Show iii WILL DEVOTE TIME TIMETO TO BOOK Bat Nelson Passes Up All AllI I Square Ring Battles I Until Spring OLD TIMERS COME OUT Jack McAuliffe Once Lightweight Lightweight lightweight Light light- weight Champ Is Giving Exhibitions BY JEFF JUFF THOMPSON Now York Dec 12 Battling l Battling Nelson Nol Nel son will not fight again until IheI the spring The ruie lightweight champion I makes make this announcement with emphasis Ho Hu declared his business In Interests Interests interests In- In and his book boot will vill tako talco up fo ro much of ot his time that he lie would not think of or giving 31 up UI the time necessary foi for training until March or April at Icu Iu least t t. t TIlls This announcement will tend tent rather to 11 Increase than thun cut off of the number ol or of challenges from young oung men who wish the lb public to think they believe they thc cnn can take talie the thc measure of the tho Dane As AM a matter of ut cold fact tact there thero is a good deal of elimination n lighting fighting to be bedone bedone bedone done 1 before nn any of ot the lightweights can fairly o assume tho the Imperative mood In talking light to Nelson Pugilistic alt Je still stem seem to bo ho bothe bothe the order older of the day For the first time In twelve years Jack c. former ormer lI lightweight champion of the world has line decided to Indulge In public boxing exhibitions He Is on the road with a n. sparring pui partner and anti got an oO atlon In Boston the other othel day clay Jack was lightweight champion when J I was a n. youngster and I have ha been old enough to eat ent ha hay for tor several se I ren ears rs The Joo who was t-om t thing of a n lighter fighter when John L I. L. L Sullivan Sullivan Sul Sul- livan was In his primo prime declares that he ho means what he lie when the promises to get back into the fighting game Joe has been boxing steadily ever since his last ring battle He has I always al taken good caro of his health nn and condition began hegan lighting carl early His Ills first recorded scrap was aa with Jim Jim Corbett Corbett Cor- Cor bett In San Francisco 24 4 years rears ago aso Corbett Just nosed out durIn during dur dur- ing irig Inthe the first year rear ear or two tuo of 01 his career But for tor Corbett Joe ml might ht have hac b become become be be- come a champion He fought all over the world and his record fairly bristles with knockouts over famous fighters rs of ot all lands land Ho was clever as a middleweight and alwa always rs carried a remarkable punch In lit the tho same line Is the effort of or Young Corbett to regain hi his hla lost loat laurels in his fight with Phil Brooch Broock In New Now Orleans IH Is not an old old- timer like and Cho A As a. a matter mattor of or fact ho la Is young and ought to be at his best nO now v But he hl threw his vitality owa away r in his prosperous prosper prosper- ous da days Now and then he takes another another another an an- other lIve dive Into tho the game Jame but with Indifferent success In tact fact he lie usually gets knocked out Ho lie has been away awny for a n month or two this time He went away without any bell beB ringing or 01 corner speeches He Ho means business 1 c whatever er he ho may mar be bo able ablo to accomplish Young has a harder row low to hoe than most of or the other old- old timers He lie has fat to contend with rolls roBs rolls and rolls of ot fat lie took th tho tha fat Cat off or oft or most of ot it With the old vitality now he might be able ablo to make malee another fortune Small chance chanco Bill Squires certainly I la is a 11 hog hop for tor punishment lie He has hu been knocked tl out three times by br Tommy Burns Durns but says he lie will challenge the winner of the tho Johnson Burns-Johnson milL He lie declares de tlc- clares dares that Burns will wUl win nn and that he can bent beat him in another bout |