The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-22

swaying as buck-and-wing dancer. In
the twelfth round again he weathered
a stinglag assortment Oh lifting
punches ana had Cans bleeding FROM
the mouth and covering up.
Cans came back with disturbing
body right in the fourteenth rouc i,
and then came the fifteenth the ban
ner round of the bout for stubborn
ness and fierceness. For awhile a
knockout, with Nelson the victim,
seemed inevitable. His head jerked
from side to side anu Cans frightened
considerably in the belief that he ha |
at last gained the uppe; hand. lie
Dane leaned IN toward Cans ami for
the first time became the party who
was the more eager to clinch. HIS eyes
dulled perceptiblY and his lower lip
HING loosely. He was quick to get to
work again, however. He freed bis
arms and began punching at the b9.lv,
and now it was Cans who held for d
while. An overhander from Nelson
brought the blood in stream from
Cans nose. Cans hauled away f:cin
the clinch and sped two rights in snc-
cession, each blow catching Nelson be-
tween nose and mouth. They leane,.
together again and the blood frcm
each man S face dripped on the other s
shoulder and back. Nelson, the mCio
rugged man of the pair, was the f.
to recover from that savage rally, AID
Cans was tired and bedraggled whaE
the gong called a halt.
For a round or two Nelson was i
more subdued Battler, and Cans by
timely hitting kept the Dane at arr. 5
length. In the eighteenth Cans, white
trying an uppercut, which he probably
thought might bring the thing to a
climax. missed the mark and tire v
himself to the floor.
In the nineteenth Cans did brilliant
work in spots. He smothered Nelson s
attack for while and then, when the
Dane, in his eagerness, left his face
unprotected, Cans ripped in four up
percuts. There. was plenty of strength
behind them, and Nelson s feet were
unsteady for brief season.
That the Battler was ratified was
shown by his tactics. He placed the
heel of his left glove beneath Cans
chin and deliberately pushed the negro
backward to the floor, overbalancing
as he did so and falling by Cans side
The manner in which the two men
arose showed that the Dane was the
fresher of the pair. Cans had to be
almost lifted to his feet by the referee,
who scolded Nelson for his foul work
Nelson made humble apology
Cans opened up the twentieth in a
promising way, but soon weakened. 1t
was hardly possible to make mistake
about Cans condition now. On his
ceuntenance there was look of de-
spair as he cringed and twisted his
body in an effort to avoid the Battler IS
onslaught. The men in Cans corner
kept shouting, Remember, Joe, this
is the twentieth round, - the inference
being that they wanted Joe to hold
himself together at all hazards for
that three minutes spell of battling
and save the money that had been
waged on his ability to stay twenty
rounds.
Cans made but a feeble resistance
in the twenty-frst round. He tried a
weak right upPercut, more for purposes
of intimidation than anything else,
and Nelson blocked it without diff
Guilty. Then Joe dipped in and clineh-
ed, but failed to piniOn the Battler s
arms. The drum of Nelson gloves
upon Cans ribs could be heard all over
the arena, and Cans chin sunk on
Nelson s shoulder. For a second Joe
Strengthened up and pumped upper
cuts into the Battler s face 1t was a
flash in the pan and the last effort on
Cans part. Nelson went at him ham
mer and tongs, and Cans was battered ,
along two sides of the ropes. The
power to guard himself was gone from
Cans now, and he stood STOPPING
against the verge of the ring while
Nelson fogged savagely at the body.
Joe made as though to step to the cen
ter, but he had scarcely got clear of
the ropes when his knees gave way be
meath him and he fell to the floor. The
fight was over and Nelson was still the
champion. ,