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Show BATTLING NELSON NOW A BENEDICT Denver Colo. Jan 21. Oscar (Battling) (Bat-tling) Matthew Nelson of HeReswirh. III. and former lightweight champion of the world, and Fay King, cartoon ist for the Denver Post, will be mar j ned January 23. in Hegeswich. a cording to an announcement made bv t thtm Just as they boarded a train fori the fast tonight Despite the announcement an-nouncement it is stated positively, however, by friends of Misu King that she and Nelson were married today before leaving Denver At a local ho-i. ho-i. L v, here Miss King has been living the report Is current that the cere mony has been performed Miss King Bays that for seven years the courtship court-ship has gone on more smoothlv than is usually the case with such true af-fect'.on. af-fect'.on. The wedding. Miss King says will take place next Thursday & the home of the Battler in Hege-wlscfa Hege-wlscfa ill I have kept company with many voting men." said Miss King, as she .stood ou the steps of an eastbound Rock Island train this evening "II 6cems like it had to be. but we only made tip our minds today I ne.r could see any one else than Mr Net son " Battling Nelson is one of th? wealthiest, if not the wealthiest, fighters in the world. He has saved his money and has always been busy. Sn other pugilist has engaged In so many encounters In the same length of tini- When the Battler had a match on he was always willing to stop over en route and pick up a imall piece of change b boxing somebody. Recently he returned from Youngs-town, Youngs-town, O . where the baseball sur geon," Bonesetter Reese, has been fixing his hands The surgeon said Nelson would soon be in fighting condition con-dition again. |