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Show I WOLCAST BACK I IN JHE FIGHT I By AD WOLGAST H T told you T would come back. I H nm as pood as ever now. T handed H that Mexican a whaling and would H have stopped him In a twenty-round H fight If 1 can pet Ritchie now I'll H win back the. title h robbed me of. By JOB RIVERS H I don't understand how any of H the critics could give that flpht to H Ad. The worst I should have had I was a dra He did not hurt me I and the bad nose did not bother me I ,t all He Is abotu as good as ever, I but I can lace him iu a longer fight. Milwaukee, Jan. 23. Ad Wolgast Is the Michigan wiideat of old. The I terrible little Dutchman from Cadillac I came hack with vengeance In the I wlndup at the Hippodrome tonight, I outfighting .Toe Rivers of California, I through ten of the wickedest rounds I iniacinahle WolKust seldom if ever . I displayed more Bavagery than he did I tonight. He foughl like a madman j I through a desperate hall" hour. I only stopping occasionally for I breathing spells The Mexican met I him half way and the result was the I best scrap Milwaukee ever saw. I At the conclusion of the combat I the former boss of the 133 pounders I was unmarked and smiling. Blood I was dripping from the Mexican's I nose and lips and there was a no-i no-i tlceable swelling under his left eye He looked as though he had been through the mill all right and no , doubt was greatly surprised at the form shown by his old enemy. Brown .!o.- came east to fipht a has-been .and he ran into a champion. Wolgast had a clear shade In four of the rounds. Rivers won the fifth session and the rest were even. That does not give Wolgast a tremendous tre-mendous shade, but It v;as enough to earn him the popular verdict. Be-Bides, Be-Bides, he was the aggressor most of tin"' way They went :if It hammer and tongs from the opening bell A.d swung himself off his feet in aliasing alias-ing 8 wild left swing He repeated this trick in the third session and I Rivera wrestle.1 him to the floor in 'the fifth. It was a rough bout, but I neither complained. Ad started the Mexican's nose 1 bleeding In the second. He put a bump under the eye a few rounds later and puffed up foe s lips in the Inst two sessions. Ad was traveling some and he was in there to do all he could to damage his enemy. . Wolgast fought In his usual borinc style. When at close quarters he pumped his stout left to the stomach, uppercilt with both to the face and swung for the body with every chance. Often while rushing in he whaled away with a left swing for the body Whenever It landed it could be heard all over the house. It hurt the Mexican, Mex-ican, but he stood up manfully under the whaling. : i Rivera was not disgraced at all. He I fought a great fight, but was against Wolgast at his best, so he could not win. It is doubtful If any 133 pounder pound-er could have taken Ad to a lacing in ten rounds tonight. Rivers show ed he was both a boxer and a fighter. fight-er. He was perfectly willing to go along either way, though Ad was a little too much for him at the close work Ads impenetrable guard bothered Joe, as it does everybody else. The Mexican kept using a left hook for the head trying to get Ad off balance. Joe uncorked a vicious right cross whenever he got an opening open-ing and jarred Wblgasl with it several sev-eral times, it was the toughest bout seen here In years and stood the big crowd on its head with delight When Wolgast left the ring the 5000 spectators stood up and gave him an ovation. It was a happy moment mo-ment for Adolph. Wolgast was in splendid condition He looked the perfect picture of health and after watching him fight ; we oeueve mm wnen ne says mat tin has finally recovered from that appendicitis ap-pendicitis operaticm. It Ritchie would make 13;? for him we would like Wolgat's chances very much. "Peanuts" Schieberl of Rock Island, Isl-and, III, outfought Palsy MeMahon of Indianapolis in the semi-final Schieberl floored his opponent in the first round, and after that MeMahon was content to let Schieberl do the leading. Johnny Tillman of Minneapolis and Ben Rowland of Milwaukee boxed box-ed a dandy ten-round draw as a preliminary pre-liminary to the big show. |