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Show Ex-Champion Young Corbett will attempt to demonstrate on Tuesday night, when he is billed for a second engagement with Battling Nelson, that his decisive defeat by the Dane in their first encounter was due to carelessness in training and the fact that too much strenuoslty was required of him in reducing his weight from 149 to 130 pounds. The coming battle will surely be decisive on that point, as the Denverite has trained more carefully and conscientiously for the coming contest con-test than for any other walloping bout in his flght- mm'-m bRtd Mah4 ill - ti mn r ing career, and has apparently rid himself of all the ravages of dissipation which handicapped him in the former mill. Besides this, he has had and is having daily four-round functions with Joe Gans, the cleverest and certainly the hardest hitting hit-ting of the lightweights. The conditions which prevailed preliminary to the first mill between these sturdy youngsters are entirely reversed at present. This time Young Corbett will have no difficulty In making the weight, while the surplus poundage picked up by the Dane during his recent hunting expeditions hangs on tenaciously. When he began training, he weighed 143 pounds, and is reported to have been about aa hard as the sabre of one of his viking ancestors. The fact is that Nelson is so big of frame that he is rapidly verging into the welterweight division. Corbett shows all of his old fighting vim and is confident of winning. His friends on the coast who have watched his rejuvenation, share in his belief that he will escort Nelson ..to the bench of the retired ones. Even if his hopes are not realized, real-ized, it seems certain that he will display his old flash and battle spirit, and that mean danger for anyone. |