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Show NELSON IS TOO TOUGH TO BE HURT BY BLOWS (By Tad.) New York, June 5. Battling Nelson, Nel-son, champion of the world. Not changed a bIL Isn't even mussed any. No nicks on it. Still there. Dick Hy- - v.. unii i ii r jh.iv rif- land. the whalebone lad, who was touted tout-ed to be as strong as Gibraltar, as rough as the seas and a bear for punishment, pun-ishment, folded up like an accordion and was carried out of the ring Saturday Sat-urday a sadder and a wiser lad. Ho was the boy who was to trim the Dane. They said the author was a has-been. They said that if it took him twenty rounds to best poor old Joe Cans, Hy-land Hy-land would get Bat in half the time. Hyland did pretty well at that. He fought the Dane, too to toe, for twenty twen-ty rounds, and during that time a pillow slip might havo covered both without even a hand being stuck out. It was one of those gruelling body fights, with punches landing as fast as a Catling gun could turn out pellets. pel-lets. The hardy Hyland began to weaken then. The strain was too much. The superhuman Dane was still there with a grin, belting away at Dick's commissary commis-sary department and switching to the Jaw for variety. He hailed the mov-I mov-I ing picture man. saying that the finl3h was eomlnfr nn,l in oat j well dltccted rights, but at no time did the Dane show signs of taking the mat. In a forty-flvq. round fight Bat'Jooks j to be as rough as ever. Freddie Welsh probably will be the next boy to get him on. Ho can do 133 and Coffroth is trying to sign the pair for July. j Hyland held on for three more rounds, I more dead than alive, and as dangerous danger-ous as a keg of wet powder. A stiff left dig to the stomach sent him down on his back and the fight was over. Tbey are wondering if the Dane Is still as good as he was. No one can answer that. He always did look liko a sucker, but he always did finish. He never was a quick finisher. Twenty-three Twenty-three rounds is about the usual route for Nelson.. All his fights go about that distance. Ho knocked out Spider Welch in 16 Martin Canole In 18. Martin Canton in 19; Young Corbelt twice, one going 10 rounds and the next 9; Jimmy Britt in 18, Joe Gana twice, one in 17 and Ime oiner in z. There is no way to dope him on , this go at ail. Hyland is a young hull; he can take the hardest punishment pun-ishment that was ever dealt out. and still come for more. Nelson's stvle is the wearing, pulling hauling, tiring style. They say now that he is a better bet-ter boxer than he ha? over been bo-fore. bo-fore. Ho is Just as touch, though. Hyland Hy-land rocked his head a few times w ith |