El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-24

ATTIING NELSON, who held the
x lightweight championship Of the
~ world for several years, Is not
the only Dane who has aspired in the
fistic line for the highest honors- Wal
demar Holberg. a young Dane Of Co
penhagen. is the latest foreigner to
seek the crown of Ad WolgaSt ana win
it back for the Danes. This yOunS
Dane has been in the boxing game 1Of
the past few years, but it has only been
within the past year that he has con-
sidered his chances good enough
against the best of the British and
American Hghtweights.
In 1908. during the olympic games
at London, young HOlberg met Matt
Wells, the present British lightweight
champion. and held his own in good
shape. He was an amateur the same as
Wells and won practically all his bouts,
with the exception of MS match with
Matt. Wells afterwards took up the
game of boxing and turned pro1es-
sional. defeating Freddy Welsh for the
championship This probably had
something to do with Waldemar taking
up the professional end of the game,
for it was not long after that he fol-
lowed the example set by Wells.
HOlberg won several good contests
on the continent against HShtweights
Of fair ability and recently he matched
himself against Dick Lee, whom
Packey Mcfarland defeated when ne
was in England three years ago. he
was in fine shape and held Holberg to
a draw. From all accounts the Dane
was in poor shape for a hard bout and
did not show at his best. If he did,
then he has small chance OF ever grab
bling the title away from the Cadillac
wildcat. They do not turn out Bat
Ting Nelson's every year and it viii be
a big surprise if the Dane gets into
the limelight as the battler did He
that, but to win it is another matter
1t VIII be time enough to talk about
meeting the American champion after
he defeats the British titlehOlder and If
he succeeds in that the will have quite
a bunch of first class Yanks to go
through before tackling the champion
But then, we might as well give the
Dane a chance, and If he can see his
way clear to cross the big pond, why
he will find a very busy season ahead
of him, starting with the New York
bunch and working west via Philadel-
phia, Boston, Pittsburg, Kansas City,
etc In the meantime remember that
Battling Nelson has the marriage bee
buZzing strong and he is liable TO get
the young lady with the skidOo (23)
age number before he realizes what
has happened. The Battler is just so,
I which in telegraphic language means
good night" so the combination Of
numbers should be a bowling success.
Now we might have the new Dane over
here for the best man and do things
up right
Grover Hayes, the Chicago light
weight. who is on his way TO Australia
for tour OF that country under Hugh
D. Mcintosh. writes from Honolulu
that he has had a splendid trip with
his manager SO far and expects 10 land
in the antipodes in fine fettle and
ready for battle on short notice. VIII
lard Stuart, manager of Hayes, also
chips in with the following I'VE have
had great trip and never a sign Of
seasickness. The weather has been de-
Ightful and if it is anything like this
IN Sydney we may want to stay there
longer than our contract calls for. We
have a daily paper on the boat which
is printed twice a week, and Grover
comes in for considerable mention
Grover started training after being out
two days from San Francisco and there
are a number of officers on the boat
who like to work with him He takes
a long run every morning and does a
great deal of shadow boxing, winding
up IN the gymnasium The passengers
have got the fever and some Of
them are taking lessons, so you can
see he is not lacking exercise. It is
surprising, too. the interest the women
requested a special exhibition for their
benefit I expect to eesGrOver- beat all
the aspiring lghtWeights over here,
and then when We return I hope Mr..
Wolgast will be ready to give him a
chance at the title. We will celebrate
crossing the equator soon (Which
means to the uninitiated that they viii
receive fine ducking from the sail
ors.) We stop one day in Honolulu
and then proceed to Page Page"
Luther McCarty, the big white hope
from Springfield. No, is 70 nave real
tIyout Billy Mccartney, manager for
Mccarthy, has matched his man to
meet Jim Flynn. the Pueblo fireman,
before the Garden City A. c. in New
York, Oct. 10, for a 10 round bout
McCarty met and defeated Jim Barry
the other night in Ohio and made quite
an impression with the fans. If he
can repeat the showing against Jim
Flynn then he will indeed be a real
hope, for despite F1ynns defeat by
Jack Johnson he is some fighter and
deserving of attention in the heavy
weight ranks. Flynn has increased in
weight since a year ago from rs to
100 pounds. so that he carries the
weight now for a real heavyweight.
McCarty strips at 2lS pounds and has
everything that a successful big fight
er should have, but he lacks the ex-
Derience few bouts with men like
Flynn will give him the necessary ex-
perience and If he can show the form
then, why he can take his place with
BOmbardier Wells and Al Palzer. Jack
Curley. manager of Flynn, says Jim is
the real hope killer. so it is up to the
foreman now to show how good Nc
Carly is.
kid" Williams, the Baltimore SEN
sation, climbed up the bantamweight
ladder another notch when he decisive
" defeated Billy FitzsimmOns in New
York by the knockout route VIII
liams is matched with Johnny Couion
on Oct. is and Johnny had better take
warning and be in tiptOp shape. for the +.