The San Francisco call., 1905-03-01
EX- CHAMPION FEATHER-WEIGHT
SHOWS HIS VITALITY HAS VANISHED
DENuER BOXER IS oUERANx1ous THROUGHOUT Battle
Nelson Maintains
Decided Lead
CIeverly.
BOTH HIT HARD

Battling Nelson gained his second
decisive victory over Young Corbett in
Woodward's Pavilion last night after
one Of the most desperate battles in
the history OF the Queensberry ring.
The fight ended in the ninth round, but
the inevitable outcome was apparent
to the spectators after the fourth
round
IN all the history Of athletics from
ancient times down to the present that
intangible quality called vitality has
played an important part, although it
can neither be seen nor located. Cor
bett presented a splendid muscular ap-
pearance, but the vital spark was gone
and when heavy drains were made on
his nervous energy he fairly collapsed
and made a pitiable showing against
the implacable Dane.
The latter seems more like whalebone
than flesh and blood, blows Of the
hardest kind making no apparent i'm
preston on him. Corbett landed on his
head and jaw and body, but there
never seemed a time when he was the
least bit distressed.
LOST HIS GOODNESS.
Corbett had told his friends he in
tended to fight cleverly, but he cast
discretion to the winds early in the
contest and commenced TO swing Wild
ly, thus playing into Nelson's hands.
Several times he received crushing
rights to the head when he rushed at
Nelson, thus accenting the force of the
blows. COrbett seldom made any at
tempt at guarding, being willing, ap-
parently, at all times to take a blow if
there was a chance of landing one.
The b1ovUc xUhfoh finally andpd ha
unequal contest were not so hard as
many which each man had landed dur
ing the fight. Corbett was in a bad
way early in the ninth round, after
getting a right and left to the head.
Nelson followed this with a hard left
10 the jaw and was pressing Corbett
about the ring. He suddenly caught
COrbett a quick jolly left on the jaw
and with almost lightning like rapidity
he shot over a right. Corbett fell on his
back like log. He was in the middle
Of the ring and it seemed he was COM
pletely knocked out.
He lay there motionless for five sec
Onds and then slowly gathered his
scattered senses and made feeble ef-
forts TO stand up.
BADLY BEATEN.
At the count Of nine, he barely was
on his feet and staggered over TO the
lODSS vi lIlE uOIln sue OIL the ring
and stood there helpless with his hands
at his side. Nelson walked up to-him
slowly and struck him a hard right
10 the head.
Meantime Referee welch, seeing the
helpless condition, was trying to pre-
vent Nelson from Furnishing the de-
feated man unnecessarily The last
blow Nelson struck sent Corbett to the
floor again and Welch led Nelson to
the middle Of the ring and proclaimed
him the victor. In the meantime
Spider Kelly had tossed the sponge in
TO the ring, signifying Corbett's defeat,
but this was an unnecessary precau-
ton. as the fight had been stopped.
After the fight Nelson showed no
marks whatever on his face or body,
while Corbett's face was badly puffed
up from the visitations of the Danes
gloves.
There were several variations from
the recent fights of the two men, as in
this fight Nelson showed a tendency to
hold on in the earlier stages, while Cor
bett apparently tried to butt Nelson
with his head several times.
Nelson lowered his head after a while
and there were some sharp collisions,
but neither man was damaged. In the
eighth round, Referee Welch thought
he saw an inclination on the part of
Corbett to strike Nelson foul blows
lie warned the DenYerlte. and there
was no more trouble on that score.
In the early part of the fight Corbett
kept jabbing at Nelson and would not
let him get set, and it was some time
before Nelson could deliver an ef-
fective blow.
BAD JUDGE OF DISTANCE.
For some reason Corbett proved a
bad judge Of distance Many Of his
swings went wide of the mark Cor
bett fought like a man whose life was
at stake while his vitality lasted. and
even when II was apparent he could
only win by some lucky punch he still
kept trying and trying, but to no avail.
He seemed always to have hopes of
landing a blow on some vital spot, but
there seemed to be no vulnerable place
on the Danes body.
When proceedings opened, Corbett
was the first to get into action. He
feinted at Nelson, who moved about
slowly as IL on pivot. Corbett was
the first to land, sending right to the
body. He followed this with two lefts
to the head and left to the body.
At this early stage of the proceedings
he was obviously anxious to land a de-
cisive blow. He was easily outfeinting
Nelson and his friends felt sure he was
about to regain his lost laurels. The
crowd began to hiss Nelson for his
holding tactics. Nelson's most effective
blow in this round was a left to the
head, which shook up Corbett Corbett
was the first to get into action in the
second round. trying rights and lefts