The Alaska citizen., 1912-02-12
LIKES NAME OF CHASE

NoHiit hdNh lIlihS ne mas an
other Hal Chase in Roland Chase.
the first Dagger from the high school
team at Orange. y. J. Connie
says the boy is only Il years old.
but fields the position like vet
eran. They told me there was
a fine fielding first baseman laying
around in New Jersey" said the
manager of the worlds champions
When they told me his name was
Chase | concluded that a first
sacker by the name of Chase was
enough to take chance on"
NEW ORLEANS. La, Dec. 81
Battling Nelson won the decision
over Jack Redmond of St. Paul at
the end of a 20-round bout at the
West Side A. c. this afternoon.
The fight was nearly all Red
monds up to the ninth round, when
Nelson opened up. after which there
was little doubt as to the outcome
In the seventh and eighth rounds
Redmond battered Nelson's face al
most at will. hammering his nose
and ears with rights and lefts and
slipping in short jabs TO the stom-
ach that appeared to daze Nelson.
Redmond came back confident at
the beginning Cf the ninth, trying
for knockout, but Nelson took a
brace and shot in a hard right and
then a left to Redmond's stomach.
and rights and lefts to the face
that brought the big crowd TO its
feet
From the ninth until the end Mel
son had Redmond backing away and
hanging on. There was much
clnching and wrestling increasing
toward the close.
Redmond tried to come back in
the twentieth. but Nelson's blows on
his stomach had taken most of the
fight out of him. Nelson then shot
in rights and lefts to the stomach
and ribs repeatedly. Nelson was
| going strong when the final gong
sounded.
Makes Worlds Running Record.
PARIS.-J. BONN, the Colombes
| runner. today covered kilometers,
72l meters (about 6 miles and 80
yards) in 80 minutes. This beats
the worlds record established in
1863 by J. w. White. of England
The nearest American record to
that established by BONN are the
indoor and outdoor emile records
| made by G. V Bonhage, Irish
American A c.. which are respec-
lively 80 minutes, AZ seconds and
81 minutes 5h seconds.
KANSAS CITY, Dec q. - Frank
Gotchs worlds wrestling champion,
defeated Alec Munroe, the English
champion. in straight falls here to-
night. The first fall came in 70
minutes and the second in min
utes ) seconds, each with a half
Nelson and crotch hold.
1t was the easiest match Gotch
has had for several years The
Englishman displayed but scant
knowledge of the game and Gotch.
it seemed TO the spectators, merely
played with him. The champion
secured his first fall by getting
half Nelson while he was raising
Munroe high in the air. Gotch
brought the Englishman down to the
mat and affixing the crotch hold
easily gained the first fall The
second fall was even easier, the
champion still adhering to the sue
cessful hold of the first fall
OF his retirement, Gotch said af-
ter the match:
There was certain brock of
poetic tradition that rambled on for
ever but human flesh doesn't wear
as well as water. | feel that | am
probably better now than ever be-
fore in my career and | want to
quit while | am at my best. l
don't want to continue wrestling.
grow stale and let some foreigner
| beat me-"
Gotch said he thought Mahmout.
| Turk, the greatest of foreign wrest-
lers Paterson, the Dane, he said,
looked next best
Jeffries Little Parable.
It's hard thing to get Jim JEFF
fries to talk fight these days, but
the other day in Los Angeles he
spoke a parable. Il never pre-
sented the heavyweight champion
ship to Marvin Hart" declared Jeff.
When Hart beat Jack Root at Reno
in 1905 the newspapers shook the
thing up and scrambled it with my
retirement from the ring, with the
result that they made it shine like
championship battle. Such an
agreement would have been fool
ish. No champion has the power
or right to give his title to another
man"
1t was discussion over the pres
ent lightweight situation that caused
Jeff to open up and talk fight. Jim