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NELSON’S REPLY TOfacky McFarlandTim Battler Compares His Record With That of the ChicagoFighter.CMeftiO, July 8.—Batt ,mg NelsonhM again et«fin#d his * bought* to lit* entry lines. and §tbis tint has turned his guns 1 t^llBr^okfiy McMtai Moved by the article McFarland wvot# for the American Ne#i Sefvtoe, the thtrtole Dam cun it1 to bat with a yarn h# calls a botne run. The Battler Scotw his rival severely and fie* fioUMes his tactics. He Invites him to battle by ottering him a $5,000 side 1«$C at t to I. and censures him great* ly for dropping Gilmore. Bat says It Was the fatal mistake of his pugilis-tic career. Here Is Nelson’s story:I By Battling Nelson. Champion Lightweight of the World.)Me Farland has about fired enough ©f his aimnunlt ion at me. and It now behooves me to give an answer. Fail* tire to find his name In print as often as mine no doubt has prompted him K| open fire, but the result will be dis-aetrous to him, If be ended his four-flushing and did a little more fighting — with fighters of some class—he might receive a bit more kind feeling from th- fans.It Is to laugh when I think that fee has nerve enough to compare his. pir Slittlc record with mine. Why, t# compare the Masonic Temple with that little station that once pointed mrt the town of Hegewisch would about show how I tower over the stock yards fighter when class ft eon*Who did Packey ever beat—that la whoa you count men of class? tip to November 8. lift. Tom Andrews8 record shows fifty-one fight*. Packey has credited himself with thirty Ive knockouts. Taking for grafted that this fweri ts genuirv but I know differ* fiMly, who Were the men who fell before him? Billy Plnncgaa. Steve Kenny. Beuy Tanger when he was all In Joe Gaillgan and Phln Brock He credits with a kmkoutower|Jimmy Britt at Ooftma, I was at the ringside when that battle was taught, and Instead of being a credItto Pastel if was a disgrace Britt putnp a miserable showing and when the end came* Jimmy was on his feet hisfatherl stepping Into the ring, which ended the fight. _ #I At I that stage of the game Packeyshould have disposed of Britt in loss j i than si* rounds. How many real fighters did he battle? None. Joe GalHgan stand* out as the toughest of them all, and had I not taken Joe’s heart away from him at Davenport, when they clashed in their secondmeeting. Packey today would be among the down and outs.i trained Joe and told him I would second him. f fully intended to do so and Joe was full of confidence. He was In grand shape that night and would have laid Packey low, but when I reached Davenport | was asked by anumber of friends who were backing Packey to refrain from coaching Gal* llgan. I refused to get In Joe s corner.. , He lost heart and McParland admitted that himself.After, you have waded through Packey’* record turn over a few ( pages and see what 1 have done. Who | are some of the men I have beaten?) Just listen! Art Himms. Jack O’Neill J Spider Welch, Martin Canoie, Eddie | Hanlon, Anrelto Herrera, Young Corbett. Jimmy Britt, and last, but not least, the grand old master of the*ring, Joe Oans. jAH went by the knockout route save O’Neill and Herrera. Isn’t that a list Iof boys with class? Anyone of them Icoiild have snuffed Packey** hopes in j short order, and yet he says 1 am afraid of him, [If to will meet me at ringside j weight I will sign today and tot him $5,Odd on the Rlde against his 18,500, | lisa any other champion ever offered I Odds of this sort No. They take ad-vantage of their title and bet at even I money | am ready to fight him at any time, but he must do a* others haveflttft. : * I
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Ogden Standard
Ogden, Utah, US
Mon, Jul 05, 1909
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