The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-31

night, when he would return to h.s
home, with battered eyes, there was
smother antagonist awaiting him--his
father. Old Man Nelson is some pump
kins on the fighting game himself, but
not professionally and he tried every
means within his power. from the
proverbial rod to the pleadings of the
mother, to make his boy stop fighting,
but all to no avail.
Nelson just naturally loved to fight,
and fight he did. He finally gathered
enough money to go to Chicago, and
there he was picked W. by various
bum managers, and even there. when
the siX-round exhibitions we're in full
swing, the Battler failed. He had the
wallop, but he didn't know how to
use it, and no one seemed to think
enough OF his ability along the line of
the manly art to tell him.
But he persevered. He kept on
scrapping, and one day in Chicago
it was back in 1901-the Battler got
a draw with Eddie Santry. who was
then something OF fighter. and this
put him in fine ut least to earn a
somewhat dubious li>>>>aod. Not two
months later he knocked cut Mike
Walsh. who was then just budding
into prominence, and since that night
Battling Nelson has been on Easy
street.
Fights came often. and the worst
he got out of them was draw. But
three years experience taught him
a whole lot. He learned and so. on the
afternoon of July 4. 1904. when he got
the decision over Herrera. at Butte.
ho ho foA no n
the pugilistic ladder OF fame. Eddie
Hanlon. Herrera again. and then
Young Corbett. all were outfought by
white championship, and. finally.
Cans
To those who know what these big
fights mean. it is needless to say that
the Battler had gathered together
goodly sum of money. But. unlike the
typical pugilist. he did not go in for
wine. women or gambling. Not he.
He remembered that he had a father.
mother and seven sisters and brothers
ut home, and every cent, besides his
training and living expenses was ship
ped to them.
Last year he had gathered together
enough of this worlds goods to erect
and fit out a home for his family that
is little short of n mansion. So. after
this, the fight with Britt brought home
| another goodly sum. and he simply
| forced his aged father to stop work
! ing on the railroad. He purchased
| him a horse and buggy. and now the
old gentleman is taking things easy.
and will proceed to do so for the re-
mainder of his life.
The money commenced to increase.
! Wise investments made more. and
soon his younger brother was shipped
west for his health, while his second
brother was sent out to Leland STAN
ford to complete his education. He
is also paying for the education of
two of his sisters, and while nothing
has ever been said about it, and he
himself refuses to discuss it, yet it's
a 100 to shot that his mother is just
now enjoying life as we'll. If not bet
ter, than the highest lady of the land.
He is almost sole owner in a mine
out at Reno, and just last week he
put away the money that he won on
the Cans fight. or at least part of
it, by buying up $4,000 worth of real
estate in the city of Hegewisch, and
all of it is paying big dividends on
the investment
So there is your young white cham
pion. pictured out of the ring. and NO
matter whether he be favorite or not
in the ring; whether he fouled Cans
or was fouled himself in that fight
there is not man on the continent
but what must hand it to the Dane fol-
looking out for the welfare Of the old
folks at home and treating the people
who once treated him well. in a man
ner that should befit the family Of a
champion.