Show NELSON G fES US s w Of fU iND FIGHTER TER HY nY NELSON VESO Former bt of the world orld sand Hud one ont of ot th time the greatest t r t e ever fr cr h I pd d lido hI n cm ring I liST now T the hosing ame I. I li Ie coming In for n a grant Brent deal d.-a of criticism In fax a aI J JUST I most e every ery r of ur tb the country TJ There rt are arc n a great DIDO ninny nanny people i wi m a that hint the port should lie he d entirely ly should not Dot b be b. I a for fur lIen properly ll In lit the time athletic sport port la In t ti Ih The trouble rouble with the IH tM the fact hat nil hox boxers nI i a. a promo promoter tern nrc putt nut honest The File helter better element nt Is b drastic I e out oat the crook nail the but they haTe hOTe not yet completed complete 1 tl th the I u Some reformers would limit the tho number number number num num- ber of ot rounds and do away with giving SIY- SIY ing log decisions Tho The first Idea has hns some good and some bad points to It PerI Per Per- I believe In finish fights tights But If It we are to save ave tho the sport wo must have plenty plent of ot six eight and ten-round ten bouts When A no title Is at nt stake however how how- ever I belIeve In tho men fighting to toa toa I a a 0 finish where tho man with the most strength 1 strength skill an anti round all-round ability Is certain to como out on top topA A largo Ro majority of or people have the Impression that tho the man with tho the most brute rute strength Is sure suro to win out In a finish fight tight This Is not so If It a fighter has not a a. good knowledge of or self defense e and Is tI fighting t a clever man nan he will be riddled to pieces and forced to go down for or the count before man many rounds have been completed even though he may be one ono of ot the I n I. I th s n. n w. w w Four and five years ears ago there were a great man many moro more high class pugilists than now You can almost count tho the present day a stars on the fingers of ot your hands The second-raters second number about thirty while there are about third- third raters who pick up a n dollar here hero and I there showing at al midnight clubs Jack Johnson appears to have a lIttIe little lit lIt- littie lit lit- tIe tle on every white whito and black heavyweight heavyweight heavy hen weight In the tho countr country Tho The white heavies arc are a poor lot and most of ot them c ul nt have haYe hl had a 3 ghost of ot a chance of or gaming gaining a a. livelihood If It they had been In the game ten years ears ago ngo Some of ot them have haye weight and und bulging muscles but hut that Is about all A weight heavyweight who cant can't flit hit stand punishment cant can't I got cot around l tho th ring with some come I Int at nt speed Is not worth the m name me There are arc a 3 great Teut man many people who ho believe belleY that Sam Langford nl some day defeat Johnson If It Johnson and w wore ro to meet tomorrow I would place my money on the Calveston Galveston Galveston Galves- Galves I ton black but bit If It the tho meeting comes off oft In a year ear or two It mn may bo a different I ft Ever er since Jack won tho the fight at Reno ho he has hns been touring t the world I nn and living like a a. prince Nothing has boe been boen too good for tor him This kind of ot dissipation is sure to tell on a mans man's constitution after aCter n h awhile II o. o It Is more moreo so o truo true of ot a n boxer who must take tako somo hard beatings than It I Is of ot a person In some ume other walk of ot life lite At his best Johnson Isn't much of ot a a. champion lie IIo has never decisively de de- de tented a a. man who amounted to anything anything any any- thing thing- His Ills victor victory Victor over Jeffries was a a. task which coul could have been accomplished accomplished b by almost a dozen men And what glor glory can Jack claim by defeating Tommy Burns never a a. first class m None one at all nil Burns claimed the hea weight title when there was WaB hardly rr tran an In the class worth worthy of ot mention The light heavyweight title rightful belongs to Langford Sam Sarn has hM lie lick ever every err nun man of ot his weight In the w wand wor or and has also g gone ne out of or his class a ax administered red sound thrashings s to ab abc every cry heavyweight who would 1 agree agre meet him 1 Jack OBrien O'Brien was wag the last challen that Sammy sent lent to hi tilt hIs day OBrien O'Brien was a a. groat boxer boxerS hi b hibe be he never was much of ot a hitter The muddle In tho the middleweight d I vision Is 19 the greatest In years e ra Th The Tho I Is not a n man in the class that lo 1001 liko a r rca real 31 champion shi thor shot Ing InS against Sailor Burko Burke In Now T YO Ye was a affair Billy Dilly has e gO gem to nieces pieces One Ono day dav ho he tl ht world-beater world while In In his hla next n bout bo boxes like a n choose cheese champion Frank Klaus Klaus' Is a lL promising yount filer but lacks finish Johnny Thompson Is practically alland all alland J Jand and will never nover become any better B Moha has been coming fast last during U past year and Is likely to upset tl iso 1 men before long In the lightweight class we haT har l funny champion Ills Is Adol I name Adoll I Mici Wolgast Is Jg telling his fj tar far hands what wha t a 3 great man nina Ad WOlgast I Ills His head is swelled to such an exl I that he ho cannot look Jook out of ot tho the I without hitting hitting- tho sash Among the tho featherweights Ab Abe Al Att I should be bo champion for tor several so y yea to come while In the bantamweight I vision there thero Is Js another big muddle wi several men claiming the title Job Coulon looks to bo the logical ch choll chol for tor tho time title though Jimmy TImmy Welsh a mighty goo good 1 bo boy Going GoinS' back I consider 1 tJoe tb Joe Cans Gaas was one of ot the greatest II ligh weights eights that ever pulled on a a. gl glo He was a marvelous boxer boer and all hitter of or no mean ability WI Cans Gans mado and lost a time fortune dm his connection with Ith the ring W Vb the white whito plague claimed Gene Cans th tl was more than one boxer who had him in the ring who said to Wo We have havo lost one ono of or the most moot men In tho the world And a man i w wouldn't pull off oft a dirty trick In o 0 01 to win In Cans Gans came caine In for tor a a. great dI criticism on account of ot tho the S several V 1 I t tl fights In which he was 3 ono of ot the pi pr But Joo Joe cannot be blamed this altogether as ho was b by a a. bunch of or money monet sharks who him In placed carefully traps i |