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Show WOLGAST BATTLES WITH KjW BROKEN Goes Three Rourds After Injury Occurs; Oc-curs; Wels Wins en Skill By Damon Runyon Now York, Nov. 2. According to Rofereo Hilly lloclie, Ad Wolgast, former for-mer lightweight champion of tho world, battled for threo rounds with a broken arm against Frcddlo Welsh, tho English tltlo holder, at Madison Square Garden tonight. Itocho says Wolgast broko a smalt bono In hla right forearm In tho middle mid-dle of tho fifth round by hitting tho champion on tho head. At tho closo of tho eighth round, during which tho stocky Michigan lad took a terrific thumping from Welsh. WolgaBt steg-gored steg-gored to his corner nnd stlumped In to his chnlr, hla arm banging limp at his side. Roche made a brief examination examin-ation and stopped tho light, which had been growing rather ono sided every round after tho third. A big crowd rushed Into the ring and surrounded Wolgast, oven while Welsh's seconds wero still working on tho Englishman, not realizing that tho light was over and It took some time to clear tho ring so Wolgast could leave. Roclio said tho former champion wanted to continue, but ho would not permit it. As a matter of fact, the best Wolgast could havo hoped for was more punishment. He had no further chance against tho Englishman who had begun to pound him unmercifully. Wolgast Goes for Body Welsh's stomach may ho a bit soro tomorrow, but otherwise ho should feel no HI effects of his meeting with tho former champion. During tho earlier rounds Wolgast managed to get In somo smashing body blows, some of which landed pretty low, but Welsh fed him a thousa.nd raps to the faco by way of return. Never a hard hitter, tho champion slammed tho tough Mlchlgander with right nnd left hand time and again without seeming to bother Wolgast, but tho latter was gradually weakening weaken-ing under tho storm. Always a rather light lightweight when at his best. Wolgast seemed almost fat undor his 135 1-2 pounds tonight nnd, while ho seemed to havo all hfs old stamina at first. It did not last long. Fighting from his awkward crouch, tho right hand drawn across his faco and pumping his blows from every anglo at Welsh' body, tho little Mlchlgander gavo his admirers something to yell about for a few minutes anyway. He let tho champion whack him with both hands In tho faco during tho first round to got closo enough to dig his glove Into Welsh's body, always "miUIng tho fight; but oven at tho closo oi that round tho Michigan boy's left eyo wns pufTllng up and finally the Englishman Eng-lishman broko It open with a straight arm poko In a way tho fight was about ns expected. Wolgast Outboxed Wolgast was no match for Wo'sh at boxing, and tho Englishman's title was never In danger. Matiy specta-tors specta-tors say that they saw Wolgast's arm drop limp In the fifth, after he had swung a hard blow at tho champion's cham-pion's head, but he fought along about ng ho started, with the exception excep-tion thnt he seemed to bo growing weaker. In the sixth Welsh pasted Wolgau. with straight lefts by the score nnd wound up with a fierce left nnd right to tho Jaw that hurt Iho Mlchlgander. Mlchlgan-der. Rough and tough his hnlr rumpled rum-pled over his eyes nnd his faco swollen swol-len nnd bleeding, Wolgast kept charging charg-ing in .head down and his hnuds falling fall-ing awny at Welsh's body. Tho chnm-plon chnm-plon was obviously trying to knock out his man. Ho tried to mako It a fight rather than a boxing match, but the moro ho hit Wolgast tho harder the ox-champion seemed to try. Every Ev-ery round after tho fourth was pretty pret-ty much alike up to tho sudden end' ing, with Wolgast's chanches diminishing dimin-ishing ovcry moment, but up to tho fourth it was a good battle. |