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@attiing Nelson stil! has his marvel- + ets - Nothing could dull the fame of his Welson Takes Awful Lacing From Hogan, but Finishes Standing and Fighting Back. E Nelson and One Round Hogan fight last night is still wonder fag what held Battling Nelson up through the ten rounds Just after the ond of the fight I happened to be Manding with a group of sporting Men talking it over. “Nelson has iron legs,” sald one. “He's 90 dumb that he does Raow when ho's out,” said another “Qo on,” said a third, “they had a favisible wire banging down from the rafters, and it was looped around Bat under the arm “You're all wrong,” said Refereo Charlie White, passing by. “It's a ase of absolutely unyielding deter- Misation and unlimited courage Bat doesn't know what It is to think hat be can be knocked out. When Be goes to Nght he takes his heart out and leaves it in bis room, and ke puts @ brick in bis chest in pla of the heart.” Whatever the explanation may be, VERYBODY who saw Battling Nous ability to assimilate blows, 1 Bever’ saw a lightweight given a ‘weree pounding, and yct Bat finished the temth round with a terrific spurt @f Sghting, and when the bell rang be | Waughed. All through the ten rounds | Mogan hammered him with crushing tights and no less crushing left. teeth clash and his bones rattle. Bach Urive into his body wae like the chug of a bullet into an oak Geveral times Hogan knocked him dasing and bewil- ppened fel) in js arma ‘With redoubled fury. ‘Bt was easy to sce how Bat Nelson @iet have discouraged Gane, Britt, ‘GCordete and ail of the other great light- weights who fought him in the gioriou Past. He seemed absolutely tireless, Agting spirit. Toward the end we began te look for some sign of breaking on Hogan's part, for it seemod impossible fer any man to hit he wae hitting without producing any effect that iarted more than a few seconds avd not lose heart. Bat Mogan pessed away, and when the last round cume throw every ounce ef Bis strength and energy ‘atv one Qustained three-minute effort to knock Melson out. He struck terrible blowe— Peehing, crushing, destroying blows, it were apparently cayame of pulver- bone and sinew and mashing them Ato @ Mase like @ Naxseed poultice, oon, fighting with not a whit fury, enly grinned and swung blow ‘Nelson ianded a swing on 'a body that staggered him. Once @riving hi across in & hook—a terrific left—sent Nel- stageering, and with the impact of Glow the arc lights overhead went Charlie White jumped between the the semi-darkness and shouted And then the lights flickered | @gain, and there was Nelson | Deck with a swing that atruck en the ghin and made his knees & eefond Inter—e fifth of a > Mogan had stopped Nelson's | Fash with o righthand smash, and there @tond, toe to toe, hitting so fast | the Blows sounted Ike the long roll of| 9 drum corpe T 4 UEND was no doubt that Hogan wea 1 fent Hits hitting, hie wee weneralabip, were ou pes. sen Nelson had to acknowledge Patert, Sao inticution of that wax his fatdure te make a epeerh ufior the Nght hee, Mat thinks thei he haw won he atwaye maker n neat little talky-talk QHE (alle the spectators What a splendid the other fellow put up-against et course, When th one was hadn't a word to say as he roms the ring, sipped through She ropes and ¢ ed down fron the Plations. Afterward. o his dressing foam, he remarked hut I floe boy, and (at the great Joe Gans #0 bard before. Wad ever hit FORE the fich began Joe Humph- Teys anno: that “under the €onditions of the ‘match Netson gompelicd Hogan to make Wi at 6 Pelock, while Neleou wtrerd to c in at cated weishte Aidn't Mke that @nnouncement. He val sowlng os its corner after it, ami naa hardy ree gained bis good hums ard hs smile When tho first, bell rang Mo “ haye woikhed 126 0 he didn't look heavier than that at the most ” maxes sald that Hogan scaled It he did. @ yome foolin! he needed hi m h n training him, He looked romebody a wor, BAT NELSON BADLY BEATEN BY HOGAN for ten rounds when hi Do A STALLING, BAT, AND WE'LL mare Fon i Bat Nelson 1 Got $2,000 for Taking Whipping Madison A.C, ‘G. Receipts Totalled $4,315, Hogan's Share Being $1,726. 