The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-25
NELSON TALKS
Of FAvOR|TES
Bat Places Flynn in Division
Ahead of Kaufman and
McYey.
SAYS THOMPSON is BEST
in MIDDLEWEIGHT CLASS
Thinks Jimmy Clabby Occupies
Top Position Among the
Welters.

Battling Nelson. famous lightweight
tighter, who is sojourning in Portland,
has ideas of his own about the re-
spective merits of present.day fight.
ers, says Roscoe Faucet in the
| Spokesman-Review- The former
champion was asked to name off the
best bruisers in the various divisions.
| His choices are bound to occasion more
or less comment in the boxing world.
In the first place Nelson places
Jim Flynn, Pueblo fireman. third in the
list of heavies next to johnson and
Langford and ahead of Kaufman. Nc
| Vey, Jeanette. Barry and Others.
More surprising still, the Battler ranks
'CycJone' Johnny Thompson as the
champion middleweight of them all, de-
! spite Billy Papke S worlds combat in
! England the other night.
Jimmy Clabby is placed AT the pin
nacle of the welters. with Packey
Mcfarland second in the same division.
where. he himself admits be belongs
Here is Nelson S form chart:
| Heavyweights-Jack johnson. Sam
Jeanette. Carl Morris, AL Kaufman
Middleweights-" Cyclone Johnny
Thompson. Billy Papke, Hugh Kelly,
trand Klaus, Buck Grouse. Leo Houck
Welterweights = Jimmy Clabbv,
Packey mcfarland, Harry Lewis
Llghtweig ghts-Ad Wogast. Matt
| Wells. Owen Moran. Knockout Valen
tine Brown. Freddie Welsh, frankie
Burns of Oakland, some Round Flo
| gan
Nelson refused to declare himself as
to his ranking ON show that my
self within the next year. saws Bat
Featherweights-Abe Attell. lem
Driscoll, Joe Coster. Sammy Kellar.
frankie Burns of New York, Tommy
Houck.
Bantamweights = Johnny Coulou,
frankie Conley.
Plenty Of Light Material.
There are plenty of youngsters
coming up in the light, feather and
timber in the heavy, middle and wclter
classes is remarkably scarce, points
out the Hegewisch realty king.
Defending his choice of Thompson
over Papke in the middle section, Bat
ter cites the fact that the former
defeated Papke recently in Australia,
and that, moreover, be stands ready to
meet any scrapper in the world.
| HCyclone' johnny possesses a most
| '
ago he was a dub among the light
weights, in his lightweight days tax
ing severe drubbings at the hands OF
Battling Nelson. Packey Mcfarland
Charley Neary, Peter Sullivan and
score of others The graduation into
the higher classification seemed to
awake new vigor despite his nine
the Antipodes twelve months ago, aud
not only won from Papke, but scored
six other victories by the knockout
route,
| Thompson halls from Sycamore. H..
where he owns ESQ acres. He saws he
will attend to his 500 chickens and do
chores as farmer when he is through
| with the ring,
Papke Lacks Something.
| 'FI always liked Papke as bruiser,
but he seems to lack the nerve or some.
thing says Nelson. ''This Thompson
| fellow is the supreme puzzle, however,
and you We got to hand it to him.
licked him twice when he was in my
class and he was a cinch, but | think
| he IS the best among the middles now.
''Ncxt to Thompson, frankie Burns
of Oakland probably possesses the most
| novel record in the boxing game, says
| Nelson, ''for the Oakland lad. who
| went down before Wolgast recently,
was principal at the first boxing show
| he ever saw
On March so, 1905, when Burns was
a 17-year.old student at the Oakland
high school, he slipped away from home
| to attend fight fest. with several
school companions When il was an
nounced from the ring that one of the
knights had failed to put in an ap.
pearance Burns 6 friends suggested that
he go in and take a chance. Burns had
/ 4 L. L.. a \. Il. II
uasium, so finally Welded and made
beeline for the ring. He knocked his
opponent, Charles Kennedy, out in the
first round.
Burns Has Met Fast Ones.
"Frankie later won from Kid Scaler.
frankie Edwards, Phil knight, Harry
Trendall and 'One. Round Hogan, He
boxed draws with Owen Moran and
with Mattv Baldwin, losing decision
to Hogan in addition to his bout with
Wolgast." says Nelson.
'1Speaking of peculiar incidents. the
Coster-C Conley bout at New Orleans
three weeks ago, is most striking ex
ample, vouchsafed the Battler.
Both lads are Italians and both come
from the same city in Olive Land, near
Palermo, not far from the famous Mt.
Etna. Both have brothers practically
the same age, Joe Conley and Jack
Coster,
"Coster is regarded as one of the
cleverest millers in the east. He is
tall and has a good wallop in either
hand. He is best at l22 pounds ring
side. Conley is Just the reverse. be.
ing rough and ready to mix il al all
times, gaining his reputation by put
ting Monte Attell to sleep in forty-two
rounds at Los Angeles, February %.
1910. the same day fought Wolgast
"Whom do 7 consider the best fight
manager Of the day?