Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 210, Hammond, Lake County, 23 February 1910 — Page 3
"Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1910.
THE TII.IES.
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EAST CHICAGO. On Monday evening Mrs. George K. Lewis entertained fifteen ladles of the Thimble club at a 6 o'clock dinner. All the ladles were garbed in Martha "Washington costumes and the decorations were flags and cherry trees, with a table centerpiece of a large cherry tree, with cherries on it. The next
meeting will be held at the . home of Mrs. William Curry at her home in One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, a
jreek from next Thursday. The high school alumni dance last night was such a success that it is likely the event will be made an annual one. It was held at Weiland's hall, thirty couples participating.. The hall was decorated with school banners, and the pennants of the various fraternities, and looked very pretty. The majority present were alumni of the high school, but there were a few outsiders present. Punch was served throughout the evening and Stirling's orchestra played. Abe Cohen is here from New York, representing his road, the Delaware & Lackawanna at the cement show. Mr. Cohen is in the engineering department and meets with his brother engineers in the auditorium every mornln during the period of the exhibition, attending the latter evenings.. Wh e here Mr. Cohen is visiting his pents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cohen.
The agency of the "Whiting LaundryJ
wm oe at tadd's billiard hall, 4603 Forsythe avenue, East Chicago, ,ud- 18-f-m-w A D. Gray has purchased the painting and decoratiner business nr iihr
Lewis, who has decided to dispose of I
INDIANA HARBOR. The new Odd Fellows lodge
hold an election tonight in the Audi
torium lodge rooms of trustees for the
next term.
Sam Barker will go into the electri
cal contracting business on Watling
street in tne twar future.
VV . Lonwav. rpnrMsntlnir Ha
uant Distilling' company of Dant, Ky.
a spending a few days in town on
our 'or his firm.
TV 4ies of the Baptist church will
a .a.nC saie a wnanes iu. Fowler s
office next Saturday.
Dave Barker xt 3342 Michigan ave
nue is visiting his brothre, I. e. Barker,
in wneeim, "w. Va.
Jim Potesta of One Hundred and Forty-first street and Euclid avenue was successful last night in throwing the 440-pound bear Jumbo, which Is being
exniDitea at the Gem theater by his
trainer and owner, Jim Stevens.
Jack Heathcook of South Chicago has taken the management of the Fau's
excnange saloon, on Michigan avenu
which is owner by Thomas O'Connell.
TOD SLOAN'S
BROTHER FIGHTS
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Auempms, lenn., Feb. 23. Fighters
reiurnjng irom Jacksonville report the advent in the prize ring of Cash Slr,A
an old-time jockey and brother of Tod
ioan. uasn met Kid Jacobs, a Chi
cago Dantam, and beat him to the de cision in a six round bout. Cash weigh, ed around the 110-pound notch
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his business, as it interfered with hisj CALENDAR OP SPORTS duties as chief of police. f ' FOR THE V
Mrs. Fred Kascall spent yesterday in
cnicago the guest of her daughter, Mrs.
f oster Moore.
The Ladies' Aid. society of the Con
gregational church are being enter
talned today at a thimble party given by Mrs. A. II. W. Johnson of Magoun
avenue.
Herman Fedder returned to work to
day after an illness of several days
at nis old home in Laporte,
vmie iauey, tne young son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Bailey, who Is sick with
the scarlet fever, is reported much bet ter.
Nassau & Thompson have Just re
ceived an assortment of autocrat lin
en, 50 and 60 cents.. Box stationery which will sell from now until Easter at the remarkable low price of 30 and 35 cents per box. 17-6t
PACKEY" TO SAIL s FOR AMERICA Packey McFarland, the stockyards lightweight, will sail for America on March 15. His cousin, John McFarland, received a letter from London yesterday In which Packey declared himself sick and tired of his experience in trying to secure e battle with Welsh. According to his letter, Packey will go after the men of his class when he lands here.
ROSSIIAN UNDERGOESOPERATION Dstrolt. Mich., Feb. 23. Claude Rossman, ex-Tig-er, now with Columbus, operated on by Dr. Keane, the Detroit club's phya-ician, today. He had a bad growth on one of his feet, which he blames for his poor batting and fielding in 1909.
f OK. THE WEEK.
