The Detroit times., 1910-02-23
BAT OFFERS BONUS
To WOlGAsT FOR
RETURN BOUT
New Champion Offers To Defend
Title Against Any Deserving
Lightweight and Nelson Says
He Qualities.
No Denying. However, That Wolgast
Won His Championship by Put
ung Bat Out. Standing Up

SAN FRANCISCO. FEB. % Bat
Ting Nelson offers $4,000 cash bonus
TO All Wolgast the new lightweight
champion o. The world, Tor return
battle. az any time any place and ma
any conditions when the champion
nay name
Beaten 10 a standsuil 'put out
standing mp. Ia ire toruetn round 81
one uf the greatest battles I'LL tar A.s
tory OF the prize uns iasi nis"'
batting Nelson surrerdered ms ttN
10 new man. and does MOI cum 2!aih
bur he demands that NoIgas, m"Fr
good on his assertion th@t q" t'"
Meet any deserving ngaiN >4sh,
AND those who know Nelson ; WON
dertll record of ~ years are ior'eH
10 admit .hat ne is one oi ,ar Gle
serving
Those VINO saw him so down io de
feat before limm} Britt. after ne h'.u
lost 10 Joe Cans by foul in the i"ftt
second round OF a terrible battle ana
then saw him come back 10 give Cans
the heating OF his life are inclined to
psliere that even with the wonderful
stamina and cleveruess 81 the new
champion Nelson would not be an
easy victim.
wolgast fought for his honors anu
won them honestly
Bat Never Out-Gamed.
From star, to nniSh OF the hour an
ffty-seven minutes OF terrific nghunS
he out-boXed ard cut-generaled nut
never ou5-gamed Nelson. For tr1
rounds before the biood-spattered re-
cree lifted the bloGc-sodden glove O
the new champion there was htt'e
doubt as 10 tn. outcome sun. -
The round before tbs close when kei-
cree Smith stepped between the mn
and asked Nelson il he would stop
the champion. unable 10 speak. sho'h
Ills head slowly. staggered heavi.y
around The refe. ee and hinged again
ST his antagonis: II was tragea:,
hut tragedy Wei zone.
I'm the baths here. with his training
san today. Nels.n l. still almost un'
able TO see or speak Eyes cut an"
swollen, Lose broken, lips puned INTO
nm indefinable mas. he insists tha1
under il all ne is in good condition
gnd the thousands in the ring Woo
saw him stand helpless and almost
unconscious but still facing blow AFTER
how. which scattered blood from MS
tattered face over the ringside seats
know that his nerVc and his nghtin5
qualities are un5roken
Wogast Was Wary.
Wolgas, himself showed apprecla-
ton OF this fact even when ne nad
beaten the champion into a conditloh
oil absolute helplessness Even alle'
the thirty-Gfth rounG. when the Batter
was hardly able 70 hold mp his hands
and could only make blow by sWlns-
ing his whole body with the arm and
glove a dead weight Wolsast steppec
warily away AMI fought as careIuty
as he had in the first round He ~a'
taking no chance.
Others maintain that Nelson :
done. They point 10 the fact that
Wolgast has been out-polnted by DotA
Tommy Murphy and owen Moran, ami
insist that Il he could lose 10 sucn
men in the middle OF his career anu
then beat Nelson decisiyeiy, that Mel
son Is not the man ne once was. Ba-
those who saw the great battle come
to close last night insist that II
MOI that Nelson Is less. but that VOL
gast is more.
And Wolgast is boxer. When
science was demanded he proved tint
he had IL. When the great Dane
roughed IT. Wolgast roughed Il he
bntted and clhchcd and jabbed and
helc and stalled and boxed with equal
ability and as the attack OF the Dane
warranted
Nelson's One Chance.
Only in the twsnty-second round
was he in serious danger and then his
generalship saved him from defeat.