The San Francisco call., 1909-05-30
Great GowdSees Nelson Knock Zand Ohn7 uen Round
DICK GIVEN
HOODO0 in
BATSMITTS
Nelson Writes "23'' in Gloves,
Which HyIand Puts on
by Mistake
By BATTLING NELSON

BY BATTLING NELSON
/ Well, the fight proved that my pre-
! dictions came true. I stated some
/ days ago in my writings that I would
win my fight from seven to fifteen
rounds. but under no conditions would
/ allow it TO go past the old twenty
third. my lucky skidoo round. I I'm
ished Hyland in the twenty-third. and
I 1 look upon this as a great boost for
my predictions
Hyland is very tough little fellow
and must be given credit for the great
stand he made, as he was, to my way
Of seeing it. fighting an uphill bat
tie from first to last. In the twenty
first round l gave the Office for the
moving picture men to keep on grind
1 ing to the finish could see his
number. %, written all over him. I
4 knocked. him down several times in the
last few rounds and must say that he
used some of the gameness which
made me the undisputed lightweight
champion of the world.
FEARED NO KNOCKOUT
1 discovered very early in the bat
tie that 1 could have fought him for
week and blocked all his punches
with my anatomy without suffering a
knockout
There was a funny coincidence be-
fore the battle started. While / was
bandaging my hands. Hyland's man
ager went to the center of the ring
and took his choice of gloves. It is
the common ring etiquette in Cof-
froth's arena to have Sol Levinson
make each fighters gloves to order.
i Sol takes the measure of each fighters
hands a few days in advance of the
battle and gives each fighter a tryon
of three or four pairs of gloves so he
can select the one which suits him
the best. When Hyland tried his
on he penned his name inside of the
glove. When I tried mine on. in
stead of my name 1 applied the magic
2S.
HYLAND GOT HOODOO NUMBER
When l picked up the odd pair of
gloves 1 discovered Hyland had made
mistake and tied my gloves on his
hands securely.
| informed Hyland OF his mistake.
but he was not anxious to change. so
showed him the magic "23'' / had
applied inside my gloves. saying.
You had better take your own gloves
or else l will do the same to you as
II did to Jack Clifford" When I
fought Clifford in Ogden he was
suspicious OF the gloves and thought
that mine were smaller than his He
insisted on having my gloves. OF
course am anything but suspicious
OF hoodoos, so 1 said, Jack, if you
want my gloves you can have them,
but hate to knock you out with your
Town gloves But l did
With Hyland something Like the
same line of conversation came of,
with the exception of the "23" which
l showed him inside the gloves. Il
will have to knock you out with your
own gloves. l will try and do it for
you as quickly as | did for Clifford.
but under no conditions will allow
you to go by round g" And ! did
not.
Hyland is a grand little fellow per-
sonally, as we'll as some fighter. He
fought clean battle, with the excep-
ton of holding more than the rules
allow. OF course he will have TO be
excused for that, as there had been a
certain amount OF excuse IN his
method of battle Outside OF that he
took his punishment like a gamester
and went down with flying colors,
/ fighting to the last notch-yes, and
might say with the last strength he
had IN his makeup.
BOOST FOR WILLIS BRITT
I had my manager, Willis Britt.
come all the way from New York
city TO handle me during the battle
and can truthfully say he IS one OF
the cleverest seconds that ever was III
a lighters corner. Besides Willis I
had my little pal Abe SiNerman, who
came all the way from Hegewisch- my
home town. 10 box with me while
getting in condition. besides my old
I reliable Abdul Hamid, 'sthe Turk
lack Grace OF globe trotting fame,
and little jeff Perry.
had moving pictures taken of the
battle. that IS. of the most important
rounds. showing the large gathering
as we'll as the introductionS at the
ringside. We managed TO get all the
exciting incidents as we'll as the last
three rounds The day was superb
| for moving pictures and they should
turn out equal to the great Britt-Nel-
son pictures, for | tried 10 make il as
interesting for Fighting Dick as well