The evening world., 1911-10-18
Copyright. 1911. by TIE Press Publishing Co.
(The New York World.

Copyright. 1911. BY TIE Pres. Publishing Co.
The New York World.
DAL MOORE Is credited with q deci-
sion over Battling Nelson in their
tweive-round bout IN Boston last
night But the dispatches say that
Nelson was busy as q bee all the way.
shooting In body punches and indulgins
In his favorite style Of infighting.
When Bat was champion no one would
have been seriously disturbed by the
idea that q clever boxer could outpoint
h...i In twelve rounds. He never was a
snort distance lighter. Several good lit
tie men made q very good showing with
Nelson In short bouts. Abe Attell made
him look like a novice IN q six-round
bout down In Philadelphia, and at that
lime Nelson was unquestionably At his
best True. at the end OF the sixth Able
vas all In lie had punched Bat until
he was arm weary. and Bat was stll
tearing after him.. Considering hat Us
. six-round fsht. Attell would have been
entitled TO the decision had any been
rendered. oven though Nelson was much
the stronger OF the two at tho finish.
Attell fought = ffteen-round draw
with Bat in San Francisco. bu. q $4,000
purse wouldn't have induced him to en-
ter = ring with the Dane In a twenty
round contest. Nelson himself always
claimed that he couldn't show his true
hs Ing form unless he could calculate
upon drawing his battle out TO forty
rounds. X necessary. and wearing his
man down. Twenty-Five rounds he con-
sidered ~ short a fght as he cared to
take on. although he did occasionally
knock some good man out In eighteen
or twenty. He knocked Hanlon. Ca
mole and Britt out In eighteen rounds.
Cans In seventeen and twenty-one. Hy-
land In t%wenty-three. or his very few
victories in short fights the most sensa-
,tional were his knockouts OF YOUNG
Corbett In nine and ten. and Corbett
vas already going TO pieces from the
'oects of dissipation.
Still, being outpolnted by Pal Moore
doesn't help Bats waning reputation
very much. or push him baca up the
ladder. In his best days he'd have
outroushed and whipped Moore at least
a. easily as he did Young CorDett
ELSON has arranged a list OF
IN fights covering the next couple
of months. al the rate OF about
one a week. He says that he needs a
lot of work. and that he will surprise
the world by fighting himself back into
tho condition that won him the cham
pionship years ago. Then. he adds.
he'll 20 after the best OF them, and not
before.
Bat will do n lot OF good fighting
still. no doubt; but It IL doubtful that
all the training and conditioning In the
world can restore the llmltless endur-
ance that made him king OF the light
weights when the great Joe Cans was
disputing the throne with him.. Endur-
ance n |recuperative power is the
property o. youth. and once gone-so
the trainers say-it never returns
"HE Boxing Commission IL TO pa ~
upon the Sea Beach Palace Clubs
application for a license this after
noon. The SEQ Beach Palace club Is a
mysterious organization. created. 81 the
common talk has 1t. for the purpose of
pulling OF a Wells-Wolgast bout. Levy
n Mcdonald. Wells's brace of Eng
liSh managers. are supposed to bo inter.
ested in the club. and the bout Is to be
hVA cit ~
moving picture firm has offered 81. %,
for the privilege Of taking and handling
the Aims.
II d esn't seem like exactly the besI
thing for the game to let foreign none,
and foreign interests have "a hand IL
running any New York club. Moreover
the moving picture thing Ia harmful
No matter how the bout comes out, 4
Il IL run for pictures people will sus
pect that It was run entirely for IN,
pictures. and not as a genuine contest
II Ii an obvious fact that the picture
OF a ten-round fight wouldn't be- WORT
81. 900 TO any moving picture concer,
unless the iight lasted ten rounds, o
eight or nine at the least. No doub
any moving picture contract would pro
vide for at least eight or nine rounds
and people who go TO see a comics
don't like TO think that there are string
10 It
q oME has been caused b
the number of applications fc
boxing club licenses. and the nun
Der OF licenses issued. However, this
a matter that will adjust itself in tim
No club will run bouts unless the ga
receipts warrant II, and in a few month
the dead ones" will DO weeded OF
automatically. In any case It Is bett,
for the game TO have a number of sma
clubs running shows. An example
the effect produced by c%ornerng q
fight market was seen during the sho
h.e of the Madison Square Gard,
\. c. The club drew big crowds. al
the smaller clubs were almost fore,
- close their doors. Then the Madts'
only put on big bouts, In time IN
would Kill public Interest IN the gam
for the one thing that really Great
interest IL the developing of local {