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Show BATTLER PEEVED AT B01&MB1 Declares He Is in Good Condition Con-dition and Will Prove His Claim. I BY SAM S. HALL, JE. By International News Service. I CHICAGO. Nov. I. The explosion camel off in Ilcgwisch, as predicted. Battling j Nelson has been ausry at various times in his career, but never was he so thoroughly thor-oughly mad as today when he read In the papers that the. Cincinnati boxing com- j mission proposed to bar him from that! town because it is feared he could not take a punching with safety any more. Nelson Immediately got busy on the samo typewriter he wrote the book entitled en-titled "The Life and Career of Battling Nelson." At that he could be heard In HcKWlseh for two hourr. thereafter, u.s Bat pounded home burning thoughts on reams of perfectly good Battling Nelson stationery. sta-tionery. The first thing wo noticed on our desk! when we arrived this evening was the typewritten product of the brain of the irate Battling Nelson. Here arc some of the very sentences: Matty Baldwin Is a pretty touah fighter and In Boston, wliere I boxed only a short time ago, they still think me good enough tu hand Matty a trimming In t,welvo rounds. Only two montha ago I went fifteen strong rounds with Stove Kctchel al St. , Joseph, and when Ketchel wart on the floor for the count, his manager, Largy LleiUeiistcIn, hcllevcd me anything any-thing but feeble. I don't like the city of Cincinnati and I'm not crazy about boxing there, but I've accepted this Tommy Cory match and I'm going down to tint city Just to show them thai even a touch young fellow like Gary cannot take any liberties with me. In the ring. I am 30 years old. I don't have to drop off liquor and harmful hahltu. 1 never tasted drugs In my life. At le;sl half of my life 1 have slept in the opon air. There Is perhaps no man in Chicago who lends the careful life I do. My diet Includes only strength- II building selections from the menu?. I hae n worries and I lane been an athlete seventeen year.-. Why should 1 be an.Mhlng but the picture of health? As -far as th" Cincinnati boxinc commission is concerned. I. Invite the closest kind of an examination into my physical joiidilion. If I am willing will-ing to submit to the one. Bill ought to be willing to submit to Ihe other Meantime. I'm working for the flyrht there November 11 and the only person per-son who Is soiiig to be the goat on that night I: po"r Tommy Gary, my opponent. I'll have to clve Tommy a fearful beating Just to show them that I am still a topnotcher. etc, etc. This evening Mr, Nelson faced Mr. Phclon with anger In his eye, a sneer on his lips and blonde hair bristling. rWha.t he said to Wll'Ie we do not know. But later In the veiling Nelson's press agent cent u3 a Btatement by special messenger which denied that Phelon even said tho Cincinnati commission nan pondering over lis danurdly te.lepra.uui barring Battling Nelson because he was too feeble to fight. And he alleged that Phelon stood for the assertion. But uc.d to make them back up In the ring, and th-re you are. |