Word: wolgast
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Standing up straight with thin gloves on their hands two boxers strutted around a ring, cuffed each other in the face, in the belly, over the heart. One was Battling Nelson, lightweight champion of the world, bloody, ferocious, who wanted to win. The other was Ad Wolgast, the Cadillac wildcat, who won-after 40 rounds when Nelson, blind and helpless, lurched against the ropes and spat blood into the ringside seats. That was 17 years ago in San Francisco...
...Wolgast has not forgotten that fight either. He lives on the Pacific Coast with friends, ring figures of 20 years ago. Every morning he begins to spar. Pretty soon he thinks he will have to meet another champion. In the bright sun, he dances around a shadow ducking, weaving, driving his long arms to hit a body that is not there. He has invented a new punch to use in his next championship bout...
...gymnasium and reducing establishment in Manhattan. He has many rich patrons. Last week one of them, delighted with her reduction, gave a party for him. To that party was bidden the brother of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien?Young Jack O'Brien (born 1895)?who won decisions over Ad Wolgast, K. O. Brown and Young Erne, and who now owns a gymnasium like his brother's. Although 17 years the younger, he became, as the evening wore on, increasingly critical of his brother's prowess. Mr. O'Brien soon rose from his chair, led the stripling into an empty room...
...unpopular. "A champion is ut," McTigue's followers queried, "that ham an'egger?" They were consoled only because they had seen, in a preliminary bout, a light-heavyweight boxer whose speed and rhythm surpassed anything in the memory of some, and set others thinking of Fitzsimmons and Wolgast. For him-James Slattery of Buffalo- sports writers flatly prophesied the world's heavyweight championship. "And when he meets Berlenbach . . ." said McTigue's adherents later that evening, fortifying themselves against the dampness and their own depression in the various bars and blind tigers of middle Manhattan, "when...