The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-09-04
DELIBERATE FOUL
NOW INDICATED
Guaranteeing Flat Sum Al
lowed Dane to Take
Chances.
COULD NOT LOSE MONEY
Some Other Good Arguments-OpPo-
nents of Champion Seldom
Come Back.
By THOMAS S. RICE.

By THOMAS S. RICE.
Joe Cans is the greatest living
fighter.
Battling Nelson is the greatest living
punching bag-also. judging from APP
pearances, the cheapest and most un>
manly boxer that ever entered ring.
second In these attributes only 10 his
manager. Billy Nolan
AS specimen Of brute strength and
an example OF how much the human
frame can stand. Nelson has made
place in history. As a man willing 20
take the lowest and meanest advantage
OF fair opponent he has also made
place for himself
One Grand Surprise
That Cans would win have always
predicted. That he would require forty.
two rounds TO turn the trick / never
expected and neither did anybody else.
This was surely a surprise for the
prophets Of boxing.
All through the first ten rounds the
reports indicated that Cans was dRht-
ing exactly as he has always done when
ne has won. He was landing the short
hooks and half swings squarely on the
Danes jaw-aud wasn't feazing him "a
bit. Nelson's constant rushing forward
added force 10 these blows and the fact
that the Dane bore this treatment fO-
SO many rounds Is simply astonishing
i doubt whether Joe Grim OF any of the
LcaVyWeIEhts now before the public
coulc have stood the hammering better
or even as Well We must give 10 90
N.+|-.fE rf#- TTRrGII.Fl -EU.UTf U.t'f.
osttlon.
Should Bar Dane.
The methods adopted by the Dane
should Dee enough 20 bar him from future
contests. but should get him q good job
as bouucer I'm 81 barrel house. There Is
every Indication that ne accepted in
s1ructloua from Billy Nolan in the
forty-secoud round and deliberately ANA
vic!ousIy fuUlcd Cans. That he did IL
10 lose the fight Is doubtful. The more
probable explanation is that Nolan rea-
soncd this way:
1t is the biggest fight in years, there
is an $4,000 house present, the whole
world is anxious 10 see il go to an ac-
tual finish. a championship is at stake,
ana SlIer viii not have the nerve 10
give IL 10 Cans ON a foul If he Is in
clined 10 do so we can claim the blow
was an accident. and, as referees have
sometimes done IN such cases, Cans viii
be given a minute or two rest and the
bout will be resumed, but he viii never
get over the effects OF that blow ~ the
groin, and the Battler Will be able %
wear him down. If the worst comes TO
worst, we can put up TIE usual howl
about hard luck, robbed by the ref
cree, etc.
Typical of Nolan.
Thi- course OF reasoning would be
typical OF man Of the type of Nolan, [
who has shown himself at all times
ready to take advantage OF any dirty,
underhand and unsportsmanlike trick, /
and II the true story of that last round
is ever told IL viii be a good bet that
il will be something Ike that printed
here.
That Nelson should submit himself
10 such a plan stamps him as no better I
than his master, and the Odium at /
tached 10 one must go with the other
Evidence of PTemeditatiOn.
There is also every reason 20 believe !
that long before the men entered the I
ring. Nolan and Nelson had figured out /
thar they could do considerable fouling /
witnout being called Tor II. and that /
SUCH LAklltS N0AA4 bt uafA AbA AAAf HA4 I
pose OF weakening Cans and with very
little prospect OF any more severe pun /
ishment than a peevish reprimand from /
SiIer.
Wherefore, Nelson seems to have |
butted Cans al viii. especially when he /
thought he had his opponent going.
With his iron head and rushing. bull /
dog strength these We're not TO be de /
spised. and must have had considerable /
a L
point by reduction below his real
weight.
Tried to Blind Him?
The deduction that Srer would hest /
tate a long time before giving a cham /
pionship on "a foul was accurate. Round 4
after round the Dane drove his thick /
skull against the champion, and the only /
redress Cans had was 10 Try To drive /
him back with his hands and as his |
right hand was broken in the thirty /
third round it can be easily seen what |
a slim chance he had. Ii may be that |
Nolan also remembered that it was |
Through being butted over the eye and /
blinded by the blood from the wound 1
that Cans lost to Frank Erne in the /
first night in New York. Afterward /
Cans fought Erue, then lightweight |
champion OF the world, ana knocked !
him out Ia the first round. He may /
have thought Nelson might have the |
luck 10 do the same thing Erne did I'm I
that first engagement. a manly way
20 try 20 win a fight!
Cans objected to Siler as referee onI
the ground that Sner was too good a /
friend of the Dane. but accepted him 4
finally. Siler seems TO have displayed /
excellent judgment throughout, and to /
have done the right thing in the end /
ia recent years his work in fights i'm I
the middle West has been harshly /
criticised by competent writer's on sew /
eral occasions, but yesterday he showed I
he had returned TO form.
Flat Guarantee Explains It.
In view of the manner I'm which the /
fight terminated the theory that Nolan /
instructed his man TO take all sorts |
OF chances is greatly supported by the 4
fact that no matter which way the de 4
clsIon went the Dane was 10 set 500 900 /
If the purse had been cut on a per-
centage basis he would have thrown /
away thousands Of dollars by his dirty
conduct. but as Il is. he did not lose a /