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Show BATTLING NELSON IS ILL WITH INFLUENZA Former Lightweight Boxer Has Serious Case of Dread Disease. CHICAGO. Oct. 8. Battling Nelson, I once lightweight champion boxer of the I world, is flat broke and seriously ill in ; a hospital here, it became known today. Nc'son's condition heca me public w hen he issued an appeal through the sporting editor of a Chicago newspaper asking that his friends of former days come to his assistance financially. Nelson declares de-clares that his father has tied up all his property ;nd refuses to aid him. "Now I am going to the extreme test to find out what the public thinks of Hat- tlitig Nelson," the Hesewisch fighter said. 'T am not asking for any charity. All I would like Is a return of some of the I money I loaned out in the old das of Erreat prosperity." Nelson is suffering from Spanish Influenza Influ-enza and in threatened with pneumonia. He dedarey he has not sufficient funds 10 pa' his hospital bil's. |