Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-18
DANES BEATING
TECHNICAL ONE
Corbett Says Bat Did Not Re-
cover Fully From First Punch
to Respond to Call.
By James J. Corbett.


ports of the fight published immediately
after the Dane had succumbed to the
prowess of the Britisher. We were led t.
believe that Bat had been knocked cold
and carried to his corner dead to the
world. The ex-champion was made out a
hero OF the last stand sort and was sup
posed to have gone down and out fighting
as only Nelson could until knocked uncon-
scious.
The Battler was beaten. all right and
Moran is entitled to great credit for the
workmanlike manner in which he defeat
ed Nelson, blu. the Dane was not out"
according to the common acceptance OF
the word For ten rounds the fight was
q corker. with Nelson proceeding I'm his
usual aggressive manner. In the eley-
enth round Moran landed a hard right to
Bats jaw. and down went the Hege-
wisch boy nat on his back. During the
round Nelson was floored six times, but
the first knockdown blow seemed to have
done all the damage
Several times Nelson fell from light
punches or was apparently wrestled to
the floor. On one occasion he took ad-
vantage of double count by q little foxy
play. He accomplished this by dropping
back to one knee after having regained
his feet following a knockdown. This
left the Battler open to disqualification.
but the referee did not look at it in that
light and Moran did not claim the foul
Knockout Peculiar One.
II is the ending of the fight that in
terested me particularly. In the pictures
it looked as II the Battler fell the last
time from weakness and after getting up
to his knee watched Referee Selig count
off the fatal ten seconds without making
an effort to get to his feet. Immediately
the referee declared Moran the winner
Nelson rose and wanted to resume hos
ulities. So the knockout, as 1t was called,
far from being out
The question naturally arises, Why
DIDN'T the Dane get to his feet within
the time limit, as he was on his knee long
before the count had ended? Was he SO
dazed that he did not fully realize that he
had been given the full count or was he
unable to hear the referee distinctly, as
many OF his friends contend? 1t is my
eral times that the Dane had not fully
recovered from the effects of the first
punch and was SO daZed from hitting the
hcor so often that he was unable to re-
gameness. but it was rather surprising to
see Bat take the count in this way.
Nelson Aggressive Till End.
The pictures are well worth viewing
and are the clearest and most distinct
L have ever seen Of a boxing contest.
Nelson proved that so far as he could go
re was the aggressive fighter OF old
and was on top OF Moran all the way
until handed the punch on the Jaw in the
eleventh round. While the contest dem
onstrated that the Iron Jaw" cannot
stand the oldtime wallops. the Batter did
not fight like has BEEN" and those
who attempt to bei.ttle Morans victory
by claiming that Bat was a dead one. do
the little Englishman an injustice. Mel
son was not SO good as when he won
the championship, but it took a good boy
to lick him just the same.
Jack Johnson fears he is going 'nutty,
il the champion has been correctly quot
ed, and has had his Uranium examined
not with a fine tooth comb. but with an
X-ray apparatus. Apparently the negro
Is not in serious condition, but the
scare ought to do him some good and
may be the means OF bringing about q
reform in his methods of living.
The examining physicians took the X
ray photo OF the skull to see II there was
any depression that would affect the
brain. The exposure showed an external
indentation, but internally everything
seemed all right. Anyway Jack needed
q little advertising and is given to queer
stunts to accomplish the desired end.
Brain Photography New Fad.
This brain photography is q new one
and may be adopted generally by the
profession now that the champion has
set the fashion. II the system could be
brought into use during the progress OF .
fight it would become popular with the
public. An X-ray of Abe Attelrs think
tank while performing would be worth
looking over, particularly If the bout was
with one of those boys the featherweight
champ was Saving for future use.
It's a pretty soft job nowadays holding
down the heavyweight championship. i
can remember. not so many years back.
when the champion OF the world was
kept busy answering or lodging chal-
lenges. Every big city held some aspir
ing heavy who was anxious to be on the
job and in those days, instead of joking
about the matter. the newspapers recog-
nized the right of the challengers, and as
a result made life miserable for the reign
ing champion. 1t was considered q dull
day when the mail and telegraph did not
contribute their share of challenges from
the other top-notchers. and I'm my day
as champion of the world there were
dozens OF high-class men in the game.
Different Now Than Then.
Look how tho situation has changed.
The present champion is not forced to do
any lodging. On the contrary, he has to
do the challenging. or at least to offer
No white man seems anxious
10 attempt to take the laurels from him.
and the champion does not appear to re-
zard the claims Of the colored aspirants
seriously For a month or two following
Tohnson's victory over Jeffries young fel-
ows sprung up all over the country and
he newspapers were filled with chal-
enges from newly laid white hopes" but
n most instances these were simply ad-
,ertising lodges.
1t Is I'D to some OF us lovers Of the
yame to dig UP a white man to get after
he negro champion. Al Kaufman evil
iently does not want any Of Johnson's
game just at present. or IL he does HIS
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