The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-02-24

For downright gameness and ability
to withstand all kinds of punishment,
the some five hundred fans who at
boxing at the Eagles hall last night
voted that Terry Nelson, Philadelph-
ian. who mixed it with Hal Stewart
Hoosier, in the head line act. is in
class all by himself AS an exponent
of the fistic art however these same
fans agree that Nelson was entirely
out of his range in attempting to
tackle duke shark of the calibre of
Hal Stewart, Fort Wayne.
To say that Stewart outclassed the
veteran Terry would be speaking it
gently. Outweighed and outreached,
outfought but no out gained, Terry
had little show with the Fort Wayne
conner. Apparently the heavier of the
two by ten pounds at least and having
a reach that enabled him to hold his
opponent at arms length while the
jabs threatened, Stewart, the younger
man of the two by years and years,
really appeared bored at having to toy
with Nelson for the ten rounds SEIZED
uled.
Nelson Shows Stamina.
But at that fans to the unit agree
that Nelson is one game boy. And
though beaten from the start land he
knew it too) Nelson demonstrated the
fact that although he could be beaten
he couldn't be whipped.
Time and again in the closing min
utes of the argument it appeared that
Stewart would get in his sleeper
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close and managed to cover up or duck
the Fort Wayne boys intended hay
makers.
At the start of the fight, Stewart ap-
peared confident and apparently was
unwilling to start the punishment so
early. Terry Nelson managed to break
fairly even during the first five rounds.
And then Stewart, apparently ready to
retire, opened up. A rapid fire eX-
change of hooks. body blows rocked
Nelson in the sixth. Stewart was be-
ginning to warm to the fight and was
going good by this time.
The seventh and eight were repit-
ions of the sixth. Stewart landed on
the hapless Terrey at will. With the
idea of saving himself till the final
Nelson Rugged his opponent close. In
the clinches Nelson was resorting to
the kidney punch. Bauman warned
Terry several times.
The ninth opened with Stewart driv-
ing in for the curtain wallop. After a
terrific lambasting received at the
hands of the Fort Wayne conner, Mel
son came back with wicked one to
Stewards kidneys. 1t was apparent
that the blow hurt Stewart Referee
Bauman interviewed at this point and
sent Terry to his corner.
The semi-windup. slashing affair
between Happy McHenry, of Lima
and Young Abe Attell, of Cincinnati.
proved interesting the full route of ten
rounds. McHenry appeared the as
gressor and though Attell showed con-
siderable knowledge of the fine points
of the game, outfought his opponent
throughout. Attell quit the ring with
badly mussed ear and lip that wasn't
natural.
In the second bout of the evenings
card. frankie Rogers, who halls from
somewhere out in Pennsylvania, and
Kid Howard, a son of Ohio, put I'D
rafting good six round offering. How
ard started the milling like a house
afire and threatened to harvest a X. @.
in the first session. The gong saved
Frankie however. In the succeeding
chapters Rogers rallied and managed
to get slightly denied fifty-fifty
break -.....
The opening number, slambank af-
fair between Homer Dis, of Boston,
and Jack North, Richmond, two lads
of husky proportions, went four
rounds. There was little bloodshed
and few effective blows landed. Dis
was the aSgressor throughout