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Show NELSON-WELCH MILL Oil TUESDAY NIGHT Fighters Are in First-Class Shape and Indications Point to a Good Go ' Ring Gossip. Once more the fight game Is open in Salt Lake. Tuesday night at the Salt Palace theater "Spider" "Welch of San Francisco nnd "Battling" Nelson of Chicago will come together in a twenty-round twenty-round mill for a purse of $500. The fight is under the direction of the Shamrock Sham-rock Athletic club nnd the management manage-ment has left nothing undone to mnko the contest one of the best ever seen In this city. The two contestants were brought to this city atno little expense and the j match was made, not with th Idea of making a little easy money for the club, but for the purpose of giving the Salt Lake fight fans a first-class exhibition. Both the fighters have good reputations reputa-tions and if ."dope" counts for .anything, .any-thing, the mill should be the best ever seen here, with the exception of the Root-Gardner fight. Nelson has met some of the best lightweights in the middle "West and has always acquitted himself creditably. credit-ably. He has" fought such men as Charles Neary, the Milwaukee wonder, Clarence English, "Young" Scotty, fGeorge Mcmslc and AdamVRyan. Back in the Windy City Nelson is considered, one of the best 'lightweights In the business, and he ought to give a good nccount of himself when he makes his debut here Tuesday night. "Spider" "Welch Is a California "native "na-tive son" who has made a good record on tlie coast. He is admitted to bo one of the best men in his class t in tho Golden State, and this Is saying considerable con-siderable for lighters are thicker In California than files on a summer day. The men will weigh in at 133 pounds at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the light. The bout is to go twenty rounds or until one of the men shall have been knocked out. "Willard Bean will officiate as referee. The Salt Palace theater, whore the bout Is to be pulled off, has been specially speci-ally prepared for the occasion. The stage has been extended out over the orchestra seats and considerable seating seat-ing capacity added. The building will be well heated und properly lighted for the occasion, and It Is the intention of the management to provide a cushion for every scat In the house. It is estimated esti-mated that the theater can comfortably hold about 1800 persons so there Is lit-' tie chance of congestion. |