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Show ed out, shaking off punishing blows with the toss and fllnj; of a wet dog. Although unlike Nelson, however, i he is a vicious, clever boxer. His best blow is a whip with the left. Just as he 16 coming out of a clinch. A fighter who does hla best work Just as he Is breaking a clinch, Is ono who is absolutely undismayed. Nelson has been the unconquerable champion mainly liecause he has what little Wolgast has the "heart," and the undismayed, unmoved courage. Ho doesu't know what discouragement means. Nelson always gets the worst of the fight from the first round on un-111 un-111 his antagonist gives and loses on utter despair at seeing the little tow-headed tow-headed iboy rush back for more blow9 and rrjoro hurts. When Bat Nelson meets this little boy Wolgast, it will be like Nelson meeting his other, but younger, clever self. For the first time since he met Joe Cans, Mister B. Nelson is about to go up against a live one. And oven Joe Cans is different. The colored boy was the finished artist, art-ist, the sagacious rlne strategist, the "old master" of the prize ring, who wasted all his science on a tough bullet head which shook off his blows I and fought on with the pleased grin of a bull terrier. AD WCAST THE M FOR NELSON ' Tho day after his fight with Joe Gane at Goldfield. the Illustrious, but temporarily bed-rlddon, Bat Nelson brushed aside the soobrette lady who was applying liniment to his sore nose and said: "I don't admit that I was licked this time; but some day some young feller will com along and I will pet It and get it good." It Is not at all unlikely that the "young feller" has nrrived. If any boy now alive can defeat tho Terrible Dane it is the llttlo Dutch boy. Ad Wolgast In these days when a prize fight championship has a money value reaching Into large fortunes, the. appearance ap-pearance of a possible chajriplon on the borfy-on is an event to b heralded herald-ed with due hilarity, Also solemn tt If this fellow Wolga&t beats Nelson Jn their coming fight. It will change his fortunes from the precarlona ox-istenoe ox-istenoe of a "pork-and-bean" fighter to the velvet life of a man of fortune. Tho championship for which he is to fight has an estimated cash value pf 560.0O0, with, the prospect of multiplying mul-tiplying that snm many times. Temperament has a largo part to play in any kind of fighting. Wolgast frghts like Nelson. He has the same cool, un angered lust for combat. His people must have come from the south of Germany for he Is of the type of the Latinized Teuton. It gives him the flejxe, vicious, vic-ious, aggressiveness of tho Latin, and the cold, unexcited determination of the Teuton. Like Bat Nelson, the boyi Ectnally likes to flcht. Also like Nelson, he would Just as cheerfnllji fight In a street car or on a street corner. In tho most savage minutes of a fight a pleased smile not the soubrotte smlTtTof the stagey prize fighter, hut the grin of a boy having a bully good time plays over his face. "Wolgast has the typical face of the fighter. His hair grows in a thick, coarse mat low over his eyes. Tbey are iblue-gray eyes, deep sunken, in-Bcmlable. in-Bcmlable. Ills Jaw Is strong and heavy but not brutal. The picture Is finished bv a broken nose, which lies mashed down on his face. ;Like Bat Nelson, he wades in with his head down and his elbows sprawl- |