Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-04
BOTH ARE HAPPY
AND CONFIDENT
DANE PAYS FINE TRIBUTE TO
HERRERA
Asserts Mexican Is His Most Danger.
GUS opponent-WlI Spend Fort
night at Catalina Before
Beginning Training
BY Jay Davidson


His Monumental Durableness is in
Los Angeles, having arrived at 10: 90
yesterday afternoon. The irrepressible
Billy Nolan, his manager, is also here.
Battling and his manager came from
FL Paso, where they made stop of one
day to give the little champion an ap-
portunity of changing his ideas regard
ing football by witnessing a Mexican
null fight
Mexican mannerisms appeal strongly
to the strenuous Dane because he Is to
give battle to a son of Montezuma for
the title he now wears, and Nelson was
much interested in the proceedings of
slaughter enacted at JuareZ across the
line of the two republics.
After stepping from the train at the
Arcade depot, Nelson and Nolan chimed
greetings to Manager Tom McCarey
something in this vein, or words to that
effect: Money, money. Give us a
dime"
The occasion for this unexpected and
cordial greeting was a bit of absent
mindedness which assailed battler and
manager at San Antonio, in which city
they left all their financial possessions
save few installments of cash which
were absorbed in the journey to Los
Angeles.
Nelson and Nolan were interested
too long while viewing scenes in the
metropolis of the Lone Star state
The result was that time waited
neither for battler nor manager and
the first time either dared gaze on the
face of his watch it was ascertained
that they had but a few feeting mo-
ments in which to catch their train for
Ell Paso.
They could not return to their hotel
1aft hi
baggage and the huge envelope con-
tanning the mutual profits of the Nell
son-McGovern argument, amounting to
several thousand dollars.
"Touch" Mccarey
When they arrived at Ell Paso they
had a few roubles left and proceeded to
spend them. They also telegraphed
the San Antonio hotel authorities to
"send more money" to Los Angeles.
On arriving in the Angel City they |
each possessed the enormous sum of 10
cents and were delighted a the sight OF |
the face of McCarey. When Tom really |
understood. and he is not so slow after
all $50 say all the fight trust managers). |
he fshed up a couple of twenties and |
relieved the stringency of the money
market in their immediate vicinity.
McCarey guided them TO the Angelus,
where they are staying while investi-
eating the various locations offered
them for training quarters, Nelson
and Nolan were much worried by their /,
trip across the continent via the longest |
route and were as difficult to see as
Rockefeller or Morgan, but they |
emerged from the hotel late in the aft |
ernoon and walked up to the fight
headquarters in the Wilson block.
The newsboys along the route became
wise" to the identity of the distin-
gushed party and before they had
proceeded two blocks a small army of
"poiper'' merchants We're trailing them
in silent and open-mouthed wonder
ment.
Bat bought 9-for-a-nickel combna-
tion of sporting extras and the little
fellow who made the sale was intro
duced to the conquerer of Britt by
McCarey. Battling shook the boys
hand cordially and the little fellow
stammered his appreciation of the
honor and darted back into the bunch,
the envied of the less fortunate and
jealous ones.
The elder folk were slightly less
"kiddish' about Nelson than the boys
Great gangs at the various thirst
palaces en- route insisted on speaking
confidentially with McCarey, the con-
fdence involved being an invitation to
Introduce us to Bat and let's have a
drink"
Once the coail barriers were removed
via the Introduction route it was al |
most impossible for the little party to
break away from the admiring few, but
after more than an hours time the
party arrived at McCarey's office less
than three blocks from the hotel.
How He "1ooks"
Nelson is a disappointment in one
regard. He is only a mere human. |
The idea once became prevalent that !
he was rather on the order of super |
human, but when one gazes at real
eyes, a SCARED countenance, caulifower
ears Zone more so than so-so), rudy |
face and pudgy hands it is the natural
inference in the absence of contrary
information that the object is human. |
For one who has fought indiscrimin- |
ately and without picking soft spots
or easy money propositions, Nelson is |
something of a wonder. 1t has been |
a hard climb for him. but he is on the |
top of the heap and is as ever always |
willing to fight anything and under |
any sort of conditions.
To the credit of Nelson it must be |
acknowledged that he has never sought |
Easy victories. which accounts for the |
fact that he has battled with all the |
topnotchers and few of the dubs of |
his division.
Another favorable consideration is
that his name has never been con-
nected with a crooked deal and lie
W ould belle the assertion if it was
made by his earnest and impressive
manner of speech and action.
Nelson always fights to win and he
usually wins. He is a fighter of the
strenuous type and far from being a
boxer The more trough house" in
dulged by his opponent the better he
is satisfied.
Nelson is not handsome of appear
ance or countenance, no, not by any
sort of calculations, and it is diff
cult to understand just how any
pretty dame could become infatuated
with one who is so thoroughly domi-
mated with exclusively ordinary
features
Bat is not pretty. He has engaged
in too many bruisng fisticuffs to make
any pretensions to the role of a candi-
date for honors in beauty show. But
he has a broad frank countenance
which impresses his critics with the
belief that he is wholly unafraid of
that is animate and would