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Show WOLGAST TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION Den t run away with the idea that Ad Wolgast, with all of his confidence and care-free talk, has any particular indifference about this meeting of his early next month with one French youngstor in Now Orleans. He has a very good idea of Joe Mandot's' ring merits and is going to be in the great-eat great-eat of shape for the meeting In tho south Tho battle Is scheduled for tho 4th which is the Monday before election. It was sot originally for an onrlv day. but was set back because It conflicted with a holy da there and also with a big circus that has a couple of dates there Wolgast not only is training hard right now for this bitttle, but Is trying his best to get another fight in betwean. Ho has on one now with Teddy Maloney in Philadelphia, but wants another because he believes that the actual ring encounters are the best training a man can gel. "With ail of his confidence and his firm belief thot he can whip any man living at anvwhore near his weight. Wolgast isn't ever going to take a chance in tho ring," Manager Tom Jones told mc the other night. "He hag a lot of raspect for Joe Mandot and wants to be right for him. You understand this is to bo a ten-round ten-round encounter and Ad will have to get going early and got going fast In I I Ml , .! order to stop along with this French i bo,v. "Mandot is a clever fellow, exceptionally excep-tionally fast and carries a er fair punch in either baud While I think I twenty or twonty-five rounds would make it an absolute cinch for Wolgast, Wol-gast, a ten-round battle is much different. dif-ferent. Over that route Mandot will have eiery opportunity of making I his speed count for all it's worth. "Joe made au excellent showing in ,tbe .Rivers right There Isn't any doubt of Hint Anybody that can take that strong Mexican by the horns and do what Mandot did to him la some fighter all right. "He'll make the weight, too. with- j out the slightest trouble, I'm told. This should make a groat battle of IU Yes, thov tell mo there'll bo a lot of betting down there, but I've given no thought of that There is to be no decision, and that makes It hard to decide." Ed W Smith.1 |