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Show Sports and Athletics. "Joe" Cans, tho Baltlmoro negro, has proved conclusively that ho Is tho best fighter In tho light weight division In tho world. In ono of tho most gruelling contests over seon In tho prize ring ho was given tho decision over Bat-Ming Bat-Ming Nelson In their recent meeting meet-ing at Goldfleld, Nov. Tho fight endod In tho forty-second round, aftor Nelson had fouled tho colored fighter. It was the most remarkable sporting ovent ovor pulled off In tho United Statos. Oans fought tho best battle of his llfo, and Ills opponent was worthy of his years of ring goncrnl-ship. goncrnl-ship. Nelson seemed Impervious to punishment. Cans landed four blows to Nolson's ono, but each round tho Dano would bob up apparently re-cuperatod re-cuperatod and ready to force tho fighting. fight-ing. Nolson was outpointed by tho clover negro at almost every stago of tho fight, and flnnlly throw away nil chances of winning tho coveted tltlo by sending a crushing blow to Oans' groin whllo tho two wore In a clinch. Guns dropped gasping to tho floor. Roforco Goorgo Sllor had ropeatedly wnrncd Nelson for rough tactics and fouling which would havo disqualified him according to a strict Inlorprota-tlon Inlorprota-tlon of tho rules. When tho decision deci-sion was rendered thoro wus not u word of dissent from tho C.200 spectators. spec-tators. Gnns now comes undls-putcdly undls-putcdly Into tho tltlo for which ho linB fought for 12 yours. Ho Is tho oldest of tho light weight llghlorH lngking only two months of 30 yenrs and has fought moro than 150 fights In his strugglo for world's championship champion-ship class, Tho host romomborcd of thoso wns tho "fuko" which ho lost to "Torry" McGovcrn at Chicago In 1000, and which put n quietus on tho boxing gnmo In that city. Nelson clnlmod tho chamnlonshlp aftor IiIb victory over "Jimmy" Brltt, September Septem-ber 9, 1905, during tho fight carnlvnl nt Colmn, Cat. Gans also had beaten Brltt, nnd the claims of tho rivals' supporters Increased tho intercut which preceded tho fight to fever hent. Gans sought tho recont contest, and contontcd himself with $11,000 of tho purse, while Nelson received $22,000 boforo tho fight. Fred Beoll, tho Wisconsin wrestler, won his match with Ed Adamson at Chicago recently, after a hard fight. Bcell took tho match In straight falls. Tho match meant considerable to both men, as tho wlnnor had been promised prom-ised a meeting with Georgo Hackcn-schmldt, Hackcn-schmldt, when tho noted Russian wrestler visits this country. |