NOTABLE GLOVE BATTLE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 777, 29 March 1910, Page 4

NOTABLE GLOVE BATTLE.

• LIGHT-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP';-. , '~ ! . DEFEAT; OP.VB^TLING"NELSO^j- - tendencyi'of Ad. Wolgasr/ • ?° » cautions, at a. stage in the', proceed-,:,. > ln f? 'hat he; appeared to - ' have .-matters! *? tlrcl r hl ? own -way, there'is a word.' - ?£ °i^ lt „ d " e him f " his victory over!' Battlmg Nelson for the: light-weight'.'" • boxing'championship-of: the world/ says > the., San > ; - Francisco "-•'.'Chronicle.'' • Hia - ■ famous kidney blow, the blow that hel - . delivers 60 well, doubtless was an' im2 : ' . P°rumt factor in Nelson's defeat. At in-t'• fighting Wolgast showed himself a mar-/ •' Tel; so., much so, in fact, that Nelson* ■ soon abandoned the game which haa helped him m the past end devoted all\ ol his efforts toward landing, one right) swing _that would prove r a ' knock-out*" 1 hat Nelson;has gone back there can b«'. . no,question.-: He had everything that ha - "as displayed in previous fights, save hisjspeed. There was the same, old grit that has-made him famous and the same «n.i v -: durance that has caused him to be'mar-l" veiled at from, coast to coast But with? the speed lacking,, he could not force-tha issue as has been his wont, and it was! largely because of this lack that Wolgast '' found he could beat his man and win hisi crown. At the outset it appeared at}/ times that 1 Wolgast was tiring, but less.' than none rounds-had passed before-hoi ■•' assumed the.lead and continued it. Fori twenty-five rounds, the distance on chichi his supporters had bet that he would! last,, Wolgast, fought more, cautiously than in the closing stages. Always NelJ sou was setting the pace,' but just' 'aai surely Wolgast would find a way to land.) It was, in tho twenty-second round that! the supporters of the favourite,,. had their one good chance to root for' him. As the men were in the middlet of the ring, Nelson.caught Ad. a right! ' to the jaw that-/shoot him up. They.: moved across the ring and :once' moro-, .there was a right to the jaw that Get' ' Wolgast on= his haunches. Then a shout' went up that the Battler had returned, to his own, and, indeed, Wolgast looked 1 as if he was in bad shape.'. But ho camoi through-the round nicely, and by thenext gong had .so far recovered himself • that his were once niore the'punches that, landed. ; Nelson' discovered then, .if ha' l . had not appreciated it before, that hoi/ could not land at will,-and that he could not force himself to a smothering : rallyHad he been ', able, it"> might hav< counted, but he was too far gone;and. the chanco for another swing that ,-\y.ouldi drop Wolgast never came. Ever -wary' of the,dreaded Nelson right, Wolgast: would circle the ring, easily eluding the rushes of tho Dane, and either rapping lum disdainfully, with his left '. or ripping in an- uppercut. At ; one time it would be a forceful blow-across the face, and again he would sink a left or right into the stomach... They were all weak- ,'■' ening the Bane and they all counted. : I There were, few rounds, not more than three or four at tho outside, in which Nelson had the advantage, and a fow others, of course, in which .matters were fairly even. But for the greater way of the long journey over which the two littlo chaps travelled it was Wolgast • who had the advantage. Will' Wolirast hold the title.as successfully as did Nelson before Jiiiii,- and Cans'ljefors that? It's hard to sit, but, in the ordinary run of affairs, there is no reason why he should not continue for a lime. He, is ' young, strong, tt good two-handed , fighter, and uses ■ gooc headwork. . Apparently, lie is net,as well ■ able to stand, punishment as. the Dane, -,■-.' but with his- speed lie can easily kVsii , . away from'-it. Itis blows miist bo goo<l/ - because they wore tho '.Hegewisch lad / down, but there is still to be said of, him that ho, lacked the finish powers • in the recent contest, at least. : '