Show I SPORTS I HARDEST TIER HITTER 5 AURELIA The newspaper game has haB fascInated Battling Nelson Having written a hook book and contributed numerous ar articles to help out sport w shy of o copy he jumped at the tho chance or of b red him the tho other day to edit the sport page of oC The Tho Albany Press Pres Knickerbocker Express It was ad adding adding ding to the tho variety of picking up easy money mone on the vaudeville job and th the Battler did a very cr creditable job If one can overlook the tho fact that his stuff showed all the tho symptoms or of developed and time the proneness to ho he reels feels is an Important i for SUccess as n reporter Teporter Ert Ef I Bence latter crops out all over overto I to in his account or of the meet Ing with Aurelia Herrera lu Butte It Is good reading and Is ac republished below helow in my lIne certain great victories are an fought OV over f and Oren again but the things I can most are c certain stood me on my m Bead nead crashed me to LO the tho floor or 01 sent nm m to a doctor to have my shat nl fixed the light I Herreras Kick The hardest hardeg punch t r ever eC I ed cd was l In III Bullo Mont Jont 5 tOr A Herrera the Mexican ll lighter and this tho hardest hitting hilling light weight that gear delivered the blew hIO Ilor era lad liall been out lIi n as f fast si as the club could bet th rr UI i and I was selected as I one ot of the victims iJ I had been beell warned against that t tight rihl hand Herrera had a sort l ft or of a peculiar way of fighting Ho would om a LL you Oll all 11 co covered up UI wIth lil i gloves and e a bows crowd hIs Wl vay neon X you u then thel snap over 01 the tho rIght lUnd hand with nil all his strength lIen who have never l I n knocked down hall had glitch put Pill awn for COl half an hour b by Herrera s wallop and in Butte nullo ho was always s regarded as a sure winner when whon he landed that The Mexican Lands In over every round I was watching that right hand Fi Five times it grazed grazell my chin and I could feel the rush of all air as It whistled around Then sud suddenly suddenly denly as we were coming out of a clInch I felt a terrible le thump on my mr heat head It was not on the Jaw hut but on ont onI t I time the top of the head and I remember going up Into the air ail landing on my back throwing my mr legs Into space and clawing for grass Herrera Henera had landed Eight nino yelled the titan man wIth the big arm and then I suddenly I found myself on my feet falling failing all allover over the rIng and this giant Mexican I now hIgher than Ajax ever oer dreamed of be In chasin chasing me into a corner AL t last a faint faraway tinkle which proved to be the bell and tho round was as over oel Held Had that blow landed on m may jaw I 1 would have been beon In the hospital with half a head bead This ThIE was In the fourth round and Herrera never nevor landed the blow again This same samo round I 1 broke m my left For sixteen rounds I guarded myself wIth ono one hand and laced him with time the I other until the light was gone one front from l I his mind and he was beaten to a PUlp Joe Gans was a great puncher but buthe he could never noor hit like 1110 Herrera Cor Coe bolt boll or Canole Joos Joes blows wore short knockout affairs s and lacked the sting the other othel man man inflicted Terry Torry could hit harder than Joe also 0 He was a great little fell fellow a aT v m T rr and aud I hated haled to light and heat beat hip him at Philadelphia but It was part or the game II In the fourth round of oC this fight I I slipped while coming coining at Torr ferry and I both bolh his hands fl how w out like bullets I and landed ou on my jaw FIrst came cam I the tho right with a terrible jar then the tho loft with a full sw Ing I 1 was oft off offIn I In lily balance and to protect myself n Them rhon I recovered anI and grinned at Terry Torry and came for him again 1 will never noer forget the look 1001 that came oc aver his face Puzzled despairing he seemed featly rendy to got get out of the ring Only his bulldog nature made malic him re 10 remain main Ho seemed to sa say 5 1 hats the use nse Ive Ic landed nw my and hos hes ani only grin Ding at m nio Others go down when I lilt hIt them that wa vay but this fellow laughs They Ther can talk about the punches of Tack lack Daly Dalr and Erne But Bul take It from me that the themen then men who could hurt most and knock out omit quickest W wore fO men I 1 was forced to light fight and amid Corbett I Canole Cans Gan andrer and Terry McGovern |