WEDNESDAY. Woman's South Florida golf championship tournamnt starts at Palm Beach. THURSDAY. Opening of automobile shows in Toronto, Ont, and Blnhamton, N. Y. Annual meeting of Dominion of Canada Rifle Asoclation at Ottawa. Annual election of officers of the Aeronautic Society of Amerlea. FRIDAY. National amateur wrestling championships begin at the 1111nois A. G, Chicago.
Annual indoor games of the Mercury A C. at Yonkers V. v
Pal Moore vs. Bovo Drlsr-nii
10 rounds, at New York.
SATURDAY.
-Openlnar of annual tournament' of American Eowllng Congress in Detroit. Annual convention of Intercollegiate A. A. A A. in New York. Annual Indoor athletic meet of the Seventy-fourth regiment at Buffalo. Annual indoor meet of Fordham University Athletis Association at New York. Annual indoor met of First Regiment A. C. at Cincinnati.
Manager Griffith of the Cincinnati Reds put over the biggest deal of the year when he traded Huggins, Oakes and Corridon to St. Louis for Beebe and Storke.
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Hammond's Favorite Fighter after a Long: Ring: Career Gives Way to Ad Wolgast in Frisco
KNOCKOUT SAVED !f ,1 Forty Fearful Rounds Are Fought by the Lad From Over the Line.
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San Francisco, Feb. 23. Adolph Wolgast of Milwaukee defeated Battling Nelson of Hegewisch, 111., for the light-
" -.u.t..uiiouui oi ine world yesterday afternoon in the fortieth round
oi ineir scheduled forty-five round fight at the Point Richmond arena. Referee
f-aaie tomitn stopped the one-sided con
.ci io save me jjane the stiema of an
actual knockout only after Nelson had
received such a beating such as old
time ring followers maintain never be-
iore was seen in the American ring. Nelson was on the verge of coll&nsA
when the bout was halted. Blinded and battered until his features were siost beyond recognition, the Durable jana
lougnt grimly into the last ditch, although fearful from the thirtieth round of the fate in store. It was another case of youth asrainst as-e. n th
Wblgast, tV.-s aim.
outclassed the battle-scarred veTeran in
every branch of the game.
NEILS ON GAME TO TTXTJ. Game to the last. Nelson stood In the
center of the blood-besnattered rlnc
and even though lie could scarcely
raise his hands begged to "be allowed to
continue. His face was battered to a pulp, his eyes closed, his Hps puffed.
and, covered with gore, the conqueror of Jo Gans presented a pitiable spectacle. In '. he ' opposite corner of the
arena the new champion was lifted to
the shoulders of his trainers and
cheered to the echo by 11,000 frenaled
pectators.
Only once in the fight did Nelson have
a chance; in the twenty-second round,
when, with a stinging right cross to the
aw, he staggered Wolgast. Before th
bell clanged he dropped the Mllwau
keean In the middle of the ring with
Imilar blow for the three count.
Ill feeling which existed between the
principals cropped out from the very start, and this grudge drove the men
to their work with the fury of two en
raged wildcats. Nelson, the sturdy- old gladiator, displayed all the confidence
n the world at the start, and even in
the thirty-ninth round, when his condition bespoke an early fall he was
the same fighter, apparently infallible
gainst the terrific hammering of the
little German.
FACTS ABOUT' LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT. Victor Adolph Wolgajit, Milwaukee, looser BattUig Nelson, Heffewlach. III. ' Duration of boat Forty roan da. Weight ot principals 133 pound ringside. Title at stake Uffhtwelgbt fhm, plonship. 1nr"p Nelson's share, 912,000; Wolgast $5,000. Attendance 11,000. Groan receipts 940,000. Referee Eddie Smith. ,
First Round in Which Nelson
Ever Failed to Stick to Bell ROUND FORTY Nelson walked after Wolgast, swinging in an erratic manner. He was easy, to avoid, as usual. Referee Smith stopped the fight just as Wolgast delivered two hard rights on the jaw. Nelson was on his feet but in bad condition. Nelson wanted to continue and shaped himself as if about to tackle Wolgast, but Wolgast pushed him aside. , Smith warned Nelson to quit. Smith watched the Battler closely when he came out for the fortieth round, and after Wolgast had landed the two blows held his glove aloft and declared him the winner. '
The Conqueror of O. Batling Nelson
During the last twelve rounds Nel-
seeraea Dewiidered, and his blows
were sent is as though he held weight
in his hands. From the thirtieth round
tue iaiuer could hardly see or hear the left side of his face having lost all'
-"-c 10 us xormer contour. He
siiggerea and hung on. and In the thirty-seventh he was all but out, but
bhii ne iacea the storm. In the thirty-eighth round, John Robinson, Nelson's manager, wanted to throw the sponge into the ring, but Abdul, the Turk, one of the seconds, tore It from his hands and tossed it into the bucket. Prom then on. in each round, Robinson protested on the verge of tears that his man was beaten. At the start of the fortieth Referee Smith asked Nelson if he wanted to quit, and the Dane, unable to speak, merely shook his head negatively. When thirty seconds of the fortieth round had gone, as darkness was beginning to creep over the scene of the fight and a full moon Just beginning to
peep through the clouds. Smith raised
Wolgast's glove Into the air and a new
ugniweignt champion had come into
nstania.