4. BY JOHN POLLOCR. ATTLING NBISON, who ts pick- B tgn up plenty of money these days by meoting fighters in dit- ferent cities in ten-round bouts, added $2,000 more to his bank account os a result of his ten-round battle with “One Round Hogan" at the Madison A. C. |Nelson was guaranteed this eum, with the privilege of accepting 49 per cent. of the gross receipta The amount of Money taken in on the chow was (ns. Hogan drew Gown # per cent, which Agured 61.7% The State got $215.76, While the alub efficiale escewed what wae left—ss7hm8. "One Round Hogan'' ts going to Sau Francisce oo a pleasure trip, He will leave on Jan 9 with his manager, (i) Boag. Wogan will mot do any fighting whtle on the Coast. He intends to re- turn to New York about Feb, 1. Hogan will be matched to fight K. 0, Brown ta back here. not intend to re- chance to got He recelved an offer from A. ©. of Cleveland to Brock for twelve rounds on In Jess than an hour after he Kot the offer 1 nt word back accepting the tern ho will training for the contest at the Cant’ Last Forever and Ought to Be Married and Set- tled Down, | - | Tommy Ryan was in Rettling Nel- pon's dressing room after the Dane had | finished his battle with One-Round, Hogan, Nelson was giving himaelf al sponge bath fromsa scrub pail full of water and cracked ice and shouting for wome one to rub him down, Billy Senator Fraw Chaney Mwr- a al others looking marveling at the wonderful showing Neleon had juat nthe rine, ’ you golng to do next, | Bat? avked Ryan | ‘Vrom here I'm going to jump to ew Orfeans where Ett next week," Vi get the elne to get in a day or two ef road w Why don't you quit the game now, or go through with this New Orlean thing er cop, mat tle down,” said last forever. he you fight now ym pitiful to me. Nelson sad nothing about quitting ¢ enapked that. perhaps lots better off if he re ago when Ryan quit ranks some of (he puncies Netsom took with. MONG the preliminaries two were round bout ln which Johnny Mo- ted Dig Young, although the round Keddie vans who |i solid Jott ani Mite drawn. Buy ne didn't weaken the bout, and fis hitting was he has ever shown in New I doubt that any other lght- ia the eee mys ory nave mre ‘ata down was nearly ding the round jw ockout, the bell 2 White cousied guia oe LEACH CROs> Wits An OVE To Business Nelson Ought te to Stop Now, Says Ex-( Ex-Champ Tommy Ryan haat THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, EST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK — 1911 ARAL AAPA PPD PAPA P PLP PDL PPP PLP PPPDLPPPPPPL IPAS RACING PROPERTY | _-NOW WORTHLESS} FEATURES OF HOGAN-NELSON BOUT Let peereeny RING + (T A MATCH ) Next a, (oS Ere OO eens To Go On, MR WHITE WIKe Yo) KINDLY GET SOME Guy Te CHASE TwAT BLAMED MULE OUT Of Tue In The Gemma, ape Copyright, 191, by The Press Pub! wnLNG Heoan HAD A LIT Apvice FR manent Some THING HAD OGEN ‘Thoueur *OUPpED' To MiMm~ T CYAN KNocHBeWNd: Carl Morris, who meets Tom Kennedy in @ ten-round bout here next Wednes- day night, ta certain that he te going to defeat Kennedy. In speaking of bout at the Madison A. C. he said: “I am confident I will best Kennedy, I really believe that I have improved enough in my last three fights to win from him. I know tnat @ victory will boost my stock and for that reason I ing in to try ane win es quickly as possible.” Knockout Hrown te another fighter who t# going to rest up for three or four weeks, His manager, Danny Mor- gan, announced to-day that he has de- cided to let K. O. lay off ao that his right eye, which he had badly cut in bis dout with Hogan, will get @ chance to get all right again. lis CORNERK, lishing Co, (The New York World). Te omy, Some oF mi: JACYTS NBAALI UIPTED NELSON'S HEAD ore. SPORTIN MewsAnd Holy OLFDRS from all