Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-11-08

On the night Of October ii Bat
thing Nelson and Antoine La Grave,
tho San Francis 10 lightweight,
fought iftecn-round draw at
Dreamland rink.
II is the opinion of the sporting
writers on the Coast that Nelson
could not come back, that he lacked
the speed and accuracy of his for
mer battles, and La Grave lacked
the stamina that makes fighters.
La Grave had the best of 1t in
weight, tipping at 1856 l-2 pounds,
when the agreement was 1873.
Harry Il. Smith, writing of the
men and the fight in the Chronicle,
says the following:
Nelson missed more frequently
than he did on the day that he lost
his lightweight title; his former nc.
curacy was but mockegy of the
past, his speed was wholly absent,
and he did not appear able to stand
punishment as well as on previous
occasions. lie showed all this form
from the first round, and another
has been added to the long list or
men who have failed when they
thought there was still another
chance for them.
In spite of the failure of Nelson
to make good, as he had predicted,
there is little triumph for La Grave
in his draw decision, a verdict that
would ordinarily elevate him from
the list of the unknowns In the box
ing world TO position where he
might claim match with the cham
pion. Almost any other man than
La Grave would have knocked out
| the former terror from Hegewisch.
La Grave showed not sign of a
punch and he proved in more ways
than one that he isn't built Of the
| material that stands the galf. There
were times last night when IL looked
as If La Grave was willing to cry
quits. Toward the close he was evi.
IDENTIFY lasting out the fight, but he
made a whirlwind finish, carried Nol-
son off his feet and had the Dane
just a slight bit in jeopardy.
Interest, naturally, was centered
chiefly in the showing of Nelson, and
to say that IL was disappointing to
his friends is putting 1t lightly. II
those who saw Nelson in action at
| Richmond concluded that the cham
pion had gone back, there was still
more reason for thinking SO after
last nights performance was over,
lie was far from being the Bat
| tier that we have seen at any time
since he has come into the public
eye. His old-time aggrdssiveness
was manifested, for Nelson has not
lost his courage, but the will to dc
and the shrewd placing of punches
| were minus quantities. Nor can
| Nelson stand punishment AS he was
accustomed to do. lie tired last
night toward the close of the battle
and that was one thing that allowed
La Grave to take the last round by
SO wide margin.
Many of he rounds were fairl!
even. There were several in which
Nelson looked to have his man on
the run, but La Grave had big lead
in the sixth and seventh and came
back strongly in the fifteenth. Thu
Dane did the most punching during
j the fight, but his blows have los'
the force that formerly was in hi
clublike swings, and La Grave die
The most Furnishing. Giving Nelson
the credit due him for being the ag
grcssor, II is quite as Referee Smitl
says, that La Grave met the issu
very often and with telling force,
Early in the second round Nelson
brought blood to La Graves nos
with a left, and the Butchertowl
lad showed that he didn't like l
by backing away. All through tn
fifteen rounds he was bleeding NOR
or less, but none the less he rocke'
Nelson at times with punches to tn
Jaw or uppercuts to the face. TIL
Dane almost entirely abandoned hi
old style of fighting. Very rarel