| Show NELSON WILL VILL NOT MEET JOE GUNS i f Story That They Are Matched for Forty Forty- Forty Five Five Rounds Discredited IS IN N SPLENDID SHAPE Battler Says Sas It Would Not Take Inke Him lIim Long to Get Got Into Condition Condi Contil lion tion for n a Bout Hout Chicago JuI July 21 A A A story from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York todo today that Battling Nelson and Joe I iJo Thus are arc matched matche to fight forty forty- five e rounds at Colma Coima this fall stems seems to tobe tobo bo bl discredited edited In statements made mac b by Nelson an and his manager who have ha Just left for the time coast Both declare that Nelson would never right fight t J Joe oe Gaits Cans holder of tho the lightweight light light- t- t weight title tithe The reasons given Iven wore were that th Gans Clans was a fakir The Time real reason i according to the fight tight followers was tas that Nelson Is too light lIht a boy to be pitted ag against such a past master as Joe Gans Gaas at any weight where tho time negro cou could come como Into the ring strong The general conviction Is that Gans Cans cannot make malce lower than ringside and amid be strong and that at ringside is liable to sap the life out of him as It did In his lIght fight with Jimmy Britt which Gaits Gans afterwards s declared wa was tas a fake Another famous lI lightweight lIght fight on the same sante questionable le weigh basis was that between lerr Terry McGovern ern and Frank Erne when the latter pulled awa away down below his natural figures In a go which always looked bad to the ring followers Erne was beaten benten nn and McGovern claimed nil all tho the titles going up to and Including the lightweight If such a n. n match atch has been made a as suggested sug sug- ug- ug It Is thought the same peculiar talk will trail and mar It it ft u Vr Very The TIme reported up sign-up Let between the two great little l lighters Is Iser er very ml It says sas that while the time arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- I ments meats ha c not been given to the time pub pub- lie lic as yet yot It can be e stated on the highest highest highest high high- est authority that Jimmy will Ill have ha the han handling of the affair and the time great arena nt at Colma Coima In which Drill went down before beCore tho the battling Dane Dano will be the scene of oC the fight Arrangements Arrangements Arrange c ments m have been beell made for Cor a lI license ense for which Coffroth an and his partners are to ay pay 2 l The m mon men n will light fight at pounds ringside This Ibis Is Nelsons Nelson's fa- fa a- a weight while Gans Cans has hats not gOIl ROMP gone this low In years ears However r. he lie will wiil do 10 tIme the weight without a n CIuc question as N his one ambition for or time the past eighteen months has tins b boon been en to get het Nelson Noison Into a n aring aring ring with him The Time secrecy with which the time snatch match Pins hns been guarded was duo lIuo duoto duoto to 10 tho thio muddled conditions o of or affairs af nr- fairs r on Ih con const coast t. t Battling Nelson Nelon and his manaK manager r. r Billy Nolan after arter n a short hort vl visIt U to 10 Clil- Clil IR eago O loft left for O Ogden n. Llen Utah last laRl night Bior Nelson said ho laid hall no definite bout in view on tho con coast t al- al thought though It looked like Kid lI HermanI Herman I hI will not meet until that little matter aller of or which th they owe V me ne O out there Is cleared up saiu nIL ii looks look now as thou though h Herman would woul be he bethe the lIll next man mait If we can cnn get et a R suitable I 1 will trill give I a number of exhibition l- l tion bouts at Ogden an and other places s. s an and will gradually drift toward San sn Francisco CO I im ama In n splendid ll shape an anIt and It 11 would woul not take me mc long to got get ft into condition Ion for Cor a n. bout t |
