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THE NELSON-CANS FIGHT
Penv-picture of the finish of the Bat-
tling Nelson-Joe Gans fight, given\
in the "Sporting Chronicle," just to
hand from Manchester :-"In the 16th
round Gans was ashy paie under his
brown ; he shook with that strange
"rigor" which comes from utter .ex-
haustion of strength and hope, yet
still ; he faced his foe unblenchingly,
wriggling out o£ corners, smashing
Nelson's head back, and reaching the
stomach with lefts and rights ; but
still that 'Durable Dane came on,
scarred and bleeding, but untiring and
untired. it was not fighting. It was
a clever fighter, a scientific, smootii
tactician who had lost 'his shield of
hard hitting, fighting with a broken
blade against a modern Achilles whose
penetrable heel was never presented to
the front, covered with that machine
AEhirled battle-axe of Nelson's arms. '
Just as the gong sounded at the
end of the 16 th round, Gans went
down for a count of nine. In the j
17th Gans rocked Nelson again, rush- I
ed at him aggressively, was met by a
counter rush, Nelson-caught his. foot
and literally fell on Gans, both ..-go-
ing through the ropes by sheer {dis-
placed weight, Nelson on top. Rising,
Nelson rushed Gans to the rope,,
where a right uppercut to the stom-
ach sent him down for' a count of
eight : he rose to be sent down for
the third time and was struggling to
his f«et as the fatal word "Out" was
spoken, and Joe Gans-to my mind
greater in his defeat than he had ever
teen in his victories-had lost the
championship for ever. There will be
no ^eome back."
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