"With a parch of sticking plaster high on his brow, his left eye discolored and swollen and a six inch scar across his back, “Ad” Wolgast, formerly lightweight champion, looked more like an importation from a European battlefield than anything else human when he appeared to do battle with Leach Cross last night in the ring at the Harlem Sporting Club.
     The sticking plaster, as it had been announced and later was duly demonstrated, covered a bad wound inflicted in a recent bout, but as Wolgast had been examined and passed as presentable by a doctor, as it was said, acting for the New York State Commission, everything looked all right from the viewpoint of the ringsiders."

December 18, 1915
New York Herald