The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-28
| F IT'S II E r E
IT'S RIGHT
WHERE ARE MEN
BAT HAS BEATEN?
Once Defeated by Durable
Dane They Never Again
Get Back in Form.

When ". W. Naughton. the veteran
light critic, named Battling Nelson the
Durable Dane he hit the nail on the head
with his usual felicity OF expression and
knowledge of true conditions.
Nelson is durable above all things
Fighters come and go. but Nelson
thriyes on and seems to grow faster ana
better as the months drive by
Beaten by Gans-he lost the decision
anyWay-he is still an idol with the fight
followers, who find in his rugged power
and indomitable courage the true fighting
Qualities that they love to see in a real
fighter.
- Cans stands as the one man between
lightweight division, but waiting 4 few
months more for a chance at the Raitf-
more dusky will hurt Nelson much less
tnan u Will Cans. and that thew vii
meet eventually Is as certain as thst tha
sun rises and sets.
Fighters No Longer.
When one glances over Nelson's re-
ord and studies it for the things ne has
done, 1t Is rather astonishing to noSice
that nearly all the men he has fotaxht
wnetner he has beaten them or not hays
passed into the silent majority OF puEf-
ism; IN other words. they are dead ones
as fighters
There is long list of these fighters
= 80 hoS- OdN u ali the names Iu6t
represent desperate pitched battles in
which the Hegewisch champion fought
only few are still familiar to the pubic
That reads about the ring affairs Of TO
The record book devotes two pages 20
the doings OF Battling Nelson. each line
standing for a separate battle. and yet OF
AL those names, OF all those fighter
only bakers half dozen are still active
in pugilism.
Cans Still Champion.
Cans name stands out at the top. Of
course. Then comes Charley Nesr-y and
George Mesnlic. These boys recently
battled together in Milwaukee,. and II is
curious to note that Nelson Fought them
both within less than a month losing
one OF those famous Miuwaukee decisions
to Neary and winning from Mesmic. Both
Then there are couple OF fights with
Johnny Thompson, who Is hitting a fast
pace on the coast nowadays. Johnny
went down before Nelson in two six
round affairs. one in Chicago and one in
Abe Atten is the other fighter whose
name Is associated with Nelson's and
who is still a prominent factor. Attell,
however, only fought a six-round, no de-
cision contest with Bat in Philadelphia.
All the other fighters who have crossed
the Battler,s path have dropped silently
out Of sight.
They are not ali retired from age. but
the t jimmy jimmy Britt 55,l young Sorbetts Mer-
Herreras, Kid Sulivans Spider Weches.
Arthur Simmses and the scores OF others
have all fallen by the wayside.
The natural question arises. why is
this?
And Naughton's clever catch phrase
comes to mind-the Durable Dane.
Wore Out Fighters.
A fighter that goes through a fight with
Nelson, whether he wins or loses. IS
never the same afterward. To whip Mel
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him out physically and mentally. and
when he is whipped by Nelson he has
been through the most terrific drubbing
that ringster ever tackles.
Nelson is not a knockout fighter. He
does not plan for a punch and watch his
chance to slip il over, like Fitzsimmons
and other famous fighters have done. he
does not chop an antagonist down with
dazing blows to the jaw that set his wits
woolgathering and leave him helpless for
the ten-second poke. Nelson literally tears
his opponents to bits. His terrific BODY
punches Fend at their vital organs and
batter them until they no longer exert
their functions properly and the fighter
Kidneys. liver. heart. stomach, all go I'm
for the process OF pummeling that Nelson
deyotes to the opponents before him, and
onds are counted the fighter goes to his
corner a broken man
Are Broken Men.
Ask Young Corbett, ask Jimmy Britt.
ask any of the men that Nelson has
fought, why they have not fought good
fight since. They viii all tell you that
they have not been the same since they
tackled the Hegewisch battler.
Cans alone seems to have escaped the
fate Of Nelson's other opponents. but
even Cans may not have gone off scot
free, for the only man he has faced since
meeting Nelson was little Kid Herman,
who was giving away chunks of weight
and did not class with Cans at any time
at best.
VIII Cans be able 70 fight Nelson az
well when they clash again as he did be-
foref
Cans does not say but there are plenty
of men who will take up the Nelson end
of the betting when the men meet again.
and among these are Britt, Corbett, Han
lon and many others who have felt tbs
rending power of Nelson's snashes
weeks, months years even. after the bat
tie has ceased to be discussed.
Meanwhile the Durable Dane took all
that was coming his way and finished
fresh. The Doundings he absorbed did not
seem to bother him; they do not seem 70
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