The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-03-01
Nelson !: S. SHOULD ! !.
NOT COME BACK
But Recent Defeat May Not
Convince Famous Hege-
u. ~wisch Hero

nattilng Nelson, like all other cham.
, p'ons OF the ring. has met his-was
. going to say Waterloo, but that IA 40
'r'te that we will cut 1t out and say
''nish The undoing Of Bat came at
Point Richmond, across the bay" Of
sah francisco. In. fight that rarely
mas had parallel in the history Of
'he ring, Wolgast was piled with
whisky during the recesses between
me rounds as the bout progressed.
me milwaukee lad fought like q fury
him. ~
But the Dane is not disgraced by the
nekihg ne received. In his thirty.
siStn round his seconds wanted to
/ !nrow up the sponge, to which he OBJ
Jected When Referee Smith ended.
\ tne bout In the fortieth round 1t was
4 mercy. Nelson, the conqueror of Joe
cans. Young Corbett and Terry Nc
severn. was then cropping around the
ring, unable to see. and Wolgast, al
though rife with the lust of conquest
magnanimously restrained from ad-
ninlstering knockout punch.
VIII NO Icy AS8l0y
But Will Battling Nelson try again {?
II Is hard to tell. Fighters are strange
animals. 1t took the loser In the strug-
gle eleven long and weary years to
reach the top and 1t will be awful
nard for him to quit now, especially
With Adolph Wolgast resting on the
top rung of the fistic ladder. Had the
hero Of Hegewisch. fallen before
"Packey" Mcfarland, Freddie Welsh
or any Of the other rainbow chasers
he probably would have discarded his
gloves and retired, but with Wolgast
reaping the golden harvest It will be
a hard matter for Battler's friends
to convince him that he has enough.
Wolgast and Nelson have been bitter
. enemies for two years and 1t Is hard
to bow down before an enemy.
Nelson should quit-should have
quit cold after he defeated Cans for
the championship. Even before he
met Cans, the first time in that men,
orable fight in Goldfield. New, he had
taken more than his allotment of wal
lops. Nelson's entire career In the
ring was one long series Of jolts. He
had enough several years ago, but he
didn't know 1t. Some say that Bat
thing continued to fight because he
w WAS m S.4 a. Msyes; ies HsFs
vested his money carefully and was
not given to entertaining spear toters.
But there was one thing Battling Mel
son liked better than all the money
in the world-the championship.
Should Have Retired Years Ago.
i So 1t is really strange that Nelson
should have continued. He could
have retired with the title after his
victory over Cans and none would
have tried to force him back into the
turmoil of the ring. Now Battling
can 60 down in ring history as q fight
ser who survived more than one hun
Edred battles and never took the fatal
Count. Not a great deal to 60 on-and,
certainly not enough to put him back
on the burlesque circuit. 'e.:- :, So
I Nelson's wealth is estimated at
quarter of a million dollars. He told
D writer that he had that amount safe
" hidden away from the Rockefellers
Ind the Morgans. But his wealth was
harmed at a frightful cost.
1 Battling Nelson may try again. but It
q to be hoped not. If he does he will
all victim of second and third rat
ers. The fight game has got to his
7 nerves. He is one fighter who will
never come back.
As to Ad Wolgast he has the world
before him.