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His Family Are Thrifty Scandi navians and Considered ModelCitizens.BATTLING HIS TRUE NAME.A*a Boy Among His Mates at School He Was Motto be TrifledWith.At till HafMteefe 1* iw •*Handicapped by it* name, «.* anting mainly because the men rmployH In it* great car manufacturing plant had to Jive convenient to their work, H ha*remained for a boy pugilist to put Hcgc»-winch on the map. Now 11 •« A stand* for something—It is the home of the borer, 0*» nr Battling Matthew N1-•on. the boy w ho would be known as tho*‘Champhn of llegewlscb. ‘Battling i® no nickname. When th«boy was bom In Copenhagen on the fit itof June. 1HH2. his parent* pondered dulybefore giving him hi® name, but hi* mother, wno itad a brother J* ''!wished to do mm bonor. in*nsi*d mat her tnird sun should bear it. I ne O*»ar and Matthew came easily t*nou«IV, out neither wa* nearly go u»*u active «* Bh -tling so Battling ha* his name b«« n. i*rshort, ever since. i'rooably the1 ani®h name I® not speiielt;i that w*y. but tuat i* a# near a® the Engnsh tit*oapproaches the original.Whether the hoy wa* aitrartcd into hi® tailing by hi® name dws not uireti-jy appear, but that the title nad inou-enca that way I® certain. A® a boy hi® mala* at school he wa* not to ow trifled with. Not mat he. was unuttly belligerent, seeking con teat without caua**. but onca the gage had been thrown downBattling Nelson wa* a youth to bo reck-i rUtttUing, ono of ten children. * lt;nn s of good old Danish stock, i osaibly h« ha* inherited gome of tne trait* wnjen • t old made the l.wne» guch sincere lighters when warring on their enemiea t us-sibly he ha® imbilled some of the spirit of the vikings and of the men of old Who believed implicitly in t^ Wod^i aud Frlthjof* and blegfneds of tho txiuuii-navian mythology. Hammer of ihorxWho can say!But the boy ha* put such lighter* a®Herrera, Can ole, Hanlon and now ^ oung Corbett behind him, and in looking tor yet greater laurel* ha* shown that in tiim run® tho blood of worthy uncss-l°Th© family i* of the thrifty Scandinavian type, the kind that makes good cltiesns. good American*. The fatner, Nols. a carpenter, work® at Indiana llar-l*or. The mother, a little woman of atnut46, take* care of the cottager and take*Immengt pride in her children. Albert, the oldest, i® 31, and is a machinist in the Northwestern shops. Henry, 24, i* a blacksmith at Washington Height*. Then comes Battling. 22. Jonnie, 20, is a tncdder in the liegewi*oh works; Charles, a bright boy of 18. is in high school. Ida, 16. the only daughter, 1* learning dressmaking, and Arthur, who will i*e H in January, and Harry. 10, the baby of tho family, are in school. Two children are dead.
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Salt Lake City Deseret Evening News
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Thu, Dec 08, 1904
Page 3
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