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Show notified his dad that it was time for him to retire. Many a man of better education and more opportunities In vouth hosu'r assayed as much pure gold as Nelson, and when money came j lis way he did not toss It away on the sports and the good frllow.i and the bright fight sycophants. Th whole Nelson family wej declared In on Ratt's prosperity. fn Ifi03 ho removed Jimmy I'.rl't from tbo championship rnnp. The rest of his reeord is ring history. The defeat de-feat at Coldfielfl, the beefstonk flpht vlth HrlU, and the determined uphill up-hill fight which wound up with Nel-f-on the lightweight champion of the v r rid - Ujoso thtPE.s uro known to every ev-ery sporting man In the country. Matt was a Ions time fightlnc hi:; way. to the eleven years ,in-l ho held his title Just 20 months, defending defend-ing It Mx times, and losing It at last to a man without the punch. Ii w;ir a melancholy finish for the fUhier who trimmed all the star walloper' of the lightweight brigade and trlin- i rued them until tney howled for the police. Billy Nolan knew Nelson better than any other man in the business, nr.d Billy used to 6ay: "When this fi How blows up he will be a mark for every third-rate f Ich tcr In the country. When bis stamina goes they will all lick him, because that's, all he ever had." , , We have been greasing up " the hearse for Bat every time he Mnrfed. It was all ready for him at Goldfleld. but he wiggled through that time. He had another mighty close call when he fought Brltt the third tln.'i Had he been knocked out then, th; chances are that he would never have been given another big fight. He btalled through to the finish, helpless, but still on his feet. Even-body Even-body thought it was all over with him when be made the second Gans match, but he amazed the talent by putting away the Old Mooter nn, making clear his title to the lightweight light-weight championship. The wagon was ready for him when he fought Gans t'ne third time. Ga:n was going to train properly and there wouldn't be anything to it. Nelson won again Hyland was going to llc! hliu. Hyland was knocked out, and once more the hearse was trundled back into tho barn. Then came along Adolpb Wolgast a Milwaukee German. This time the hearso wasn't greased up for a trip. W'e all thought Nelson would win that fight, for W'olgast had never Phowu the punch. And Just at tlv NELSON STAVED IN K TOO LONG lime wnen me iignivvcigiu iiwmu i seemed ready to walk aawy with a soft victim, blng! Hears. :perple walking: slowly, crepe on the elbows, good-bye. Nelson. Well, it will be a long time beforo we see another one like Bat. (By C. E Van Loan.1 New York, Match. 22 They all get It If they utay with the game lon enough. It. makes no difference bw pcud thj fighter Is or how much he outclasses his compel II ion. let hlin stay with th5 KTine Ions; enough and he will "come back to the l.unch " J.ist as the (.printer In the Ions race opens tip the pap on the field, to fall back at the head of the stre tch, the chausplon has his time when io Is-out In front, winning along easily, picking up the money with both hands and wonder-. Ing If It can be true that he used to live mi three dollars a week. Then i the first thing lie knows, he gets n buruptng and falls back with the common com-mon herd aatn. Now li's Nelson. The white-haired Danish boy came from nowhere just about six years ago I remember the first lime I er saw the nnme "Battling Nelson" In print. It struck me ns a fine nam for a fighting man. and It was coupled with ;i performance which startled most t the Pacific coar nun. The stranger Nelson had beaten beat-en Spider Welsh In Salt Lake City kimcked hlin out in IC rounds. Spider Weldh was rated as a rattllog god man: that he should be beaten by n unknown seemed almost Incredible. That was In April of 1904. See what Nelpon accomplished In the remaining remain-ing months of that year: In May he knocked out the tough Canoio. In July he knocked out Eddie Ed-die Hanlon, the mop.t popular little fighter the coast ever produced. In September he whaled the demon Mexican. Mex-ican. Aurcllo Hererra. In November Novem-ber he put away Young Corbrit in ten rounds, and in December b- fought 20 rounds with Britt ond was out-pointed, out-pointed, but never outfought. That wa6 a fairly bu.sy j ear four tougi lightweights knocked out, ono beaten on a decision and ono decision deci-sion lost to Jimmy Brltt Hut Nel-ton Nel-ton became one of tho two biz figures fig-ures in the white lightweight division, divi-sion, and the other one waj Jeems Edwards, a Native Son Nelson appealed to popular imagination. imagina-tion. - He couldn't box; he had n: footwork;, he had not learned to do startling press agent stunts he waj a toush. honest Uttle fighter, who never backed away from bis work. NMth the first of the big monev Bat earned he pa 0 tJ, mortgage on hU little home In Hegywlch, und |