"Wolgast has taken bigger risks than any lightweight champion has in years and years. They have been so big that men who know the fight game from articles to knockouts put them down as foolhardy.
     With an arm but a few hours out of plaster cast, due to a bone broken in his fight with Jack Redmond, the first he had after winning the championship, still mending, Wolgast went to the coast and fought every comer in sight. He beat Memsic, Lagrave, Burns, and Moran, and who would want a tougher quartet than they were at that time?"

November 5, 1912
Detroit News