The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-03
Prize Ring
x0LAN,s BLUFF CALLED.

criticisms of Billy Nolan, George Siler
who referred the Nelson-Gan fight, Is
sued the following statement last
night:
In San Francisco the Nelson-Gan
pictures are advertised: Come and
see Battling Butt Cans, Cans Wallop
Nelson, the Foul" etc. In this city
Billy Nolan is advertising the pictures
at my expense. That is bit of clever
business, SO will let it go at that.
He makes. however, false statements.
and to show that he is am compelled
to ask him to make good. will make
the following bets:
When he arrived in town he posed
for a picture showing that my back
was turned to Cans when the foul
blow was delivered. l will bet him
500 that it was not
He and Nelson stated the blow for
which he was disqualified landed on
the liver and that Nelson jumped back
Immediately after the blow was de-
livered. One hundred dollars that he
did not
Nolan stated l repeatedly separated
the men. One hundred dollars l did
not, and that l did not separate them
at any time during the fight.
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articles of agreement reads: The
referee is not permitted to place his
hands on either of the contestants.
One hundred dollars the original ar
ticles do not so read.
Nolan says repeatedly pulled Nell
sons hair. One hundred dollars that
| did not.
He says he jumped into the ring and
pleaded with me to get doctor: also
that he requested me to get doctor
before. ! had rendered decision.
One hundred dollars on each PROPOSE
ton.
He says after the ninth round the
betting switched in Nelson's favor.
One hundred dollars it did not
He says did not render decision,
until so seconds after the foul blow
was delivered. One hundred dollars
he is wrong.
will bet 500 can convince expert
photographers and jury of press
! representatives that l saw the foul
blow delivered.
All of these bets to go.
All request Is private view of the
pictures before representative newspa-
per men and expert photographers,
with the proviso that the pictures are
run on slowly to be stopped at any
time the jury demands for explanation.
l Will meet Nolan at the Saratoga Ho-
tel at p. m. today and post my money.
Test to take place at 10 o'clock Sun
day morning.
AS to the expert testimony of the
five reputable local referees, who
stated that Cans vomited in the
fifteenth and in the forty-first rounds,
500 that he did not.
! am willing to bet on nv memory
of what happened against Nolan's
memory and his constant view of the
PICTURES. Regarding the foul blow and
the justice of my decision, will say at
least 200 of the best pugilistic writer's
IN the country chronicled the fight and
fully $500 persons saw it, and of these
Nolan and Nelson are the only persons
who say l was wrong. If Nolan does
not accept all of these bets. the con-
troversy, so far as l am concerned.
j.. ended
Shades of Billy Nolan! Somebody
has at last been discovered who agrees
with the Danes manager in saying
that Nelson was jobbed! Johnny Reid,
who managed Bobbie Lundie in the
preliminary and who was in Nelson's
corner at Goldfield, is up at Seattle
dealing out about hundred inter-
views per minute to the effect that
Battling Nelson is as genteel a gen.
tleman as ever donned boxing glove.
Johnny waves eloquent in his praise
OF the Danes actions during the big
Labor Day fight and says that Cans
is responsible for all the unsports-
manlike conduct during the fight.
Johnny must have pair of eyes
that see backward. Probably when
Nelson deliberately spit in Cans eye
and kicked him on the shins and hit
him in the stomach after being helped
on the floor by the negro, Reid threw
the upsidedown focus on his optics and
made himself believe that Cans was
doing the rough work. Reid should be
given diamond-studded gold medal
for faithfulness by Billy Nolan.
Here is part of what Reid says in
one of his many interviews:
Give nine-tenths of the credit in
the whole fighting world to Battling
Nelson, the greatest and gamest fight
er that ever donned a five-ounce glove
He was completely blind in the left
eye from the eighth round on, and
blood was streaming into the other
eye, due to the most palpable foul
ever committed in prize ring. The
foul was made by Cans in the ninth
round, when he deliberately forced
Nelson through the ropes by the
wrestling tactics which he employed
continually throughout the fight. He
then bodily took Nelson by the hair
and bumped his forehead against one
of the hooks used to tighten the can
vas to the foo rof the ring. Some
critics call Nelson a foul fighter, but
this was the first foul committed in
the Gans-Nelson fight.
Now, let me explain the second,
third, fourth and fifth fouls, which
were all committed by Cans In the
eleventh round, after the bell had
rung and Referee Siler had stepped
between the men, Cans stepped to one
side and put stiff right-hand swing
square on Nelson's jaw. What did
Nelson do? He acted like a perfect
gentleman. and said to Cans: BE
careful, Joe; neither of US wants to
win on FOUL"
The prize ring has claimed an I'M
usually large number of victims dur
ing the past year One of the latest
was a fourth-rater, whose death,