Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-04
Nelson Writes Interesting Story for The Georgian Boxing Fans
BATS ) HARDEST BLOWS=GIVEN AND RECEIVED

er can give blow. 1t did not trav-
el four inches, so lost none of its
force in transit.
Canole tried to duck, and the
blow caught him on the back of
the neck. His head sagged for
ward, and he fell on the floor on
his face. unconscious The referee
did not bother to count. They
picked Martin up, and l aided in
reviving him. Jimmy Cofroth
thought his neck had been broken.
Martin tells me the pain lasted for
weeks, and this was the only blow
he ever received in the ring from
which he felt Ill effects.
MY real start against first-c1
1'A men was in a battle against
Art Simms, the dazzling light
weight from Akron, Ohio. We
fought in Milwaukee, January 16.
1904. Simms tabbed my head off
for two rounds, but could not hurt
me. A few months ago Art and
myself had dinner together in Co
lumbus, Ohio. He told me of the
circumstances following full
right-handed swing landed on his
jaw in the third round and which
knocked him out.
"The blow landed about II
o'clock" said Art, "and l didn't
come to until next morning.
was in my room at the hotel.
looked out the window and Won
dered where l was. l thought I
should be in Detroit. Mich.
"'This doesn't look like Detroit,
told my trainers.
"They assured me it was Mil
waukee, and for all that day was
in a daze The blow left its eff
fects for six years, and only re-
Gently have I recovered from the
nervous diseases 1t superinduced."
HE blow with which l knocked
out Joe Cans for the world title,
at Colma, Cal, July 4, 1905 was a
beauty. Cans and were the best
Of friends when poor Joe-and
what real champion he was!-
passed away few years ago. But
at the time Of our battle we were
bitter enemies due to the unsatis-
factory ending of our Goldf1eld
fight. He was a 10 to favorite in
the betting, and nobody, outside of
a few personal friends and far
seeing critics, gave me an outside
chance to win. think that the
only three men on big newspapers
who picked me were Tad, of The
New York Journal; Otto F1oto, of
The Denver Post, and John R. Rob
lnson, my present manager, then
sporting editor Of The Boston
Traveller. And l think sentiment
played large part in their Sc
lection, too.
Anyway, I had gradually worn
Cans down with fearful body pun
ishment, and in the seventeenth
round started out to finish him.
Coming into a clinch. I knew that
the deciding moment was at hand
my left hand to his liver. 1t is the
blow that have made famous-the
left half scissors TO the liver. 1t
simply paralyzes a man. and it nut
Cans down for the count. and took
every atom OF nght out Of him He
was not unconscious. but simplv
could not get up. 1t was fully half
an hour before he was able to
stand erect.
And the peculiar part of the af-
fair is that it was this same blow
with which | knocked Cans out In
Goldf1eld, and which the late
George Siler termed a foul. And If
was just the same blow that | used
on Cans when I knocked him ont
for the third time. 1t is perhaps
the most dangerous blow extant
and l am going to land it on Frank
Whitney when l meet him here at
the Auditorium-A -Armory Wednes-
day night
TUST another paragraph. | have
) made a mistake. said tbe
hardest blow was dealt me by Ca
mole. That is wrong. Cupid Slam
med me the tiercest waIlop I ever
felt. Then l came in for another
smash even harder than the one
Cupid Canole. Corbett, Herrera or
Cams ever delivered 1t happened
a fe" days ago. I'll leave the solu-
ton to your Imagination.