The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-03-12
SPORTING DEPARTMENT
NELSON WANTS
ANOTHER CHANCE
DURABLE DANE STILL THINKS HE
CAN DEFEAT AD WOLGAST
AND TALKS ABOUT.
FIGHTING.

There is just one ambition left in
the life of oscar Matthew Battling
Nelson. 1t isn't to become a mill
lionaire. mayor of Hegeswich, ILL.,. or
president of the United States. but 10
enter the ring once again with Ad
wolgast. present king of the light
weights
And this lone ambition is the cause
of Sat of touring the country and
meeting pugs of third and fourth class.
He is trying out his speed his strength,
his ability to take 81 blow. to give one,
those boring-in tactics, and, in fact,
every asset that made him the champ
of EN- all He has been trying. and
he says that he is the greatest man
of his weight in the world today.
With Bat Nelson it is glory and
honor and not tho Jingle of the dol
lars that gives him this desire to
crawl through the ropes and see 40
| Wolgast in the other corner. Just
| one more fight and I'm through" de-
| ,lared Nelson recently. yep, that's
all want, and ii ! only get ii the pub
lie never again win see me put on
The gloves unless il is In an exhibition
for some good cause.
Makes Propositien.
"Wolgast is all want, and, wiz
or lose, I'll quit He can name tn,
erms. make 1t winner take all. bu
| lust flash the word that he will NEE
me.
Now here's my proposition says
| he ex-klng. ''Wolgast says he wants
% give himself a tryout against {
| bum. He doesn't want a good guy
to mix 1t. and he SAYS I'm the bigges
piece of bunk that ever lived See
get the point? For me anything goes
:; 10, Is or 40 rounds will suit. or j.
! ne will change his mind and believe ms
worthy of giving him a tough fight
| chen let him take on a few dubs ant
hen me. I'm willing for anything, JUS
| SO can meet him.
| "Wolgast is a four flusher the big
| est boxing ever owned. He won
AXE on a good boy. anyone who h
believes can trim him, and he's the
| )nly champion who wouldn't give the
| fellow he beat FOR the title another
chance. Look how l treated Jimm!
Britt, Joe Cans. Young Corbett and al
If EN-! Three times for Jimmy ans
Toe and twice for Corbett. ] wasn'I
lfraid Of none of them guys, and
Wouldn't step aside, either.
"Adght with Wolgast, that's all, and
hen the name of Oscar Matthew Bat
tlng Nelson will be erased from the
| dope books
His Spare Change Laid Away.
There is no one who can come close
% his reputation for activeness in
he ring When June . Of this year
lrrives he will he so years of age
md just as spry 90 when he was q
lovice i'm the ring Then he had just
passed his twenty-third year wher
he Knocked out Jimmy Britt for what
was the l3S-pound championship. as
! Toe Cans held the legitimate trophy
| md three years later he whipped Cans
making him the king without a single
| dispute.
4 cor seven years the Ddnt mas b'tH 4
lighter and during this time he has
| ngaged in something like 200 bat
les Only few are defeats. ever
when he was dehuting.
During his evcntful carcc". NelsoI
| las gathered more than q foltdnc, II
| he wealthicst one In the game and
| probably has earned more than any
| Il his brethren. What's more, Oscar
| Matthew has slowed 1t away judici'
| usly, investing In real estate ant
| mines out i'm the far west and at
time when the venture was just bub'
Dling forth.
| The biggest purse Nelson ever col
llected was $4,000. when he Tough
Gans at Goldfeld, New. Sept 3, 1906
md now he is collecting $1,000 eaci
light he steps into the ring 60 NEE
ONE home pride In some unknown
illage.
Even at present the Battler is flood