The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-14
Battling Nelson Hot FavOrite
for Return Match With Britt.
Dane Prefers Native Son to the
ColOred Cans.
All WING WOULD FIGHT
Chinese Boxer Threatens to
"DOo Young COrbett.
Says the Ring is Nice and Lu-
crative Business.

San Francisco, March 14.-Battling
Nelson is now regarded as the embodi-
ment of everything that is effective in
the fighting line. His manner of assim-
ilating punishment has caused him to
be looked uDon as a second Joe Grim,
while his ability to maintain a high rate
Of speed and do effective work at one
and the same time has brought the To-
cal sports to thinking that it will be
hard to find a man of his weight who
is likely to live through 20 rounds with
him.
The impression prevails that the Dane
has improved greatly since he boxed
Corbett before. He was always a cool
methodical genius in the ring, but this
last time he wasted neither energy nor
blows The further he went the strong
er and sureT he became. With men on
all sides shrieking and swaying he was
proof against excitement. He appeared
to measure every punch to an inch,
and he made every blow tell. He was
the coolest man in the pavilion in all
probability, and he was as merciless as
he was cool.
There couldn't have been a fairer test
of mems fighting qualifications. Nelson
always did hold that a referee is an
incumbrance in a ring until such time
comes as ruling is required. Corbett
said he could have defeated Jimmy
lowed them to get out of clinches the
best way they could.
In the Nelson-Corbett affair Welch
kept well away from the men and al
lowed them to battle along the lines
they had mutually declared to be the
fairest. The result was a series of mix
ups such as keep excitable onlOOkerS
wrenching in their seats.
COrbett, before the persistent poking
of the Danes fists began to wear him
down, threw in some left and right
swings that seemed powerful enough to
fell a man of JeffreYs' tonnage, but the
fiinty-faced right in front of him neith-
ed WINGED nor slackened speed. There
We're four rounds of clashing such as
bellicose btllygoats indulge in. and after
that it was the Dane growing stronger
and striking with increased accuracy,
while poor Corbett weakened steadily
under the cruel battering, and finally
collapsed.
If the various obstacles which beset
the sport of the ring at this writing are
cleared away, Manager Al Herford will
do his best to send Joe Cans to the
front as Battling Nelson's next Oppo-
nent. HerfOrd is puffed UP like pouter
pigeon over the warm greeting Cans re-
ceived from last weeks fight crowd,
and emboldened BY such convincing
proofs Of his protege,s popularity, he is
determined to scare up a battle for
Cans if one is to be had.
HerfOrd will have a hard row to hoe
at that. To begin with, Nelson has said
that if it is made to appear to him
that Cans is the man he ought to hook
up with, he will insist that Cans box
at 1913 pounds ringside weight Unless
the dapper Baltimore manager can uti-
lie his persuasive power in such a way
as to have Nelson change these terms,
there will be small chance of arousing
interest in a Nelson Cans match. The
sports of San Francisco have seen how
Cans strips and boxes at 133 pounds,
and are thoroughly convinced that the
notch is too low for him.
Nelson is frank enough to say that
he would prefer Britt to Cans, as he
considers the native son a less danger
Gus customer than the cOlOred pugil1St.
Britt has already placed himself on rec
ord to the effect that he viii never hight
Cans again, SO that it can readily pc
seen that Herford is confronted with a
bleak prospect.
There is lust this much in his favor,
however The inner circle of fight fol-
lowers regard a Nelson-Gans match
more favorably than they do return
date between Britt and Nelson The
connoisseurs referred to feel that, under
conditions which will ensure each man
being at his best, a scrap between the
Dane and the colored lad would prove
one of the most exciting struggles seen
in a. San Francisco ring in years
1t may be that Herford may be able
to turn the prattle of the experts to ac-
count in bringing pressure to pear on
Nelson and the promoters, buI II must
against him.
An wing, whose principal cranial
adornments are a battle-worn queue
and a brace of caulifower ears, is apt
to take a fall out of Young Corbett the
first time he meets him. 1t appears tnat
someone sent out a story that wing
was cooking for Corbett while the lat
ter was in training at San Rafael. AS
matter of fact, Wing had never been IN
the vicinity of Young Corbetts camp
The irate Chinese wants to be rated as
a champion and not as chef lie
blames Corbett for the libel, and says
it was simply "a play for cheap ad-
vertising."
1.-The idea of saying I was making
fapjacks for that kid said Wing WIFI
a snort why, challenged him from
the ring the last time fought
Wing, by the way, is a 1ul-neoseu
native son. He was born at Auburn IN
this state, and has the somewhat DOUBT
full distinction of being scnoolmale oA
Young Weber, who was recently con-
victed of numbering the entlre weber
family.
Wing has several brothers and sisters,
and they are all fairly wen educated
His eldest sister took him TO task re-
Gently for following the fighting game
TT isn't a nice business, ana uon
think there is any money in 1t, she
argued
s4Oh. I don't know" replied An Wing.
Jimmy Britt is buying $3O,Ooo mats.
guess I'll stay with it a Wnlle, WnllHs-o~-
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