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i BATTLING NELSON IS IN EARNESTNew York, Nov. 13.—Battling Nelson declares he Is in earnest in offering $85,000 for the Jeffries-.Johnson fight. In a letter to a friend in this city he declares he will post a $25,000 guarantee before Dec 1. He says he ■wants to hold the fight on property he owns in Nevada, and that he is in the game all by himself. .Nelson declares his orfTy stipulation would be if he is given the fight that the men train at the scene of the battle, and that he himself shall have one-third of the receipts for the moving pictures.It is on the division of the money for the moving pictures that the battle is sure to come between Jeffries ; and Johnson before the meeting in the I ring.
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Escanaba Morning Press
Escanaba, Michigan, US
Sun, Nov 14, 1909
Page 5
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