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Show INSIDE FACTS 8N RECENT FIGHT pattling Nelson Wants . No Interference. m?eferee Must Show Less K Anxiety to Break Him llf and Britt- Iffipy Durable Dane Entered Ring j'Ktt late, and How He Looks at lm Things ITow. BAN FRANCISCO, March 11. Bat-jKtllng Bat-jKtllng Nelson will not fight Joe Gans If .stthe can sign up with Jimmy Eritt. His ' 'Btfoanager' oIan has made an an-Mmouncement an-Mmouncement to this effect, and he Bfieerncd very sincere In the matter. !BiicIson figures that Brltt would be a MtolEBer attraction, and furthermore, he WMTould be less liable to be defeated at fj'immy's hands. If he can have a ref- je)-ee who will let him fight like Jack IJPVelch did, and Billy Roche did when fflK??e fought Corbett the first time, Nelson rtflRh3 great confidence In hid ability to yjfe'whip Brltt. fli nei1 he meets Brltt again he wants Mm10 referee to jump In and hold his f$jB;hands when he Is about to start some jHWnflghting. The referee must manifest -V -S'l ' V '" . " ' IK WE HiHtH (ZOUrlO VlMBK HB ' TSP" -- ? "k'f .j$&V VICTOR WfH(H H(5 .KMj ' ' ' .INCIDENTS OF BECENT BATTLE. In this picture is shown some of the thrilling incidents of that terrible ninth round in the Nelson-Corbett fight at San Francisco, -when Nelson was pursuing the fast weakening Corbett and endeavoring to score a knockout. On the right Spider Kelly is shown carrying the beaten man to his corner after the sponge had been thrown up. in token of his defeat. less anxiety to break him and. Brltt the next time they hook up. "If -we fight Gans he' must do 133 pounds ringside," ring-side," said Billy' Nolan yesterday. "Don't think Nelson'wlll go out of his class to fight Gans, for he won't. As Gans said after his last fight that he could never do 133 pounds and be strong, I can't see how he exoccts to fight Nelson. We will not accept any 133 pounds, 3 or C o'clock. It must be ringside weight If we fight Gans. But as Brltt has n better reputation, being a square fighter, we would prefer meeting meet-ing him. Nelson Wants Some Say. Battling has always fought on the level, and he'is going to keoplon. Therb is more money In -It than faking. If Brltt wants toflght Nelson he mutit not expect to do all the dictating. "We lire conceited enough now to think that we arc as big a drawing card as ho Is. Nelson Nel-son has certainly done something Brltt never did. He beat Corb6tt twice In less than ten rounds, and , Brltt was lucky getting a decision over him in twenty. This dope makes Nelson a better bet-ter man than Brltt or there Is nothing to it." NclBon cleared u; a nice, piece of money betting on himself. Ho wagered $1900 that he would beat Corbett, and he got 10 to D for most of his money. It was rather surprising how much money was bet on Corbett. One poolroom pool-room on Ellis street handled $27,000 on the fight, and the manager reported that it was one of the best betting affairs af-fairs that had been held there In a long time. Crowd Was Surprised. Those who were at Woodward's pavilion pa-vilion will recall that Ne!son did not enter the ring for several minutes after j Corbott, and many wondered what de tained him. The reason was that tho management would not give him enough compllmentarles to admit his friends. Nelson demanded ten tickets, which were refused him. He then said: "If I don't get the tickets, I don't fight." He stood by his guns, and the club, rather than disappoint the crowd, surrendered. When Nelson signed with the Hayes Valley club to fight Corbett he had no Idea that the contest would draw $14,-000 $14,-000 or he would never have accepted a guarantee of $3500, win, lose or a draw. Nelson lost $1500 by agreeing to this, as the winner's share would have reached $5000. The club, of course, quits a handsome winner on the fight. Nelson figured that the sports would not be as anxious to patronize his second sec-ond fight with Corbett as they were the first, and therefore $3300 looked sweet to him. With what he bet Nelson made $5000, which Is not a miserable night's work for a young Dane. Good Horseman Dead. Col. Henry S. Russell, who died In Boston Inst week, for over thirty years took a prominent promi-nent pnrt In making tho American trottlnr horso what It Is today. Col. Hunscll owned three stallions that attained world's rocords. tho first being Ethan Allen, 2:I5V4; tho second Smuggler, and the next EdKdmark. that placed tho record for four-yenr-old trotting 8lnl!lonn at 2:16. Other etalllonB owrfed by Col. Rnnsoll wcro riohort Bonner, by Hnmblo-tonlnn Hnmblo-tonlnn 10. and Morgun FearnaiiRht, 2:2?-l. Always Al-ways moro or less Interested In Hcht harness raolng1. ho was numbered ahiontr thono high-claw high-claw American gontldmcn who ndd dimity to tho sport by connection with It. William Kclloy. brqthcr-of illke Kclley. nnd last season with tho" AVInulpcc team of tho Northern Icagilc. hn$ plKncd with Oakland, Cal., In tho Pacific CoaerieoRuo. Ho will report re-port March 1.' Keliey ' originally elfmed Willi Portland, but alone with Pllchur Iberg was trndrd to Oakland for Schlafley, formerly with Milwaukee. I |