Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1920 — PICKED WINNERS OF THREE BIG MATCHES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PICKED WINNERS OF THREE BIG MATCHES

"Battling” Nelson Is Original “I Told You : Hegewiach Boxer Predicted Johnson Would Defeat Jeffries,, Willard to Win Over Johnson and Demp- ' •oy. to Whip Willard. In the little -but widely advertised town of H*egewisch, HL,. dwells the original "I told you sO” of the fistic world — “Battling?’ Nelson, if you please. , z Bat picked Johnson to -win over Jeffries, Willard to iwin over Johnson and then, right In the face of a sea of Willard admirers, picked Dempsey to defeat the champion. And here is the logic Bat issued on the day previous to the fight while In Toledo waiting for the big quarrel: A “Picked Johnson over Jeffries,,Wil- ( lard over Johnson, and now making it three straight by picking Dempsey over Willard. Dempsey has In his favor youth and eleven years. He is In good condition and Willard is not. He has trained property and WillaM hasn’t He has been fighting regularly and Willard hasn’t Dempsey likes the game, can punch, is-over six feet and weighs nearly two hundred pounds. These are readins enough why the challenger should and will win,” And what the “I told you so” did to the doubtful ones that night tn Toledo after the fight was a sin. To one bird in particular whom Bat begged to “get down” on the challenger Bat sputtered as follows: “Yes, I know all • you. guys say that old Bat is 'crazy. Just like a fox I’m crazy. I feathered. my best on this 1 f

battle and what is more, I’m going to feather my nest on others. Pick ’em? Say, that’s my biggest suit. I don’t pick from the standpoint of faI look ’em over, watch ’em work and then I pick the’ winner. Easy for me, and Still you guys say old Bat is nuts. There’s a lot of fine huts In this country.” /

“Battling" Nelson.