The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-15

! twice, but was blocked In both attempts. They
| clinched and the referee could not get them to
break Nelson drove two lefts to face, and
| there was the same old cinch. McGovern drove
a left to the Jaw and missed hard right.
| McGovern uppercut with hard right and then
sent right to the jaw. Nelson sent left
to the head and ducked vicious left. Nelson
sent another left to the face, and the men were
| clinched at the gong.
Round 4-McGovern swung wild with his right,
| but drove left to the wind. Nelson sent
| left to the face and then they clinched and
wrestled across the ring. Nelson pounded Nc
| Governs kidneys in the clinch. Nelson sent
! light left to face and McGovern missed swing
for the jaw. Nelson was growing stronger and
McGovern seemed to be weakening. Nelson sent
q hard left and right to the jaw, and Nc
Govern was weak as he went to his corner. 1t
the first round in which there was any real
| fighting. ....--..
| Round 5-McGovern sent left to the head
and Nelson countered with left to the wind
Nelson sent light left to the stomach. Nc
when ordered by the referee. McGovern sent
three lefts to the face, but the blows did not
have any apparent effect on Nelson. When they
broke Nelson drove terrific right to McGov-
erns Jaw which made the Brooklyn boy wobbly.
They clinched, and they. broke away the
Round s-Nelson missed right swing and
they rushed to clnch. McGovern missed q
cut to the wind. Nelson sent light left to the
face, and then missed terrific right for Nc
Governs chin. Nelson drove McGovern into a
neutral corner and landed two hard blows on the
wind. McGovern was almost out when the gong
sounded. 1t was Nelson's fight
McGovern's Statement. .
81 was disappointed in this fight. expected
| to knock Nelson out in less than four rounds,
and still believe that can do 1t If the referee
will do as has been done in all my other fights,
at wsp the ts nsn say
I do not intend to take any credit from Nelson
for he is the toughest man I ever fought. He
Is the hardest to land on. and even when 6
blow is landed at full swing it does not seem
to hurt him. But can hurt him, and will, II
We ever fight again, and l hope that will be
soon. He used his head unfairly, and if the
referee had separated us, as 1 believe III
should have done, could have hit him whel
and where I wanted to hit him, and would
have dropped him, too. Ee Jared me little
in the fifth round, and also in the sixth, but
was in no danger. I knew just where I wa'
. | and what T was doing all the time. &.=e -
"a longer fight will tell the tale. and i
can't come too, soon for me. I have tried on
Nelson's wallop 1t is nothing like Young Cor
belts, and l can whip him In twenty rount
, fight. -e a- ... g. .
,, "There were many stipulations In this fight
but in the next one there will be on but
ting which must be enforced X
5 Battling Nelson's Views. 3
, lone more round and would have had Nc
Govern. He is mine If we ever go further thai
l six rounds and now that 1 know L can do it
i six rounds will be long enough the next time
He is clever fellow and has punch. l fel
two of them. They Jared my head, but all tn
blows he struck did not send me back an incl
e why. was just beginning to fight good whe
:, the end of the sixth round came, and in anothe
= three minutes would have knocked him out.
8 II was neither tired nor hurt at the end of tn
d fight, and Of course l was not In position
s judge we'll of McGovern's condition, but Nola
l. tells that I had him going I thought
n had him going in the fifth and again in th
n SIXTH and tried to put it on him, but he ducke
! the swings and wabbled away from the jabs.
e had him heading to keep from being knocke
. | out. 1 have not scratch on mes : He struc
e ME only two good blows and could stand u
O under twenty such blows and then fight har
5 enough to put him out don't believe he
;. as tough man to beat Britt was. In fac
!. know he is not, and in q twenty round fgl
, will put him away for keeps. 1t may take m
e longer than six rounds. but I don't believe
could knock me out in sixty rounds. r, '...1
''McGovern is q cleverer man than I though
he was, but be is not strong though
$ Except for speed better man than he
e at every point Of fight, and I don't want 4
: take credit from him at that He ia
tough man, but he has not chance with me-