Show wm INNER R WILL I IT T t Sporting Writer Naughton Agrees With the News Neils on T tic Question BEST SOLUTION OF PROBLEM Cass Cans Cannot Make the Weight and aud Is Out of or It lt Nelson Britt Arc Me MeLc Legitimate Lc Lightweights Lightweight I A f few v days da ngo ng hO the Now None hall hallo In g to i o sn as o 1 on a n tile the t o tr brealY Uly I rIle dl cussed a que e of ut the featherweight and ami lightweight In the lima boxing lame lume ume tidal and took the position that Nelson Corbett Welch unit I moi i many others of ot their claw class w were wrEl re In every sense MUM of the 1110 word I yet they nil 1111 tried to make the tho public believe bellee they thoy were The waY nay the weights have bc been u juggled during tho the lout last two or three years yearn the tho of or many have bent been allowed to tor t For r o Instance h bent boat C orbel t At tAt i laid claim to the featherweight championship With to the coining between bet NellOn and at tit pounds at nt 0 Q we wild eald that hat the winner could properly hy to the light weight championshIp cha P s It Oan s or o r no u Guns na for tor tho the colored mutt It la I out of at It for tor ever und and Aye we wo are arc not alone In this thle opinion Is outdo made evident by L the follow tollow followIng Ing leg trout rom W a n prominent ent flit porting writer of ot Ban BUll Francisco I Ho Ile says sa 8 I What championship will the fight tight be Jimmy unit Britt l mul and Ila Net Nel Eon coil involve Already the and Old Sub Subscribers scribers of the world the men anima vho take up liP their t ens for tho the pun pur IK pogo or of eliciting n LL little Information ore putting thin to the tho sporting sport ing editors 1 want to go on record early ns ne fI any log Ing that the ho winner will be bo safe info In styling himself the th lightweight chain clinin I loo of or the world and he lie does doeK not have in to that lie Is the lie white chant cham champion pion at tit that It must be of ot course courno that weIght classes of ot are fearfully d This Is n straw splitting era I then ho boxers prefer matching on 01 a aI I II I I 1 and such being th Ih ri ease I the Ihl of at the dl III are uro Ur hover nOor kept In III mind unless th n MH Is tourney Is le to be worked kd off oft Unit and Nelson have done dono their hal to towards placing things In n a 1 mull mud nn il tile Kadi Earh nt ot them has hoa been a II cheese chlo pir r In ii tho the matter of weight all doing dinK for nt lit hi i running from Irma to pounds tr v hv I both boh bol bern been Very ry to ff rc Hr s r c to themselves th OB ns featherweights v ti T M r othern In the th same samne boot boat ni al 1 I Ih th r anon for It all nil was Ill that Ins a n wonderful fight mg ill was wag as In InI Ino o I ba Iw walling to tl fling himself I tI tn th mid gild ld nail nall on any ony rising young scrapper who dared dorell to style tyle himself a 1 lightweight The fh Claim scare icare lm hu has mil It Is II about time lime that Nelion NellO and and end anda enda a LL few fel more mOle were gaping back unto onto the Iho lightweight reservation re Of UI course some lome one un may Inay In oak Ilk Clang OOng defend his Ile laurels recently lie did dill after Atter a 0 fashion to and what IN is more Inore the Ihl content to fur ru furas as tie the ter ma ate are concerned was t lit ht only legitimate world match boxed liy llY lightweights In III many year Y ear lit Hut what kind of ot a n 1 lightweight was Oars dans when Ihen he stood up to light nod mid by what means meane tilt dill he h retain his hiM laurels He lie 11 allut clue able to 10 a 11 decent punch rend and he convinced nil all thinking sports sport that he hold lila his own with NUI Niel of Joo Joe Howker when required re Ill to make nuke the tho lightweight weight limit another thing Onne OnnA said Mill ho would never lIer to fight at lit pounds pound again and for fear there Ih re should be he any Rn misunderstanding g about It his hili man manager ager er repeated the announcement for tor liars him There Thera IB is l therefore 1 a u double reason for tor writing riling Gans oft off the lightweight list Hit There Is the testimony of ot uphold tars lorn who rho made molle up their minds time that Gnus Gnu In Ix I a weakling t it Ht m pounds and cud there hero Is tho the voluntary statement of or Inn that ho will not on those thone terms again With lane fans nna out of ot It II who IH Is I better entitled to 10 dispute uto the tho title than and nud 01 1 7 trounced iu n II i note nolo and Young Corbett and wound up by hammering Inns until Onus was teas and ond gasping gapping Nelson hoe hu disposed i po cd of at Welch anole Canole Hanlon nut and and hoe 1118 rounded out hU his string of ot triumphs by I walloping Young Corbett ns as a n hired man Inon wallops n a dusty cat carpet pet All tho the men named are lightweights no matter what hat they may claim to the contrary and nett It If there are arc any un bettor better than they battling nt nl or just belov Belo 1 l for one havo hao no knowledge of ot them Ono One Jimmy Gardner Is III mentioned n nn ns n comer coiner In the tho class la tin question but there Is le n 0 good doal deal of ot doubt dO as us to whether Gardner can cau do himself Jus JUR Justice thee tice at In any ony case ense his hll work Is compared with that of or Nelson la is an on untried mon man Ho Ito may become A n challenger for tOI the th lightweight championship In the near Mill future futuro and In tin the tho meanwhile the tho win winner lien ner of the tho Nelson light fight on Deo Dee 20 should have no In claiming the title and declaring his to defend It nil all content |