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Show i i 1 ' i 'V : : i v.hvl kj-UN .liHt, JiL-Lil- ! 8 AN FBAJf CISCO, "Tib. 9.-Bill No - tan is avenged. . . ': . !. The : ligthti o London have been tumd on tha Gane-Nlson moving pie turea and tha first English erttie that ' v; watched tha ahadow fight declared tha Dane wait victimized In tha bout at -;. ;Goldfleld, aay "Bill" Naughton. The writer in' question, after view-' view-' . v tng th reproduction, said -that Nelson ', . ( had to box tha two men Gan and the s referee. According to the way tha thing appealed to the British scribe, .-" Gan began acting tricky- in -tha fif-. teenth round, '"holding Nelson's left hand to his aid with hi right ana as with a visa, and trying all the other little trick of the trade, such a elbowing el-bowing and using hi head." : The critic failed to sea that Nelon did a single thing that waa at vari-. vari-. anea with the British idea of fair play, or rather if he did notice anything a little out of line in Bat's method of ighttng ha doesn't mention it. "Gan Did a Ha Pleased." Cans, he declares, seemed to do just a he pleased without fear of being dis-ziphned. dis-ziphned. "But the most astounding thing to a British audience," aaya tb critic, "is aeea in tha sixteenth round, when the referee from some cans sndiseoverable a far as the pictures go, pull Nelson away from hi man by his hair. I shudder shud-der lo think what would become of the misguided refer who in an Eng- i . ; r- ;- - - ' . f -r llsh ring treated a combatant thus unfairly. un-fairly. 'r t .. - - -'' In the thirty-eighth round Fan, ae-cording ae-cording to tha gentlemanly reviewer, recognize that he is "up agalnst it.". In the fortv-flrst Gans 1 "sicker than a dog In his corner." . Nelson," condnde the writer, "was disqualified for a foul I could not possibly sea on the pictures.- And how the referee could see it without tha gift of second sight must remain a conundrum, for the referee is behind Gan. To give my opinion of It, I should aay that Gan. . a wily old fighter, tried it on and that it earne off. But if I had been the referee I would have bought up all those films and burnt them.7' "Laid It On Thick."" About the only mistake that this partieulsr eritie he made is that he r' laid it on too thick," a they aay in this part of the world. A man who after seeing a genuine reproduction of that eonteat could flout Gans for a foul fighter and describe Nelson as an injured in-jured Innocent would do well to have bis sight tested. 8ome of thos who have become embroiled with Nelson and Nolan over the Goidleld decision say that Nolan took a set of doctored film to England. But 4hat wouldn't aceount for all the English writer ssw. Nolan might have cut out some of the dirty work done by the Dane, but he couldn't alter the pictures so si to place Gans in the light of a foul fighter. fight-er. The only possible .explanation of the matter is that Nolan haa hypnotized hypno-tized some of the British critics. "We have eight sets of films running run-ning ia America and all over the Unit4 Bute. ison is looaea upon as a winner," said Billy Nolan in his characteristic manner when being interviewed in-terviewed in London. Correspondents Unanimous. Billy didn't mention that of all the correspondent at the ringside there wasn't one who differed from the referee ref-eree ss to the derision, or who didn't flay Nelson for his billvgoat tactics. Possibly if ny of the English pressmen press-men had" spoken of this unanimity of opinion, as shown by the day-after report re-port of the affair. Nolsn would have remarked: "Well, it iust went to show how wide was the conspiracy sgainst ns." Nelson? it seems, gave sn illustrated lectur on the subject of "How I Waa Jobbed at GoMfield." He said among other things that Gans simply "laid down." "As for Siler," said the Dane, "he was yards away, and there was no foul lor him to see." |