Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-06
||;BIT1l|NG NELSON PAYS
GREAT TRIBUTE TO CANS
j ]. !Eogmer Lightweight Champion Calls
s.Negro Fighter Best of Them All
In His Division.
HAD .aNpIAN SIGN" on HIM
ting Title Went To Wolgast in 1910
rs When Nelson Fcigncd He Was
y, Groggy, and Referee Ed. Smith
- Gave Decision to Ad
by JAMES J. connETr.

'sa:'NEw YORK July 5.-'..Ioe cans was
the greatest lightweight that ever lived
and don't let anyone tell you other
wise, declares Battling Nelson, who
Tines and knocked him out twice.
' ,.s5,n- YOU YOU, didn't have any trouble
- That's true, answered the former
!. king of lightwcights. but there were
reasons l had the Indian sign on that
!. boy. He could lick every other man in
y. the world but lac couldn', do il 10 me.
Every fighter has such a rival; man
WHO Is inferior TO himself. vet the
start.
Terry McGovcrn was a better all
Corbe,t knocked Terry kicking both
times. Jim Couey was an infinitely
better man than Frank Moran, Yet
Moran whipped him in each start. Ring
great fighters went down 10 defeat be-
TORE poorer men who somehow or other
mad their number
Gould Not Overcome Nelson.
Sst :Gans could whip every man ]
!. whipped about ten times faster than
II did. He could have gone against
some whc gave me awful bcatings and
shocked them Kicking III round
Two with one hand tied behind his back.
!; But he couldn't get me.
s,S-: 1.-The records show that Cans won
.sI906, in the forty second round
-. But the real truth is that Knocked
yf9ut Cans as fairly in that fight as
September 3. 1909 when | gave him "a
return match. used the Very same
lett BODY punch i'll 1909 when the
!. referee disqualified me "a l did in my
winning tight three years later. But
1 1oSs little Joe 60, away with, it in
Lsoe, even though the wallop landed
high up on the body.
Cans knew more about tho science
of fighting than all the men | met
put toEether lie was master ring
dam 49,, 80
the game. His footwork was mar
Vicious his speed bewilderinG. his stock
of tricks ineNhaustible and he was
game TO the core
80 Hit With Grent Power.
AND Cans could hit, oh, boy. how
asboSer. but he packed power in either
hand-that only one lightweight since
u began. has eclipsed. And the hoy
~ TsWno couIc drive harder than Cans was
s.Amelio. Herrera, the, Mexican who be
ganr,lnocking the boys cold in lS9S
IA IL ard nd. fadea from the ring ten years
Eae5s aHerrera hit like a heavyweight lie
= t~@as the greatest knock 'em dead artist
the lightweight ranks ever produced.
= outs And practically all of them were
I. scored win the pile driver right hand
r. OF his. felt ii once, and ! never liked
/, TO think about 1t afterward.
i Butte. Mont. when the Mexican was
~ second or third round he drew me
a. into range. and that right-hander hit
y me on the forehead. | went over back
v wards, and in SO doing my head crashed
~ against the floor with an awful bump
,..The crowd began leaving. II figured
stSthe fight was over, for no man that
ever had dropped got back 10
- mis- feet again before ten was sounded
sS,.,Dyer him. But fooled 'cm. and beat
1.-THE Mexican in the end
aNnAA.,Bat was ilent for moment, as his
1.Inind roamed back over the stormy
SaAghting days of his spectacular youth
And then he said
" $500 Trick Lost Championships
Say, 1t doesn't pay to he too tricky
{ sometimes
why mott"
Il being tricky in 1910 and i, los, me
the lightweight championship OF the
i world to Ad Woleast
s I'VE had gone along for thirty-five
ROUNDS or SO. and A9 certainly had
u me looking like wreck But he WASH,
Il were getting weaker and weaker All
\ the time, and he had lost his steam
* and mad slowed mp 10 nearly Il whiSncr
Just about then l decided 10 pla '
rounds TO tricH. Woleas; into believing
= that L had no.thi..e at al. left. ! hsurcc
r.thetSif. could keep him coming at me-
few more rounds and swinging :
~ Jnt-Aa.d. use up about all the strenEti
y sthe-aaadsleft. Then my plan was TO p,,
ssffs1SSn@4rd out.
y ..-1rSlit my plan went wrong. my taking
51ERaH. too darncd realistic The referee
y ,s8dafe Smith. was deceived the same
WolEast. and before ! coulC
my trick stuff 10 him he chased
s..mosto~my corner and gave Wolgast tn,
Z ss::ffiilys.nf:a:-.-A--Copyrish,. 1919.
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