AZEVEDO, Portu-guese Portu-guese fighter, who bested Ad Wolgast, former lightweight champion. iiiiii JD WDLGAST LOSES FIGHT TO AZEVEDO Former Lightweight Champion Cham-pion Unable to Put Steam Into His Punches. OAKLAND, Cal.. Sept. 1. Joe Azevedo fought his- way to a decision over Ad Wolgast. former lightweight champion, today, in their ten-round bout here. The solnp was fast nnd the younger .fighter clearly earned the verdict. lit the seventh sev-enth round Azevedo Knocked Wolgast down. Wolgast fought aimost entirely with hie left hand, his right apparently being In no condition to Inflict punishment. punish-ment. The Saeramcnlo lightweight was afflicted af-flicted by stage fright in tho opening round, but this wore off and In the second sec-ond round ho took the aggressive, forcing the lighting. In tho seventh round Azevedo Aze-vedo floored Wolgast with a left swing to tho neck. Wolgast was up In a second and clinched. lie tried to rough it In the clinches. The crowd hooted while Referee Ref-eree Griffin admonished him to be careful. care-ful. In round nine Azevedo staggered the former champion with a stiff right to the ja w. The tenth was easily Azevedo's. Wolgast Wol-gast landed several rights to the face, but they lacked steam.