LIGHT-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 66, 18 March 1910, Page 6

LIGHT-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.

'BATTOOGSTG" KELSON DEFEATED BY .' . WOLGAST. ■ REFEREE STOPS THE FIGHT. ..-.■(lndependent Cable Service.) c • V-ANOOUVER, March 2., ■ The light-Veight championship of -the world was fought at Point 'Richmond, San Francisco, - this afternoon; * between "Battling" Nelson, the holder, and Ad. Wolgaet. ' . • '• ■■-. • Both men met with. a'great'reception, especially the holder. : Despite the lin-. favourable weather, 37,000 attended, and thousands -turned'out • at- all • points and made progress to the arena -difficult; -■' . Owing , to" a misunderstanding, Nelson failed to appear till half an hour -after the announced time. The fight was refGreed by Eddie Smith, and the 'hatting was 2 to 1 against Nelson up to the fourth xoundj when ' Wolgast> A led -in points. The fifth was' Nelson's, and ia fcne'six-th both -seemed tired. Nelson iiad the best of the seventh,-eighth; and ninth and continued ta' , leadin.the tenth. The men- were • even ■in > the eleven thy which was lively, and' more ■ damage was. done during the last 30 seconds of the round than during the previous ten rounds.*.., ■.. Wolgast had the advantage in the twelfth and .thirteenth-rounds, bii* ■ the fighting was again even in the fourteen Wolgast Went. through the iopcs,>.ai\d Nelson assisted him back. The fifteenth round was W-olgast's, and -the sixteenth Nelson's, but the- latter's. nose ; and, ears werp damaged, whilst Wolga»t was. unmarked. •.. .• .. . •■: '.: -.. .»': The seventeenth round was even, : a.p4 Nelson's face showed signs of-,'pun\shr ment. Wolgast administered- strong blows over the kidneys, hitting after the break from clinches. - The eighteenth round gave Wolgast the advantage, jy\d in. the nineteenth the fight,,was janybody's. In-the twentieth Woigast liad a slight shade the j better ojf,."the , deal, and led in the,twenty-first,.and '■tw«ntysecond. •,i -■ ■ • -.-. , .;'.■- ■-, t. ■ ■:,;-■ • The betting then, changed - money, and ■ in ; , the twenty-thirdiJSrelaVp showed to advantage. -■; ~-, ~. .__ ~., \Volgast led in the Uvcnty-four,UC aM in: the, next round staggered Nelson. w.ljiTf three rights to the head. In the. twejijtysixth again Wolgast severely poundejT.nis opponent's kidneys, and had the best,of the round. N . ,va;--i ■.-%*- In the .twcnty-seventli }velson 1 left eye was almost closed, .and.there was clinching at the sound of the '...Bell." Tire twenty-eighth was -tame, there being no advantage either way, and in the twentyninth Wolgast had "a shade the best of it. For the next two rounds Wolgast still maintained his advantage, leading Nelson, who was badly bunged up. The thirty-third and thirty-fourth were Wolgast's rounds, and in the thirty-fifth Nelson was lifted off his feet. W-olgast had a big margin in the thirtysixth round, which he kept in the two succeeding rounds. Nelson hobbled to his corner in the thirty-ninth, and Wolgast won tiy the referee stopping the fight in the fortieth round. . ~._ ... ' •"• — : " .j V .1"' .:"V? _ Joe Gans, former light-weight .champion of America, has issued a. challenge to W<ilgast for a'2o-roun'd-conee'St.''^ THE GHAMPI'oNSHIP. ; At Los Angelos In .the bantam weight championship, Connelly beat Monte Attel by a knock-out in tho forty-aecdiJd round.