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Show NELSON TO STAGE HIS OWN FIGHT3 He Will Guarantee Wolgaat $20,000 At Champion's Share, Balllmore. May 16. Battling Nelson is to promote his own fights in the future. Ho announced here yesterday morning that he had practically completed com-pleted arrangements for staging a bl bout between himself and Ad Wol-gast Wol-gast on tho coast la September. Nelson says he knows of an ideal arena, just outside of Frisco, capable . of accommodating 20,000 persons thru be can secure for 2,". per cent of Ibe gross receipts. "I will give $20.00i to Wolgast as his share and deposit it with the stakeholder when the articles arti-cles are signed. Wolgast can make any side bet with me he chooses." said the Battler, "or lie doesn't have to put up a dollar "Of course the lightweight title will be involved, and while I am anxious to regain it, I am also going to pull off this bout as a money making proposition, prop-osition, Although taking all tho chances chanc-es mynelf. I figure we ought to pull a $:.0.000 bouse, which, after giving the arena owners 25 per cent, would leave me $17.500 and, I hope, the title as my share." Nelson professes absolute ronii-dence ronii-dence In his ability to got a license for tho bout |