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Show NELSON GETTING ! BIG RECEPTIONS CHICAGO, Sept. 2i. If Battling Nelson lost any friends through his fight' with Joe Gaii. it-is not noticeable" notice-able" at the Tiocadero theater, where the l)auo-is filling a week's engagement. engage-ment. 1 When Ifeferce Abe Pollock stepped to the front of tho stage and introduced Nelson the house went wild with joy, and for fully ten minutes shouts and cheers' rang through tbe big theater. While ttill cheering and whistling, Battling Bat-tling Nelson was presented with a beautiful beau-tiful bunch of Americau beauties which cost at least $2o. bearing a littlo card, "From those who believe jou still light-weight champion.' It was in to Nelson to deliver a speech, a something which he dreads to do.- "Ladies and gentlemen," ho said, "you all no dc.'bt have read of mv fight with Cans ana iLe sorrowful end. It is ancient history now. 1 am not posing here to offer "excuses, but I w ill f-ay as I said tince the day of the fight; that I never fouled Cans. It was a fair blow, and it put Cans out. T Em fositive Siler did not see tbe blow anded. We have only a few more days to wait before the pictures arrive, and since a camera never lies you will be-given be-given a chance to judge for yourselves whether I fouled Cans or whether he deliberately laid down. I beat him fairlv aud can do it again. 1 lhauk 3 0U. |