The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-22
BATTLING NELSON
HURT At TIMES
Tells of Injuries Received in
Ring Which Proved
Great Torture.
ORDINARY FIGHT BLOW
IS PASSED UNN0TICED
Canole, COrbett and Cans Are
Only Fighters That Made
Dane Vince.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service
NEW YORK, Nov. 2l.-As IS we'll
known, BAT" Nelson Is writing book
On being asked the other day to give
a sample OF his writing. he dictated the
following:
Being hit In fight doesn't hurt. You
don't have time to think about 1t !
never felt it when I had my nose smashed
by a punch. That's nothing.
II remember two or three times tnat
fght with Martin Canole. That boy could
punch. In the middle OF the aght-l don
remember what round 1t was--Canole
eaSght me right on the tbs iyeF middle Tlih OF
the round. l doubled over and IT hurt
so that I squealed right out. l couIdn 7
quit squeallng. stuck 1t out untA tno
my corner, / sat down all doubled up
and kept on squealipg. couldn't stop
to save my life, When the rest was up
I got on my feet and put nay head down
squealing and groaning yet. | nad my
teeth cienched trying TO hold the groans
In. end I guess had en- awful race
could. aud he didn't know ! was hurt,
so he ran away from me. All the time
/ was groaning through my teeth. put
at him, After about a minute ! could
harder I knocked him out in the eigh-
teenth.
in the fight with Young Corbett. bumped
Corbett on the jaw and he went down
on his back He sat up and looked az
me and stood and oyer nif said aha FSaS pont
try 70 be down from little punch ike
Corbett Is Proud.
"Corbett was an awful proud fel!ow
then. He jumped right up. lie could
swing 'em right from the floor, and he
started his right just as he came up 70
his feet. l was standing back coupe
Of feet with my hands half down laugh
of the ribs. on the left side, here Qeel
"The punch broke my rib square of.
Gee' it hurt all around my stomaG;h: ;n:
1t hurt something terrible, never let
anybody know when I'm. hurt just
builed in to Corbett and kept after him
until knocked him out That busted
rib was the worst Injury l ever got.
fifteen days afterward. I was to have
fought Britt in three weeks would
have fought him the next day with a
busted rib rather than let him get away,
but was glad 10 wait while,
THE next worst hurt was In the Sep
tember 8 night with Cans. Along in the
seventeenth round l got tuFnea ar2Wnd vf,,i
in and put his fist into my kidneys about
q foot, 4 punch in the back hurts as
much as in the pit OF the stomach. That
bump hurt so ] bent over backward
and 1 couldn't straighten up for cou-
pie OF minutes But | went after Cans
all the harder and he didn't know what
an advantage he had for q minute. l
had him buffaloed.
II guess confidence is the great thing
for a flghter. In all my fights | never
chance Of my beins knocked out or beat
en-. always feel dead sure that. III
win and when I'm stung | only think
the other fellow has shot another bolt
and Is just one nearer the time when
he'll fade away.
Cans bumped me hard enough on the
Jaw to knock out any OF the tough ones,
guess. He would just deliberately
pull his right hand back and shoot 1t
over. He hurt me and dazed ME five
or six times In our fights that way, but
only felt dazed for about two Sec
onds.''