The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-11-04
CoIored Man About All
in at End Of tho
Fourth.
ATTACK ON REFEREE
Made BY Britt, While
Crowd Went Wild
With Rage.

Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco,
Oct. 31.-With a whirlwind of blows,
terrific in energy and unerring in aim,
Jimmy Britt tonight hammered the
great negro lightweight Joe Cans, i'So
submission. Saved by the bell in the
fourth round after being floored twice
by the succession of sledge-hammer
iolts the white boy had delivered,
Cans toed the mark in the fifth fozzy
and weak. His gameness helped the
negro however, and he met Britt with
such willingness that the fighters
mixed 1t in one of the fiercest bits Of
work ever seen on the coast Britt,
however, was the stronger and more
able of the two and finally fighting off
the negro, went to him again with ter
rible string of over hand rights and
lefts, every one landing on Cans jaw.
The negro attempted to recover but
finally sank to the floor. His bull
dog strength enabled him to rise
without taking the count but when he
was still on one knee on the floor,
Britt maddened with the ferocity of a
tiger, leaped at the crouching negro
and with a mighty swing, sent his
right with awful force to the negros S
Jaw. The latter toppled back At
this moment Referee Eddy Graney
waived Britt off, disqualifying him
and gave the fight to Cans on the pal
pable foul. This followed a somewhat
similar incident in the fourth round
when Cans claimed Britt had hit him
when he was down. Graney did not
allow the foul then, because the blow
was light and apparently an accident.
Britt's wonderful showing against
Cans, supposed to be his superior, has
set his partisan sympathizers wild
with enthusiasm as the second round
on it was seen that the white man
was in magnificent form and bound to
whip Cans barring accident. The
wildly cheering crowd had been keep
ing up continual yell during the
fourth and fifth rounds. When the
full purport of Graney's decision was
understood an uproar of demonstra-
tion occurred.
Britt was so enraged by his loss of
the fight through the foul that he
turned on Graney, swung blow after
blow to the referees face and body
and forced him to the ropes much as
he had hammered Cans. He was evil
IDENTIFY half crazed and more like a
demon than boxer.
Fifty policemen were in the ring in
no time and two big blue coats over
powered Britt and held him until his
seconds got the little pugilist quieted.
Other policemen faced the crowd and
prevented a mobbing of the ring.
Cans seconds got him up and assist
ed him to his dressing room.
The crowd was all for Britt. De-
spite the clean-cut foul by which he
lost the fight. his showing retained
him his friends and while Graney's
decision was Kissed and hooted. Britt
received salvos of applause, his face
working with rage and disgust, he
clambered through the ropes and
showed his way through the crowd to
his dressing room.
While every one admitted that Cans
was all but outclassed by Britt. the
level headed sports present declared
that they had never seen more rep
rehensible foul committed in the ring.
They said it was due to Britt's early
training. which consisted of rough and
tumble "scrapping" whore the one rule
was to win by any means available.
THE FIGHT BY ROUNDS.
Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco.
Oct 3l,-The crowd filled the gallery
and by $3.50 o'clock the rest of the pa
yilion was filled also. There were
many well known followers of the
prize ring present and a number of
men who have won laurels of their
own. The betting was not particularly
brisk but what there was showed
Cans the favorite. the odds at o'clock
being to Ga to 10 to 6.
Cans was being looked after by AL
Herford, his manager; Frank McDon-
aid and Kid Sullivan, while Spider"
Kelly, sam Berger ana Smillng Nc
Gar had an eye on Britt.
Young Corbett and Battling Nell
son who are to engage in a 20-round
go here on November Goth were intro
duced to the crowd after two prelim-
inaries and provoked burst Of
cheers.
The men weighed In full view of the
crowd, the scales being placed in the
center of the ring.
With the scales set at 1873 pounds,
Cans failed to raise the beam and this
proof that he was under weight raised
n cheer from the crowd. Britt also
showed that he was unde' the weight.