The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-16
BY W. o. RiSHEL.

in these near fights" in Los Angeles
il will not be long until Nelson as
card will be thing of the past.
Nelson as d Billy Nolan.
Nelson is somewhat of a manage
himself, as was shown when he signed
TO meet Jimmy Britt at Los Angeles.
At the time it will be remembered that
d party giving his name as Lewis but
ted into the match making and offered
Nelson a 10 per cent bonus to come to
Salt Lake and fight Britt. McCarey
went uo in the air. so did Britt, and
the sporting writers of Los Angeles
were calling Lewis all kinds of but
tinskies'' for trying TO take the match
to this city. We here in Salt Lake
were sort of puzzled, as no one had
any chance of pulling off match
here. 1t just leaked out this week who
Lewis was, and now one can see
through Bats game. Lewis is for
mer Salt Lake saloonkeeper and
great friend of Nelson's. He went with
Bat to Los Angeles right after the
Clifford fight and has been with him
ever since. Bat probably framed a
deal with Lewis to break in on the
proceedings just as the match making
got interesting to get McCarey to
come through with more money OF
d
10 pull the fight off here, but McCarey
did not know this. and probably gave
Bat what he wanted at the last min
ute to head off the alleged Salt Lake
offer. 1t was a good bluff and one
cannot but help think that Nelson is
capable of handling his own business
after this.
Another Boston Race
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in the bike racing game is evident by
the way they bite at the six-day
grinds. which are about as far from a
cycle race as il would be possible for
men astride wheels to make it, Word
received from the east this week is
that Boston is to have another one of
those ten hour a day six-day grinds.
Already Boston has had one this sea-
son ana, it is claimed, paid well. The
race is scheduled to start Monday
night with ten teams liver Lawson and
James Moran, the winners of the Bos-
ton Christmas day twenty-four-hou
race. will ride together, while Joe Fog
Ter has signed up with Hugh MacLean.
The Bedell brothers are paired. as are
also Worth Mitten and Floyd Krebs,
Pat Logan and Matt Downey, George
Wiley and Charles Sherwood, A. W.
HOlbroOk and Joe Halligan. Walter
Bardgett and Eddie Root and n. NJ.
Andersen and Carlo VanOni. This last
named pair is distinctly a foreign team,
Andersen being a Dane, while Vaponi
halls from sunny Italy Vanoni has
been in this country before, riding in
two New York six-day races.
Proper Move for Jack Johnson.
If Jack johnson had a good business
head he would take the first boat for
England. Upon his arrival J. Arthur
would locate Tommy Burns and inform
BunkO that he would have to come
through with half his winnings in the
future to keep Johnson out of sight. II
Jack was to suddenly appear in Lon
don, Burns would have hard time to
keep the English press from demand
ing that he meet the black fellow
This would stop Burns lemon picking
expedition, and he would have a real
fight on his hands. The English peo-
pie. although slow. are beginning
to wake up to TOmmy's game, and
even though johnson is an American,
they would not be slow in demanding
Burns meet a live one. Jack Johnson
is overlooking a good bet.
Major Taylor in Game Again.
Major Taylors temperance in the
bike game in Boston seems to have
added increased interest in the game.
His first race was against Lawson, but
Taylor was beaten. 1t is claimed for
him that he was not in condition and
that he was far from being in his old
time form. Taylor has offers from
Europe and Salt Lake for this summer.
and will undoubtedly take the better of
the two.
Back to Iowa for Museatine.
The Muscatine basket ball team has
come and gone. The Iowa bunch Will
remember its trip to Utah by two de-