Wolgast is a German town in the district of Ostvorpommern, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the bank of the river Peene (12.725 inhabitants in Dec. 2004). The town is in front of the island of Usedom, which can be accessed by road and railway through a bascule bridge. Ostvorpommern is a Kreis (district) in the eastern part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. ... Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (German: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a Bundesland (federal state) in northern Germany. ... Peene (Polish: Piana) is a river in Germany and also a western strait or a branch of Oder River out of three straits conecting the Lagoon of Szczecin with the Bay of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea, between the islands of Usedom and the German mainland. ... Usedom (Polish name Uznam) is an island north of the confluence of the Odra river into the Szczecin Bay (Ger: Stettiner Haff, Pol: Zalew Szczeciński). ... A bascule bridge is a drawbridge with a counterweight that continuously balances the span, or leaf, throughout the entire upward swing in providing clearance for boat traffic. ...
Wolgast was equally confident and proud of his ability to withstand any kind of blow.
Wolgast had lost the title to Willie Richie on a 16-round foul the year before, and when he lost a newspaper decision to Joe Azevado on September 1, 1913, had seemed to acknowledge the inevitable.
Wolgast, only 30 but physically and mentally decrepit - "A glance at Wolgast's head," wrote a Milwaukee newsman, "is enough to show what he had gone through" - spent more than a year in Milwaukee sanitoriums.
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