The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-12-02
COROtTT is DEBATED.
"BATTLING" NELSON OF CHICAGO
VICTORIOUS OVER THE DEN.
YER FIGHTER.
FIGHT HARD AND FAST ONE
BEATEN PUGlLIST PUT UP GAME
BATTLE FROM THE START
UNTIL THE END.

San Francisco, Nov. 30.-In the
greatest fight witnessed between little
men in years, Battling" Nelson Of
Chicago won from Young Corbett"
of Denver in ten rounds. From the
tap of the gong until Corbett's Sec
onds threw up the sponge Nelson was
master Of the situation at every stage
of the game. His mitigating was a
revelation and the most brilliant wit
messed in any ring here. For the last
three rounds Of the fight Corbett was
as helpless as a baby, but he wobbled
around groggily and gamely, until
the repeated calls from around the
house to stop the fight caused Harry
Tuthill to enter the ring. The fight
was over and the new man is in line
to fight Champion Britt.
The story of the fight is simply told
Corbett entered the ring at 9:45 al
most unnoticed owing to the presence
of a gaudy hued negro whom An
nouncer Billy Jordan introduced as
Count Bisrial, champion Graeco-Ro-
man wrestler of the world.
Battling" Nelson entered five min
utes later.
Although it was not a champion
ship affair, the tense stiffness of the
big house as the men squared up to
each other showed the interest taken
in the event.
Both men showed extreme caution
in the first round, there being an evil
dent disposition to take each others
measure. Neither showed the slight
est nervousness.
Went Right at His Man.
In the second round Nelson went
right at his man, winning the cheers of
the house. The milling was fast and
Corbett looked bit daZed but wrote a
contemptuous smile. Corbett was
bleeding at the nose when he went to
his corner. Nelson surprised the
house by his brilliant ih-fighting.
Corbett was bleeding freely at the
end of the third round The next two
rounds showed some of the fastest
milling seen in any ring. Nelson con-
tinually forced Corbett to the ropes
and beat him badly with short-arm
blows. Keep away from him" con-
tinually yelled Corbett's seconds. They
began to realize that the Chicago lad
was the superior of the man who was
supposed to be master at in-ighting,
but Corbett always came back swift
and hard when away at arms length.
Then the gruelling work of Nelson
began to tell Corbett was between
the ropes three-fourths of the time.
He repeatedly missed uppercuts and
swings that would have ended the
fight at this stage had they landed.
The sixth was a furious round which
ended in Nelson beating Corbett all
tho RING Tho hnncn Wy OBI O.
wild. Nelson kept up the work in the
seventh. beating Corbett until his face
was streaming with blood. Corbett
had but one chance-to lay for and
land the punch for which he is famous,
but he never got the chance. In the
eighth Nelson even outboxed the Den
yer lad, who was all but out when the
bell rang.
The Ninth Terrible Round.
The ninth was terrible round. Cor
bett withstood blow after blow with
marvellous endurance. Keep away,
keep away; use Judgment" his Sec
onds kept repeating. But Corbett
missed again and again. He seemed
to lose judgment, strength and every
quality which had formerly gained
him fame.
The cry of stop the fight" was
yelled from every part of the house,
but it was not until the tenth that the
butchering ended. Corbett wobbled
around the ring gamely. but was as
helpless as lame duck. Harry Tut
hill then jumped into the ring and a
great yell went up from the crowd.
The fight was over
Corbett, bathed in blood and with a
sickly smile shook hands with the