Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-03
NELSON is
NEARING LOS ANGELES
DANE IS DUE TO ARRIVE AT NOON
Manager Nolan Wires That They Left Ell Paso for
the Coast Yesterday MOrning-Jimmy Britt
Dsposes of Story of Dissatisfaction
by Reserving Training Quarters

ring for some time and will necessarily
require more work than would other
wise be the case.
Both are very popular with the fans
and their training quarters will be Wis
tied daily by throngs of admirers and
enthused sportsmen who delight in wit
Messing the workouts of battlers as
clever as these.
The great stake for which Herman
and Britt will do battle is the right to
a match with the winner of the Nelson
Herrera scrap, which McCarey is seek
| ing as his Fourth of July attraction.
Nelson has signifed his willingness
to be matched with the winner of the
Britt Herman go for the July date, and
Herrera has also acquiesced in the
| plan. Britt and Herman have no
greater longing than to take on the
victor in the big match, and thus it
seems assured that the Fiesta week
attractions will take on the form of
qualifying matches for the July at
traction.
Nelson VS.. Herrera
Naturally, the greatest interest CEN
ters in the Nelson Herrera battle, the
second of the Fiesta week attractions
and scheduled for May IL.
This will bring together two of the
topnotchers in the lightweight division,
and the result will be a settlement of
the mooted question of superiority be-
tween the Dane and the Mexican.
Excepting Joe Cans, who admits that
he is no longer able to make the light
weight limit of 133 pounds at the ring
side, Battling Nelson is regarded as
the king in that division and Herrera
is the one battIer whom the Dane most
fears.
They have met once and the result
was not entirely satisfactory to either,
although Nelson received the verdict
after twenty rounds of the hardest
fighting he ever engaged in.
Delegations of sportsmen from every
point of the compass will be in attend
ance, and so evenly are the boys
matched that local sportsmen are di-
vided in opinions as to which will be
the ringside favorite.
Fasteners will back Nelson to win
and they will be here in force. Local
sportsmen will generally tack their
faith to Herrera. Butte, Mont. will
have big delegation present and they
will attempt to cover all the Nelson
money in sight, as will the Bakersfield
contingent of half a thousand persons.
The Frisco contingent will be split in
choice of the winner and will add to
the funds of each side in its support
of the two boys. These facts compli-
cate the situation and add to the gen.
eral interest attaching to the battle.
This scrap is the only one of the
three on the program for which Nc
Carey was forced to give q purse, and
he has long since ceased worrying over
his probable loss, as the demand for
seats is so great at this time that he
is considering the idea of enlarging the
pavilion.
The seats are not on sale and only
reservations are being made but these
requests are pouring in constantly and
he is already assured that the pavilion
will be inadequate to accommodate
the applications for seats.
Interest in the three star specials of
McCarey is not confined to Los An
geles, as daily orders from Pasadena,
Long Beach, Riverside, San Bernardino.
Santa Barbara and other Southern Cal
ifornia cities testify.
Pasadena has especially given evil
dence of substantial interest in the
three mills and particularly in the
Fiesta week attractions. Daily orders
of increasing sizes and amounts are re-
ceived at fight headquarters and the
Crown City has the distinction of send
ing in the first orders for box seats.
Eastern sportsmen are not far behind
the local contingent, many orders being
received by mail from every direction.
Fasteners who expect to be in Los
Angeles during the week of the battles
are sending in orders for seat reserva-
tions in the fear that when they arrive
they will be too late to get seats.
Angelenos, however. are eVincing the
expected interest and naturally have
placed by far the greatest number of
| orders for the $50, $40 and so seats.
The S. and $40 seats will be placed on
sale two weeks in advance of the date
of the regular seat sale, Manager Nc
Carey desiring to give all Angelenos
who prefer these seats the opportunity
of buying them before the outside world
makes it's march on the box office.