Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-08
NELSON'S HAT TALK.
Battling Tells His Real Name in Dear
Old England

Battling Tells His Real Name in Dear
Old England.
/ !, The American prize ring has boast
ed of Champions in every class; fight
I ers who have become statesmen, sue
cessful merchants or near million
aires, but until Battling Nelson step
ped into England the profession has
never realized what beautiful col
lection of thought gems were clus-
tered in Bats dome. When it comes
to giving out exclusive statemnets re-
garding the inner workings of the
fight game, Nelson Is in class by
himself. Since his expedition into
the realm of Edward VII the British
estimate of our knights of the gloves
has increased greatly and any other
member of the fraternity who may
decide to go abroad in the future will
discover that the Mayor of Hegewisch
has set a standard for American pug'-
lists en- tour that will require con
stant vigilence to equal, says the New
York Evening Sun.
He has taken the British public
into his confidence in such series of
heart-to-heart talks that the inhabi-
tants of the Tight Little Isle feel chat
they know him better than even his
townspeople on this side Of the pond.
This is not surprising when one con-
siders what prose songs Bat has dis
tributed free of charge in England.
For instance, Nelson lets our cousins
IN, hr nf t1,n
of how being Dane he is still a
fighter. He tells them: You know,
1T seems strange to hear of Dane be-
ing pugilist; it is generally an Eng
lishman or an Irishman. If they are
not so, pugilists, as rule, adopt
names which make one believe that
they hail either from England or Ire
land. / am proud of my native land
of Denmark and / think my name is
a good enough handle to any pugilist-
ic honor l may have attained through
my pluck and endurance in the ring"
Regarding his odd name of Bat
Ting and the honor of his chosen
profession, he says:
NOW, let me impress up1n you
the fact that l was christened Ba;-
ting Nelson after an uncle OF nine.
1t is quite an odd name and many
think l have dubbed 1t. Not SO;
was christened Battling and how
we'll it fits me! am proud of my call
ing and it makes me shudder when |
hear a crowd of narrow-minded thin
skinned people denouncing all fight
ers as a pack of rowdies. Let me
tell you, pugilists are nothing more
than human, like other people; there
are good and bad. A man can be
gentleman in or out of the ring, and
/ would like you to know that I, at
least, have as much conceit in me to
think that l am the equal of any 9TH
er individual, no matter what his call
ing may be, so long as l behave like
a man. / try to treat others as they
treat me and have found this rule has
carried me so far through life. The
only time l break this rule is when |
get an opponent In the ring, then 4
try to use him worse"
In the flights of rhetoric Bat some
times wanders trifie from the
straight and narrow path of truth.
but then genius must not be juig-
ed as limited by the same measure
ments that apply to an ordinary NOR
tai. For this reason we ass our read
ers to shut their eyes and try to swal-
low the last and best of Nelson's eff
forts. "In my long career in the
ring am proud to say that the fin-
ger of suspicion has never been point
ed at me in reference to any contest
in which I have been engaged. /
know have drawn more money at
the gate than any two fighters who
ever lived, not because l am such a
good fighter, perhaps, but because
the public know l ann always trying
my best to win"