The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-18
UNCLE JOB And THE BAHTLER
SPEAkER AND NELSON, THE
PUGILEST, NAVE 4 SETTO.

PrlRsnShter Tells q Committee U's Men,
sense 10 step MOVlng Pictures 0T
seraps -Ctles Rosseyelt 81 y pairon
-Tells Canaan Hes ''sOme speaker. "
wAsHIN0IoN. May n. - Battling Nelson.
oX-hGhtweight champion Of the world and
Uncle Joe Cannon. who IL something Of a
acTApper himself. SPARED q round In the
Speakers private once to-day. Il was
largely conversational
HeABon and his manager appeared this
morning before the House Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce 20
oppose the bill introduced last week by
Representative Walter l. Smith Of Iowa
20 prohibit the exhibition % moving
pictures Of priEehghts and the publica-
ton by newspapers of the details u
puRiliatio encounters. After Nelson had
spoken his piece he left the COMMITTEES
room and was hurrying down the corridor
toward the exit. when Representative
Wagner Of Pennsylvania cams chasing
after him.
Hey. Nelson he oried. 'the Speaker
wants 10 So you
YOU'RE on. said Nelson. and he made
tracks for the Speakers Office. he got
a warm greeting. Uncle Joe shook his
hands. felt his bioeps and slapped him on
the back. The examination was returned
vita interest
Say said Nelson 20 Mr.. Cannon. as
he ran bis hands over the Speakers arms
and shoulders and sized up his height, I
thought you were . b's man. but you're
Uncle Joe srinnsd and put up bis hands
.PhiiSdsIphis jack o'Rrien showed me
how 20 do this. be said. And he made
few paanss At Nelson, who backed away
laukhingly.
n YOU had begun boxing q few years
AFRO. Mr.. Cannon sAid Nelson, you
would have nah a better oo1eF than a
Speaker-and You certainly are some
why crsed Uncle Joe. that's what /
call a mighty pretty compliment
This boxing game h not immoral
Nelson told the COMMITTEES, and that Ia
a lot more thRn can h said for most Of
the moving pictures which ers being
let anybody fool you Ebout this prize
hghting business There u only one
State IN the Union where you can pull IN
a prixenght. and that IA Nevada 10 al
the other States there era boxing con-
tests, and boxing Is the most manly Of
all sportB. There mcy have been q dozen
fatalities In the history 81 tho priseribR.
which IL ebout tho number you have each
year In the football game II you are
going Gftor boxing contests ard tho pc
lures taken 81 them. why not make a
general cleanup and do away With r.cinR
news. stock tickers and the accounts of
football Rnmes'
Mr. Sims ven'ired tho announcement
that he had never seen a boxing contest
Why not let ~ have a little exhibition I
night here in the committee room be /
suggested No member II the COMMITTEES I
volunteered % 90 up against tho Dane
That's 4he trouble with the7N people I
who are trying 20 pat an end % boxing !
said Nelson, commenting upon Mr.. Sims's /
remark Most Of them have never seen T.
q contest and they don't know what they 4
are talking about let me tell YOU some /
thing Theodore Roosevelt never missed .
a good 20 when he lived In New York
TIE Interstate Commerce Committee
Crinnet He never missei /
goOi bout here NJ far ~ Anybody
knows said Representative sims
I wonder II he could have done better
with the gloves exclusively rather than
with the biK stick7' murmurei Rapre-
se tative Bartlett ~ Georgia.
Before Nelson loft the Capitol Uncle Joe
gave him an autographed Photograph
and ohenDh him n cigar
'0ee. aRid Nelson, I'm much obliged
FOR pDuF map. Mr. Cannon, but I never
took a smoke OF q drink in NV lfe'
I'm happy" replied Mr. Cannon,
gravely. a. be bic the md % a perfecto.
that ! can say the SANE