over the coun- G try ere sanding in their entries for the‘vig tournament which will be held at Pinehurst on Jan. 1s, under the auspices of the Advertising Golt- ers' Association. More than eighty Frankie Burne, the Jersey City dan- tam@eight, will fight in Philadelphia on Christmas afternoon. He wae matched to-day over the long-distance telephone to meet Charley Turner, the Quaker City featherweight, In @ six- round bout before the National A. C. t olty, If Burns beats Turner the are tuat he will bo matched to fight Eddle O'Keefe, the Philadelphia bantamwelxht, before the same club a wook inter, E4, Kiersky, manager of “Jumbo" vindication, he says, and match between Wells and Jim Stewart, the Brooklyn heavywelg! ‘Wells and Stewart fought a week o1 0 ago at t National A. C. of Brooklyn. art laid Wells low with the pu Kiersky says’ palpably foul. He & physician's certificate to that ef- Wells welghed 161 pounds an Stewart 22% y saya Wells can certainly art, and seeks ays he doesn't wa is Igsee. other mateh. @ quarter If W Harvey, too, was solicitous about Nelwon, “Why, he's just a shell with the heart of a lion, 1 never will forget s hit him ons of tim How the Dane wonderingly, “At that, I guess, he could prises will be competed for, There are fourteen events in all, nine for men and five for women, besides the main tournament for each sex. On the open- ing day, by way of novelty, a foursome for both men and women ts scheduled. Instead of the best ball of two players, which 1s customary, the best bell of four players will count. The main tournaments for both men and women wil begin on Jan. 16. ‘The Crescent A. C. hockey team were defeated in a game of hockey by the land A. C. sev.a at Cleveland by | score of 8 to % It wae one of the hardest struggles the Cleveland team has ever engaged in, nearly nine minutes of overtime play being neces- eary to decide the game, ©. C. N. Y.'a basketball team will take the field to-night against the strong quintet from the Masachusetts Institute f Technology in the fifth annual contest these institutions have engaged in. The local collegians have the fastest team in the city, as was demonstrated in the contest with St. Lawrence University last Saturday. The St. Nicholas Heights five was the only team able to take the measure of the strong St. Lawrence five, Polytechnic Institute, Manhattan College, New York University and 8t. John's College each losing to the up- Staters after C. C. N. ¥. played them. Columbia and Harvard maintained thelr respective positions in the twen- tleth annual intercollegiate chess tour- nament as @ result of the play in the second round contested in the West Side Republican Club. Columbia. defeated Princeton by @ score of 3% to %, while heat them all in a long fight,” said the father of the boxing law. Ask For Today there's no excuse bottled. A real drink the next place and see (In the bottle, with the new top, tells bim. good old Wilson Whiskey--us pure as the day it was SOLD EVERYWHERE Harvard accounted for Yale by pre- clacly the same score, The White and Blue remained tied with the Crimson! ‘Up Fi Dale OSSIP therefore, each university being credited with totals of 7% points out of @ possi- ble 8 ‘The final round to-day, in which Columbia must encounter Harvard, will determine the championship for 1912, ‘The Fairmount Park road race will not be abandoned—not for a year, at least. The movement against ite re newal has failed, and on Oct. 6 the care will again race through the Quaker City’s famous park. Since the with- Grewal of road races on Long Island the Fairmount Park event has been the only one of importance near enough to New York to attract metropolitan fol- lowers of auto racing. Rey Hinéoo, running under the colors of his new owner, George Snyder, easily won the five and a half furlong handi- cap, the feature event at St. Jaures, Mexico, Synder bought Rey Hindoo for $2,000 just before the race. a BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. At