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BATTLING NELSON ! DRAWS COLOR LINE -iFighUng Dane Has His Own Gr»f dReasons lor Avoiding UnskyScrappersRallllng Xelson is a! Hot Springs, Ark. The Dattler has a warm spot In his heait tor this famous resort; also, it might he added, tlmt tt.e people of Hot Springs beam kindly un the Rattier. IStrange as iL might seem, N'elson’ has finally drawn the color line.1 Hereiolof© negroes, Turks, Italians,' Creeks ami Jews have all looked' ialike to the lighting Dane, hut now]I lie old war horse reruses to fightYoung Togo, who is said (o W the only fighter Jap in the squared ring .‘oday.Young Togo has been fighting great guns lately around Pori Smith, Airk., and the light fans of that ciiy are wlidi him to a man. The Jap’s manager went lo Hot Springs lliei oUilm' day for the purpose of gelling a match for his man with Hie* Bander, but failed to get the latler’s signature lo a set of articles.The Battler said “nothing doing j with the Jap,” but later changed ills mtnd unit agreed to fight Young Togo. The bout is to take place in the arena at Fort Smith this evening, I and all the sports in Arkansas' are; expected to be there. The Battler is in excellent condition, us he hns been doing considerable woTk tramping around the mountains at Hot Spriog3 lately. He will have o real good to beat Hie Jap, so say the Fort Smith sports.
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Olean Times

Olean, New York, US

Wed, Feb 28, 1912

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