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MIDDLEWEIGHTS WILL BOX THIS WEEK.IAd Wolgast Has Standing Offer Against Any Lightweigth Except I Packy McFarland. “[By International News Service.]BY H. M. WALKER.Los Angeles, Feb. 26.—Jack Herrick, managed by Harry Gilmore, jr., and Bert Fagan, managed by joe Levy, are scheduled to box twenty rounds before the Pacific Athletic club at Vernon next Saturday afternoon. The boxei’s are middleweights, making 158 pounds at 10 o'clock and while neither has worked himself into top notch prominence, the fact that j Gilmore and Levy have them in hand is in itself a guarantee that they are men of class.Gilmore claims that Herrick whipped Frank Mantell, the latter being the boy who defeated Papke last Thursday, and adds that should Jack win here Saturday he will immediately go after Frank Klaus.Levy rubs his fat palms together,: smiles and says very little. j“Fagan cleaned out the San Francisco middleweights as fast as they came up. Wait and see how he works I in the new territory,” is the gist of ' Levy’s talk. jNext Saturday’s card is a sched-! uled forty round affair, as light-1 weights Tommv Kilbane and Louis j Reese also will start out over the I twenty-round course.“1 have a standing offer of $15,000 for my end from a San Francisco promoter for my July 4 fight,” said jLightweight Champion Ad Wolgast tonight. “The promoter stipulates ithat he may pick as my opponent, any lightweght in the world, barring jj Packy McFarland. #f don’t mind tell-j ing you that he has me guessing as j ! I can’t imagine who he would select.’ ” ;Wolgast is loafing here this week. | | He opens a week’s theatrical engage- j ment in San Francisco next Sunday afternoon and from there follows the j vaudeville trail to Portland and other !| northwestern cities.“I still believe that Mexican Joe Rivers will be my July 4 opponent i and that Tom McCarey will handle | this event,” added the champion.
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Joplin Morning Tribune
Joplin, Missouri, US
Tue, Feb 27, 1912
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