The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-11-30
Young COrbett an Utterly
Defeated PugiliSt
VICTOR WAS UNSCARRED
Ten Rounds Of Furious Milling at San
Franeisco--corbett's Hopeless Con-
dition Betokened Utter
Defeat.

San Francisco, Nov. 29-In the great
est fight witnessed between little men
4 in years, Battling" Nelson of Chicago
won tonight from Young Corbett'' OF
Denver in 10 rounds From the tap OF
I the bell until Corbett's seconds threw up
fthe sponge Nelson was master Of the
lsltuatlon at every stage. His infighting
1 was Q revelation and the most brilliant
witnessed in any ring here For the
fiast three rounds Of the fight Corbett
was as helpless as q baby, but he wob-
bled around groggily and gamely until
The repeated calls from around the house
lto stop the fight caused Harry Tuthill
70 enter the ring. The fight was over
and the new man is ia q line to vanquish
Champion Britt
4 The story of the Fight Is simply told.
lCorbett entered the ring at 9s45, almost
lunnotieed. owing to the presence Of a
IgliadY negro whom announcer Billy J0r.
dan introduced as Count Bisrial, cham
pion Graeco- Roman wrestler of the world. !"
Battling Nelson entered fiYe minutes
later.
Although il was not a championship
iaiiair the tense stiffness Of the big house
as the men squared up to each other
showed the interest taken ia the event.
Both men showed extreme caution IN
1.-The first round, there being an evident
taisp0sition to take each Others measure.
Neither showed the slightest nervous
mess
/ IN the second round Nelson went right
lat his man, winning the cheers Of the
house. The milling was fast and Cor
/ bett looked bit dazed, but wore con
i Itemptuous smile. CoTDett was bleeding
( at the nose when he went to his cor
Iner. Nelson surprised the house by his
brilliant inhghting.
/ Corbett was bleeding freely at The end
of the third round. The next two rounds
lshoWed some Of the fastest milling seen
/ in any ring. Nelson continually forced
CoThett to the ropes aud beat him badly
with short arm blows. keep away
from him." continually yelled Corbett's s
seconds They began 70 realize thai
the Chicago Ind was the superior Of the
man who was supposed to be master
at intghting. But Corbett always came
back swift and hard with sways at arms
length. Then the gruelling work Of Mel.
son began to tell. Corbett was between
the ropes three-fourths Of the time. He
repeatedly missed upper cuts and swings
that would have ended the fight at this
stage had they landed
The sixth was furious round which
ended in Nelson's beating Corbett al
over the ring. The house was going
wild Nelson kept up the work until
the seventh, beating Corbett until his
face was streaming with blood. Cor.
bett had but one chance--to Iav for and
land the punch for which he is famous,
but he never got the chance. IN the
eighth, Nelson even outboxed the Dem
yer lad He was all but out when the
be-! rang.
The ninth was terrible round. Cor.
hett withstood blow after blow with
marvellous endurance Keep away"
keep away" ''use judgement" his sec
0nds kept repeating. But Corbett missed
again and again He seemed to lose
Judgment, strength and every qaulity
whieh had formerly gained him fame
The cry Of stop the fight" was yelled
from every part Of tho house, but it
yywas not until the 10th that the butcher
ing ended. Corbett wobbled around the
ring gamely, but was as helpless as d
lame duck. Harry Tuthill then jumped
tiv0 Ahu Aia8 nHA y Stt@s SNAA NtitN UP
from the crowd. The fight was over.
Corbett, bathed in blood, and with a
sickly smile, shook hands with the vie
tor and was then helped out of the
ring Nelson looked strong and was I'M
marked. He received the congratulations
Of scores Of friends who crowded about
him. After posing for the snap shot
he was carried of on the shoulders OF
his friends. The house gave him a ire
mendons ovation.