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Show foUUo If Nelson Says Rose Has a Terrific Punch 1 (By Tad.) Now York, Jan. 1C Battling' Nelson Is going on record now as saying that Kalph Rose, the giant shot putter, will bo heard from soon in the squared circle. Rose, as was mentioned on this page, is training to enter the ring and fight Jack Johnson. "You fellows probably laugh at the "idea of Rose boxing, eh?" piped Nelson Nel-son at tho relay races at tho Garden. "Now, I happen to know something about that guy, and If he ever learns to hit, they'll have an awful time stopping stop-ping him. He camo out to ray training train-ing quarters at Colma, when I was utes It got up again. They tell mo JeiT killed a cow with a punch. I'll bet Rose can hit harder than Jeff and Johnson combined." Sounds like a ham to hear Jim Cor-bett Cor-bett tell how he would lick Johnson, but Just the tame we must remember that Jim was the only white man with a reputation who would fight Peter Jrckson wh?n the latter was chasing the other white fellows all over the country. He was only a kid at that time, but be fought the great colored fellow 61 rounds to a stand-still. The fight was to have been to a finish, but it was stopped, and they were Doth all In with weakness. working for my fight with Britt, and, I on the level, he surprised me and all j tho others. He's only a big kid, 23 years old, but say, he's as high up as a house. Oh, what a reach! "He put on the gloves with mo one afternoon, and I can usually get Into enyone of them in the mix, but I might as well have tried to hit the statue of liberty. "Rose just loves to box. He told mo that ho was boxing all of the time In college, but that he hurt his thumbs a lot See, that's it. These big fellows fel-lows go in and slug with one another and hit with tho thumb instead of the knuckles. Rose would break his hands in two rounds unless he was taught to hit right . "He can bump you like a cannon ball with a jab when the going gets hot, and ho slams any old way In order or-der to hit and that is where the bands go bad again. Say, If you think he can't hit, I'll tell you what I saw him do. One of the sports out there that afternoon bet $50 that he couldn't drop a cow with a punch, and Rose took him up. He bound his right hand an inch thick with tape and then put a punching bag glovo on It. We had to tear the glove at that to get it on, and then we went out to the pasture near Millett's road house and hunted a big. burly cow. He took his hat off iiT:d walked up to the cow and belted right between the eyes with his right The cow folded up a Utile, like an ac-corc'lon. ac-corc'lon. shook for a fraction of a second, sec-ond, and tumbled down. Wo thought jt was dead, but after-about five mln- |