The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-28
HIS AMBITION.
Herman Has Been Waiting
Years for This Chance.
Tells a Confidential Friend. Of
His Past Trials.
WANTS TOBEC CHAMPION
Thinks New Years Day Battle
Is on the Square.
The Advance Betting Shows
Odds FavOring Cans.

Tonapah, Dec. 2S.-As is fairly well
known by now, Joe Cans and Kid Her
man are to fight in this camp on New
Years day for a $4,000 purse. AS may
not be known, Kid Herman has been
looking for this chance for years and
now that it has arrived he is going TO
quit the game rather than let this
chance for a championship pass him
by.
Sitting in his cottage the other night
tie Chicago boy told a friend. on the
square No fellow. except one who
ranks himself as extra wise-and he
never gets far with it-ever tries to
bull a friend.
Lad" he said, I've been waiting
for this opportunity for years. You
met me in San Francisco almost three
years ago I came there on gamble.
I thought I could get match then with
Britt Nobody knew me. stayed
nearly two months in the town. but the
men that run the game there couldn't
see me as a card I am a young fellow
Yet and I am still fighting and trying.
Il have wanted a chance at the
championship of my division ever since
I started fighting. I want to be
champion. OF course. Every fighter
does. I know Cans and / know how he
fights. I believe that I can beat him.
AZ any one can. I believe II so strongly
that I am willing to quit the game IL
he beats me. Mind you. I don't prom
Use that I viii quit, but now that this
chance IS given me, am going to come
through
Another thing, these Nevada people
are good people to work with. They
run all their games on the square, and
all they demand Of a fighter IS that he
shall fight on the square. That means
that my chance to win a championship
will be decided entirely upon my merits
as a fighter It's enough
Herman worked in San Francisco
during the months of April and May in
1904. but promoters there had no match
for him Finally he went back to Chi
cago. without appearing in San Fran
cisco ring. It seems TOO bad. now that
he is the one man selected as an OPP
ponent for the light weight champion
that san Francisco. the center OF the
light industry at that time, could not
have given him an opportunity to show
what he could do.
Betting on the bout has taken a jump
and today the rush Of Cans money has
forced the odds to to 2 The Her
man hackers are holding off, even at
this price hoping that the admirers of
the dusky fighter viii offer to I. when
thousands Of dollars OF Herman money
viii pour into the big poolroom-
There is plenty Of Herman money
here d j. Landheld, Herman's brother.
having arrived with a commission Of
$4,000 Men who are closely connected
with the game. and VINO nave studied
the situation thoroughly. declare that
the Cans hackers are Offering to 2
and some to ! on Cans. considering
form against form. and not the fight
ers as they stand today If the "dOpe"
look is to be a judge IN selecting the
winner. they argue. then Cans should
b q s TO I shot
IT was learned here today that some
Of cans strongest admirers are taking
the Herman end of the to 1 odds.
Acquiring that at that price it IS taking
a gamblers chance