The Alaska citizen., 1910-12-26

and Tor the reason that he had al ways furnished sterling entertain ment to followers of ring events there was no eXultation over his defeat
 Moran had made a study of Nel- son and decided that good stiff body punching would contribute more to the Danes downfall than any de gree of battering around the head or face. The English lightweight cut loose time and again with right swings for a point above Nelson's left hip. Nelson intercepted many of these with his elbow and fore arm, but still a great number of the punches landed. To an onlooker it was hard to tell whether thest smashes were affecting Nelson to any extent or not, but Moran evidently felt that the body blows were of a hurtful nature. for after the first knockdown in the eleventh round he laid on the kidney punch" as he did with rights to the jaw.
 Nelson's Blows Lack Force.
 A straight left jab helped out in Moran's case as much as anything He prodded Nelsons face repeated ly with it. and as a result managed to avoid Nelson's counters.
 After the seventh round Moran lid not exercise his usual caution in iucking Nelson's blows He had al that time that there was very little force behind Nelson's punches. and for that matter the crowd had ar rived at the same conclusion.
 ihpl1t nrly fbiru in oy'r contest to recall Ne'son's other was the steady, aggressive manner in which Nelson kept boring in
 The Battler took for his motto in his early years as a champion
 he words: T never back up," and it can always be said that he went down with his colors nailed to the mast. But even while he forced the pace it was palpable early in the game today that Nelsons aim was bad. He missed times without num- Der, but whether through stiffened arm hinges or poor judgment it is hard to tell One thing that chal lensed denial is that he missed and missed and missed.
 Battler's Endurance Gone.
 Nelson started out as though he purposed fighting more cautiously han usual This was thought to be due to the influence of Gre ggains n his corner and the mention of Greggains recalls the fact that in the days preceding today's match Nel- sons search for a Tommy Ryan or an Alec Greggains to direct his fight was commented upon as a sign of weakness. It was instanced that in his best days all Nelson's con- quests were personally conducted" and the fact that he courted ad- vice from anyone as to how to tackle an opponent was due to i'm paired confidence. He was cautious for few rounds only and then he struck the natural gait He waded in and hooked and jolted indiscrim- inately and all the time he was run ming into jabs and stabs until his face puffed while you looked at it and became streaky and patchy with he blood that flowed from his nos trils and gashed checks ~
 And under it all was the lesson that Nelson was not the marvel of endurance he used to be- He has stood worse battlings than that of to- day and has plugged along in steady legged way until the tide turned, and victory hove in sight. He was palpably tired with half dozen rounds of milling, and by the time the ninth round was finished his defense was of the poorest. The manner in which his head tossed under fire conveyed a strong hint that a knockout was in store for him and that before the fifte enth round was called.
 By W. w. NAUGHTON.
 Cleveland next year will have the champion strikeOut pitcher of the Pacific Coast league in Nean Gregg, Eho famed 356 batsmen in forty eight games. He pitched for tn, champion Portland team. His best one game record of strike outs was August 16. against Oakland, when sixteen famed. Walter Johnson's new major league mark, made this year with the Washington team of he American league, was 312, for which Washington fans presented him a $500 purse.
 The Winnipeg Amateur Athletic association has purchased fifteen acres of ground and will equip 1t as one of the best athletic parks on the continent.
 Mike (Twin) Sullivan claims the ~elterweight boxing championship and announces that he is also ready 10 meet any one at 154 pounds, ring side, for the middleweight title.
 Pitcher Harmon, of the St. Louis Nationals, made things easy for his playmates in a recent exhibition game in Kansas City. Opposing negro team known as the Kansas City giants, he struck out twenty five men, which tops the usually ac- cepted worlds record of nineteen, held by Charley Shields, formerly of Seattle, and Sweeney, the old Provi- dencc pitcher, Johnny King and Iack Wheat, of Brooklyn, were on the team for which Harmon pitched The game was called at the end of the ninth. with the score II. A wild throw was responsible for the one run scored off Harmon Ramsey, who was a famous left handler of the sos, struck out sev- enteen in one game, when four strikes were allowed. It is also claimed that Ramsey struck out nineteen in one game. He had a wonderful drop ball.
 Ad Wolgast Is the most unsatis- factory lightweight champion the ring has had for a long time. Since L@