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Show Nelson-Hylaod Fight Will Be a Battle Royal (By C. K. Van Loan ) New York. May 15. The rising young editor, Oscar M. B. Nelson, of llc-gcwisch, 111., Is soon to have a "hawg w-rasslc" with one of his prom- 1 inent subscribers. Long before Mr. Nelson became an editor a tough clt- : lzen named Dick Hyland was on his trail. He sa.v some of Mr. Nelson's' pieces In the paper and seldom agreed ! with them, answering through the columns of the daily press in the attitude atti-tude of Veritas and Constant Reader. The meeting has been arranged and It must go over the Marathon course This may turn out to be a bad piece of editing for Mr. Nelson, for If there j in one thing which suits Hyland down to his stubby Cornish toes It Is a chance to battle until the cows come Lome. It has be?n some time since the young editor has had a real fight. Ills : lust advert Iced appearance was against Joe Cans, the Old Master, and. j as before, he laid Joseph away in the pugilistic morgue. The 6ccond fight with Gans gave Nelson the lightweight light-weight championship of the world; the third light proved that the second one hal not been a fluke. Gans Had Shot His Bolt. Then Joe Gans came to New York, and in a miserable battle with Jabe White proved that whatever he may have been when he fought Nelson tho third time, at present he is no more than a pitiful shadow of the man who was one of tho greatest fighters of the age. "If Joe was no better than this when Nelson beat him, where does Nelson get off?" One thing Is certain: . If Nelson Is to be whipped, a tough, head-to-head mauler, with little or no science, and tho stamina to go the long route, has more chance to trim the champion than a clover man ever had. Clever men' w ere made to order for the hard-headed hard-headed little Dane. The cleverer they -were and the faster they fought him, the sooner came the let-down, tho resulting spurt on Nelson's part, and then the melancholy "eight, nine, you're out!" He fought 'em all the clever men with the punch, the clever clev-er v?en without the punch, and the men who had nothing but the punch and he weathered the whole fleet. This time Nelson is to meet a man who fights exactly the same style ot a battle. Not since he fought Eddie Hanlon has the champion been pitted against the same type of a fighter as himself. Nelson fights with his head down and nltches round the ring with one foot braced behind him. Hy-. land drops his shock head and comes in llkje a llttte bull, working both hands to the body like piston rods. He is not clever; a clever man has never had any trouble in keeping out of Hy land's way and making a mark of him at long range work. Hyland likes the shoulder-to-shoulder work, and In Nelson he meets a man who docs not fight any other way. It would seem that this fight would be one grand executive session from 6tart to finish, and the result will turn upon endurance under severe punishment punish-ment to the body and the stamina which keeps a man on his feet and fighting when every nerve In his body is crying out for rest Both boys like the long route: Neither flinches under un-der punishment, nor has a suspicion of a "streak." |
