The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-26

| ing him. Nelson came out with a
frightful face but looking as if he
could go through another forty rounds.
saw them again the day after the
| fight and if anyone looked like a sub
| ject for the undertaken. it was my
colored friend and not the man from
Copenhagen.
Had Cans fought as much as Mel
son the fight would have been finished
inside of twenty-five rounds. The last
half of the fight may be summed up
like This:
At the start of the round Cans
would lead off with a straight left.
then they would clinch, Nelson doing
all the fighting while Cans with his
head on Nelson's shoulder, would rest
all the round till the last thirty sec
onds when ne would break loose nice
and fresh and put in a few smart Iefts
and rights, getting all the credit while
Nelson got none.
They say that Cans was the fresh
est at the end of the fight This is
very doubtful, but he had all the
chance in the world to be so, for I
believe he rested two out of every
three minutes after the twentieth
round. When Nelson tried to rest a
little, the crowd would yell fight"
DuI when joe SIdI1S SGdIIeu II WAS all ,
right.
The biggest mistake Nelson made
was fighting too much. There were
times when he could have sent Cans
to kingdom come if he had only had
little more strength and not over
exerted himself at the start of the
round.
Another thing-I don't think Nelson
had a good trainer or good men at his
back. This report about Cans break
ing his hand has as much of truth as
most of the other stuff that was foist-
ed upon the public by the Cans peo-
pie. If ever you see the pictures you
will notice that Cans used his right
hand very often after the round in
which he claims to have broken it. A
man with broken hand has as much
use for it in prize-fight as has man
for a broken leg in foot race.
Comparing the Britt-Nelson fight
with the Gans-Nelson scrap, / prefer
the former for the simple reason that
both men fought all the time while
in the latter one man did all the fight
ing and the other man all the resting. |
There was only once that the men had |
a right, good mix-up and I tell you 1t |
was something to make your blood |
thrill. Mr.. Negro didn't know at the |
finish whether he had fallen down a |
mine-shaft or if he had been hit with |
a pile of bricks and he certainly took |
all the care in the world not to try |
another of the same kind.
LIFE IN GOLDFELD.
There is big money in this country |
but no work. The going wages are |
fifty cents an hour or $500 for an
eight-hour day. If man had a |
steady job he could do well but as it is |
it is almost impossible to make your
grub. A man is pretty lucky if he gets |
a day and a halfs work a week.
There are so many who come here
broke, with the idea that they can |
make a pile and who are unable to
get away again that the town is
There is lots of sport here. L saw
one fellow come down the street the |
other night with a couple of six
shooters, driving the crowd in front
of him. That same night l saw a
dozen guns pulled on another man but
he never finched. There is little done
in the fist line here, it is all gun
work and as there is as much chance
of the onlookers getting hit as there
is of the fighters being plugged there
is generally a lively scramble for shell
ter when anything occurs in which
there is the shadow of an excuse for
drawing a gun.