The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-06

Nelson's share, $22, 500.
Cans share, 81, 000
Total paid admissions, 7,491
Total sale Of seats on day Of fight,
Total expenses Of the club. $4,000.
Goldhe1d. New Sept. 6.-The gross re-
ceipts for the Nelson fight amount
ed to 500, us. a record for fstic, contests.
There were 7,491s paid admissions. The
expenses OF the club were $50. 900, count
\ ing the $4,000 given the principals. The
sales on the day of the fight were $40, 600.
This mining camp is comparatively
quiet after the excitement leading up to
! the Labor day exhibition.
Cans was UP town during the day
completing arrangements to leave town
for San Francisco with Ben SeAg. The
| Negroes lips and cheek bones were swol-
lea,. but the most serious effect Of the
contest was 1Joe's injured right hand,
which was puffed up across the back
and evidently gave him some trouble.
Billy Nolan and Cans met for the first
time yesterdayaaf afternoon since they left
the ring. when Joe strolled into an ice
cream .parlor where Nolan was pur-i
chasing some refreshments for some
friends.
They shook hands and by invitation
from Nolan the negro ordered a large ice
cream Soda and drank it at Nelson's
managers expense. Joe took a run on
the road this merning to work off a lit
tie Stiffness the after effects of his long
drawn out scJfiing contest with Nelson.
The colored boy expressed himself as
feeling very Well despite his hurt hand.
He is willing to. meet Nelson in a return
match in six weeks. but Nolan would
not talk on the subject
Nelson stayed close to his quarters
all of yesterday His face was terribly
battered up, and especially the left side.
Nolan has about decided to accept an
invitation to visit the Springs, near
Manhattan. He and Nelson will rest
few days before proceeding to San
Francisco.
A few hours after Cans had left Sner
greeted Nolan cordially. but the Danes
manager gave him a very curt answer.
Nolan was asked later if he. really be-
lieved after q nights sleep the same Is
he declared yesterday that something
had been handed him.
81 certainly do. said Nolan. "Of
course there is no use in making a howl
about 1t now. 1t would not get me
anything. But / know that they turn
cd a trick on ne.c 1 knew efie night be
fore ethe fight. bat Ernever would have
suspected Sileri Dftsf' t youtnUtice how
long he hesitated after Cans fell before
he gave his decision 2 Why did Cans re-
move the aluminium cup he was wear
ing in the twenty-fourth round? He
did it for a purpose. That's ALL"
Nolan is not sure when he viii leave
Goldfeld, as he. wants to settle all his
affairs here especially in regard to the
moving pictures, before leaving. He
said that he had an opportunity. to
open up a theatrical engagement with
Nelson in Kansas City Sunday night.
In answer to the report that he had
instructed Nelson to hit low, Nolan
said:
mo, there is absolutely nothing in
the report. Why, Nelson was as strong
in the forty-second round as he was in
the. fifth. Cans was contenting himself
throughout with loaf1ng and resting
and Nelson finally decided to- do the
same thing. &C Cans was all in at the
time and would not have lasted an
other five rounds L think I have been
jobbed.
You remember my statement to the
press last night, in which I told why I
believed there was a job on foot to give
the fight to Cans. I told you about the
clique of San. Francisco men who came