The San Francisco call., 1904-12-21

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marked degree, but for a time to no
avail. Britt finally turned loose a ter
rite fire on Nelson's head. He aimed
blow after blow with right and left
that went true to the mark.
Nelson STOOD peering at Britt over
his gloves and the blows might just as
well have fallen on stone wall. Mel
son suddenly got into action and went
after Britt who seemed on the verge
Of going down when the gong ended
the fighting. Britt came up confident
in the thirteenth round and commenced
peppering Nelson's nose, which began.
to bleed badly. During one of the mix
ups Nelson slipped to the floor, but he
was up and fighting in an instant
SOME FAST FIGHTING.
Britt presented a CORY appearance
from the fourteenth round on. Nell
son butted him over the left eye as he
rushed in at the opening of the round
and cut Britt severely. Nelson kept
on playing with his left to the head,
but could not land an effective blow
Britt hooked his left over repeatedly
and kept Nelson's nose bleeding
Britt tired again in the fifteenth
round from a fusillade of blows to the
head. He came back with a right and
left, but Nelson paid no heed to them
and continued to bore in. Britt ducked
one of Nelson's wild swings and over
balanced himself. falling on his back
He was up in an instant and Nelson
went after him, trying to take him off
his balance again. One of Nelson's
blows went low and nearly stopped
Britt.
The sixteenth round was the most
desperate of all the fight. Nelson
sDrang from his chair and fairly ran
across the ring after Britt. His i'm
petuous attack sent Britt back on the
ropes and Nelson landed a right and
left to the head which shook up Britt
badly. Britt backed away for a time
and then they stood in the middle of
the ring and exchanged blow for blow
1t seemed some one of them must go
down under the attack: the bell rang
with both men still on their feet fight
ing.
THE DANE RUSHES.
Nelson rushed at Britt again at the
opening of the seventeenth round and
Britt held on to avoid punishment
Britt sent in one hard right to the head
but took lot of lefts to the head in
return. Britt shook up Nelson with a
right and left to the head and tried to
wrestle him to the mat
Britt went back to his boxing tao
tics in the eighteenth round and danced
out of danger for some time. He found
II difficult as he had all through the
fight to keep away from Nelson and
got some hard lefts to the head. Britt
also tore left to the body and a right
to the head that would have stopped
any ordinary fighter, but Nelson is not
an ordinary fighter. The adherents of
the two boxers set up counter cries for
their favorites and the building re-
sounded with the names of Britt and
Nelson.
Britt evidently was playing for a de-
cision in the nineteenth round. in the
early stages of which he did everything
except fight. Nelson finally walked
into a hard right, and as Britt was
backing away he landed another right.
Nelson then walked into a hard right
straight on the jaw, but he only shook
his head and kept boring in. Near the
end of the round Nelson sent Britt back
with right to the head.
END is NEAR.
Britt did the major portion of the
scoring in the twentieth round. al
though Nelson sent right and left to
the body that increased the uproar
among the spectators. Britt landed a
hard left to the jaw and then a right.
He had just landed a right and left tc
the head when the gong sounded the
end of the fight. There was no demon
stration when Referee Roche led Britt
to one side and pointed to Jimmy as
the winner.
AS the immense gathering was dis
persing there was much quiet discus
sion, but the only claims the Nelson
men made were for the aggressiveness
of their favorite and not for any skill
which he had shown. While he was
boring in and leaning on Britt he was
scoring few clean blows, while Britt
wasted but few punches throughout.
Z PRINCIPALS ARRIVE.
At 9:25 p. m. a cheer from the spec
tators in the eastern gallery notified
the immense throng that the fighters
were en- route to the ring. Britt led
the, way and received a great cheer.
He was followed by Spider" Kelly.
Tiv Kreling, Curtis Richardson and
Frank Rafael, who were his seconds,
Immediately behind the aggregation
came Battling Nelson and his sec
onds-Teddy Murphy, Stockings Kelly.
Marvin Hart and Eddie Santry. The
men shook hands and repaired to their