C0NLEY STOPS .
ATTELL AFTER
LONG STRUGGLE!
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VETEIlAJfS ARE SURPRISED.
Veteran pugilistic authorities, who
advanced the prediction that Wolgas would taste defeat between, the twenty
fifth and thirtieth rounds, were dumb
founded by the showing of the youngster. With a wide margin to start the thirtieth, "Wolgast buckled down to his
knitting, , and, fighting with all the vulnerable points well covered, stood
toe to toe with the champion until the
latter was forced to back-pedal.
In twenty-two rounds Wolgast rolled
up such a big shade In the points that Nelson seemed hopelessly out of the running, and all the daunted slugging
of the Dane went for nothing against
the rapid-fire punching of the Cream
City boy. The Battler scored a slight
edge in seven rounds only, and in
eleven periods the milling raged along
even lines.
FIRST BLOOD TO JTEXSOX. First blood went to Nelson when he
slammed a vicious swing against Wolgast's right eye in the second, bring
ing blood from the mutilated optic Ad returned the favor in the ninth with a murderous hook, cutting Nelstfn's ear.
As early as the twelfth Nelson showed
signs of weakening under the blows driven from every angle by his elusive
opponent.
Nelson tossed a fearful chill into the
Wolgast adherents in the fourth round by staggering the little German, but ih the next three periods Wolgast came !
back fighting like a demon. A chance
swing in the eighth gave Nelson the round. The boys fought along about even in the ninth and tenth, then Wolgast's hitting brought him to the front.
Plungers throughout the crowd changed the betting odds to even in the fifteenth, but little Nelson coin could be
found. In the eighteenth Nelson waxed talkative and, turning to Wolgast while locked in a clinch, the Battler said: "'How do you feel, German Kid?" "As if I were a punching bag," came the ready rejoinder of the easy-going Wolgast. And he punctuated the remark with a couple of mighty wallops against Nelson's mangled visage. The crowd prepared to leave the arena In the twenty-second, when Nelson bowled Wolgast over, and word went from bench to b4nch through the spectators that another boy had fallen to the wonderful durability of the Dane. But In another round Wolgast recuperated and from then on, slowly, steadily, but surely, wore Nelson down.
los Angeles, Feb. 23. Frankie Con-
jr uv xvenosna, wis., knocked out
Monte Attell of San Francisco yesterday in the forty-second round. The fight was scheduled for forty-five rounds and was for the bantamweight
cnampionsmp. Attell was badly pun-
isnea. and when Conley knocked him
aown in the forty-second round his
Botonas xnrew up ttie sponge before
tne count was finished.
Conley emerged from the encounter
without a scratch, while Attell lay on
me noor for two minutes after receiv
ing Conley's finishing blow on the jaw; his left eye entirely closed and badly
disfigured; his mouth and nose bleeding and his lips swollen and bruised.
Conle danced to his corner.
Alien never seemed to be able to break through Conley's defense. He
perceptibly weakened in the thirtyninth round, when Conley landed a
heart blow and he was going down hill
from that point until the finish.
Attell started the forty-second round with his usual rush, but slipped
and Tell. Conley waited for him to
rise and then staggered him with a
series of lefts and rights. As he came away from a clinch Attell was dazed
by Jabs and turned his back to run.
Conley suddenly drove his right to the
Jaw, andthe fight was over.
conley wins the McCarey diamond
belt for the bantamweight champion
ship.
