Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
Nelson-Gans Go Lasted Too
Long For the Moving Pic
ture Machine
ROUNDS MISSING
Nelson's Manager Thinks He Was
Jobbed and That Nelson Did Not
Foul Gans-Prize Fight Receipts
s7s, ooo-Nelson's Seconds Say He
Was Dizzy-FouI Not intentional.


ter the ssth round AS a result the
concluding rounds of the fight will not
be shown in the pictures. The receipts
OF the fight amounted approximately
to $4,000. The number of, spectators
at the, ringside was 1000. This is the
greatest amount of. money taken in a
prize fight in the history of the ring.
In answer to the report that he had
Instructed Nelson to hit low, Nolan
said:
mo, there is nothing to the report
that Nelson was as sire 1g in the forty
second round as in the fifth. Cans
was loafing and resting and Nelson
finally decided, to do The same thing.
Cans was all in and would not have
lasted another five rounds. l think
have been jobbed. believe there was
q job on foot to give the fight to Cans.
i don't make any charges against Siler,
but / know Nelson did not foul Cans
One of Nelson's seconds stated
J, Nelson was dizzy when he was called
for the forty second round, and this
may hav,, had something to do with
fouling Cans.
Goldf1eld, New. sert. 4.-The fight
between Cans and Nelson in this west>
ern mining town last night was the
most remarkable sporting event ever
pulled on. inxthe United States The
merits Of the bout itself were sufficient
to make 1t memorable in ring annals.
But the attendant features were even
more remarkable. Theodore Roosevelt.
Jr. United States Senator George s..
Nixon, Of Nevada, and other persons
OF national prominence were at, the
ringside. More than 200 women were
I In the audience that howled and cheers
ed the bleeding and exhausted fighters
thru the heart breaking grind A tele-
gram was sent to President Roosevelt
from the ringside. He did not respond.
Cans now CONES undisputedly into
the title for. which he has fought for
TWELVE YEARS lie ID Tic sOlACSs VI sAASj
lightweight figllters-lacking only two
months of 80 years--and has fought
more than $50 fights in his struggle for
worlds Championship class. The best
remembered of these was the fake
which he lost to Terry McGoverh at
Z Tatterssll's in 1900. and which put a
quietus on the boxing game in Chica-
go, Neason claimed the championship
after his victory over Jimmy" Britt,
Sept. 8, 1905, during the fight carnival
at Colna, Cal. Cans also had beaten
Britt, and the claims of the rivals sNp>
porters Increased the interest which
preceded the fight to fever heat Cans
sought the contest of yesterday and
content,ad himself with $1,000, of the
purse, while Nelson received $4,000
before The fight.
Cans fought the best battle of his
life and his opponent was worthy Of his
7 years of ring generalship. Nelson
seemed impervious. Cans landed
four blows to Nelson's one, but each
round the Dane would bob up appar>
entity 1ecuperated and ready to force
the fg,nting. Oxfike, he would plunge
into THE negro, butting Cans in the
breast and under the chin and trying
to keep the fighting at close range.
Backing away from his younger ops
popent, Cans would shoot in his blows
with telling effect
Until the thirty-third round Nelson's
strength was gradually oozing away
under this style of fighting. One of
these blows broke a ligament in Cans
right hand and from that time the arm
was. almost useless One of Nelson's
. eyes were closed blood was streaming
from HIS nose, mouth and ears, but
from that time he was able to hold his
own. Cans shot in a few more blows
with his right, and the two men alter
nately clinched and, wrestled around
the ring, landing only an occasional
effective blow with their fast-ebbing
strength.
Nelson started taking punishment
from the first, and blood was dripping
from his ears when he went to his corr
ner at the first call of time. In the
third round smash of the Negroes
fist to the Danes nose caused further
flow Of blood In tie next three rounds
Nelson was bleeding from mouth, nose
and ears, his face was puffed and cut
from the beating he was receiving.
The fighting was decidedly in Cans
favor until ttr9spinth round, when he
started to II eod. The odds were
then two to one in Cans favor, and his
followers looked for speedy victory.
From that time on the predictions of
the tale,n began to fall down. Nelson
seemed to get fresher with each sue
ceeding round and Cans was driven to
the limit of his ring experience to pro-
tact himself from the furious head-on
Iungas of the Dane and his frantic
shor. jabs Nelson's manager was
wildly shouting encouragement from
his corner, and under his cries of Stay
with him, Bat! Blunt him. the Dane
hammered his head again and again
against the black mans breast. Warn
ings and threats of Referee Siler were
UNDECIDED, and he would pull the two
men apart only to have Nelson again
throw himself like a catapault against
his opponent.
THE style of attack worried Cans and
told on his strength. He struggled in
vain to, keep the f1ard-headed boy at
distance. and in the sixteenth went to
his corner with blood streaming from
his mouth from one of the Danes short
right hooks After that Cans seemed
to get his second wind. He came up
smilins, in the seventeenth. and in the
next had Nelson almost TO the mat. In
the next Nelson brought down the
hiAses Of the audience for his buttinS
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