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Show dick u m I NELSOJJIIH CO I Stays 23 Rounds With Fighting I Dane, Taking Count From H Body Blow. NELSON IS HISSED FOR I HIS UNCLEAN FIGHTING Nine Thousand People Witness I Fierce Contest; Receipts ' H $18,000. II COFFROTHS ARENA. SAN FRAN- ll CISCO, May 20. "Battling" Nelson of Illinois .knocked out Dick Hyland this afternoon in the twenty-third round o a scheduled forty-five-round bout. I Tho contest was one of the most vicious I evor seen in a local ring. The fight was fairly even up to tho thirteenth , round, after which Nelson took the lead. Hyland wus knocked out hy a left hook I to tho stomach, after he had been 1 H floored several times in tho two pre- I ceding rounds. Throughout a dozen rounds H'land and the champion hammered each other H with vicious swings and uppercuts that I cut short all promise of a forty-five- I round contest. In the early stages Hv- I land was the master, although it could I not be said whether or not Kelson was I extending himself. During the last three rounds, however, the Dane -went I after his opponent -without an instant's I rest, knocking Hyland down time af- ter time and staggering tho game Cali- fomian with blinding volleys of Tight and left hooks to the head, varied by an occasional crushing straight left to H the stomach. I Tn tho final round Hyland was al- I most at the champion's mercy. H Nelson frequently offered "his face l as a target while ho tried for bodv blows, but only after the fight was half il over. Until the climax the grass valley fighter had confidence in himself, jl meeting rush with rush, clinch with -V clinch, and generally carrying the fight W to his opponent. " Jl Nelson was hissed Continually for his attempts to rough it', and throughout jl the fight the men exchanged uufricndly II comment. II The attendance was estimated at II 0000. The receipts were $1S,000, of M which Nelson received .'rtwOO nnd Itj - jl land $1500. jl Belmont Races. jl BFJjMOXT PARK. N V.. May 29.-- (I First race, five furlongs, straight Sweep, jfl 2 to f, won; Medallion. S to 1, second; )' Perry Johnson, S to 1, third. Tlir. I Second race. Cosmopolitan handicap. tl one mile and a sixteenth Live Wire. 7 M to 1. won; Jack Atkin. S to S, second; Montgomery, 20 to 1. third. Time, Third race, six and a half furlongs. ! main course Roseben, S to 5. won; Black Mate. S to 1, second; McCarter, 11 to 20. third. Time. 1:20 1-5. Fourth race, tho Pocantico. three-year ( olds, nonwlnners of $5000 in 190S, sK furlongs, straight, $1000 added FItrher- bert. .'J to 5, won; Ladj' Bedford, S to 5, second; Henley, 15 to 1, third. Tim. Fifth race, steeplechase, about two M miles Grandpa, C to 5. won; Jimmy Lane, even, second. Time, 4:00.1-3. Jius Jltsu ran out at first jump. Sixth race, thrce-ycar-olds and upward. selling, one mile 3nd an eighth. $100 M added Lad of Langdon. 2 to .1. Avon; St. Joseph. 10 to 1, second; Rockstone. S to H 1, third. Time. 1:33 1-5. H |