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Show I A) Nelson Gains Decision Over Jim Marsha FANS HOWL AS REFEREE GIVES WUHAN BOUT Coaster in Dressing Room Says Boise Lad Gained the Decision. JIM MARSHALL, Sacramento welterweight, wel-terweight, lost tin." decision to At Kelson of Boise In tho six-round malt) event at the Manhattan club at the Armory Inst night after six slam bank' rounds of milling Referee Hardy Downing raising the right arm of Nelson In token of victory at tfce end ! of tho battle Many of the fans showed their disapproval of the de-' de-' clslon by hissing, believing that Mar- 1 email should '' least a draw with the Idaho marvel. Atmiib - . XT. In his dressing room after tho con test, Marshall stated that the de islon of Referee Downing was a Just one. ns Nelson had outclassed him In four of the six rounds. Marshall said that he was entitled to only one round tho second, tho others going to N i-i.on i-i.on by a shade, although the first Avas oven. At Infighting, the Sacramento youtn clearly outclassed the Poise ' Bearcat" but was woefully weak at range fighting fight-ing and boxing Nelson used li Is boxing box-ing knowledge to gain him the do-1 clslon, Marshall's style leading most of the spectators to believe that Nelson Nel-son was holding on. As a matter of fact Marshall was doing the holding on during tho greater part of tho mill. The Sacramento boxer showed to hits best In the second round. Ho landed land-ed a number of clean blows to Nelson's Nel-son's Jaw and forced the Boise man Into the ropes time nnd again From this round until tho final bell, j ihowevcr, Nelson outclassed his opponent. oppo-nent. While many of the fans present were of the opinion that the contest jsitould have been a good draw, others I opined that Marshall should have had tho decision , ROCKSON WINS. Mickey Rockspn, after winning e decision over Dell Adams some time ago only to later lose a decision to I tho Welser lad. ended all doubt of his victory by sending tho Welserlte to the land of tho birdies In the third i round of their scheduled six-round i isenitwindup. After shading Adams in i tho first two rounds. Rockson rushed from his corner at the opening of rth third round, sending over a sledgo Jiam.ncr right to Adams' Jaw which sent the big boy down for the count , of nine. On regaining his feet Rock- j son slammed over another rlirht which round Its resting place, Adams goinr out for tho count. Les Dals of Ogden challenged the winner. In iho principal four round bout of the evening, Billio Johnson of Oir-len Oir-len and .Tim Curpenter of Salt Laki : ought four rounds to a draw Carpenter landed a number of loan blows in this bout but John-roll's John-roll's efforts in the final rounds overcame over-came his lead and earned the local 1 glove slingor a draw verdict. SNEDDON GE7TS DRAW, s Jack Sneddon of Ogden and Les ; O'Dair of Salt Lake battled four pep pery rounds to a draw in tho other -aturc four round eent. Sneddon kissed the canvas three times In the first round, going down for the count of nine twice and for the count of four once. O'Dair landed telling blows to tho Jaw in this frame, but Sneddon managed to weather through j in' round. In the second round Sneddon sent i I Dalr down for a clean knockdown Uurlng the balance of the fight he iabored consistently, overcoming the lead of his opponent. The work of Sneddon in the final two rounds outclassed out-classed that of his opponent The draw verdict proved popular. Bill 1 isti-r of Salt Lake, the ' fighting fight-ing comedian," won in the third rouna o1 a scheduled four-round mill from Sailor Root of San Francisco with a technical knockout- Referee Downing Down-ing stopped the bout after Root had gono to the mat on several occasions. Plater clearly outclassed his opponent In all departments. piling up big leads in the first two rounds, before I gaining his victory in the third. In the curtain raiser Young McCoy Mc-Coy of Ogden won from Kid Rogers of Salt Lak.j In the first round. A smashing right to the stomach ended this battle. Promoter Downing announced that efforts would bo made to match Mickey Rockson and Ties Davl the main event next week, oo |