| Show WHO WILL GIVE THANKS A T VERNON ON NEX NEXT T THURSDAY Y AFTERNOON r tOT OT OF GlOOMS SURE TO BE CAMPING BESIDE ARENA I Will Take Strangle Hold on Either Wolgast or Welsh After Battle By H. H M. M Walker Valker I LOS I OS ANGELES Nov XOy 20 Thanks Thanksgiving g giving in day will not be he Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- gi giving ging ng day lay for one of our two best lightweights meaning that tbt old man manI I 1 Gloom will lake a str strangle hold on onI I cither either Ad Al Wolgast or Fred Hall Thomas the clever cleyer lad who bills him him- on the be erry boards as Fred Welsh On next Thursday afternoon r November No Xo- No- No vember 30 the champion and r challenger chal clint lenger are arc scheduled to lOX box twenty rounds in the thc Vernon arena r of the Pacific Athletic club for the thc worlds world's I tift 1 lr w v l J. l' l J J f- f Welch Yelch of San Francisco acting as referee The match is one of many possibilities and puzzling angles Without doubt Fred Welsh is the one boxer in the thc world at t the Iho present time capable cap- cap able ible of making the lightweight limit pounds and giving V Wolgast a n fight worthy of the thc name The men are to weigh h in at nt the Vernon v emon ringside a n. few v minutes before the opening opening- gong sounds and from present indications there will be he but butt buta a aCe t few feu ounces difference In the tIo weight ot of the slugging slug champion and the clover challen challenger er Welsh has been in training for tor two weeks Wolgast has been working but buta a week Should Go O On Over cr r 30 Welsh Is training at the thc seashore I The Auditorium J at Venice nl where o tho ho I t O WIlI n in nun v people This building was crowded crowdell to its capacity last Jast Sunday For this battle Champion re receives re- re with 51 per pel cent of or the moving mo picture rights Welsh gets a chance at the title lith In real reat mone money and 4 41 iU per cent of or the pictures Promoter Promoter Pro Pro- moter T. 1 1 J. J McCarey's prices range e efrom from the 5 general enera admission tickets to the 20 boxes and the gate receipts are lre expected to run between and ol st has satisfied the shrewd California critics that he Is at his best now now- and as a result the champion will rule a n rong ron favorite ta over o his foreign for for- eign n opponent Wolgast ol ast points with to the fact that he has lias won hI his IO Jast five fhe tl fights b by either cither knocking out or stopping stopping- his ills men Moran Burns Hogan Hoan and anil Lagrave nil all went down loWn before the Dutch Demon and In each instance It was the first time that either of or the lie victims has ever er suffered suf suf- a A. knockout Unquestionably Welsh's Welshs prestige e suffered suf sut- Zered an awful jolt when hen h he ho was as out out- pointed by Matt latt Wells elIs In London Up to this Welsh had been considered cred the cleverest boxer In the thc business LON IoN o elc ele In SM I li Heal Home Returning to America J Freddie Fredelle won won decisions over Pal Moore and Matty latt Baldwin victories Baldwin victories that carried ver very little weight with them 1 Th These two bouts and his work worl In the Venice training training- camp II It all that the ring birds have to judge e the former I English champion b by Unquestionably the Vel Welsh h Is trying with every ever ounce of or strength th at his command to get et back Into his time old-time r form rm of two years ears ago aso His Ills success In this direction can only bo be determined when next Thursdays Thursdays Thursday's Thurs Thurs- days day's battle battlo has passed Into ring rIng- his hIs- tory Welsh elsh Is probably a greater creator drawing card In Los An Angeles eles than he ho would beIn beIn be bo boin in an any other city In America tIt It was here In this same Vernon ring that Welsh worked himself up from an unKnown un un- known bo boy so far ar as Californians were concerned to a point where ho he was regarded re regarded re- re as the fastest and cleverest 1 3 In the lie world His Ills dazzling dazzling- exhibition a against Abo Abe Attell when he trained down to 1 pounds and ac actually actually ac- ac made th the featherweight ht champion champIon champ- champ Ion look like a novice for fifteen rounds Is still talked of or here hero Were Yere WI we sure that Welsh on next Thursday will sill be as good oo as he was the tho night ho lie conquered Attell tho the betting would be beat beat beat at even ven rIu figures sol s. s ol st IK Is a slugger er pure and sim sim- pie Welsh Is tho the scientific boxer with knockout victories few tew and far between between be be- be tween In his record Wolgast ol alt plans to slash and batter at Welshs Welsh's bod body until he has beaten the little challenger into submission Welsh figures to box in careful fashion piling u up such a lead leadon leadon leadon on points that Referee Welch elch will have no alternative but to raise his hand at the finish and decide him the worlds world's lI lightweight hL champion This is the situation toda today while ho the two boys work awa away t at their camps Not since the ille lie Reno Beno tragedy has lifts a baLtIe battie bat baL tIe tle been leen so widely advertised as aa this and it will not nol come as a surprise If hundreds of oC disappointed patrons are arc unable to gain cain aln admittance to the Vernon VerI Vernon Ver- Ver I non pavilion next Thursday ay afternoon ff f t. t c j fl I 4 s I I II 4 S wr H p 4 VOLGA t |
