The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-13
HERMAN IS HAPPY
Thinks Cans Did Well to Battle
With Him.
The Loser Is Bound to Get a
Large Amount.
40 PER CENT OF PURSE.
This Is Largest Sum the Kid
Has Ever Fought For.
VIII Fight at 1873 Pounds on
New Years Day.
40 PER CENT OF PURSE

Chicago Nov. 13.-'Kid" Herman IS
the happiest pugillst in the country,
thanks to the generosity of lightweight
champion Joe Cans. The latter held
the trump hand in the lightweight pug
ilistic class. and could either play it OF
throw it into the discard. He elected
to play it against Herman; hence the
latter's happiness. The followers of the
game already know that Cans and
Herman have signed articles to fight
for the championship at Tonopah, New,
on New Years day for a $4,000 purse
of which so per cent VIII go to the
winner and 40 per cent to the loser
The weight they will battle at IS laS
pounds, weigh in two hours before en-
tering the ring, and what are termed
straight Marquis of Queensberry rules
will govern. Cans, as champion ana
the challenged party, was entitled TO
no debating to speak of. He first sug-
gested to cut the money IS per cent
to the winner and 35 per cent to the
loser, but when he learned that Her
mans manager, Nate Lewis. was Will
ing to accept almost any conditions ne
cut the winners end 5 per cent and
added it to the. losers end. This was
liberal and showed the stuff the cham
pion is made of Joe IS under the I'M
preston he will beat the kid" handlly,
but he did not let that interfere with
his Hberality when the question OF
splitting the money was broached- Ac-
cording to the cut OF the purse her
man. should he lose, will receive 5000,
and 81 coo more should he win. This is
the largest amount of money he mas
ever been given Il chance to fight Tor.
Besides that, he is given the oppor-
tunity to battle for a championship
with no flaw in the title. The kid"
has been troubled with the champion
ship bee over a year. or since he beal
Eddie Hanlon and held the clever ana
shifty Abe Attel and the hard-hitt1ng
Aurelio Herrera to 20-rOund draws.
Those who are not personally acquaint-
ed with Herman, or have not Kept IN
close touch with his fighting, naturally
figure Cans viii experience no dlfncul-
ty in beating him This because Joe Is Is
known the world over as the cleYerest
champion of recent years. Herman and
his adherents think otherwise.
They know the Kid is going to stack
up against the toughest proposition IL
the business, but they figU that Cans
is crawling along IN years, and that
sooner or later he will go under, anu
this may be the time. Also, that Her
man is in the prime OF life; that IS,
figuring from a pugifistic stand point :
that he has met men equally as clever
and as good a hitter as Joe and did. not
break worse ithan1even. They know the
Hideis as game as dt}1Fsy turn them aou T.
that he has an enormous capacity ftor
punishment, and that he has a better
knowledge of the 1ne points Of the
game than has Nelson. They rightful-
" claim Joe failed to knock out Bat,
on whom he landed at will. SO why
should he have a cinch on licking Her
man? The latter can hit as hard as
can Nelson. is much more difficult to
get at because of his stature, and,
therefore. is conceded an excellent
chance. The date of the fight is still
a long way off. and the doping out of it
still a matter of guesswork.