Show MANDOT HAD SHADE OVER AD WOLGAST J J BY EYED ED W. W Referee of the Contest NEW EW ORLEANS Nov 5 They G.-They They have had heroes in New v Orleans before but it Is 18 a a. matter of grave doubt whether any anyone one man in hit history tory is a ri bigger idol today than Joe Mandot a young product of the tho French market Joo held Ad id Wolgast light lightweight weight champion fiSh fighter tel or of th tho world to something Just a better than an even break bicak last night in 11 one or of the most desperate ton ten round glove battles ever er staged anywhere in the tho world and today y he has New Orleans at Id his hia feet Hero j i is a brief hrie summary of this battle bat bat- bat bat- tle and md it will J give c but hut n a n. n fl faint nt Inca idea ol or what really realty happened during the fort forty minutes that a worlds world's s champion faced one ono of the tho t brightest aud cI cleanest t young oun aspirants for bi his bis title Tho The first round was n a warming session ses ss- cs c's sion SlOg that indicated plainly that the c was as gIn ont goring to make a rushing lIu slugging n fight of it The rhe second round rou h-rou brought Jt a R narrow 1 escape for tho the southern champion Along JolI about Ibe Ive middle of the c Wolgast landed a Ii left hook t tg the chin hin that all aJ but sounded curtains c for tho the baker boy bo but bitt could not finish him Tho The tl l ir fourth and fifth rounds brought ht out n a It stylo Jo of milling that aroused the crowd to a n frenzy Wolgast Wol gast af tried his bis mi mightiest bt i gt to stow t tt t lie 10 local 31 boy away awa l b but loo Joo stalled fI and aid andou ou ht back desperately coo coolly will t y The sixth roun round found the tho champion a t bit tired from front the fri frightful pare pace set I with h Mandot back woud wonderful wonderfully I ly always full of fight ht always ready always cool ool and head heady The save nth and ci eighth rounds c filled tilled to overflowing o with tho greatest r of rallies on ou both sides with Mandot l cleaner nt tt tho ho finish but t without with out a whit hit of that that- indomitable in force and po power er none gone one The ninth and tenth rounds round and an probably the latter laUer were about as exciting ex cx- citing sessions as a t man could hope bope to toCe see ace Ce crowd nork ll up into a by bv that time mobbed out of ot tho the grand r nd stand and onto the field in in a a wild riot with still cool and collected raining blows into the champions champions champion's cham pion pion's s 's fa face c. c and th the champion trying do dogg doggedly and unremittingly to 3 again d 1 turn the tide tido in his layer favor Mandot undoubtedly had hall a shade shado tb tho better of the last two rounds round Had I been a able ablo to render a a. i decision ion ionin in such a battle without being forced to take a champions champion's laurels away from him Jim in this a short that is not supposed t championship title I could have hac but given it to the tho local o al I man I was not compelled by the I 3 agreement between the tho men to render any tny verdict I I. I a am In not cowardly in ill those thi things lI but as I say I am mighty ll glad clad d that I was not railed upon to render a a verdict It is better hetter t that bat these boys bos go to elsewhere in some more favored spot where twenty t or twenty twenty- round five battles arc the tho vogue that th they v may settle this dispute now so ao brilliantly placed into a first chapter Lucky LuCIty indeed w will IJ be the city ity that hat se so- I a for or it will be he a championship battle in ip all that the term implies I hope it may lOa be New Xen Orleans Orlean a city of good 00 1 sportsmen sportsman New Orleans K is i on the tho map now in ina inA in ina a glove fighting sense ense e. e Joe Mandot has 1135 pl placed ced in iu there hr I w will not at this time Limo express an as iS to tho time outcome out Jut come of a twenty twenty round round battle hattle b between the pair I am am BIn in in doubt if even cn a grizzled lcd bard hardened little warrior warrior like this champion from front Cadillac can an m main maintain maio in tain tRin a pace like ho ct tonight for twenty rounds If he lie can I d do if the clean dean bri bright ht young joung baker hakr lad can I step foot by foot and round b by round with such a pate pace Ta c. c It is such doubts is it not that thal mao mako for the tho great reaL in sporting events C I t Surely Sureh so 50 And Aud hero is the big qU question ques ques- J lion tion presented to the tho tight fight fans of the tho world in IU in alluring style a gambling proposition a bet a guess a puzzle and aud one that can be settled only over tho long route the marathon distance as fi fighting of tho day goes Jt It matters not if Wolgast is is or is is not as good l as he was on sonic some other I IlJa day i I believe e ho was wa great cr at last la t night J No o man could be anything but great reat physically who could COUII set such a murderous mur derous pace take the tho jabs hooks and swings that Mandot showered upon his widely discussed shell and stand at atthe atthe atthe the ond end of the thc tenth round as Wolgast did an unconquered but slightly dented champion How Ho good Mandot is is is is best an answered cred with the tho following statement The rhe man iian who bo can cnn stall I when hen he is jo stun stung and stun stung deeply as 18 did Mandot in that second round and thou then come through with a line o of goods that he showed in the tho last ei eight bt rounds round is entitled en en- titled to to- all aU that the sporting world worl can cnn give he him hini and best befit of all another l other chance at the bi big m man n oC ol the tho class Mandot is class classy from his shoo shoe tops toP up To lo 0 m my ray way nav of thinking Vol Wolgast ast is 19 much the more effective hitter judged solely on ou last ni nights night's clash But Mau- Mau dot flot is the readier gunner with a better sense of and d distance stan e. e He ife is isa isa isa a stylish boxer a clean worker at all allt t times m tS and unquestionably ono one ouo of the gamest of tho the game an attribute that His wonderful French constituency to sav nothing of the remainder of New Orleans and Memphis boosters booster 1 and rooters m mar mr y well wen be proud nT i R shell worked Worl well at times times times-at at others it did dd not The champion cham pion plea smothered up Lp walked in close cloge and aul whaled 1 away wa with ith all the vigor or th that t blOU brought him a n title titI over the one time terrible Nelson Wol Wolgast is a wonder in that he ho can hit out omit front from almost any known nu angle le and aud at times sonic some an angles les that arc are unknown to tri trigonometry or oran any an of oC the other lIe He tangled tangled tan tau led science science up at times times times- tangled taD led it b badly bady anil and had bad Toe Joe all at sea with ith hi his hia shifts and antl puzzling nuzzling side wheel deliveries riet that whisked cd about with reckless abandon and maddening II for force e. e But for all tho the of I Ithe the affair the calm coo cool face of the French boy bo stood tood out amazingly amazing Swatted on on the jaw jm whaled hale with ter- ter rori ine force in tho the ribs rib dented in the tho soft oft midsection and ana mauled generally bo hI fame came through with honors all his hh own |