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Show BAT NELSON FIGHTS BUT FANS PITY HIM Boxing fans who read of the signing sign-ing of Battling Nelson and Freddie Welsh for a twelve-round bout in St. Louis probably blushed at the thought. The old "war horse" has been matched with tho champion for a bout on April 17, and from latest reports re-ports the promoters are going through with the match. Any sensible follower of fisticuffs will agree that the match is a deplorably deplor-ably poor one. It ought to be cancelled. can-celled. It should never have been made. The fact that Welsh accepted it is a discredit to him; and the promoter pro-moter wha has to go to tho old soldier's sol-dier's home for a boxer to pit against a champion is the poorest matchmaker matchmak-er Imaginable. Just because Nelson stopped an opponent op-ponent recently is no reason why ho should be matched with the king of the lightweights to pose as a chopping block. And that is Just what Welsh will make of Nelson any time thoy get Into the ring together. Tho match is nothing more nor less than a discredit to boxing. The humane society should get busy. oo |