The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-19

when the supposed foul happened and
show you just where the men are when
1t comes of.
On comes the picture. Nelson, as
usual. backing Cans around the ring.
Siler. with his hands behind his back,
is leaning over watching them close
ly as Nelson belts away at the tody
with his left. Cans has Nelson's
right hand under his arm and is back
ing around the referee. His other
hand is across the stomach. trying to
block the punches that tho tirelcss
Batt!er is raining upon him.
He backs and backs. and Neil ye!ls
Watch out! Here it comes When
they get near the ropes, watch out!"
Cans has his back bent over. still
boiling Nelson's right. and they near
the ropes. Nelson's back is to Silei
fer Just a second: That is. they Move
around so that the referee is dire.tly
in back OF Nelson. He is punchins
with his left. as he has been doing
Here it is" yells Neil. and you
see Nelson hook it short again. Cans
rolls over on the floor.
Ii the blow was foul am blind 1t
seemed to ME that the punch landed
directly on Cans belt and not q bit
below.
n Nelson stands in the center OF the
ring dumbfounded. There Is ter
rifle uproar. The ring is crowded
with people, seconds are running
around. Cans is carried to his corner
and then the referee declares Cans
the winner.
At the Roof Garden they Kissed the
play. and going out all you hear is
| Nelson.
There is no sorehead spell, nor any
attempt to square Nelson; but | must
say honestly that the pictures are the
biggest surprise that | ever exper-
fenced in my life.
After reading about this fight in the
Geographic reports for weeks about
the terrible walloping Nelson took,
how he was hopelessly outclassed,
how he was laid up in bed from the
| beating, reported dead, Cans didn't
| have a mark. and such rot. l expect
ell to see seine pictures showing the
! Dane simply slaughtered. thought
it would be such a one-sided affair
that 1t would tire you to watch and
want to get outside after a few rounds.
Well-watching the pictures for a
few rounds will almost knock you off
Your chair. Nelson from the moment
the gong rings is after GansA back
ing him around the ring, walloping
With both hands, taking wallops. too,
but never for a moment stopping. In
I! the reports it said that Cans was mur-
dering him.
AS matter of fact Cans did more
blocking and backing away than any
thing else, and If you count the pun
ches you'll see that Nelson lands
about three times to every one that
champion slips over.
1t goes on this way for twenty
rounds. Cans. with his head low
cred, with one hand over his stomach
holding Nelson's other hand as often
as he can get hold of. 1t and backing
away. Very. often he reaches around
and holds both hands. That in itself
doesn't seem to tell us that 1t was
such an awful cinch. Ell?
The western sporting men who love
Nelson as they love leper, said i,
vas slaughter. but then ] guess the
New York sports who saw. it differ
emily last night, must be- blind
guess the pictures were fixed over or
something like that.
At the end of the twentieth round
the lights go up and then the last
six rounds of the battle Cans bangs
Nelson on the jaw and sends him fully
ten feet back. It's such surprise
to see the Dane go back that a biz
oh" goes up and then he is bach
right into it again. He forces Cans
from side to side up to the very last
second of the go. If any one was the
stronger at that moment it was Mel
son.
{. thought from reading the &C
counts OF the battle that Nelson in
tentionally fouled Cans to save him
self from being knocked out.
I II there was low blow struck il
must have been after the fight was
over. Very few in the big audience
last night saw it, and, as the an
nouncer says. IF the referee says SO
it must have BEEN"