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Walsh Has Posted $2,000 for a 45-Round Go and the “Battler” Has Signified His Intention of Accepting a.Suitable Purse.SCIENCE AGAINST TENACITYThe Dane May Not Be Able to Beat Down the Englishman's Cleverness With His Rough-House Tactics and His Bull-Dog Rushes.The question which has been asked so often lately,-“Will Battling Neljon over fight again?” will probably be answered .within the next week and articles will bare oeen signed for a mitt of not less than twenty-five rounds between the Dane and Freddie Walsh, the British lightweight, to take place on the Pacific coast.It only remains for Baron Long, manager of the Jeffries Athletic club, Los Angeles, Cab, to n-range the purse to suit Nelson. A telegram to Long from Naravlsa, New Mexico, asking what a match between himself and Walsh was worth to the promoter, is the only real Intimation the Battler has given that he would sign articles since he won the world's championship from Cans.50 Per Cent for Nelson.Ixng has offered Nelson 50 per cent of the gross receipts and half of the moving picture money, which looks pretty goon to the fighter-autlior. It is the largest per cent ever offered a lightweight for a fight.Walsh, who has already posted .?2,000 for a forty-flve-roimd finish fight with the champion, has beaten the best lightweights in the United States, Including ‘‘Packey’’ McFarland.It will be a battle o' science and agility against rough-house tactics and bulldog tenacity. Nelson will have a harder time beating down the science and shiftiness of Waleh thau he ever had witn Cans’ ring generalship.Watch Clever Boxer.Walsh made critics take notice of him when he beat Abe Attell at his own game—boxing. Although not considered in Abe's class It came to science, he surprised everyone by beating Attell to the punch time and time ugain, and proved that he was one of the cleverest boxers living.Nelson’s ability to take punishment may save him, however, and with his rushing tactics may be able to wear ao.wn the Englishman, but it remains to be seen whether Walsh can develop his wallop sufficiently tp turn the trick which Cans and every other lightweight has failed to do—knock out Nelson.Vegetarian.Walsh has many queer ways. He has spoiled the dope ou the training table for pugilists by refusing to eat meat aud trains on vegetables alone, with his sister as chef. He doesn’t seek newspaper notoriety by bombastic chatter and trains quietly, which has been the main reasons for the surprises he has sprung In the pugilistic world.
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Des Moines News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Sun, Feb 21, 1909
Page 10
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