The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-27
nelson Feels Sure That He'll
Flatten Cross and Start Up
the Ladder Again.

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trhe New York world.
r fave to hand II to Bat Nelson. He's
. wonGcr. Bat weighs 10 pounds
(a& least he's to weigh that At
O'Clock tomorrow morning.. and he has
sslf ooncedt enough to outfit . fourteen
IN elephant.
n Bat had been any other KIND Of a
man he'd have decorated the scrap heap
tAess many years His monumental
sgUtism keeps him pottcring about
aDong the champions and near cham
ptons. upon all of whom he looks down
With . feeling Of disdainful superiority.
TAsy used to say that Neison had On
Hou rod for . backbone and that was
what kept him No. But II was dmpiy
NeiSon's opinion of himself. He refuses
70 believe. even now. that It Ia possible
Hsr any man living to knock him out.
Il amt human" Nelson used to say.
II can't be knocked out" To-day he'll
argue that ne would have whipped VOL
gast n the referee hadn't stopped their
mill. and that he was just resting when
Owen Moran had him down. Got one
OF those quick countS.' says Bat; you
ksow-one Of them !. 2, 6. 10 courts"
30 Bat goes into his scrap with Leach
CROSS tomorrow afternoon feeling sure
that he'll fiatten Cross and start up the
ledier again. Gross can wallop-good--
that's the kind 1 hke." says Bat.
There are just two questions In this
scrap. Can Croas nit hard enough to
pat Bat out? Or will Nelson's supreme
conSdence and aggreasiveness cause the
Gross goat to wander? "Good-by Bat. -
o. '0ood boy. Bat" Which 10 II,
VHAT loud. cheerful foot Is the New
York. New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Company blowing It's
pYn whistle. The good old New
Haven" " % pleased with itself that II
- telling tho dear public all about Il
Afough the advertising columns.
"A test Of railroad efficiency: Thirty.
tNp special trains. carrying MORE
THAN 5000 persons to and from the
YA1e.HArvard football game at New
Haven were moved by the New York,
N0w Haven and Hartford Railroad IN
A0DGTION to liz NORMAL. DENSE
TRAFFIC.
land these special trains were handled
PRACTICALLY ON TIME and WITH.
OpT MISHAP."
II HAD . sample OF this efficiency my.
SELF Uniformed men at the gatss
assured US that the running time
would be an hour and half each way
Took Just five hours and twenty-sever
minutes to cover the seventy-four miles
and back again. About twenty.sever
miles an hour! But We negotiated thii
terrinc speed without mishap"
nY the way. 5000 people saw tina
n game. OF these a great numbe,
were Yale students or residents o.
New Haven. Thousands OF others wen
ana returned by automobile. wonde
whore the more than $1,000 persons
came In.
9oHNNY COULON phoned In that h
10 leaving for Chicago. You know
like to spend Thanksgiving q
home" said Johnny. Couion says he'll
come back again. hopeful OF getting
match with Ledoux. Williams ''or any
body else" about Dec. is.
"HILE Nelson and Cross are bat
w ting In New York. Champio
Wolgast will be having II ou
with Willie Richie In California. Jus
who will hold the championship afte
this mill In matter OF doubt. Ritchi
met Wolgast In the champions nrt
hput after recovering from the opera
don for appendicitis u year az,
Aitchie gave Wolgast the worst bea'
ing he ever took In ring. Tru
Wolgast rallied and slipped over
l.,.s
shape at the end of the four round
and Richie was fresh and unmarke
Naturally Wolgast could not have bee
at his best. but he didn't show ar
burning desire to get" Richie aga
onl even scores with him.
II looks. on paper, as IL Richie
chance to pluck the title should ,
- good as anyone's. And he'd mai
good. clever. classy champion. d
YACK DOUGHERTY thinks his b,
Charlie Goldman Is entitled to mo
credit He takes his pen in hai
TO the following effect: Goldman
one OF the grandest little fellows al
credit to the ring. When he NEE
Coulon again he will win decisivel
lie beat Knockout Brown, Joe Costs
Eddie Smith and lot OF lightweight
and stopped Willie Jones In "
rounds and made a hit IN Baitimo
by knocking out George Cheney.
broke his left hand and fought X
Williams. and knocked him throul
the ropes In third and knocked hi
down in the sixth and can beat WI
Jams now. think the little Frenc
man, Ledoux. can knock out Williai
with proper handling. Goldman W
give him a tight"
- osroN Is loaded with champio
ships this year. Harvard b'
Yale In rowing, track meet a
foetball championship. and took
cross-country championship aw
from Cornell. And the Red sox W
the baseball championship. TIL
have other things beside tea part
y Boston way.