The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-11

TIC between Terry
AfcGorern and Battling Nelson. Nelson.
We know. is the goods and we all hope
that Terry has come back to his old
time form. Wednesday night will tell tile
story.
have talked about the .ifs" and
and" In this fight 90 much since the
articles were signed. that almost any
thing | con say now viii be repetition.
But man who IL writing flight COS
sip has TO tell what the gossip is. and
the Nelson McGovern fight is certainly
The big show III the fight world to-day
have been reading all l can find on
Terrys training. and unless they have
m awful bunch OF blind boosters out in
New York the little Brooklyn wonder has
come back In astonishing way. The
sport writer's who go up to his training
camp come back and write yards o. as
constituent.
boiling It all down. the general opinion
Of men who have seen Terry busy with
lis training stunts II that he is better
than he ever was before. Now that Is
SAYING a great deal. but they say he is
better because he is bigger and stronger.
If he has his old wallop to spare and he
- coming out of his training IKE
gnungster.
This Is all worry surprising, but on the
hos, authority can fnl 1t Is all true.
Most of us will want to rec IL besbfe VIC
believe II. but that is the WY. these oilfer
fellows felt. and when they saw th'E
seemed to believe.
Now then, assuming that this Is true.
here is no fighter in the world or his
weight who would not have to fight his
hardest 10 beat McGovern. 1t means that
Ferry has an awful wallop speed TO burn
M the canvass and energy and strength
10 spare. That is n pretty fair sized bum
die to handle. and II is allsthe harder 10
ningle with for six rounds.
Nelson's fightng qualities have been SO
thoroughly thresied out and talked over
FOR months that there is not much use
In my taking up space with them. lie
Is a strong, tough fighter that does not
know the meaning OF fear He has-<.
snappy wallop and an aggressive style.
1, takes heavy metal to hurt him, and II
heavy metal gets up against him It will
reach him for he Is nothing of a boxer.
think thats n fair summing up Of the
Dane.
The best bet that can see IN that fight
is TO get somebody to give you odds that
the fight won't end witli7a Knockout. AS
Stunning that both men arc going to do
their hardest to win It don't look possible
that the fight should go ELK rounds.
When you ask me who Will land the
Knockout. have to pass. II + knew ex-
Rctly how much to believe about Terry's
NONufr1ul conultiol i rnisiit iiH1dru d
guess. But all gusscs on the fight rangs
on that point--Is Terry there with the
goods?
1t may seem like an awful break TO
make, but II the Terror has his old
speed and wallop. IL would not surprise
me at all to see him send the champion
to dreamand. This is 4 reversal OF my
last weeks form, but | had not read
villa, these war correspondents from
the East have been sending out when
wrote that letter.
Terry cannot miss the Dane, for he is
better boxer. 1t is simply a question
Of whether he reaches ii hard enough
the jaw. If he doesn't Nelson is apt to
wear him down and finish him in the
last two rounds, and his forcing of tho
action will give him at least an even
break il it goes the limit
Another point in the Danes favor is
that Terry has nearly always met men
who were afraid OF him, The men that
he fought up to the time of lis meeting
with Young Corbett were all told that
II the Battler starts to take everything
Terry would be tired. Tho result was
that they never stayed the six rounds.
because he was over Sthe opposite
corner and handed out hard one before
The man got set Then he had 1t on
him. Corbett WAS told lust the. other
thing. and in that fight it was Terry
who got the hard one on the jaw be-
fore he was ont of his corner.
Terry will not brighten the Dane by
rushing him before he has his hands UP.
Nelson is used to that. He doesn't get
"a the kinks out of himself for several
rounds, and In the meantime he takes
about everything that the other man has.
There Is a point in Terry's favor For
as the Battler starts to take everything
that Terry can send him he may find
that his capacity isn't large enough FOR
the contract.
MY tip is that it will he a great fight
To soc and a poor one to bet on. The
knock out element is too strong on both,
sides. Taking everything in,o conslL-
Grafton from this distance, I think the
chances of battle arc still with the Dane.
While there seems to he no doubt that
nghting will continue unmolested In
Frisco, tho death of young Harry Tcnny,
after his hattie with frankie Nell. Save
tho game a bad black eye. 1t is none
OF my affair to fix the blame for the
lads death; but some one must have
been Responsible and certainly hope
that the responsibility will be fixed and
punishment meted out.
] have always maintained and still do
that there are practically no unavoidable
deaths in tito ring. a perfectly trained
IContlnued on Second Pagc,)