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Show WAGERS ON BOUT Now Orleans. No 5. - Wagers on the Wolgast-Mandot fight here last night were decided by opinion expressed ex-pressed by the sporting editors of tho four newspapers in favor of the backers back-ers of Mandot. Tho fight, acceding to agreement, was without a referee's decision, and the wagers, running into several thousand thou-sand dollars, were based on the newspaper news-paper decisions. Two papers gave the fight fo Mannot and own called It a draw. Should the fourth paper bo for Wolgast. the three opinions already al-ready made public, counting the draw as a halt vote, ns is the custom, givos the bout to the local boy. Ed W. Smith of Chicago, who rof-ereed rof-ereed the fight, said that Mandot bad a "narrow escape" In the third round, that "he weathered the next rounds up to the sixth;" that his clean work from that to the middle of the seventh evened the fight," and "that he undoubtedly had a e'ean shade during the last two rounds and a half," and "must, bo considered a strong contender for Wolgast's title." |