The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-20
BAT. NELSON IS
WEALTHY BOXER

Had Thomas W. Lawson installed a
chapter in his Frenzied Finance rela.
tive to the money characteristics of
fighting folk it would undoubtedly have
been interesting reading, for your folk
of the glove have as many money
traits as those who deal in the marts
of trade and on the bourses of the
world.
Some folks of the glove there are
whose hands are to money what your
sieve is to water. Forever water will
flow through sieve, and forever the
elusive dollar will trickle through the
spread fingers of your money spending
fighter.
Prince of spenders was Joe Cans.
He was your Prince Potemkin of the
ring, and it is said that Potemkin in
an extravagant moment invited sixty
guests to a banquet in his Russian
palace and distributed among them a
full quart of jewels. Cans has not
distributed his money after the fashion
of Potemkin, but the rattle of the
bones has sounded more than one lorlei
to the bank roll of the great Balti-
morean.
Of another type is Battling Nelson.
The BattIer is one of those who have
keen commercial sense, knows the
value of dollar and its reaching
power. This financial sense is well de-
veloped in Nelson and for this reason
he is well off in worldly goods. Bat
is as keen after money as a hound
after a hare. He is a real estate sharp
of no mean ability and counts himself
a landed proprietor and lord of what
he surveys in no less than five COM
munities.
The Bat has his vine clad hills in
Livermore, has rows of houses in He
gewisch owns property in New Mexico
and is, for fighter, bloated bond
holder and plutocrat.
Time and again various newspaper
writer's have guessed at who the
wealthiest pugilist in the world is. The
best that can be done regarding the
wealth of pugilists, as broad rule, IS
a guess For some strange reason Mel
son has not often appeared In such
lists, yet those who know the money
fairness of pugilists hold that Nelson
is one of the richest pugilists IN the
world.
Nelson has saved most of the money
he has earned. He is a model sort of
lad from an economic standpoint. He
does not drivel his money away, but
for all that Nelson is a good spender.
He usually lives in the very best hotels
in the country, has the best accom-
modations and sees to it that every
bodily comfort is catered to.
The Bat is no gambler. His "busi-
ness, bump is too well developed to
include any space for the gambling IN
stinet.
Bat. himself, says that he is worth
close to a quarter of million OF round
dollars. This statement can be taken
cum grano sails, as Cockey U 'Brlen
would say.
Probably Nelson can muster some
whore to the number of a round hun
dred thousand dollars Not bad lor
man of the Nelson mentality.
Whatever one thinks of Nelson, per
sons of the better instincts, viii give
him great credit for prudence and
-,opa2 cautionsness When his fight
inT DAYS are over. Jennie dear, Bat will
not have to pick up a tin cup, tack on
a sign 81 IN blind" and collect aims
Nelson : dollar sight is too keen for
this. He viii quit the ring when the
time comes for him to bow out with
a comfortable fortune, and enough not
only to keep the wolf from the door,
Int to command the respectful distance
of that vulpine ravager.