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Show I that lie would be at a disadvantage I fighting In an English rlnx. The rules provide for clean breaks and the Bat-I Bat-I tier would bo able to make absolute- lv no headwav under Buch conditions. ! If ho telle the truth now that bo has ! secured the financial terms he was after - he had no Idea of crossing the pond t box Welsh. If Nelson were atked to cboofw? between be-tween Welsh and Wolgast for an opponent op-ponent In this country even he would probably name WolgaBt. Welsh is one of your fly awa.y boxers who keeps Jumping In with' stinging stabs and then 1-opplng out of harm's way. With an opponent of that kind all Nelson can do 1 to eland the gaff and wait till the man In front of him begins to tire. If Ihe other fellow happens to be as well conditioned as the Battler Bat-tler tho outlook Is none too good for the Dane. Wolgast fights the way Nelson fights. He goes close to bis man and becomes busy. Nelson would rather rath-er tackle ft man of that description any dav than a high-stepper like English Eng-lish Freddie Welsh. WOLGAST AND NELSON . FIGHT MUCH ALIKE. The -Sturdy Lightweights Have Same Style of Milling. ( By W. W. Naughton ) " San Francisco, Jan. 13. Just how many theatrical engagements Battling Nelron was compelled to cancel was not made known in his announcement that he would leave for the coast to liegln training for Ad Wolgast, but the chances are that the Dane garnered f very thing worth w hile along tbe foot-light foot-light route before he turned hla thoughts to flgbtlng agalo. I It is satisfactory to learn ut that 1 that Ndooii Is coming direct to San ; Francisco aud that h v.lll lose no 1 time in bcglnnlnc his preparations for his Washington's birthday contest w ith Ad Wolgast. Sometimes these j world champions like to keep tho sporting public guessing as to their Inlentlons, but Nelson apparently la j not of that variety. He 6ays ho 1s go- ; lng to get right into harness without i dHay and the eliancvs are be will be 1 In camp at Millet's before two wcckB have passed. j Before arceptlng the offer of a sum of $12,000 to figure In a championship etcru with Wolgast. the world's champion cham-pion lightweight filrted for awhile with the English matchmakers who wanted him to box Freddie Welsh eithr-r In London town or at some point hi Wales. Nelfon Intimated that ho might accept the English offer, of-fer, but thero was nver the slightest danger of the Battler doing anything of the kind. He simply used the British, Brit-ish, fight handlers as a counter Irritant Irri-tant and by doing so probably secured a bigger certainty In the money line than he would have don if there had been no bids for a Neleon Freddie Welsh fight. Nelson knows better than anybody |
