Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-05-21
NELSON PLANS
TO COME BACK
Former Lightweight Champion Tells
Hot Springs Friends He Intends
Regaining Former Self at Scene
Where He First Climbed
PugiliStic Ladder,

Hot Springs, Ark, May 20.-'I re-
member ten years ago when l came
in here and told you / was going in
for the fighting game that you told
me not to do it; that there was moth
ing in it except for those who were
numbered among the best, and when
I told you l intended one day becom-
ing one of the best you took me by
the shoulders, turned me around so
that I faced the door then kicked
me cut. Well, l have become one
OF he best, but | had misfortune, so
I have come back TO the same old
scene and am going to climb up the
ladder once more.''
The speaker was Battling Nelson
and the one addressed wah John F.
Manner, manager of the Palace bath
house. The conversation took place
yesterday afternoon just a few min
utes before Battling Nelson donned
his fighting toys for 40-minute work
out in the gymnasium at the Palace.
After he had thus addressed himself.
Nelson entered the bath shouse and a
few minutes later was swatting the
punching bag, lifting heavy weights,
swinging Indian clubs, doing a few
gymnastic stunts to timber up his
muscles, and fighting a three-round
bout with Arthur Nelson, his brother
and present sparring partner.
Deserts Out Door Camp.
Nelson and his brother have been
here the past two weeks. A few
nights of this were spent sleeping in
a tent on the park hotel lawn where
Bat had been given the privilege OF
establishing a training camp Just
three nights of this, however, were
sufficient for the Battler, and one
night, like the Arab, he folded his
tent and silently stole away, going to
The Kempner apartments to spend
the remainder of his visit in the city.
1t has been long time, if, indeed
there ever was time, when the world
has seen such q mass of muscles and
nerves punched up in one human
carcass as are found in Battling Mel
son. Small of stature, apparently
rot possessed of excessive strength
Nelson is a riddle to those fighters
who have not known him in the past
True, he is known to every fighter
ntrin on6 tf
every reader of the sporting pages
of newspapers, by reputation and nc
many personally, but to look at him
in his fighting toys one would never
imagine he is the perfect fighting
machine he could one day claim tt
be.
Will Try to Come Back.
Nelson and his brother and spar
ring partner reparted from Ho
Springs this afternoon, going from
here to st. joseph, Mo-, where Ba
will witness the fight his protege, Ed
die Dennis, will put up when he meet
frankie White on the 23rd OF thl
month. After this fight Bat will TAX
his brother, Arthur, and the scrapp.
little fighter, Dennis, and journey t.
portland, Ore, where Nelson will ap
pu,priately observe his twenty-nlnt
birthday anniversary among friends
While in this city Nelson agree
to a go with youngster who ha
aspirations of one day becoming
champian, which will be pulled OH
in Vancouver on the fourth of Jul!
Nelson states this young man IS ne
in a class with him, but he took tn
lad on simply to use him as q teste
d. xianBat can so saAght~0I ten round
{ 3 WIN the youngster ara eee iatte
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