Deseret Evening News | 1910-01-25 | Page 9 | Battling Nelson as Good as Ever

BATTLING NELSON AS GOOD AS EVER EVERA A Memphis paper says sas In one of oC the tho greatest tights ever eer soon seen In the state ot of Tennessee Battling Nd son the lightweight champion of oC tho world knocked out Eddie Lang Lan or ChI hl cage cagO alter after two minutes 0 of fighting In inthe the tho round a ur of urI I I people that Oiled filled the Ito arena ot of Ito tho rew Memphis Athletic club at MemphIs Lan Lang n a youngster oun lIter at tho thou thon game outfought u Nelson i Ig for rounds g showing n wonderful speed d and Id cleverness v vand and never nover faltered its In his shower ot of blows blow upon the Dane Dano 1 In the O sIxth r I the terrible I fast pace i Ir ln Pa set 1 by Nelson began I telling II on J Lang although he hi stood toe to toe with the tho Battler and showed gameness under severe punishment anti and Wa was cheer ed cd again and n aln b by the tho Immense throng to stay the limit Ito he nent out from sheer exhaustion The ho heavy heay ruin rain of kidney blows Nelson was waR sending lending In told the tho story and his manager maner Jack Ep who was his chief adviser throw threw the sponge In as al Lang could not have havo gone any further Nelson Noison started off to fight In his same sarno old style and never neer throughout the fight did he show any signs ot of dIstress al although though ho was bleeding from the thu mouth In the thIrd round from a hard right that Lan Lang got In Nelson loft lott ImmedIately after the tho fi fight ht for Hot Springs where lie ho will spend a afew tow few days then so go to Kansas City to join his manager Robinson and they thoy will gill journey journo to the tho coast for tor the fi light ht Challenges were Issued from the ringside from Phil Drock Phil Knight and Fighting Dick