Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-11


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in the welterweight division and is
matched with Walcott to fight for the
welter title, the world accepts the Mel
SON. Herrera battle as one for legiti-
mate title.
Nelson is in the best of health, is
strong and in excellent condition. He
is several pounds overweight, but ex-
poets to work off the surplus weight
while climbing the mountains at Cata-
lima during the next ten days.
After he has thus reduced he expects
to whip himself into condition with
out delay or great eXertion. Two
weeks work at Fairview, ending with
the final fortnight of earnest effort IN
polishing off at Arcadia, are expected
to put him right on edge for the battle
of his life.
Training in Barn
Aurelio Herrera is training in barn
His assistants and sparring partners
are with him. Also his mule. With all
his surroundings and romantic" set
tings Herrera should make good.
Tommy Jacobs, the white top kid, is
directing the Mexican in his training
and incidentally making life miser-
able for his battler by putting him
through a daily routine that is as
strenuous as it is strange.
Herrera says this is his chance to
roost on the top rung of the lightweight
ladder and me for that" Usually
negligent in his training, Herrera will
not only break a worlds record for
workouts and conditioning processes,
but will shatter another record when
he enters upon an enthusiastic course
of consistent work with the single idea
of entering the ring in the best condi-
ton of his career.
Local fight fans are due for huge
surprise when Herrera begins to peck
away at Nelson in his attempt at jab-
bing home a title. In all his scraps in
Los Angeles Herrera has fought a
slow, careful and painstaking battle,
using his long arms to keep the other
fellow away until an opening was pre-
sented for planting that awful right
on the sleep point.
Because he has stood up and took
punishment in his efforts at landing
the one grand punch Herrera has not
been rated as a pretty fighter, but
when he sails in with Nelson and does
his share towards making it slap
bang affai: from first to last the fans
will sit up and take notice of the new
style of the Mexican.
In other words, when Nelson and
Herrera begin to bing at one another
| it will be a fierce and fast contest
! Under these conditions it will be more
attra ctiVe than ever, as both are past
masters at taking punishment and are
the best give-and-take artists in thf
business.
Britt VS.. Herman
Second in the consideration of tn
! fans is the Britt-Herman match, al
though no worlds championship is in
volved. The interest that attaches t.
| this battle, which occurs May Z, is TO
| two reasons justified. First, both ar
natural born fighters; second, both ar
popular with the local fans.
This mill is expected to be one gram
scrap, as both boys are clever, gam
and willing and each is a ring genera
| Of unusual ability. The battle will b
! fast and furious from the tap of tn
gong until the end, because it is i'm
possible for either to box in the slow
going, easy style so common to man,
of the topnotchers.
Jimmy Britt and Kid Herman ar
scrapping for the top rung in the lad
der. Jimmy has been there, but wa
scrouged out by Nelson and he is com
ing back to reclaim his own.
Jimmy has another idea. He pro
poses to show the world that a cham
pion can really come back and regal
his lost laures. If Britt wins he wi
Nelson, regardless of petty none
differences between them.
Herman also has an idea. He be
leves he is of championship calibe
and because his friends share this be
lief he will spare nothing to justif
their good opinion of him by gettin
TO the top of the heap as speedily a
possible.
Herman began boxing in Chicag
i and because he is one of the smalles
of the lightweights he was not counte
as much. He was forced to comp'
recognition by hard knocks and cor
sistent work in the ring. He con
PEELED the world to sit up and tax
notice.
Herman Is Confident
Until within the last twelve month
Herman was a "locaP' scrapper aroun
Chicago, but when he completed tn
task OF whipping all the lightweight
| in the Ghetto he began to thirst fc
| greIter honors.
| Slowly, because unknown, he wade
into the lightweights wherever
could get a battle and he usually VOL
Gradually it began to dawn upon tn
fight world that another star was to
considered and he fought MS way lnI
this consideration.
The most Important battles Of h
career were those fought at Los Ar
geles, when he defeated Eddie Hanlo
and drew with Herrera, although /
had met and defeated some of the bei
men in his division in the east
/ When he entered the ring to be
Eddie Hanlon he was the short end {
a 10 to shot the native son bein
held at nearly to 1. over him. Hel
man made good by whipping Hanlo
to a standstill.
When he was matched with Herrer
there were few who believed he woul
get out of the ring unaided. For fl
teen rounds he battered the Mexica
around the ring, and although th
native son fought like a whirlwind
the final rounds, he was unable to pi
him out, and Herman was given
ldraw, which decision represented Il