Show TAfT CAL WANTS AD j J AND RITCHIE Sports poris There However Forget Wolgast's Fondness Fondness Fond Fond- ness for Money Honey BY W. W W. W NAUGHTON SAN FRANCISCO Sept 17 WilliO Willie Ritchie Is to back In town after a a. visit io o his brother In Chico His Ills loft wrist which has been in a plaster plaste of paris ast for three weeks will vill be released from it its uncomfortable surroundings toy to to- i y and then Ritchie will know how tar far tho injury ho he sustained some soma time timo 30 ha has progressed toward recovery I Tic lie i is very anxious noxious to have his big fi fight fighting bt- bt ill in ing equipment in good od shape a as he be is matched to box Joe Mandot in New Nc- Orleans Or leans lIUS some time in October Ritchie is- is inclined l to t think that tho the crack in Inthe m In the bono bone of tho wrist located by thern the X rn has disappeared and ind ho will willlie lie he L able to take tahe up UI his rin ring work with with- without without out Dut further delay deJa It seems that whilo while Ritchie has been been beeD activities a a. laving ill off from front pu pugilistic located at Taft raft in in the be Call Cali California fornia lornia oil bolt Lot has bas been working on OD a olgal match for or one of the biz holidays The first offer made was as wasi i 1 flat one of OOOO to be Le divided h a as Uli UIO boxers tm aw fit It did dirl not tako tuko Taft lon long to disCover dis dis- Cover however tr that when it comes to lII mailer of finance to tn ho bo with vit Ii separately An Anyhow how nm Hilly who Ritchie t received 11 si a l telegram ram lat las night from Izzy Ta ft matchmaker in wh which rh it wi was wast I Ht ct t forth that if Ritchie did not ask fin fUI Jon lai largo g a still tI tin chances of cinching the match might be con considered cons favor favor- s This means that has learned how much t and aud is eager to toa a ascertain lIo how little Ritchie wantS want If lf the Taft sports should be bo successful successful success success- Sul S- S ful ul in iii t bringing Wol and Iud Ritchie flitchie together to to- gether the 1110 affair would probably be he dated for fot Thanksgiving in i day Tho The Mandot bout hout at 81 New Orleans will viii n not lIol take place till late in iu October ami iiiI there is s an understanding Ih that t Veil 11 tt her fi fighter is to engage e in a content con coo tit tent meanwhile According to Ritchie the injury to his hi left hand was WIS sustained rl prior to his four match with Hh WOI Wolgast in this thi dt city H It was while hiJo Ritchie Hitchie was training training train train- ing ini at Seal al Rock nock house for the event in question Ho practiced borl body punching punching punch punch- ing with a L partner wearing a l pneumatic chest clist protector and bent his wrist severely se sc verely through t the thc lower rim rimor of or the protector frame By Br careful cardul iu Ritchie was as eblo Io lo go 0 o through h ith the tho Wolgast four fir rounds a and d in addition addition- box hox Mandot Man Mau- dot later JatOI in New y Orleans When beb be ho b began n training for Round One IIo aJi at San the weak spot asserted d self itself and Manager r Nolan who assumed charge of ot Ritchie's hu business affairs tailed railed a n halt and arranged ed for the X examination which resulted in Ritchie's left heft hand bund being bound over In Io keep keell tho the peace for three weeks at Ica least t. t Ritchie had something to say 3 on the weight nc question I I see there is some Mime doubt as to wl whether ther T can make pounds ho lie said taid ud II I r I haven't o t tho the lc least gt doubt about il it if and i it is ono one of those thin things s iu in which a fl fighter needs to bo ho suro sure of his grou ground d Last May I trained for Wolgast Wol Wol- gast at nt O Ocean Beach Beal h. h and warm arm weather wath CI er at that time was wag conspicuous b by its ah absence T I ba had bad to make at noon of f the dR day of or tho the contest on test and when 1 stepped on the machine tho the brain beam did dirl riot not str T r believe I T was under cr 13 Poun pounds pounds 8 and antI that I weighed a a. a pound half I less JOBS 1185 than when T I entered tho the rin ring throe three hours later hater At tt X New w xv Orleans I Ivan I van into t hut but weather Rn and making making- weight eight was no trouble at all an For a full fuhL week cok before bore the match with ith Mandot Man Man- dot the scales showed 32 3 32 or 32 er c every time I wt weighed h d I would like m my friends to know that I am sin neither fooling myself lf nor deceiving them when T I say I do ringside with just ordinary nar nary preparation any an any fighter gives Ives himself him him- self before a hout boutt According to tc Ritchie flitchie very few of or the tho so fO called light ll bt weights cl will under under- undertake take tako to mako 33 pounds if they can cnn avoid It it T I notice that a couple of or extra pounds were ordered in the tb-e Burns Burns- a au c contest nt t at the last lart moment moment said Willie It was said Mid that Hogan demanded it b but t tako it from front me J rrankie Burns likes ikc 35 better than thuan lo loo Toe Joe To Rivers tried hard bard to have the tho weight limit raised when tho the time for bis his match b bith with rith Mandot was drawing close doHa So far as ns I can see sec tho the only light weights 1 who can make o 33 without without without with with- out trouble are aro Ad Wol Wolgast ast Joe Joo Rivers and aud of course myself I Ritchie says it is the dream of hi his life to get et a chance at Wolgast All reports to the contrary h he believes thin thu champion will t figure ure- ure in at least two more fi fights before hit his I pugilistic care career r is is run and Willie Willio fondly hopes s that ho will bo be a principal in in one of thorn them |