Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-17
|V0RyS TO VISIT TAFT CANN0NFlI FOR RING
Politics Not Believed to Be His Good Pugistic Material,
Purpose in Washington Thinks Battling Nelson.
lOHIo SITUATION CHAOTIC FEELS Drawn OF SPEAKER
Uncle Shows
FertiAcatien .:-. phia Jack" Taught Him
IS TO K1EFER BILL PRIZE TESTIFIES
Says of
Opinior-Declines Defense Before
New ork Invita-
FEELS Drawn OF SPEAKER
Unole Joe Shows What ''Philadel-
phia Jack" Taught Him.
E FIGHTER TEsT1FIEs
Says Word for Manly Art of Self
Defense Before Houee Com
mittee Today.

Battling Nelson. ex-lightweight Cham
pfon OF the world. and Uncle Jee Cannon
| who is something Of scrapper himself.
SPARED round in the Speakers p:iyate
| once today.
1t wasn't such d tame GO at ttlt--ai-
though largely conversa tioual.
Nelson and lis manager appeared this
morning before the House committee on
interstate and foreign commerce To- up
pose the bin Introduced last week by
Representative Walter I. Smith of Iowa
to prohibit the exhibition of moving pic
lures OF prize fights and the publication
BY newspapers OF the details OF pug. iisr:c
encounters
Speaker Sends for Nelson.
After Nelson had spoken his piece be
left the committee room and was chasing
down the corridor toward the exit when
Representative Wanger Of Pennsylvania
| came chasing after him.
Hey, Nelson" he cried. the Speaker
| wants TO see you
r You're re- on ~. s sa;d S.lson He made
| He got warm greeting. Uncle Joe
shook his hands. felt his biceps and
| slapped him on the back. The examina-
| ton was returned with interest.
Cannon's Drawn Felt.
Say said Nelson to MIR. Cannon. as
he ran his hands over the Speakers arms
and shoulders and sized UP his height,
Il thought you were big man. but
you're only a little fellow
| Uncle Joe grtnned and put up his hands
in approved style.
| 'Phlladelphia Jack O'Brien showed me
how to do this he said. And he made q
few passes at Neison. who backed away
laughingly.
III you had begun boxing few years
| ago. Mr.. Cannon sad Nelson, you
! would have made a better boxer than a
| Speaker-and you Certainly are some
| Speaker
Why" cried Uncle Joe, that's what
ea turned ost surns Nesomp xs9 with
| the Speaker that he Is citizen OF
Hegewich. ILL.,, Of which he owns chunk,
and Is, therefore. a constituent of Rep
| resentative James r. Mann. the great
| objector.'
Somebody went looking for Mann. but
he was busy and couldn't come down to
| the. mix-up in the Speakers room. Be-
| sides he had presided over the hearing
| where Nelson testified.
Nelson Talks for Pugilism.
"This boxing game is not immoral
Nelson told the committee, land that is
a lot more than can be said for most of
the moving pictures which are being ex-
| hibited throughout the country. Don't
let anybody fool you about this prize
! fighting business.
There is only one state in the Union
where you can pull off a prize fight and
| that is Nevada. IN all the other states
| there are boxing contests. and boxing Is
| the most manly of all sports. There may
have been dozen fatalities in the history
| of the prize ring, which is about the num-
Der you have each year in the foot ball
game.
If you are going after boxing contests
t and the pictures taken Of them why not
make general clean UP and do away
with racing news. stock tickers and the
accounts of foot ball games?'t. ~
Mr.. Wanger asked the pugiiist why the
Nelson. Wolgast fight had BEEN stopped.
| oh" replied Nelson, the referee
| thought l wasn't in good shape
Nelson Interested, All Right.
| Were you interested in that fight at
alp" inquired Representative Sims of
Linden, Tenn.-fOrty miles from rail-
road-Who had Just entered the room.
! Somewhat" answered Nelson. quietly
II was in 1t for forty rounds"
! Mr.. Sims then ventured the announce
nent that he had never seen a boxing
| contest.
why not let us have a little exhibition
right here in the committee roonl,' he
suggested. No member of the commit
tee volunteered to go up against the
/ game Dane.
! That's the trouble with these people
| who are trying to put an end to boxing.
said Nelson, answering Mr.. Sims remark.
| Most OF them have never seen a con-
| test and they don't know what they are
| talking about.
Roosevelt a Regular.
Let me tell you something. Theodore
Roosevelt never missed good go when
| he lived in New York.
| The interstate connlercc committee
| grinned collectively and individually
He never missed a good bout here so
| far as anybody knows" said Representa-
tive Sims, with a glance at his republican
colleagues -.
II wonder if he could have done better
| with the gloves exclusively, rather than
with the big stick?", murmured Represent
| alive Bartlett of Georgia IN far-away
| tone. And only the echoes answered.
| The bearing was rudely broken up by
the three-bell notice for call of the
House, just as Nelson was about TO tell
how much money was tied up In the busi-
ness of reproducing prize fight pictures.
! There goes the gong" said the Dane
| with a smile
| You can finish your round i'm writing"
suggested Mr.. Wanger. with another grin
| to match.
Nelson Gets Over Scare.
Nelson got along swimmingly after he