The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-04-02
DANE HAS never
Been "PUT OUT

( Pittsburg, April 2.--Battling Nelson
lean stin say that he has never been
Knocked senseless in the ring. VOL
CAST beat him until he was unable to
lift his hands. and couldn't even put
him down. Through the whole forty
rounds Nelson stayed on his feet.
Referee Eddie Smith stopped the fight
merely because he feared that the
Dane would be killed.
Nelson was so weak that his mus
4 lcular resistance was all gone. When
Ewolgast landed on Nelson's jaw the
EDane's head bumped about like a
kpunching bag on a string. He could
not set the muscles of his neck to
resist the blows When a man is so
far gone a Touchdown is extremely
dangerous. because in the fall his
fhead strikes heavily against the floor
Technically, of course, so far as all
wagers are concerned wolgast wins
I without a knockout. as the referee is
SNupposed TO have stopped the bout
EonIy when II was impossible for the
tDane to continue. If the police, in
fatead OF the referee, had stopped the
Night. WoIgast would have won on the
referees decision.
The world will wonder more than
ever what kind of stuff this Battling
Nelson is made Of The Battler has
yclaimed for years that he could not
be knocked senseless. Many doctors
have tested and examined him and
have said that he has a "subnormal
gorganism. This means simply that
NELSON'S nerves are less sensitive than
the nerves of the ordinary man, and
Sthst they do not carry a shock to the
brain in the normal way. A blow that
would make any man with a highly
developed and sensitive organism
think the roof had fallen on him would
hardly interest Nelson. At the worst
+! IL would be nothing more than a dull
Tthud.
II the referee had not stepped in Mel
I son. without doubt, would have been
sent TO the floor before FIVE rounds
more had been fought, and would have
been counted out. Unless the violence
of the finishing blow or os the fall ac-
tually killed him he would have been
conscious while the count was going
on. He would only have been too weak
or too badly dazed to get to his feet
again.
Nelson says only four blows received |
IN his whole fighting career actually
hurt him The worst was a punch in
the pit Of the stomach given with
Britt's left hand. That punch left Mel
son unable to draw a breath for sew
eral seconds and doubled over with
pain. Another was a blow over the
kidneys delivered by Joe Cans In their
last night The Dane says the pain of
that blow made him bend backward
and for a moment he was unable to
stand straight. He thought his side
had been crushed in. The third was
Young Corbetts punch that broke his
ribs The fourth was a blow flush on
the nose delivered by Cans.
Look over Nelson's fights. Surely no
other fighter ever received such pun
ishment and lasted through it to fight
alon5 for years. From the first he
was a punching bag In time he did
learn something about blocking. But
ehis style of fighting was always of the
trading kind He was always willing
to leave himself open for a blow IL only
he could land one too. Nelson needed
TO give fifth of the punishment he
received. That was enough Men spent
their strength trying to knock him out,
and then he got them.