Wairmont A. C., Young Britt ve, Johnny Lore, ten rounds, At Brown G; jum A. A., Tiger Young vs. Walter Brooks, ten rounds. At Olympic A. C., Young Hickey vs, Billy Galley, ten rounds. At Sharkey A. C., Jim Kendrick va, Young Reilly, ten rounds, At Long Acre A. A., Honey Mel- lody va, Bill West, ten rounds, At Gowanus A. C., South Brook- lyn, Curley O'Connell vs, Grift Jones, t ounds. At Royale A. C., Brooklyn, Willie Jones Young O'Leary, ten round, At Standard A. C., Greenpoint, Eddie Conway vs. Dummy Barker, ten rounds, At National A. C., Brooklyn, “Doc” Backus vs. Billy Le Grave, ten rounds, At Liberal A, C., Staten Island, Young Lenny vs, Andy Corde: rounds, ve. What’s the Use of Guessing About YourDrink? The Bottle That Guarantees Whiskey’s Goodness A man, if he’s wise, is pretty sure that he gets a good whiskey when he takes a drink. know when he has to pour it from the ordinary bottle. , But he can never for his not knowing. The new It contains the if there ever was one. for yourself, Stop in Wilson Whiskey New Bottle) Dot tet Wm STICK To You . Steve. TANGUNG GATS ARIS IN THE CLINCHED. This Man-Mountain Really \ —_— Raicevich Is a Wonderful Spec- tacle in Action as He Trains for Zbyszko. | ‘BARLY every one has seen a mountain—or at least a lar hill, but how many have seen mountain or large hill in action? ‘To the least imaginative a mountainous object in full blast, turning, twisting and exhibiting superhuman strength and ‘agility would prove a most wonderful spectacle. And not unlike this ts Gto- veéomi Raicevich as he ins for Mon- Way night's bout with the giant Pole, Stan‘slaus ‘Zbyszko, at Madison Square Garden. i} “vcr gince he made Gotham sit uD and take notice by throwing six husky | wrestlers in eighteen minutes, after he) haé really allowed himself two hours to Perform the feat, Raicevich has been getting in trim for his go with Zbyszko. Every day hee found him hard at work on the mat at the Itallan-American Gymnastic Association, No, 0 Eighth avenue, and there his feats of strength and agility, Gave caused general cpen- mouthed wonder, He is o bear ost and nothing ‘ess on the mat in the opinion of thove who have watche? him work. Incldentay he bas uewd up 1 a dozen sparring partners, teaching one and all that they know very ltty about the grappling game after al To-day the big Italian wound up training by taking @ tong walk and « jog,around the Centea! Park reservcir. He had a number of trainers with him and before the drill wes over all but Raicevich were hollering for @ let-up. Just to prove hte vind Is all that it ought to be he kept up @ merry pace and finished with solors flying. When it was all over be announced that he was perfectly satisfied with his condi- tion and that if he ts downed by the mammoth son of Poland \t will be be- cause Zbyszko is the better man, To the observer Raicevich seems to be a perfect wrestler. First of all he has bulk, but in additior. to this he has ATHLETIC ee LIBERAL A. C. BACHMANS, STATEN ISLAND, WARE NAGE vy, SH Niyry HUDSON, resented to every child rome this week, Mat Today, Kinae Poe a ae . DALY'S Shu Se wa “aoas ee. gare oe fehls tvvcks aa ¢ PUATWOUSE Fes acts wrsdic| Foss BOUGHT ad PAID FOR oe jist st., @. ew way, fv. 6.16. ing on BOF 83) re thronghout the entire Huaieal Hitccem a 8. NAZIMOVA mitre atts GARRICK tes ea toa HE Bnet nae WM, H. CRANES ah HUDSON Git tty kas’ ae HELEN WARE cee bie +k, na ew ESE UL Pe WILLIAM COLLIER © S3Micz: oy af a First-Class Wrestler unusual agiiity and = real knowledge of the fino points of grappling. ‘Dike way ho has been tossing his sparring | partners around was enough to make lone's bloud run cold, for not one of them, husky as they all were, was able to withstand his furious onslaughts for a minute, iCutler Blanked by Lawrenceville Lawrenceville echool boye held forth at the St. Nicholas Rink at the expense of Cutler Schoul in the an. nual hockey game between the rivi preparatory schools. Tho Lawrenceville lads anagged seven goals, shutting out thelr opponents so there was ample ex- cuse for their doing even more than holding forth. —_- BOXING SHOWS CHRISTMAS At Fordcn A. C.