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Thompson May Fight the Great Nelson_ —— ... i(By Ed. W flmlthj I Chicago, Juno 2. ft begins to look ah thi'iiRh Hattllng Net*on will Again sidetrack Parkey McFarland of Chi ragu and give Johnny Thompson of flycnmore the. find crack at the title.Halt ling la no wre over the grievances. real or fancied, that he hu again*t the uprightly youngster «.f the yard* that Promoter Jim Coffroth. with all bln persua*lvene*n and with all hla ability to get around stubborn men. ban been unable to fix the Dane.In fact, Nelson will hate nothing at all to do with Parkey. He will coti sent. however to do buslne** wtth the -Cycltme. He nay* he hn* long I romleed Johnny a chance and In going to make good to him now Thl* If the new* contained In a let- j lor jo»t recoDed from Coffroth. dal ed hint i.rven dnyn before the Nelson*Hyland battle, in which the astute pro motor of Otmi rake* ocraalon lo assure hi* Chicago friend* that every-thing I* running a* smoothly a* could he hoped for, Thl* Is taken to mean by one who know* she gonial Jam*** thnt there wa* a terrific house In night.The only hitch, seemingly, over the proposed Nrlnnn Thompson match It the exorbitance of the Danish notion about finance*, lie want* *o much (or taking thin desperate fellow from Illinois on that even Coffroth. used a* he t* to talking up tn fire figure* with the fighter*, write* with bated type writer about Nelson*# demands.
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Ogden Standard
Ogden, Utah, US
Wed, Jun 02, 1909
Page 2
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