The San Francisco call., 1906-09-05
Battling Nelson's Brother Is
a Berkeley Student.
While Watching Fight
Bulletins, Identity
Becomes Known.

Battling" Nelson has a brother who
is freshman at the University of CAL
ifornia. and until last night not soul
OF all the hundreds of athlete-worship-
ers on the campus so much as dreamed
that the name of Charles H. Nelson in
the university register represented the
best-loved lad in the Nelson family
and the special pride and pet of the
great Battling" himself.
Battling" has decided, after careful
thought, that the University of Cali
fornia is the greatest of them all, and
so his young brother is on the roster.
In the crowd that surged before the
windows of the Oakland Office of The
Call Monday, scanning the bulletins
that told of the battle between Nelson
and Cans at Goldfield there was
slender, pale-faced lad, slight Of
build, mild of eye, suggesting
rather the youthful cleric than
the scion of a great fighting family.
This lad was the younger brother OF
Battling" Nelson. and had the youth
chosen to let his identity be known,
he doubtless would have divided in
terest with the fight bulletins and per-
haps taken the lions share of atten-
ton.
Battling" Nelson's brother is modest
and he was content to stand on the
outskirts of the throng, with a student
friend or two, and watch the story Of
the bulletins in The Call office win
dows. When the flash came that
Cans wins on foul" the brother of
Battling looked distressed. His eyes
were a bit wet and his voice trembled.
Battling must have simply been
crazy with the strain of forty rounds
of fighting" said the student lad. and
fouled Cans while he was partly out
Of mi, n oxre r17i,r cd
Bat up with anything other than fair.
clean fighting, and we know that he
would rather lose than Intentionally do
foul work. / guess III have TO wait
to hear from him myself before trying
to figure out how it could have hap
pened."
Then the pugilist's brother hied
homeward, told the folk with whom
he lived that Bat lost on a FOUL"
and retired to his own study room to
think il over. There is handsome.
leather-bound bible in a prominent
place on the study table in that room.
and also leaflets and church literature
an unusual inclination on freshman's
part for serious things, quite apart
from pugilistic matters
That is not to say that Charley Nell
son, the nineteen-year-ol boy. does
not care for the manly art" He has
UOAcQ Will Ddllill6 OIIClls knOWS
quite bit of the science of the game
and does not mind letting you see
kodak photographs revealing him as a
time-keeper in little mix-ups of the
impromptu sort where Battling" has
been one of the participants
Charles Nelson is to be a physician
if Bats" dream comes true The
fighting lad has prepared to spend a
small fortune on his young brother
and is to make a doctor OF him if
money and time and instruction can
help in the task. He has good material
to work. The fighters brother has the
low voice, the gentle manner that sug-
gests good breeding and a certain SIM
pncity and genuineness which the great
ones of the earth have said are the
hall mark of nobility
Battling nelson brought the young
brother out from Chicago last year.
and after looking over the field de-
cided that the University of California
was about the best thing in sight as
a training school for young doctor.
and so arrangements were made for
Charles Nelson's entrance into the uni
versity. The lad spent few months
at Hitchcock's military academy in
Marin County. and now is of the fresh
man class at the university, in the coll
lege of social sciences. He will take
two years course at Berkeley and
then go through the full four years
course in the Affiliated Colleges in San
Francisco. Bat will pay the costs
The course is a long and expensive
one, but there is bound to be a doctor
! in the family of Battling Nelson If
the coin sack doesn't give way. and
Charles Nelson smiles as he says:
Bat has always wanted to see me
through. and he never stops when. he
is started TIL he gets to where he
wants to go. l hope to repay him in
time. but Bat isn't looking for that
He's a brother that 1 am proud of
because he is square and good and
straight. and there isn't anything self
ish or mean in his body. That's some
thing. isn't it?H