Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-06
COMES INTO HIS
OWN WITH FIGHT
NELSON IN FoRTY-sEcoND
ROUND FOULS HIS OPPONENT
AND LOSES THE FIGHT
Was Climax Of Foul Fighting Followed
BY Dane Throughout-WonderfuI
Endurance and Will Power of Negro
Triumphs in the End.

Dy lame lnFOu9nOut-WOn CSiTul
Endurance and Will Power of Negro
Triumphs in the End.
Goldfeld, New, Sept. 4.-Goldfield
was a vast camp of hero worshippers
last night, and it's hero was Joe Cans,
a negro, the lightweight pugilist cham
pion Of the world.
Cans was awarded the fight on a
foul, a foul that not one of all the
thousands who saw doubted was mali
cibus and deliberate.
= The foul ended a battle that was one
long drawn out tragedy, the tragedy
Of youths defeat by age. For once
youth did not tell. 1t was not battle
OF hands or brains or skill or wonder
full strength. 1t was struggle Of will
with will and in sheer will power the
negro excelled the white boy the I'M
defeated Battling Nelson.
The fight ended in the forty-second
round Both men were weary, but
Cans little the stronger. He was far
ahead of points and had smashed and
cut Nelson at will all through the
fight.
Shortly after the last round COM
menced the men were in their usual
clinch. Nelson had his head on Cans
shoulder and his arm down. Several
times he hit Cans below the belt, ap-
parently feeling for vital spot. At
last he drew back his right arm and
hit Cans vicious blow square in the
groin.
No Doubt Of Final Foul.
FOUL" cried Frank Mcdonald from
Cans corner Look at that Siler!"
Cans turned his head until 1t faced
Mcdonald. Then turned it back until
his eyes we're fixed on Siler's face.
Then an expression of agony distorted
his features, and his body doubled up
and he dropped to the mat.
The fact that 1t was full two Sec
onds after the blow was struck before
Cans went down would have been suff1-
cient to have created great doubt as
to the genuineness of his injury under
ordinary circumstances, but not in this
fight
When the colored boy sank to his
knees and rolled over on his back
ed Nelson to his corner and awarded
Siler's decision received almost I'M
animous approval. The foul was so
obvious that not even men who had
not been committed.
Nelson's Tactics Foul Throughout.
=, Nelson fought foul from beginning
So>end. George Siler might easily have
disqualified Nelson on dozen differ
ent occasions in previous rounds. He
would have been yabundantly justified.
Siler didn't do 1t because he knew the
thousands assembled had paid for a
fight and demanded one. He did what
he said he would do In his statements
before the fight. He repeatedly pulled
Nelson's head away from Cans face
when the Dane was trying to butt Joe
In the mouth and chin, and he repeat
edly warned Nelson to fight fair.
AS long as such tactics apparently
failed to injure Cans, Siler did not In
terfere to stop the fight, but when
Cans was injured, whether seriously
or but slightly, honesty and fairness
demanded that Nelson be disqualified
Afterwards Referee Siler himself
said that while he would not say that
the foul was Intentional, there was nc
doubt but what II had been committed
Nelson, he said, had used his usual
tactics all through the fight, and while
he knew that Nelson was butting
whenever he had an opportunity, he
did not disqualify him for that, be
cause he saw that it was not hurting
Cans, and as no other referee had ever
disqualified Nelson for doing the same
thing. he did not feel like doing it.
Besides, the people were there tc
see the fight and he did not want tc
disappoint them.
The Fight by Rounds.
Round 1-Gans led off with two light
lefts for the face. and they clinched
Nelson received a right on the body
and Cans quickly shot right and left tt
the face He followed 1t with righ
to the face, and Nelson in a mix sho
his right twice to the face and out
boxed his man at every point of thu
game. Cans Jared Nelson with TIVE
rights to the jaw and followed then
with left to the face. After breakin,
from clinch Nelson walloped hi
right hard to the jaw and followed
with left to the same place. Gam
then peppered Nelson's face with twt
hammer rights and lefts to the fac
and jaw, and kept this up until tn
gong rang. Cans went to his corne
with a big lead Blood flowed from
Nelson's ears as he went to his seat
Round Both were up quickly
with Nelson the aggressor. Cans ur
percut twice with right and left, whicl
Jared Nelson on the jaw. He fol
lowed 1t with a straight right to tn
Jaw. Nelson seemed impervious t.
punishment, and came in at all times
Cans measured his distance and tim
and again shot his short arm rights t
the Battler's face. They went to clos
quarters, and Cans uppercut Nelso
twice to the jaw. He chopped Nelso
on the jaw again with stiff rights. Ne
son fought him to clinch and lande
a terrible right to the face. In mi
UP Cans rocked Nelson with two wicl
ed right punches to the face and 70
lowed with short arm jolt to the cal