Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03
FEvER|SH THRONGS
AWAIT FIGHT CALL
Cans and Nelson Gr00med for
the Battle of Their
Lives.

GOLDFIELD, New. September Bon the
eve of what should be one Of the greatest
battles In the history Of the fight arena this
mining camp Is fairly rocking with excite
ment. Every shack-walled street is throb-
bling with banquets. smokers or other d.
versions at which wine flows and hot tips
pour out In volumes
Five thousand sport followers, excellent
performers in turning money into ashes,
have been arriving here In trains from all
over the east and west to see the Gans-Nel-
son encounter. Several thousand miners,
prospectors and mine boomers have come
In over the desert trails. They are going to
see a fight. Any attempt to stall 1t would
be dealt with in real wild western fashion.
but there will be no further delay or bick-
erings Thirty thousand dollars IS too hand
some a purse Then both Cans and Nelson
prefer going out under flstic hammering to
being perforated with .44-calfber pellets:
On form the two men look better than
they ever did In their lives. The high alti-
tude and the crisp air, even though 1T gets
furnace hot with the sun in the meridian,
seem to have been a tonic to them. Today
they are looking fit in every way for what
Will be probably the greatest battle of their
lives.
The Goldfeld Athletic Club is coming out
a loser on the fight. Tex Richard, the fight
promoter said last night that $4,000 worth
OF tickets haQ Deem SOlQ. HIS Is uOt lilCiuu-
ing two thousand IS tickets for seats about
the arena that will be sold at the gate. The
ticket agents say they have sold seats to
one hundred women. It Is expected that at
least three hundred women will be present.
Though this Is one of the wooliest corners
of the west, you see none of the picturesque
garb that the literary miners of the past
decade have made famous. In smau
community of millionaires there are many
as Well-dressed men as New York's club
dom can boast Of In the daytime, when the
sun gets in its blaze. coats are dotted and
collars and Heckties abandoned. The women
follow the fashions fast as they drift in
from the east.
Cans is well away the favorite in the
fight. He never looked more like the money
for those who are plunging on him and who
have followed his training day by day. The
betting hung fire until last night, when even
the BARRIERS who shave you at 80 cents
vailing odds Of 10 to 8. In the brokers'
offices there are all sorts OF talk about bets
into the fifty thousands. George Morning
ton, the representative of the Comstocks
out here, says that there Is 200 down
on the fight in real money and as much
more in mining claims
AS has ever been In prize fights. both
men proclaim their ability to finish their
opponent. but neither man will predict that
the knockout will come before the tenth
round. There will be no fake about the
battle unless the Dane or the negro elects
to furnish silent entertainment for Gold
fields lone and busy undertaken.
This is some of the usual anti-battle talk
that Battling Nelson uncorked:
Nolan and I are unable to see where
Cans has It on me, except In cleverness;
and how far Is this going In a finish fight?
They say Cans has a terrible punch in
either hand. and guess he has; but have
stood up and beaten men who can hit hard
err than he, and can do 1t again If Cans
mixes 1t with me will finish him quick.
He cannot take the beating I gave Britt,
for he is not game enough and strong
enough to go such q pace"
The Baltimorean expresses the Same con-
fdence. He calls attention to the fact that
he II faster than Nelson. has . sitter
punch, just a. much endurance and the