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^Cyclone” Thompson’s Offer to Nelson.Johnny Thou'tpsou, the “Sycamore cyclone,” known In* boxing circles to be one of the toughest lightweights that ever donned n glove, came out recently with an offer to give Battling Nelson $5,000 If the Dane can stop him Inside of forty - five rounds. Thompson says It Is his own money and that If Nelson will accept the proposition he will post the coin thirty days before the battle.But that is not all.' Thompson takes Paekey McFarland and Fred Welsh into consideration when talking fight and finance and says he will wager $f»,000 with either of them on the result of a bnttle of from twenty-five to forty-five rounds.Thompson is smarting under the defeat sustained at ‘the hands of Peter Strtllvan recently and says It should not count against him, as Sullivan Is admittedly a welterweight. Besides, he says he whipped Sullivan several times and that he was robbed of the decision In the Pocatello encounter.Thompson has been a sort of bugbear to the leading lightweights. None of them wanted to meet him before Sullivan gained a -decision over him, and now of course they have an excuse which Is merely the fate of a loaer.
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Freeport Daily Journal
Freeport, Illinois, US
Wed, Feb 17, 1909
Page 7
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