The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-14
THE FIGHT BY ROUNDS.
Showing Every Important Blow
Landed in Fight. -
Round /.

They step together and shake hands at
1906 and retire to corner The gong sounds
and they step to center of ring and rush
into clinch and exchange light lefts. Cliff
ford sends right to kidney and then mis-
ses fierce right swing to jaw by an inch.
Bat counters with hard right and misses.
Clinch. Clifford's right to ribs is blocked.
then he lands it. Both jab light TO jaw.
Long clinch. Nelson misses both right
uppercut and left swing. Clinch follows
with light mitigating. Jack misses right
lands right on back of neck as Clifford
slips by. Clinch at call of time. Cliff
fOrd's round because he landed nearly all
the clean blows.
Round 2.
Bat rushes in and they clinch. Clifford
sends short right to ribs. Clifford misses
wild right to kidneys and falls down, he
is up at once and they rush to a clinch.
Both miss quick wild swings. Clifford
gets in two good rights to kidneys. Cliff
ford sends light left to wind and they
clineh. Bat sends left to jaw and Cliff
repeats and they clinch. Bat shoveS his
left to Jacks face. Clifford gets right
to kidney then same to Bats head. They
clinch. Jack gets right to head and they
wrestle about. Clifford slight advantage
in work. but Nelson was forcing a greater
part of time.
Round 3.
JACK IuSil6S III dllu LitN tillltH. Jdth
missed hard uppercut. Nelson sends left
TO jaw and knocked Clifford down, al
though Clifford partly slipped. Jack took
count and as he gets up both rush in and
exchange short arm blows. Jack misses
right to Jaw and hard mitigating follows.
Clifford lands two hard rights and Bat
lands several light punches to face. Cliff
ford lands right on neck and they clinch
and exchange short arm blows with hon
OTIS even. Clifford sends hard right to
wind and they clinch. Clifford refusing to
let go. Nelson began forcing Clifford
backward arO',nd the ring. Clifford land
Nelson continues to force Clifford back
and stops a hard right to the jaw, which
never feazed him. Although Clifford land
ed the most blows this was easily Nell
sons round, as Clifford was very tired.
Round 4.
Nelson jumps in and gets hard right
in his ribs. Long wrestling follows and
Clifford lands two hard rights to Nelson 5
kidneys. Clifford sets himself and
with full force swings right and left to
head and body, but never feazed the
Dane, who was always coming on. Nell
son shoots left to face and Clifford comes
back with both right and left to face, but
didn't stop the Dane Nelson bores in
as if to land knockout. He lands both
right and left, but his blows show his
fast weakening condition They clinch
and Clifford holds on while Nelson
IlBnJS- htIeTtb fuuOChA separates them
and they again clinch. Clifford holding
| and Nelson backing him around the ring.
| This was easily Nelson's round and Cliff
/ ford was very tired.
| Round 5.
/ Bat rushes and receives a right on the
/ kidneys then gets a right on the back
of the neck. Nelson lands right on back
lof the head and Clifford returns right
on the ribs when they clinch. Clifford
| misses swing and Bat sends right to jaw.
/ Clifford gets hard right to Nelson's jaw.
| but never feazeS him and the Dane
| rushes Clifford to the ropes. Clifford get
! ting in two blows as he was forced back
ward. Clifford sends left to Bats jaw
| and comes in head down with right in
/ tended for Bats kidneys. Nelson steps
in with a short right uppercut catching
! Clifford flush on the jaw. Jack goes down
and out and doesn't recover for fully
! thirty seconds.