Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — BROWN HOT AFTER WOLGAST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BROWN HOT AFTER WOLGAST

Clever New York Lightweight Is Desirous of Getting on Match With Champion of His Class. Knockout Brown, the New York lightweight, who has come to the top In pugilistic circles of late, is desirous of getting on a match with Ad Wolgast, the champion in his class. Wolgast is credited with making the remark that Brown wil have to get a reputation first before he will consent to meet him. This has stirred up the New York fighter and his manager, Danny Morgan. The latter recently handed some choice bon mots to Adolph, retorting that Brown at the present time has a better reputation than Wolgast. “The whole trouble with Ad is that he is afraid,” says Morgan. “Erne, Gans, Nelson —all of these met real fighters when they held the championship. Wolgast is no fighter. He shows this by his refusal to meet fighters. What did he do after winning the title? Why, he picked up a couple of fourth raters that nobody ever heard of and broke his arm on them. Brown

has as much right to fight Wolgast as Wolgast had to fight Nelson—and a whole lot more, too. Nelson was 100 years old physically when Wolgast best him. He refuses to meet Tommy Murphy, although Tommy has beaten him.”

Knockout Brown.