Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-24
By Left Hook.

~ ATTLING NELSON will meet
Frank Whitney in a ten
round ring engagement at
the Auditorium Armory March 5.
Nelson was signed last week. Whit
ney agreed to terms this morning
The choice of an opponent for
Nelson lay between Whitney and
Joe Thomas. Either man was will
ing to risk his neck and his rep
utation with the Battler. But as
Thomas is strictly a boxer, while
Whitney is altogether a fighter, the
latter was given the tough as
signment of meeting the greatest
living exponent of ld-fashioned
scrapping and the New Pugilism."
n I'D you know there was New
~ Pugilism?" Did you ever real
ize that the sport which is older
than the pyramids (and a lot more
popular) has a new slant that is
more modern than inside base
BALI and "debrutalized football"
This New Pugilism" has been
called to the attention of Atlanta
Queensberry fans by the fact that
the man who marks the connecting
link between the old and the new
in the fighting game, Colonel y.
Battling NJ. Nelson, will be here
for a ring engagement March 5.
Physically, this Nelson is
scrapper of the old school-of the
days when they called blood "clar-
et' and a bruise a mouse" when
bare fists were used, when the ring
engagements were blood orgies
with Stone Age characteristics
Battling Nelson is the greatest
scrapper Of his inches and ounces
that has been developed by the
Caucasian race in the last CEN
fury. But If he had dated back a
few thousand years they would
have made him king.
A writer, in describing Nelson
recently, said
Battling Nelson, for. example,
who held the lightweight cham
pionship of the world for a time,
and was the fouest fighter ever
seen in the modern ring, had
nervous organization which puz-
zled the doctors; the surface of
his body was always cold and
singularly insensitive, while his
heart beat much more slowly than
the ordinary mans. No amount
of pounding could hurt this pal
eolithic person. 1t was almost
impossible to knock him out
WHAT makes Nelson great is
w that he combines this Paleozoic
stuff. this insensibility to pain, with
a fine, active bean. He can stand
any old punishment And he knows
the New Pugilism."
A line on the new stuff is given
in a contribution to The London
Post. which is the organ of the
British aristocracy and a booster
for the manly aria contribution
from the pen of f.. z. Osborn. SAYS
he:
bul the age OF the translated
NAVY or coal HEAVIER has gone,
never to return; for no man can
win any sort of position in the
modern prize ring If he does not
possess keen intelligence as well as
the necessary physical gifts, of
which speed and deXterity are now
the most important. Moreover, he
must live a life of self denial;
wine, women and even song
(meaning music halls) must be
eschewed If he wishes to prevent
a string Of big LIS from appear
ing in his record. Neither the
bishop OF London nor the Rev.
F. B. Meyer lives as ascetically,
and, dare / add, as esthetically
as the celebrities Of the modern
ring. They certainly do not de
face Gods image" by accommodating
the lazy sitzfieisch which has
made some Of the earnest op-
pOsers Of one Of the finest ana
most eXacting Of pastimes dis
linctly less beautiful in outward
appearance than the professional
boxers whom they despise as mur-