Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-10-03 | Page 26 | Bat Nelson Says Sentiment Prompts Big Call on Welsh

Bat Nelson Says Sentiment r Prompts Big Call on Welsh I I DOUGHTY DANE ANXIOUS TO BRI BRING G BACK LIGHT WEIGHT TITLE TO AMERICA HE DECLARES IN PUTTING UP r TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR CHECK TO BACK HIS CHALLENGE i r Wi Ch Chicago III dr 7 74 19 O. O The I State liter National Bank 2 14 a- a F IL i ILa Pau Pay a Order i th f D DIE 4 W iL 1 OO Ft l E. E A FIN FINI I fl 4 r J Jl I IV 1 l 4 Aa D RS I I J 1 I Io A lq J. J iA i i J Fl r 5 l ct T Jt rI z By K rl N h-ANCIS h O Oct 2 Battling Battling Nelson really wants wants to tl fight ht Freddie Freddie I Welsh for th light weight championship of ot the world l Ieans- to fight him im so o ba badly b that he lie drew a check heck on his lils bank for x illde payable to the the order order- of the ll light ht weight champion champlon immediately after hUng fighting Nelson to a finish finish- or a round forty bout The check was deposited with promoter J. J JW W W. Coffroth and the latter given permission to 1 telegraphic certification of ot the check This is no na n bunc DUnc or or Press wor work said Nelson after signing the check heck The m moneK e goes as I it lays It is my that Welti will be paid for his eslit he agrees to meet me if he accepts and a promoter is 18 found and I i sure sur quite a number of them will b be only too anxious to handle the mai match mah h. h I. I W Welsh Ican can make any nY other arrangements h he pleases with th the promoter promoters If IrE I sure that I could b beat at Welsh I would not be foolish e him 10 OO to fight tig t me rue I want that title to come back to America dit it will if it W Welsh will agree to meet me on the terms named in inthe inthe n the he v I Aft tt U 1 champion ran out on on- me mein mein in Ha Havana ana and nd a Denver club tried to mat s. s I made exactly the same offer that am I am making now but hut attention to it Hes He's Welsh p fd th-no th no afraid oft afraid of nie me nie He is afraid to risk the preferring to trot Ovel over th the ten round no decision no-decision decision route As I Ih hive e fr frequently stated if there Is r weight in fn the world that I can Cain beat andol anthI In know I cannot be beat t that man Is Freddie Welsh SEef accept this offer and Ill I'll gu rant eto find a battle ground would welcome the match andi t either place we would draw mer Sincere incer of not Nelsons Nelson offer otter af affords affords at- at fords ro plenty of speculation as to wI wn what inight be were the match made and Nelson return returned d the winn win win- n ner r. r r. r be U the e first time i ithe Inthe in inthe the history 01 t the rin ring that a onetime one onetime onetime one one- time chi champion six years after losing his fEl back and his lost laure laurels s. s Add t t the fact that Nelson Is to be past th the fighting age his thirty-third thirty year last June and the recapture of the lIght weight light championship o of ot the world woul would be even more more- ble At li for Champion the second time thus would mean meal mea hundreds of ot thousands of ot dollars doliar to and li h he w un un- un questionably be the most popular fighter th tb ever knew even more so than John L. L Sullivan was when h her he hewa wa wall wag knocking em kicking at the rate rater rater-of of one a night The int interest r in such a bout would be as great u not greater than that aroused arou ed bythe Johnson Jeffries-Johnson Jo af at- af fair Nelson Jias been doii doling doing a a. theatrical turn In Sari but he avers I that that had nO nothing to do with his challenge 1 I made this offer long before I I. had even thought of coming to San Sari Francisco Francsco he said It is the one big thought that I have had since Welsh took the title to England They may think the old Dane has no o feeling feeling feel feel- ing of sentiment but ne he has' has and he heIs heis is willing to rl risk k his ls is to 10 prove it