Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-09-06

: GoLDFiEbD, Sept 4.-Joe Gan
was awarded the ight In ~
} senr-' 40 fort,
ehu round on deliberate fouI h
battling Nelson who must hereat
Ter take back seat in the arena. Tn
: fight was one of the best ever vi,
! messed ~ 9 sporting public Gam
proved the best sssilter from the si--
, but unable to get In a hnee'-
} In the 80 round p -~-out bloy
hand hu' = .ans broke his riet
-" Dravely kept up the fight n,
--s MS left hand for punches and tn
,lsht to ward off blows. Cans wa
lar ahead in matter of points. Al
though Nelson put up surprisjneI,
strong tight and exhibited remarlabh
recuperative powers the minut.,,
rest always refreshing him. Gan.
fought q clean fight, twice ASSISTING
u picking Nelson up from the floor
when he had knocked him down. One
time when one of Cans punches
Knocked Nelson through the ropes
Cans picked him un aud helped him
to HIS feet AS the colored boy stood
with his hands down waiting for Mel
son TO steady himself, the battler
gave vicious blow in the stomach
He was roundly Kissed for this by thu
crowd. Shortly after the forty.second
round commenced the men were In
their usual cinch. Nelson had his
head on Cans shoulder and his arm
down. Several times he hit Cans be-
low the belt, apparently feeling for a
vital spot. AT last he drew back his
right arm and hit Cans blow square
In the groin. The oooi,SSired how sank
to his knees and reeled off his back.
Referee sller without hesitation or.
dered Nelson to his corner and award
ed the fight to Cans on foul. The
decision was received with almost
unanimous appreciation. The FOUL
was so qpYious that not even the men
"fP AAh b'A ph ANtlSDu tOHlu say III /
had not been committed All through !
the contest Nelson mad employed
rough tactics. He repeatedly butted
';@.a5 and had to have his head held
by the referee siler was loudly
cheered as he left the ring, as waa
Cans who was carried to his dressing
room, Nelson and his seconds were
Kissed as they departed. Billy Nolan,
NELSON'S manager, made a statement
in which he said Cans had promised
not TO elaim the decision, and yet he
jumped at the very first opportunity
to make such a claim. All Nelson
would say was that Cans was tired
and quit,
TELLURIDE, Colo, Sept. 4.-The
great Telluride-Silverton series of ball
games ended yesterday afternoon by
Silyerton Winning the last game. Mol
games ever played in the San Juan
elected as much interest and excite
ment here was at fever heat
Only one marring feature. In Sun
days game Slattery called his men
from the field In the fourth inning
when the game was a tie each
Gilbert of Salida was umpiring and
the kick arose over decision which
Slatterly claimed was decidedly wrong
while all Telluride claims Slattery
had no kick coming and that If any-t
thing Telluride had the worst of the
decisions. A runner on second base
was stealing third. The ball was |
thrown to third baseman who was in |
such haste to throw the ball to sec
ond that he failed to wait and touch |
the runner and not being forced |
run the umpire declared the man
safe, also the man on second who
stole first base. When Slattery called |
his men off the field elluride had |
men on second and third bases with |
no one out. The umpire then gave |
the game to Telluride and all local
bets were paid.
bets were paid. The battery for Sill
yerton was Baker and Briefly and for
Telluride Wlgton and Hughes.
The game yesterday morning was
an interesting one. Harden was in
the box for Silverton with Briefly
catcher. Harden pitched fine game
but had poor support. Barr was in
the box for Telluride and In the early
part of the game split his finger and
Wigton had to be substituted. The
score was to l.
The afternoon game was won easily
by Silyerton by score of 10 to 2, nine
of the runs being on errors OF local
team. Barr being out of commission
wigton was put in and having pitch
ed in the morning as well as the dag
before. could not make good and Critz
was placed in the box with poor sue
cess. Baker and Briefly constituted
silverton's battery.
There was large amount Of money