The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-16
SPORTING NEWS.
Jimmy Britt Tells of His COM
ing Fight.
Thinks He Has q Good Chance
to Defeat C0rbett.
is NOT SCARED AT ALL.
Champions Terrible Right Has
No Terrors for Him.
Declares the Denver Lad Has
His Style of Action.

San Francisco. Jan. 16.-With the
Hayes Valley club selected as the place
for their mill. young Corbett'' and
Jimmy Britt will now get down to bust
ness in training. Britt, who is carrying
his arm about in a. plaster cast, has I'M
limited confidence that he will land the
championship. He gives his reasons for
his belief as follows:
Il expect to beat Young Corbett when
we meet next month. I don't mind
weak points, and where, IN a general
In the first place, 1 have had the
pleasure of seeing Young Corbett fight
mere, and he has nothing on me in that
line, although. he sat at the ringside
when beat Martin Candle.
Il know just what are Corbett's best
blows and l have studied out ways to
block or avoid them, and to render them
innocuous by planting counters where
they will do the most good.
"Corbett has great right hand. He
walloped Hanlon with that in good
style, just as he did Terry McGovern.
That isn't to say that he is going to
have any lead pipe cinch landing it on
me. I have just the kind of a style
right hook. Martin Candle is about as
clever as they come in small packages,
and anybody who sat at the ringside
will tell you that he didn't connect with
his right, although he let it go on an
average of about once a second for 25
rounds
Il have the original crouch, and a lot
of these fellows have taken a tumble
trying to find out how 1 do it. I bend
over little and draw my left shoulder
up so that it covers my chin. My left
hand is stuck out where it will do the
most good, and I have my right poised
ready to cut loose a wallop whenever L
get an opening.
They can't get at my chin with the
right, and SO I've got that famous
punch of Corbett's 'coppered' Candle
got at me once in a while by shifting
and bringing his left up into my ribs,
and he hit me d few thousand times on
the forehead, but he had about as
much chance to find my chin as one of
these explorer guys has to locate the
North Pole. And the only time he
landed in my abdominal regions was
when he used the shift. L am glad
! Corbett saw that fight. 1t may make
him try to fight cleyerly, and 1 like
those clever fellows.
LAS for hitting Gorbett 1 won't have
to get any red and blue rugged target
painted on him. He's no Spider KEEL
| ley for getting out of the way.
| In fact we fight a lot alike in some
ways. There will be a lot of hitting in
| this fight before the count begins on
| ing to my corner and listening to it. 1
| expect to take some punching. A fell
| low has to assimilate a conglomerated
assortment of punches during a fight
with any good man. Corbett is a hard
little fellow, but he isn't any better at
| getting away with a walloD than l
am.
"A lot of the wise ones are croaking
about the weight being too light for
me. Well, there's nobody that knows
| better than ]. Edward Britt what
| weight he can fight strong at. I never
| made a speciality of going around and
renting fences to paint signs on to tip
off everything 1 know. Here's just one
thing I will say about weights. Last
July, when Jack O'Keefe was to have
| fought me at the Yosemite club at 1873
and came in weighing ten pounds over
1 stepped on the scales in a fun suit
| of wooden underwear and didn't raise
the beam. I was at least suit of un-
derwear under 1873. and I was as good
for that fight as it was possible for me
to get, because I has q private reason
for wanting to put O'Keefe out of the
running. Anybody who thinks that
am likely to fall down and cough my
self to death at $50 is welcome to his
opinion, but I'd hate to have any opu-
lent personal friends of mine fall into
genteel poverty through entertaining
that misconception of the facts"