Show RITCHIE RID RIDICULES CULES WOLGAST'S COAST BOAST n M BY W. W W. W NAUGHTON SAN FRANCISCO Nov 21 21 Sonic Some pugilists i and arc aro not Some omo of tho rIng wen go so right along about their training without giving a thought to tho the sarcasm sarcasm and md badinage that emanate from the thc other camp Others Oth Oth- ers tako e everything that is 1 said to hea rt lt and want to talk right back Willie Ritchie is of or the latter sort apparently When Willie rend yesterday yester day t that at Ad 11 Au L was waa busy with plans for or Iho hu Invasion ll 0 of the tho welter welterweight welterS S wei weight ht division ision after Thanksgiving ving daj 1111 ho felt Jl highly gb I irritated tal In lit tho the lan language of the in in- dined the tory story got flot ot Willies Willie goat gott The rIle animal 31 referred to c tho village o at ll Sail Sau au aud refused cd to bo be cap captured ur or com com- 1 If If ol olgat St r is wise sai said Willie he lie will attend strictly to his and wd allow the welter weight class to taku taky care of itself I s-hould s not won wonder er if Wolgast s purpose iu in giving ing out that thit kind hind ol ot talk was wa to try to scare me mo but if so it has ha failed c completely Things Things' arc mo going to too well with me mc in in my training train tai lug ing an and I am nut too happy in iu the cd edge c that WoI has bus sigu signed up to meet me and me-and aud that ho cannot escape me meto meto to give c much heed to hUffS bV Tho only thing is it I could not help holp drawing attention to Wol Wolgast's s sudden change of heart in respect to weight Wh Why ever er sine since he ho became champion he lie 1 ha ia s been notorious n as a No driver o of bar ar gains He would not conce concede c ten ounces I Ilet let alone ten pounds to bo an anybody r When lii his manager Tom Jones Jonca and ami myself sat down to talk taik terms for this coming match about the thc first thing Jones said mill was as Mind Olind you 0 Ritchie it if t you Ou scale calc a fraction over poun pounds s at atthe the tho rin ringside there will wili ill be e no DO o fight H If I 1 l look at it in tho thc right way 1 suppose 1 t can take it as a compliment moot ment continued Willie Wolgast it if ithe ithe he is il is not riot romancing is willing to box bos either Mike Gibbons or Packey McFarland laud land and let them weigh h as much a athey athey thc they m like e but I must hold mys myself elf to pounds or thc fight i ht is off H Of or course Worst's Wolgast's anxiety about mv my weight is asHy e explained If he thought ht I could do without trouble ho he would not mind probably if I scaled A t few pounds more But Hut ho thinks rah training uJ will wiIl make malto me weak reak a and d that is wh why he and aud his manager are so O strict about thc the weight eight terms Now here is something 1 want my friends i f and lud the thc public to know au and maybe it will be e news for Wolgast Malting the weight is tho least of oC my troubles T I am nm so close to the pound notch iotch now DOW that I am willin willing to step on thc the scales for tb the the- newspaper men any ord ordinary u lr ry training Jay day I 1 hope the Examiner Ex Ex- Ex amiller will print this CIS is there are arc ors ers beside Wolgast no io doubt who ho think 1 will wm be he punched making tho the wei weight bt and ud it is only right the tho facts should be known J JIana Iana Manager er Billy Dill Nolan Kolan bears beals out what Ritchie tays ays o on tho the subject ci of or t c weight d dad ad adds s that any an doubting Thomas Thomasj j may mr have his curiosity in regard to tho the u s 's poundage satisfied if it no will win put pdt in an appearance at Shannon's Shannon's Shan Shan- non's gymnasium some afternoon at weighing time Willie has bas cn engaged aged Tommy as DS a U sparring partner This his means that there will be li cl lively glove lov work at nt Shannon's for the thc next few ct days daye Me- Me c. c is of no 5 service T to at anybody unless un un- less Jess ss ho is permitted cd to tear w loose at close clofe quarters During Durm the next few law days day Jim Griffin Griffin Griffin Grif Grif- fin will t visit both light weights n at their theirs quarters s and train gain each man manK 6 ideas ideas' In n r to the thc rules under which thc the I I Thanksgiving ill i contest is is to bo be held One thing Hit Ritchie chic will wm insist st upon i is that iu hi caso case of a a. knockdown tho t-ho man scaring it step back and permit his op op to stand erect before resuming tho attack Tiit Rit Ritchie hio hie claims chins that in his last bout ut with Wol Wolgast 3 t th tho champion failed to o obey cy the rules in the respect named |