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Show BATTLING NELSON AFTER WOLGAST (Dy Harry Fl. Smith.) fiattling N'elson has started what the Dane himself is pleased to call a press campaign In the hope of foiciug Ad W'olsa.st Into a return match fir the lightweight championship. N'el- J foil who is a handy writer and pucks around with hlni his own typewriting I machine, has called to his assist anco John H. Robinson, wi.o was manager and press agent for the Hegewixch boy befor e his unhappy light w ith I he Oernian lad in Richmond. Nelson. Is conducting the campaign uhile on tho rad. He interviews himself In the most approved style. In fact, the article is quite ready for the linotype machine by the time It leaves the Dane. Speaking of himself. Nelson writes in the third person as follows: "The Dane, as usual, is cdnfi about the aft'alr In u businesslike manner and believes tfcst a strong campaign f publicity will soon create a demand nn the part of the public which W'ol-gast W'ol-gast cannot afford lo Ignore." Having s.iid which, the Rattler quotes himself and points out in his interview that since winning the title Wolgp.st has fought one battle nn easy ten-round afialr with Jack Redmond, "A god fighter,'" so the boxer box-er press agent says, "but not in the championship running." "We can fight to a fin'sh at Reno, and can get. a barrel of money for it. too," adds Nelson. 'I am now starting start-ing on an automobile trip and will be gone three months. 1 weigh about i loO pounds and have something to train in, a statement I could not make when 1 fought Wolgast lefore." And the best of it is that most of us are hoping Nelson will have the opportunity for a return bout. That donesn't mean necessarily that he will win, but he is entitled to the chance. Rattling Nelson, as a champion, cham-pion, never objected to return matches, aud gave everybody a second sec-ond bout, If it was desired. As the Dane points out. Wolgast has not had a strenuous time as a champion. It Is milte true that the game of pugilism has been fading away the last few months,' but even with lhat in mind. Wolgast has not appeared ap-peared anxious to step Into the ring. s.Can Sharkey "Come Back." Nowadays the eastern writers are grael- discu-ssing the possibility of Tom Sharkey re entering the ring, for the following comes from one of the New York papers: "If Tom Sharkey's training gets him back Into fighting shape again, the sailor can have a lot of fun with the almost fighters who decorate the heav weight class. Imagine Tom Sharkey, as we saw him when he first came ashore from the Phlladedphia, turned loose on Al Kaufman or Lang, or Sandy Ferguson, or Tony Rs, or any of the others! He'd eat 'em alive." Wonder if the lesson that was taught by the Jeffries-Johnson affair has been forgotten. Sharkey, even more than .Jefi'riesfias been living an easy life for some eight years, and could no more come back than could the famous Californian. The reported discovery that Miles Mcl.eod would eventually prove a worthy opponent, for Jack Johnson was good for a laugh, but It Jias now ! reached a point that .Miles should go lo the discard. The Mlssourian who I is heralded as the 'hope of tho white ...race." has leached Chicago and has been given a tryout by Joe Choynski. , Trofessor Joe gives it as his expert i opinion that McLeod Is far from be-; be-; lug an amateur, and that he has the , stuff in him to make a champion. ' ChovnsVi is talking foolishly. Joe : Knows the I -ox lug game well enough . to know lhat a heay weight champion cham-pion isn't groomed In a few weeks or mouths. If there is no heavyweight In training given a chance with Johnson John-son then it would be absurd to re-nard re-nard the outsider in a serious light. We've had enough of McLeod and h's pi eteusious. t |