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MAI TOUR WITH NELSON.Former Champion Offers Tipman $200 Per Month as Sparring Partner.Special to The Washington Post.Baltimore. Md.. Feb. 16.-Joe Tipman is In a quandary. Whether to make a tour of the Sandwich Islands as sparring: companion to Battling Nelson or to continue the even tenor of hla'way as proprietor ot his West Baltimore Street bowling alley and pool parlor Is the question. Tipman has a lettea from Nelson from New Yorh offering him J200 per month and all expenses for a six months' trip to Honolulu and neighboring sections as Nelson’s companion. Tipman's business Is prosperous, and he doesn't know what he might find it on his return artei- sixmonths’ absence. ' 1During Nelson's stay in this city he1 boxed four tim.es with Tipman. and the offer this morning is the result. Nelson wants to make the trip to the Southern Pacific as much to recuperate as anything else, although the boxing gamethere iB reported booming.—.-—
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Washington Post
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Fri, Feb 17, 1911
Page 15
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John H.
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