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OF LOCAL INTERESTTad Says Battling Nelson Looks Like a Real Live Champion.JEFFRIES ■ MONROE CONTEST.Butte Miner Ready to Deposit Balance Of Forfeit—Young Corbett May DoTo Africa—Trip for Giants.Here I* what Tad hands out anent Battling N e I ton:•‘Battling'* Nelson. the nnv pupil for the lightweight class, has started all thy* boys in the school guessing, snd by his first f#w strides bids fair to tc on the* roll of honor before long, By stopping the game little Hanlon In nineteen rounds at Frisco Nelson gained a reputation greater than any of the boysIn *' I « I and he demands recognltion now from the top notehers. Han-Ion was never knocked out In his lifeand was down but twice In bis career.Young Corbett was one to drop theCalifornia wonder and Nelson was thesecond. Corbett beat llanlon In Ifrounds and although It took Nelson 19h** diil It In just as good a manner. Both tights were slopped by the referee.Nelson Is one of the new 190-pounders and has all the qualiflcatIons of achampion. He hag proven himself agame, strong and aggressive fighter, with* the necessary punch. It ts thispunch that has brought him to the topso fast, and California sports are now ready to back him against anything ofhis weight. They are trying to getBritt to give him a whack at that title at present and th»* tight may come off In September out there.‘'Battling” started in the fightinggame h little over two years ago and most of hts battles were in and around Chicago, lie has had about 95 lights altogether and 17 of these have ended In knockouts. He haa never been knocked out hlmalf, although he hasfought «|Utt a iiunilMi of draw flAmong those who have dropped from his tnltta may be mentioned; Mike Walsh, 5 rounds; Black Olffo, Iround Sammy Maxwell, 11 rounds;Young Scotty. M rounds; Mickey Uetlty,14 rounds; Kid Hyan, 4 rounus; GeorgeMemsle, 5 rounds;Art Simms. 3 rounds; Jack O'Neill. € rounds; Spider Welch. 1H rounds; Martin Canole, jk rounds; Clarence English, 14 rounds, and Kddle Hanlon. 19 rounds.He has fought Benny Yanger and Charley Neary I-round draws, hut these were before he really wits started on his fighting career.BOOKS BIKE TKKKY McOOVKKN.Nelson Is a quiet, unassuming young fellow, with light hair, and resembles Terry McGovern somewhat in his makeup. He is one of the boys who is looked upon as the coming lightweight champion. Britt, Jimmy Gardner and Nelson are the three live ones left whohave a chance at Gans, and a three-cornered fight,with the winner matched against Gans. would settle once for all the much disputed lightweight championship and do away with such titles as the lily-white lightweight champion,the salmon-pink lightweight champion,the olive-green lightweight champion and others Just about as ridiculous.trouble disposing of him, but when thepapers began to throw bouquet* atMunroe. and Jim's own friends told him that he Wasn’t to have an old hulk to batter down, he began to consider Munroe seriously, and made up his mind to take no chances.Jeff does not seem to have profited by bis former lesson, for most of his time at Harbin is spent hunting, while on the other hand Munroe is putting In the • nb’gt kind of * ks at Orenn Beach.Young Corbett has got the globetrotting fever and next year, if nothinggoes wrong, he will make a circuit of the world. Corbett's first stop will be In Paris. On his last trio to the otffk* side he was unable to visit the city and says he will not rest satisfied until he has taken it in. After a say In Paris Corbett wilt go to Uussia. Italy, Germany, Turkey, Asia, Japan, .SouthAfrica, Australia and return home.Corbett expects to pay the expenses of th* trip by giving boxing exhibitions In various cities.Corbett expects to remain some time In South Africa, He will go to Johannesburg and have a talk with Albert Fleming, who Is running a hog-Ing club there. If he can make ths necessary arrangements he will fight there. Corbett said that If Fleming ran make the necessary terms he will bght Ja bey. White 20 rounds nextJanuary or February at the lightweightlimit. Corbett, of course, will want a liberal purse and expenses, which heIS confident Fleming will allow. White, being an Englishman, would attracta large crowd on his own hook. There tre plentv of Americans at Johannesburg. and Corbett would not want for substantial backing.From ith Africa Corbitt will visit Vustmli i He has i n In communication with a wgll know fight promoter at Sydney. Corbett has been assureda match or a couple of them as soon is he arrives at Sydney. This promoter, who Is also a bookmaker, savsthat he will furnish Corbett with a sidestake if necessary,Matty American fighters are anxiousto go to South Africa and show' theirform Wore th.* Wanderers A. lt;*.. Jo-hanesbtirg. Sam FlUpatrlck. the American agent of the club, has received several request* already, one in particular bdng from Australian Jimmy Ryan. By an says h«‘ will box Mike William*, the heavyweight champion of that country. Ityan has fought Chn. ynskl, Kaleoit. Kid McCoy, Tommy fly.m and all of the noted mtddte-weights in the business. He Is willing to back himself.A dispatch from San Francisco says: Jack Munroe wishes it known that the balance of hi* $5,000 forfeit money |h ready and as soon as Jeffries shows any desire to put up his $2,500 Jack will put up bis. As matters now stand Jeff seems to be too deeply engaged In hunting to think about his coming fight. Possibly he is of the opinion that Munroe will overlook the balance offorfeit and let matters stand as theyaie. Munroe was buncoed that way once, and it is not like ly he will let It happen again. Manager Jimmy Co fired h stated today all money would bedeposited within a few days.”1 reminded Billy Delaney yesterday ihat $2,500 was due on Aug. t,“ said Coffroth. “He told me he was going back to Harbin Springs last night and that he would speak to Jeffries and have him instruct Kugene Vaneourth to post the amount.”An interesting story was told today, and it came from one In very close touch with Jeffries, a prominent figure in the training camp. According to this story, an*! It bears earmarks of truth, there was a reason greater than his injured knee for Jeff not keepinghis original engagement with Munroe.• Jeff,” said the authority in question, “could have gone into training and fought, but he made up his mind it would he better for him to wait. The big fellow* has been going at a pretty fast dip for a considerable number of months past, and when he did make up his mind to get down to hard work he found that he wasn’t the Jeffries of yore, and speedily appreciated the fact that if he was to have a hard fight he would have to get right. What little hard work he did convinced him that it would take a pile of effort to get into condition. At first h* had regarded Munroe very llghtlv and had not considered that he could possibly have any
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Salt Lake City Deseret Evening News
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Mon, Aug 08, 1904
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