Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — WOLGAST IS FIGHTING AGAIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOLGAST IS FIGHTING AGAIN

Former Lightweight Champion Is Making Arizoha His Stamping Ground at Present. Ad Wolgast Is fighting again and is making Arizona his stamping ground. It’s but a few years back when he wah the greatest card In the lightweight ranks. He and Nelson were a

pair of 133-pounders to be reckoned with. Furthermore, h®» was the only man who ever beat tlm "Durable Dane" At his own game —assimilating punishment. Not that hfe was any gamer than Nelson, for no man that wore the gloves ever showed greater fortitude than the Hegewlsch wonder. But he proved on that Washington’s blthday afternoon he could stand up under punishment to a greater degree than Nelson could. His condition proved the better. Nelson lost the bout standing on his feet at the end of the fortieth round, blind as a bat. Wolgast* has lost a great deal of his former wealth. At ohe time Ad was worth close around the $200,000 mark. But something snapped and he went to pieces, and but for his wife, who was appointed guardian by the courts, nothing would now be left to him.

Ad Wolgast.