The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-13
FRANK GOTCH DECIDED
 MAIN EVENT 4 DRAW
NATE JACKSON CARRIED BOUT TO couLoN AND DESERVED
 DECIDED SHADE AT END.

Nate Jackson are good judges O, ban tams. There were others who saw Jackson in action last night on the Auditorium stage who were not from either Oklahoma or the Lone Star state and who with large percent Of the crowd who witne ed the Nate Jackson-Eddie Coulon bout. believed that Jackson had such shade over the Crescent City lad as 10 entitle him to q verdict.
 There was third party in ,he ring however, who thcught otherwise so there you are' He was Frank Gotch. official referee of this main event. and at the end of ten rounds of as fast boxing a.. any one wou care to see, Gotch declared the bout to be a draw No one can question Gotch's sincerity in the matter He gave the decision as he honestly saw it. Frank, how ever, will never be as good a referee as he is a wrestler He allowed the crowd to bother him and time and again got into either argument or con yersation with those holding rings de teate, when some one would direct his attention to the fact that a very i'm porant argument was going on a few feet away from him. Then he would watch CoulCp and Jackson
 This was not on a fast mill for the enthusiasts wlo were present in large and bowling numbers, but it was also one oI the most important matches the Spa has cen in many moons Jackson earned a decided shade and then some. lie carried the bout to COulon fought him all over Jhe ring, took everything Eddie had 10 offer and came back with bound for more. The first three rounds were decidedly even. Jackson earned the fourth and fifth, and Coulon came right back and grabbed the sixth ard seventh There was little to choose between the two boys in the eighth. The ninth frame looked ike it would so to Coilcn in the beginning bat Jackson more than evened matters up toward the finale. The tenth left no room for dodbt It wa.s Jackson's round by a good wide margin.
 New Orleans boxers dominated the program. The preliminary brought out brace Of little fellows from the Crescent City, Battling Younger and Young McGinnis, and the alter plcked Younger away with a K O." in the third round The semifinal was be- tween Battling Schultz CT Louisville and Kid Clrley. also of New Orleans, and this ai ted but part of the first session when the Crescent City boy sunk the German submarine.
 Ringside Notes,
 Next Monday night Pal Moran of New Orleans and Red Do an, also of the Crescent City, will go over the ten round route before Barnsback's club
 The Zulu Kid of Brooklyn, arrived in the Spa yesterday and wa; present ed to the crowd last night. He Chll- lenged the winner of the main event
 Johnny Ertle vii arrive hera lorl lN, Cbhu4HS llblIl d piai' tu'iN-i 4h a. Blue Grass State, wIere he has been resting since injuring one Of his hands
 Mike NcN lty, manager for J cE Malone, the sensational yves, Tn Ii,hr weight, Is on his way to Hot Spring bringing Malone with him. Barnsoa2N has promised him a bout
 It is more than like y that Jackson and Coulon will be re-ma,ched anu the bout staged in the Audit ?, m within the next two or three week. provided either Couon or Jack5on don't take On the Zulu Kid from the City of Churches.
 Immediately after the bou. last night Frank Gotch endeav1red to ex- plain 10 the crowd why ne called the main event a draw, but the audience dec ined to give the former wrestling king hearing.
 Judge Kelley the official an ncnncar, notified the crowd last night that Matt Brock, of Cleveland, wonld probably meet J5nnny Klbane, the champion, in a ten,round se' sion here next month "Jedge' were you kii- ding? Any time you can drag Xii hane ont of Cleve and there will have to he enough coin in sight to flo@ the t lre pean war debt But what ho betW2en Brock and Kilbane