Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-05
CANS AND NELSON
MAY FIGHT AGAIN
Manager Nolan cIamoring for
Another Chance at
the Title.

| GOLDFIELD. New, September 5.-Al-
ready it begins to look as il there would be
| another fight between Joe Cans and Bat
| Ting Nelson-or "Butting'' Nelson. as he is
| now called. Manager Billy Nolan realizes
that his charge has practically lost his
| value as a drawing card, and this fact has
| caused him to set aside his fear Of Cans
and allow himself to go on record as saying
| that he is anxious to secure a return match
| for Nelson.
Cans, on the other hand. realizing that he
| is the Danes master at every stage of the
| fighting game, announced last night that he
would gladly fight Nelson again The only
condition that Cans will insist upon, and he
is now in a position to do all Of the insist
ing. is that whatever purse Is offered for
the fight shall all go to the winner. The
champion declared that If he had not in
jured his hand in the early twenties he
would have stopped his opponent before the
thirtieth round.
II will go to San Francisco tomorrow or
Friday" said Cans, Ito attend to some
theatrical matters. I don't think there is
anything for me to say about the fight.
Everybody knows now what dirty fight
Nelson fought and. how he constantly en-
deavored to harm me by foul blows.
could have claimed any one of a half dozen
fouls, but wanted to put him out. Every
moment of the fight he cursed and insulted
me, splitting in my face and calling me
But he could not provoke me into losing my
temper.
/ LAS you see. broke one of the small
bones in my right hand. This was in the
| twenty-eighth round 1 believe 1t was the
only reason I failed to put Nelson out be-
| fore he fouled me. Even with my broken
hand would have had him down and on
| the canvas within another four or five
| rounds. He was so far in that he was be-
| coming delirious and talking to himself.
| He had taken more punishment than any
other man l ever fought and his strength
| in going the pace was marvellous.
when you come right down to it, Mel
| son did not fight me- He butted and
wrestled. He fought like a mad bull dog.
Had he stood off and fought 1 would have
ended him in twenty rounds but that Is not
| his style. He is a rough and tumble fight
| err pure and simple, able to endure hundreds
| of blows that would put an ordinary man
| together and take on anybody else who
wants to take on the lightweight champion
Ship
After the fight 1t was announced that the
moving picture films had given out at the
| end of the thirty-eighth round. so that the
| final foul that cut the battle off will not be
| shown.
Nolan, while not as much In evidence as
usual, was about early yesterday giving
! out statements condemning everything and
] everybody, and making the excruciatingly
I idiotic statement that he had been jobbed.
| He said that the fight had been stolen from
| him. and that Nelson had not committed a
| foul The general opinion here is that Mel
| son did not do anything else but foul all
| through the forty-two rounds of the fight.
| Nolan also said that his only ambition now
| Is to get Cans into another match with Mel
| son under the same conditions that gov
/ erned this one. and that he will bend every
| effort to arrange such a match.
| Nolan Still Protesting.
| OF course he will. Who wouldn't? Nolan
| would be bigger fool than he has ever
| shown himself IL he didn't bend every eff
] fort toward arranging such a match" But
I he will have to bend far enough to yield to
Cans demands now. therefore such a match
| Is absolutely certain never to be made un-
| less Cans gives Nolan a dose of his own
medicine and makes the Dane forfeit two
thirds Of the purse, win. lose or draw. But
Joe won't do this Even though he Is black
| in color the negro proved himself to be a
much whittier" sport than either the Dane
or the latter's manager.
Theodore Roosevelt SON of President
Roosevelt. was one of the most enthusiastic
spectators of the fight. He cheered both
fighters. After the battle he said:
Cans plainly was the better fighter, and
II he had been able to go along a little fur
Their he might have knocked out the Dane.
He was doing better fighting than the Dam
ish boy. and at the end he was far ahead
of Nelson as far as staying powers are con-
cerned. The blow that Nelson landed In the
forty-second round was plainly a FOUL