Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-06-02
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forfeit II you failed 20 make your
welrhtg the reporter asked.
A light beamed on the sickly face of
the indian fighter. Forfeit? For-
feit3' he repealed yacantly. Then he
became confidential.
"Aw. you know how Vye do those
things ! didn't put up no money and
] didn't lose nothing
Here the woman interrupted and
to,i her champion TO ten how Nelson
worked The game against him
"ph. him he said. referring again
io the champion. as 10 Tor moment
the thought Of THE Battler' had
passed from his beuddel brain. Him?
lie 6oi even the newspapers fixed. See
hoW they gave it "a him This m0ru-
ing ! didn't get a square deal. / lost
out there again"
WI you hght him again, n Won
ger a chance was asked
FIGHT NOTHING.
The face Of he Mexican turned even
Follower than Il vas Friday night as
bee entered the ring, Fight him. ne
muttercd, Yes. III night him" The
lar words died away In an almost in
oulculate whisper, aui Toe light faded
from the eyes OF the man who has
Knocked out more lighters than any
oiheI lightweight in JhC ring. The III
tervicW was al 1n enA
Tommy Jacobs, the intolerable little
uistart VINO LETT a hash foundry 10
uaragc Herrera, did not appear 10
snare The MpXican's humiliation llA
hide is too thick. He pranccd around
as cockily az though Herrera had won
The championship
Cf m McCareys oficc some one
charged him holly with having team
pered With the scales Tommy snick-
cred tut made no denial
Nouro Herrera tagged around after
Jactbs-tr0uhled ana beginning 10
have misglyings. II Is beginning 10
p-rmsale his slow brain what a fcaf-
ful hldrcer they were drawn into by
tbs ul pish hash slinger--T, Jacobs,
BATS" DAY.
The contrast between Nelson's dav
and Heueras was piilful Bat had
breakfast In one Of the big downtown
grlls. where the crystal sparxled
chatting merrlly with his friends. ie-
ceiving new oyatious
He was admired before BY sporting
men as terrible fighter The night
that ruined the Mexican won for HIN
the respect Of those who are not
sports, but who admire q manly. hon
orable. square" little chap.
Today he 'Nill be al home FOR ali
corners az Baldwin's ranch lie wants
10 see all his friends.
Herrera brutally knocked down AMI
out an unknown man al First aud
Main streets shortly after ~ o'clock
this morning HerreTa's friends. 20
avoid possible trouble through police
Interference, hustled the Mexican away
and into the Palace cafe. Friends II
the injured man removed him 10 his
home before his identity could be
learned
MALACTRY HOGAN's COMMENT.
The Nelson-H Herrera hasco at Los An.
geles Friday night is a scandal of the
prize ring that u hard TO figure ont
Possibly the facts Ia the case win hey.
er be 6nOwn but much Of the blame
can safely b. luil al the door OF Man
ager McCarey NJ the Pacific Athletic
club. which was to have staged lhu
bout.
That a wrangla over weight was in !
itself responsible tor the calling OF Of |
the bout is absurd There were hints N |
big plot ia send Herrera into the rig
many pounds over the stipulated hg-
ure In order To clean up some big bets
made, ana these may have had sonc- |
thing 10 do with the failure of the men /
10 meet
The articles called for both men a.
weigh in M McCarey's Office al o'clock
on the evening OF the battle. Both were
there for this purpose. and the scales |
were out OF order That rs where Ne. |
Carey gets the blame, IN The first bllce |
he had no business 90 use scales |
brought from Nelson's training quar-. |
ters. In the next place ne should !,
have had them tested aud sealed rev. |
eral days before the bout was 10 take /
place
Why these things were not attended |
To Is the story back ~ the affair 10 i
is suggested by some that the house Vas I
not his enough To pay the purse by I
Others that there wasSome big bettns I
angle that went wrong At the last MIN /
ute II looks from this distance as it !
there was an attempt 10y the Herrera Z
party % slip something over on the |
Nelson side aud that the promoters oi |
the scheme were not able 20 go through /
with A.
For all that IL known these conditions /
may have been reversed. but the faG
that Nelson offered 20 meet Herrera no |
ll0 pounds and that the Mexican refug-
cd 20 De weighed under these condi- !
lions makes IL look as lhoueh the lat. !
tiers party was at fault 40 any rate |
10 was q queer proposition, and one that 1
viii do boxing "a great deal OF harm in |
That territory.