The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-03
NELSON READY TO
 RETIRE FROM ARENA.

RETIRE FROM ARENA.
 NEW YORK.-Jl took l9 years of almost incessant pummelng to pound some common sense into the head that Is carried around on the should CTS of one Oscar Matthew Battling Nelson. the greatest piece Of light ing machinery ever moulded. While he does not say so in as many words. Nelson is through with the ring foreyer-so far as his being a principal in bout Is concerned. The one-time Durable Dane now realizes that he has reached the tether of his fighting proclivities and is ready to retire on his laurels.
 Fighting was Battling Ne'-|i ; business for nearly 0''' 0i '',' '' and fighting VI" continue to be his ,,,,i,.-.., as long as he is able to an into promoters ears. The ring has been Bats business and di- version for 19 years and he has no intention of giving it up at this late date But We maintain that Nelson has retired from the ring an active participant in it.
 It would hc hard for the battler to sever altogether his affiliatior with the game that has made him worldfamous; so he is about to adopt another branch of the pro fesSion, less arduous, although al most as remunerative as fighting itself Nelson is to sPTout out as managep- Of fighters. Why fight yCur- eff when you can have others fight for you?" is Nelson's view. But it took him 19 years to find it out.
 NeisaN, in recent interview wishes it spread broadcast that he has undertaken the management of George Lammerson, a Los Angeles bantamweight who has shown latent ability in the four-round game on the Pacific coast. Little Hammer son was in NelSOn's training camp while the Dane was propping him self for his contest with Bobby Waugh last fall and the ynungster impressed the former lightweight champion with his speed and stami- na Lammcrsons durability was what appealed most to Nelson, as 1t recalled to his mind the time when he was the most tireloss man .n the ring.
 Nelson persists that he has lost none of his old staying powers, and admits that Waugh beat him fairly in the 2O-round bout And he also admits that he was lacking in an indefnable something that proved to him the futility of trying another "come-back" to the ring.
 In Lammerson, Nelson thinks he has the coming bantamweight cham pion. But what manager does not think SO hopefully for his meal ticket? Nelson expects to work out with Lammerson for a couple of months. and then to bring him east to clean up the bantamweight crop He is desirous of entering Lammerson in the free-for-all that is now being waged in the bantam weight division ever since Kid Will Hams fouled Johnny Ertle.
 Nelson has earned a rest from ring affairs and should prove a successful manager inasmuch as he can impart 10 his charge some of the knowledge gained through 19 years of hard, purposeful milling Nelson is really too old to do any more fighting, as he has passed the 33-year mark, and that is a ripe old ag- for ring exponent. Jim Flynn is 26 and Is still fight ing, but Is the exception that proves the rule.
 Nelson began fighting years ago, as far back as 1S96 when he wal loped the daylights out of Wallaces Kid, the the strong man in circus That victory started Nelson on his career He has never been i'm plicated In a picious-looking bout, and has never asked quarter of any