-Willle Beecher ‘Marty Brown, ten rounds, At Irving A. C., Brooklyn—Eddte Sherman vs. Charley Goldman, ten rounds, At Cartyle A. C., Brooklyn—Charite Barry vi Gecrge Driscoll, ten rounds. At Bronkiyn leach A. C., South Brookly™ -7 amy Houck vs, Frankie Pass, ten ronda, At Bust Avenue A. C., Maspeth, J—Wabo Froelich ve. George Mo- Dermott, ten rounds. A¢ Standard A. O4 Ame ew bouta tn Greenpoint— 22t Fe. sigan Say tn nas Cul irl “inate At RD. caret SS ate BY th St, Krlchetbocker Kriceerets SKINNER sia 20 oe ‘Wels ” co 14% KISMET sTERDAM a, Rina Ga ee NE KEATED ‘oO. SEO Te Py 0. DURING ‘Frlanger’s Elaborate Now At 3 Say oohais re Of 10, with ieeg, dans CHBERTY Sits ie DUSTIN and WILLIAM FARNUM Bie puny REBEL LYCEUM THEATRE, Next Tues, 3 PM, linn cic SUES 'NEW A.A. U LAW ' AFFECTS COLLEGES AND CLUBS T00 Its First Test at Indoor Cham- pionships at Madison Square Garden Dec. 26 and 27. HE new law of the Amateur Ath- letic Union in relation to the col- lege athlete in competition will receive its first test at the indoor cham- plonships at Madison Square Garden on Dec, % and 27. The college men entered in those games fgr thelr col- leges will be compelled to represent their collet from now unt! June 1, while those who compete for their clubs will @ to represent their clube in open competition until June 1. George Bonhag, who under the law would be compelled to compete for bis hool, has elected to repre merican A. C. ‘0 ja University this tam, as Heat a gainer by id Brady the New York A. C until June 1, Ha i Babcock, captain of the Columbia team, will compete for the New York A C., and so cannot change to Columbia during the preset season. Irish-American A. C. foses the 3 of Bob Eller and Ed Chapman, 0 will represent Georgetown Univer- sity at these games. ‘The other college: fected by this new law ar Cornell, Virginia, Am! Penasy!- vania and Dartmouth. Key, Mot. fatt, Cummings, Cabie and Jackan of Harvard will have to compete for ‘far- vard, and the Boston Athletic Asvocia~ tion cannot be “represented by these men until after June 1. On the other hand, D. B. Young of Amherst will compete for the Boston A. Pennsyl- varia will hold Foster, Edwards, Haye dock, Burdick and Modowan, and Dart- mouth keeps J. Dolan, who cannot now represent the Pastime A. C. University of Virginia will be represented by Capt, T. H. Todd, E. Cochrane, W. Cooke and P. Holcombe. Wesley Oler of Pawling School wil represent the New York A. C. instead of his school, as will Lauer of New York University. W. G. Packard will also represent the New York A. C, ta preference to his, law school, while KA Frank of Brown’ University competes for the Irish-American A.C. D, Watte of Springfield High School, Mass.; Sf. Young, Manual ‘raining School, Philadelphia, and Louis Tewanima, Car Isle Indian School, will all wear their school colors in the events they enter. This is the first meeting in which the college men have entered since the new law went into effect, and this ts the meet in which they will have to decide whether they will represent thelr col- loge or club until June 1, 1912, which will be at- Harvard, ‘THE BRRORNALLA Lissin Sty DISRAELT re 2540-16-91. De Doty Mi Mote 25.5098, ULL uti i & ETHEL CONRAD eee eee ee Petits NOW Lak BERGERE Bway. Frove APPETIZING URUBEEEE: mize Pater Gooden re Wau Seth St. Lexington Ave, ing hat chek, $1. BELASCO 08a; ¥5 DAVID WARFIELD oP § HS WALLACK’S ss rouge ARL REF DaviD BELasCO THE WoO! eve ae CONCERT !riawn'es BIJOU Bry F ORS Resin Son DILTON LARKATES™ RE AEEARGEE 2d BS Ke Bs E88 a0, COMPLETE O82 BATLOM LT AMERICAN ieAyae, MA 5h ACADEMY Bio 10, 20 & THE HOUSE NEXT OLONIAL "EDMUND BREESE Le Bway, de, 62 He. # Mat. Dall! 4 LHAMBRA 71 Av, & 126th st, ard, wate, UCR gy Mat, Datly. 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