Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1913 — “BATTLING" NELSON SAYS FAREWELL TO FIGHTS [ARTICLE]

“BATTLING" NELSON SAYS FAREWELL TO FIGHTS

Decision Favoring Wolgast Con- * vinces Former Champion. “Battling" Nelson, for some years the lightweight' champion of the world, was decisively defeated by Ad Wolgast at Milwaukee Monday evening and has decided to make it his final throw of the sponge. The Hegewisch lad said: “Say for me that I am through with the fighting game. I am too old and have lost too much strength and stamina to go up against the good ones of today. I feel as good as I did when I was a champion but after I fight a couple of rounds I am all in.” Bat has a cut lip-and a badly Swollen ear, but aside from these injuries came out of the Milwaukee fight in good shape. He says he never was a party to a fake. He has property at Hegewisch, which he will manage and he will probably train some promising young boxers there and at Hammond.