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Show WlHJlLiD FIGHT CALLEO OFF M 4- IJU -r MILWAUKEE, Sept. 13. H f Tho Wolgast-McFarland fight -f H billed for Friday night was. - H called off-by the National Ath- H -f letlc club shortly after mid- H night, following a conference, H of the club officials and coun-' - H ty officers and Acting Gover- H nor Morris ' i JM It was evident from the last ' jH stand taken by the acting gov- H- H ernor and Sheriff Arnold, with -t- H tho backing of the district at- 4- H torncy, that any attempt to jH put tho contest en would not IH be permitted. - H MILWAUKEE, SepL 13. Tho pro- M posed boxing contest between Light- H weight Champion.' Ad Wolgait and H Packey McFarland In Milwaukee ou H Fl-lday evening will not bo permitted. H At a "lengthy conference of represent- M atlves of tho National Athletic club. H county officers and Acting Govornor H Thomas Morris, the situation was dls- H cussed from every possible angle, and M Governor Morris said ho would not H recedo from his original position. ,H Governor Morris said he was of the M pplnion that tho proposed contest was H a "prize fight" and not a "boxing iH contest." Sheriff Arnold said the con- jH testants would not bo permitted to H carrv out the bout. .H "Injunction or no injunction," paid ,H tho sheriff, "the bout will not be jH District Attorney Zabel said ho did jH not beliove that a court would Issue B an injunction restraining tho officer M from enforcing the law, and should H such proceeding be rosorted to he H would uphold the sheriff in ignoring jl the jl , Promoter Mulkern would not say IH whether an attempt would bo made to H stage the affair. The. general opinion IH nmong followers of the hoxlng game IH is that tho proposed bout Is oU. 'H |