Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-05
BY Left Hook.

VI " JUG A1hllNt y ne 4NNtCll,
Jimmy Britt Young Corbett,
Eddie Hanlon and something like
hundred other aspiring light
weights, will battle ten rounds to-
night at the Auditorium -Armory
with Frank whitney
In all Atlanta's ring history such
a card was never before offered
the Queensberry fans,
Bat Nelson was. and is, in many
ways the greatest man who ever
wore the lightweight crown. As
a ring warrior man to give and
take blows-his equal was never
seen before in the 133-pound divi-
sion. He is not a fancy boxer
But for downright smuggling ability.
for gameness and for Willingness
to swap punch for punch. there
was never such a one before
and may never be again.
No man in the lightweight divi-
sion has ever held a place in the
public estimation such as is re-
served for Battling Nelson. TO few
men In any class has il been given
to win and hold the regard of the
American people John l.. sullivan
was another such, and Jim Jeffries
(before he made q fool Of HIMSELF
and Bob F'itzsimmons. You can
pillow through the ring records from
end TO end without finding name
10 place along with those four For
they were fighters fighters from
the heart And the greatest Of
hem all is Nelson.
THE scrap tonight has its direct
bearing on the lightweight
championship. All Nelson has 10 do
is to win it-and win it by q good
margiu--to get chance in the
lightweight elimination contests
once in. he has corllius chance
10 battle his way back to the cham
Wonshjp.
Nelson believes in his heart that
ne is as good today as he ever was
that he has all his old stamina
and punch. And this belief is not
without good foundation. Nelson
has won bout after bout for months
and months-ever since his hands
came around right He has met
good lightweishts. fair welter-
weights and cannibals And he has
triumphed over them all. Right
today he is as sound and as tough
and as husky lightweight as ever
lived.
WHITNEY has battled in Atlanta
w 90 often Of late that he needs
no introduction. He is a corSine
good lightweight, perhaps a cham
plonship possibility. He is so good
and go tough that he hasn't been
able to get a bout with any Of the
lightweights OF the middle West
for months. But i'm Atlanta he has
polished them Off about as fast as
hey have been slipped to him He
= younger and he is cleverer than
Nelson, A lot Of the shsrpshooters
are picking him and are betting
their whole wad that he viii get
he decision tonight.
CERTAIN II is that Lou Castro.
- who viii ~sreree the scrap. has
Sfis work cut out for him. \ de-
cision means so much to both men
that they are going to fight hard
for it-and yen nightly if they
don't get It. In Castro the pro-
motors Of the Auditorium Armorv
scraps have selected man who is
known to the people Of the whole
South as a fair, square sportsman
and one who will give the decision
as he sees 1t, though the roof falls
r HE record crowd OF Atlanta's
ring history is assured for the
battle. The seats, on sale at the
cigar stores on the northwest and
southeast corners Of Pryor and
Edgewood. have h4-ln gobbIed nm
Ike a shower Of nicke.s at new
boys convention Not only all the
boxing fans of Atlanta, but hun