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Show J try-u;atti. ThU r,.H credit fo pluc aijr? tiR l1(Jr, hear'. j lhfr are pl-Liv m p.-nple who t- '!eve that, v-i Hat tj.,p a defeated f thnnij.icn. riri .-kcn. ie regnln M.I I Hilc. Wolga.n fcli.j-.jld do the S3im-I S3im-I 'bin-.-. 'llNelOri Generally Ratei I Nine out r,( ton e-xnerts that . r"N-.-liTi (s -in." u'.iiiiir lj Im-n Judue a n;,n , j- j irfo.rri!anr( 8 ;' i i riMnpaic- his work with that done In j former Hs-fn Ttie sight cf N l.-o:. Iv-lus tuatcn to a -landstlll ly a irnn without a pun-.-n. hammered until h- I hrok- ground and literally whli,I",,l I j until he- r.ul.J not. ralso his handrf. . prrvs that Bat" mnln ar.ot went . I lnck on lilm in ti ls llcht: ho didn't I hae llio stamina, r.u l as that was i about all ho rv.-r h-d. he was left In the rln with hi dinky uliort nrni pnnrhr-B and Iim n-rvi'. Bolorc calln ttV Mrcophatu. permit tne to r riitud you of that Ihinl flcht with Jimmy livnro of thn Twn T-Hi'ii, PfaVB. Kery-liody Kery-liody tho;icht Unt ..as .ill in afir that fisht. Hrlit wa .;clably ih gf-ntloyt lit'.Io nun. her that ver llwl. yt hf v.hnl--.l and slarur-d and rlppfil Hat from one end if t n i rinp ! the other. oth-er. After tho tf Mth round and toward to-ward th- end of the flubl Bat could not rale cither haul to deliver n punch. Hilly Nolan was hehir.d Hal I that rillit. aDd hctuc-en ihcni they dec: up the story of ino bffsteak atxl actually managed to pit it over. And what did Mr. N Isoa do then, poor (hint;? Oh, n-.lhliis much; hut Tv Hlmply walloped the life out of Joe Gans and liwann1 . champion. Anyone Any-one seeing him in the rins that nlyht w ith Brltt would ha', e been justified in coin? to the nearest fiorint'n and turning In an order lor n broken eo! tirnn with the flsureg S-'i-lO" across the baKe. He came hack lhat time. Perhaps he belieea he can 'o it a?nln. "When this f"inw Is lieaten." said Billy .Nolan, "y..u ran say thct )v world never saw a ir.an llle him." "or once my lot rhlc with Nolan's, and Hill Nnuhlon nicked out the hap-piesi hap-piesi phrase of hU life when he christened chris-tened Hat "TIm' Durable Dane." Hr-was Hr-was all of ihat. but even a Dane wears out some I line. (let in the wacon. Hat? No! Oh, vciy well, walk then! if LSI HAS IT ,,:JISjAIEII Ne-v Yotk, March 3. There was ro false alarm about' it this time, ..h? They brought of: the lu-are for )Ir. II. Nelson, and ilicy did not go to the trouble nf Rreasln f up aln. The only untoward incM'ini in connection ith the whole aff.ilr seems to bo a Rtir.n; disinclination on the pan t,f Mr. R. Nrlfon fo ile In the .wagon. He says ho wishes to walk lo his own funeral. Thl ; 1 not in uncommon fai:incr aitmiiR the gentlemen of the mlit. ' ' Kun back over 'lie list and see how-few how-few of them rfalJy. knew when they had eno ich. Tblr.lt or the TatH farewells fare-wells in the llmelK-ht -Mass ?iI6ne. Ii &eems to be tho Jmrde.it thicc In the weil.l to convince a fifrhtln; man that, flefeit conies uot ro nnch of the Fiipe-liorit;- of tho other fellow as 'by hU own Inferiority. 1 ' Thci-e are two tnen who will always be reineuilierd itecnupe they knew when they were ibrcush. One of them was John f.. Sullivan and the other was Jack Dumpier. Demysey's defeat de-feat broke his boatt and sent hlni Into a decline, anil thouKh there were times v.hen old John L. rumbled, it was only the ruulx-rlng of an extinct volcano and ineafli nothing whatever. Hi pever . mad-,o real effort to get back Into the rln a;;aln. He knew j when he v as thrtnuh. John was one I man In a million' In about a million different ways; and one (.f those ways was lhat he knew, when to nhove back, from the (able anil say "plenty." Not a Cheerful Sight. It i? not a cheerful sight lo see a once great flihtc; braely Irylng to overcome iluv hau'ilran of age ami burned out lissa'.',' (tying to make a stout heart and an s'tlve brain do the work of a strong bi.dy. It semis the average man aa)' from the. ringside with a bad las'e In his mouth. Sporting Sport-ing men, as a rule, like to remember, the lighter ai his'lc.sl. They want lo think of him as !i naed to be a tlvin-ilerbolt tlvin-ilerbolt for action ;nd a master In hio line. If a man retires in time, people always al-ways say of him; : "What a grea;1 fighter he was!" If he stays too long, they Fay: "What a poor excuse for a Dghter he Is!" ' Billy Rf.thvcll did not know when he j had enough. It I f came necessary to I convince him, and now the memory that he whipped the great Terry Me Govern .stands fle by side with that of the other l.altrv, when Hilly r.ollt well went down to defeat at the hands of Herrcra and. ..Others not p.j well know n. " . Old Hob Ki'fzhJivuions has been a coon's a.e learning that he has had enough, . and before the end of his light Inc career he tasted the bitterness bitter-ness of complete defeat at the hands of such a man ?s Lang. Tacked on the end of Hob's jreat record are a string of 'defeat. Hetter for him if he had slopped after the second fight w I tli Jeffries. ' Then, too, there was Joe Cans .Toe knew almost erytT;ng there was to be known about the ring, but he dh! not know when It was time to futt , and Nelson, like a generous winner, gave him a aecod chance and a severe beating. Now it Is Dai Nelson who wants lo |