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WHAT THE PRINCIPALS SAID ABOUT THE BATTLE. San Francisco, -Feb. 23. The principals in the championship bout, including;the referee, expressed themselves as follows after the battle: BY ADOLPH WOLGAST. My fight' was like a training boiit. Only once did he bother me, and that was in' the twenty-second round. Nelson hurt me more by butting me than anything else, and 'I felt funny for Just a few seconds. I cannot say anything as to my future plans, but I . am ready to give
aeserving lightweights a chance. BT BATTLING NELSON. - I am sorry they called -the fight off when they did. I think 1 could have stayed the forty-five rounds, but have no complaint to make. Wolgast put up a good battle, but my seconds seemed to be more anxious about my condition than I wa myv self. ,
BV REFEREE E. SMITH. Wolgast fought Nelson at his own game and beat him fairly and squarely. Nelson complained at times of Wolgast butting, but I paid little heed, as it was simply the case of , Nelson getting the worst of a game where both were equally guilty. Both men fought the same, but one had youth, the power, to come back, while the thirteen yearn of fighting through which Nelson had gone had sapped his strength and left ' him without the old snap, dash and stamina.
NELSON'S
FATE HITS HEGEIU
Gloom Pervades Hammond
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place in Hegewisch where gloom was deep. Everybody in the town was mourning the defeaj of its favorite son who once had been boomed for mayor of the place. Nowhere could the acknowledgement that Nelson was no longer champion be secured. Every one in Hegewisch old enough to know there Is such a thing as prize fighting stoatly
declared that Nelson was still the greatest fighter in the world and af
firmed that he would come back and defeat Wolgast. Gloom Thick In Hegrewtncb.
Notwithstanding the confidence in the defeated idol, gloom was thi.ck In Hegewisch as the night wore on. In response to a -call at a late hour, a telephone operator at the suburb stated
tne reelings in the little place bv nv
Ing: "Hegewisch is sick tonight, very
ionnres had been erected by friends of the former champion to celebrate the
victory iney thought surely would be his, but few ever were Iierhtert -t,
. Hegewisch went to its sick bed early
wicn noining to celebrate.
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HAYES GETS DECISION
"If Battling Nelson lost, he did so
putting up the greatest fight of his
Sporting Briefs
Hartford has released Tom Mc-
Go at New Orleans.
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Hyland Beaten in 10 Bound : "
night soon after the flash had come! Chicago fans are worried over the
over the wires that th run. ni. fact tu , .. .
N I . , .. . -' . iuicc-tiugerea crown nas ew Orleans. La., Feb. 23. Grover able no more and had met his maj.r ... ...
Hayes was given the decision last in Wolgast. i "" SIErneQ ms contract with the Cubs.
night over Fighting Dick Hyland In a 1 won't be!l that v, . nly cfttcher who ever led the ten round fight at the Rayol A. C. Both a,ft , :::TfS Deen Clonal league in batting was the late
boys were aggressive throughout. In ally. T r h ,7,
the seventh round Hyland left eye he will com ZZ7" L."
was completely closed and he fought He is the greatest little fighter the
world has ever known."
The mother of the former king of the
138-pounders . was the bravest of the
entire family in face of defeat. Battling's sister and brother, IdaT and
Johnny, were near tears as they stood by their mother and Nels Nelson, the father of the fighter, was on the veree
of prostration
The old Dane, who has worshiped his
fighting son since he arrived at the top of the pugilistic ladder, had heard the
at a disadvantage from that time on.
Neither man went to the mat.
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DEWEY LASTS MINUTE Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 23. Nat Dewey lasted a minute before Sam Lang-ford last night, arely flfty-flv eseconds had passed before Langford sent Dewey to the flor for the" count of ten with a terrific jcJt to the Jaw.
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for a purse and a side het of i nnn '""'-na rouna came in over
over the twenty round route. Coulon "cer nis eyes sparkled. Wolgast
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lose. ' I lievei he was about to go the route
trans and.th others traveled.
Kelson's Father Goes Home.
As Wolgast rallied back and as round
after round showed Nelson was losing j his strength, the old man could bear j to hear the news no longer. When the i thirty-first round was completed he j secretly, acknowledged the defeat of j his son by going home. He knew that I the Battler's last chance was gone and j did not want to be present as the news i of the finish came. j The Nelson home was not the only"
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