| Show ElSH HAS m lAID CLAIM TO THE T TITLE p I es Champion Bat Nelson Helson and MaKes HaRes All Al Sorts of Threats YS BAT MUST FIGHT HIM NOW 1 1 Lt It lives Ives Ives Title Holder Thirty t V r Days to Accept or Announce Announce An An- Retirement t. t ii I BY JAY DAVIDSON Zi LOS ANGELES Jan Inn 20 20 reddi Freddie S fish lh hiss has become exceedingly tc weary 11 nit waiting n for a chance to go eo U higher t p I the li light bt 1 weight ht ladder and insists list at be he shall no longer submit to the thi i SJ Nelson on silent blockade of the theD D He lie DOle came through h last night with S renewal of jus Ii's III challenge to Nelson r A Ji light ht weight weicht championship hip arcu eDt cat offering a side sid bet on tb the x suit wit sod nod accompanied the challenge ith the notification to the tho champion z At it t ie lf must t accept or decline within days ds and tell th the world t that Rt ho hoI hoz z I retired if Jf ho decides to d decline or orI orwill tiC ti ti- I will proceed to squat quat on the t t C proclaim himself the successor to It abandoned title nan and proceed to 11 dond do- do 4 nd it it-at it at pounds ringside nobody t med J anI and all accommodated as is fast as I v come iome treddie explains hi his attitude e upon p II of the light weight chamS cham- cham in an extended nun logical 31 S He says MY that the tho entire world ha bl has r become con 1 convinced at t elson has retired d. d but that he heill heill ill 11 not make malce any an announcement to tout it ut fid effect until after his book hook has hasen en eQ put upon the tb market markt l If ho had hady hadS I S I y r intention of over ever again acain fighting 1 y ys Welsh he hc would have havn Rr accepted I I me mc of ot tho the numerous challenges hurled burled t I him some Fome of which would have hare been at least n picking Welsh insists h that it is not the ri ht hta j a a champion to remain idle for an in- in t period hut that he must fight to give i e his r rivals rRb Rb a chance chanceS S win the thEl title and that failure to fight ficht offers otTers a after a reasonable c mo has expired between his previous pre ht and the challenge is equivalent alent to toS S of the lob iob as champion I Iad I nd ad leaves lea tho the field and ancl title op open n for forS S repetition b by tho those o actively engaged L mauling out an existence in in that di- di i. i Proceeding upon th the theory that NIon Nel- Nel on n will ill turn down tho th chanen challenge e as ns ho hoid hoit it id a 3 few weeks a ago o when the same samo alln e was sent to him hint Welsh jua- jua fie his own claim as th the vice vice-charn- ham hamon on now and nail the tho active e champion after lirty hirty days have expired as all follows Jo Joo Cans Gans is a n. dead one defeated and tripped of h his s titular honors and has hasu fusel u d to fight again acain This eliminates im Un alon along with XI Nelson on if iC the latter has 5 McFarland is out of it it to Welch because leCause he hI cannot or r will not make mako the championship mit of p pounds at nt ringside irle having haine to do so 80 and ind showing to the tho enire en en- ire lTd satisfaction of Welsh WI b bv liv his efforts ut t Friday night aca against Hyland that 10 ie c cannot make th tb the weight ht several ver 1 ours before the tho light fight and lind bo be strong strone nough to be a 8 contender This rau causes es to put him in the eliminated la la lass g lj but hut ho adds that Pak Packer cnn can con con- ider bier himself also challenged with the eid side bet added for a scrap at 33 rounds rin ringside If the Chicago boy hoy be- be he can make the tho championship unit men he P goes after Fighting Dick with tho the tho offer otTer of a fight ficht at wands ringside on ft a ba basis ill of 2 to 1 I or a 1000 side tide bet Welsh making a 1 to 2 favorite to start with withy y agreeing to post 1000 1000 against hat h he hr will win As f for r Cyclone Thomp Thomp- on m D Welsh says ears that t Peto Pete put urn in im out of the he running last Friday l ight ht by br beating him in twenty roun rounds s. s l I for the tho claims chums of George I ms c reddie r says say he IH will attend to them he ha night of February 2 This lot he gures constitutes all th the possible pop con- con enders for the title tithe and as he has a plain statement of facts tach and that look loek to be ho ha based fl upon cason Cuon and established facts he lie has I 11 hl tho best but of oC the argument to begin rub ith S J It i is generally believed ed that Nelson on onas a as LS retired and and- never will fight again aCRin n U fact lad that was the tho substance of his to nb mo 1110 a few claps o 0 hi his last lut battle p with Gnus Cans He said hat hf h 5 Probably would retire nail antI look hook fter ncr ter his large c bu business iness interests in iu inno ho no event ho he a again ain defeated Oan ans and ancl hat at only a Ii defeat by hy Cans Gans would keep mm im in In the rin ring unless s ho changed his nind HId HIdi Figuring i the light weight situation ft t tl tid tins IS in the moment mC s same amo way that rR s. s figure l cure a n r race le the cham chani- affair seems to be Le summed up s 8 Nel Nelson ehon on has retired dar J na nd cannot canno the tho weight required in aft match is il b by his hill d defeat fat last week ans hs has retired and publicly an an- I this js to be a no fort fact Welsh is to I r rge claim February 2 H I Lad de Hy Hy- tI 1 the on only 1 one loft eft can have hac a I to the tho dispute with Welsh we weeks after Welsh and fe I tJ S So 00 it is a thre three man man race on this I lad 11 of dope dope and Welsh and alone alono are are- left to I-et I settle ettIe e the digat dig dig- ate l' l Bat at can Cin settle it all un however bv U the challenge H His s reply will willi e awaited with nth WIlh much i interest as a 1 J in follow follow- battle or a uj big H J I |
