Show I I I I J BELIEVES NELSON IS AN UNBEATABLE I Jeff Thompson Now Thinks I That Battler Won Goldfield GoldI Gold- Gold I field Fight KETCHEL QUESTION I Says Langford Can Whip Whir m p Johnson and Burns Can Best Them All BY BY uy JEFF THOMPSON IPSON New Xe Tork York Sept The Tho Tho recon recon recent t fights on the coasts havo have cleared u up some of or the disputed points In current L. L pugilistic history hut but others aro arc still mill I left obscure I In the first category ma may DO De listed I those these Joe Joo Gans Gons is definitely dc an and l final finally J ly out nul of ot tho the game Iame so far as champion championship ship aspirations are arc concerned and ant 1 Battling Nelson I is indisputably the light weight ht champion of or the world If It the Battler Battier Is wis willI wisp i he ho will avoid avob i the financial allurements of ot tho the sh six and ant I ten-round ten goes He lie Is essentially a n. L lighter who like John could 1 tako take a beating sufficient to put out tW two or three thoo men and then go after acter lila his opponent op op- and beat him He lie does oes not aol L shine shino In short tI tights fights but I doubt ii If It r there thoro has been a lI lightweight since he came to time the front who could beat teat binin himIn him bin himIn 1 In a 3 nn finish Ish light fight t. t In view of oC the two beatings ho ad administered 11 ministered to Guns Cans I am nm more than thai I ever inclined to tho the belief hellet that the time hint Bat cler Ier won the Goldfield battle which was wa 3 given ghen to Cans Gans on a foul toul I am glad that Ketchel and ar are areto areto i to meet a again ln While the tho brilliant victory vie vic 10 lor tory won lJ by the Illinois Thunderbolt is not to be minimized and ho has ham fairly won on time the weight middle championship cham charn at time tho same time I want L to see soc these Jwo wo meet after Ketcho i has come como to a realizing sense that hm ho hohas hohas I has a tight fight on hand haud when ho he meets 1 I am not enough h of ot a prophet C. C in to r t v l that thit the result rosult of oC the lic-ht lic would would- be different but I would j Just st like to seo soo it ft that's all aU A report comes from the coast to the effect that letchel since his defeat has decided to wipe out the tho color lino line and sign on with Sam Langford I hard believe this is tru true The natural match for tor Lan Langford rord as 1 I have before pointed out Is with Johnson Johnson John John- son and I cannot understand why they do not mix it unless it be that such o a fight Ight would put an end to the tho work of ot their heir press agents in claiming that they thoy h have he e all tho the white fighters of or the country scared to a n. pale palo J pea ca green My Iy own impression is that Sam lm Langford can whip Johnson and that Tommy Burns Jurns can whip either one of ot them with ease oso The Tho nest time Mo Moran ran and Attell meet the he lIght fight should bo ho to a n. n finish Neither of or these boys seem to be able to do I much in a limited go o. o Attell Is too lever clover for tho the r to put out In 21 5 rounds round while he cant can't fight hard enough nough to take tako Morans Moran's measure Leach Cross who Is 18 looming larger than han an any of ot tho the Eastern Kastern lightweights has the tIme same trouble that thal affects At At- tell teli Ho lie Is too clever and not enough of or a n fighter I understand he lie is ne negotiating o- o for a a. fight with Pack Packy 1 If It it goes 1008 long enough tho tIme Chi Chi- U for torI x roun lL Y Phil Griffin the little Philadelphia boxer who can wel weigh h in at 12 poun pounds s and who has gone out of ot his class and fought draws with Youn Young Loughrey Ia I a lI lightweight ht an and Kid Stinger is to arrive In this city in a few tow days and I will immediately late challenge his name name- name name-I I sake Charlie Griffin the featherweight featherweight feather feather- I weight champion of ot Australia C. C Rayder Ray flay tier der who is looking for tor matches here for the tho Quaker boxer declares the tIme bo boy Is Js the tho best weight feather in tho the East A battle for the welter weight championship championship cham chain IH is to be bo fought before the time JetrIe Jet Jef fries rles Athletic club If It Jimmy Gardner C of or f Lowell accepts tho time orr offer r of or a dato with Henry Levie of or Philadelphia which was wired East gast today I Lewis has ins beaten all the tho other othor welter weights and md his imis defeat b by Gardner at Denver last year ear Is the only blot on his escutcheon |