The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-23
|BRlT1 AND white
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. {:
#Eiglisinnall Starts for Pacific
Coast and Will Go Into
IL Training at Once.
DATE NOT YET ARRANGED
Visitor Is Likely Looking Chap
WHO Expects to Make
Good Showing.
by Associated Press

8 (By Associated Prcss) NJ
"a NEW YORK, March 2s.-Charlic Mitchell.
manager for Jabez White. the lightweight
champion of England, announced to-day that.
q match had been made by telegraph for "a
fight between WHITE and James Britt. The
detb OF theT match and tho amount OF tho
. pure were yetsundccided, Mitchcll said, but
The division Of the purse would probably be,
either seventy.five per cent. 10 tie winner.
ana twenty-five pei, cent. TO the loser. or.
sixty and fortysp per cent?. rcsnec lively. %
# Mitchell said also that White and himself
would leave New York Tonight for the Pa
cific ccaat going by way OF Buffalo and Chi
cngo. White will 30 into training for the;
Eight us soon as he REACHES the coast. Il
White is IL Wise looking lightweight. lie
Resembles. feature for feature, Sthe man whom
sane higll nose. lie same shapely a,lg cd
Jaw. expressive Of nggressiveness and deter
snipation:5tfc same light eyebrows and the
.an,', thin lppcd, reserved. clean cut mouth.
Like Erit.,$shc doesn' I carry n mark Or n
scar ~ show that he. has fought In the prize
ring Ils eyes alone are different Where
Lritta nrs blue as Ice In tho sunlight,
&Sra dark brown alnoHt black "a like an ln-s
aIs They pop st ssy s'a
Ways moving acrtiy.S taking In Il everything.
tHe ism nervous. but he shows q tremendous
p sapp :, emsrsy nus
oitiinOnSs. te 80 q u .g agEl a AZ
Jsbes keeps n hotel near birmingham. the
&cDlied n roadhouse. here is N bar, of 3course.
but l,e3 says that he seldom goes into ~, for
himself 81 noks IL ma
(htI, he has beer, ma rted SIX years, and has
f.issi klddes' e ear, living for The
ethamg byS way of spice, suits hitn-iet Il he
o:iier$ fellows haze their tlns. .'A month Of
ILLUSTRATION takes year iron, q mans ife, -
aaS ~ Jabcz. And no he has never tried II q
S White has not fought any big fights for Two
The last vas 1 4. y
viii Wiling end Of fifteen teen
rounds and he also has a Knockout to his
Es,eaIt over Scare, the former Iost e
$50 best In this country. f 3.
Since winning The champi opship his only
70 f,E. q, al has besn q tfs az
~ f!e following this ho has zone times knock
&si out. four Or fiYe opponent IN a mig but
Bhs smodesty re- fuses To- take much credit @1or
tina. as they were second -ra tors. y
Some sixty tights a ~ on " te'E record
books a very large majority q his rivals ne
ITO him Once Jaines Curan, the middeWelg ht.
fought twenty rounds 70 ~ draw. Nones.of
8o.. taking decision from him he never :
lost q fight. And at that he has held a half
dozen Ems lists championships az different
FsiHhts. It'll ~
Asked for short outline 81 Ills fighting
carter. J0bez thought moment, hen salt; 3
@,i the Seeks t2 Sr peopis hsn
Office and start Cd 70 learn q radc II was ca r.
aperierlng.#I used To nut on Z the gloves wit n
the other boys Soon found that 7 had some
&ki:ach ~ boxing, So Mhen was eighteen
#tii years ago, II atarted fIgh ting. r weighed
10 stone 1883 pounds. and Tho no stone.
sswhilfA Il Won the championship OF ENGLAND.
Thee Took the $ stone tsantain1. the 5
stcll1 80 tfeather), he p stone, the \? stone
M q "a pounds. and that the 10 stone Stlties.
sAft.r$I won Tho 6 storc IL. not a boy In Eng
land would fight me. and u had TO walt until -
grew Iii to tho s. stone e lnss. -
stone, by the way. Is fourteen pounds
So White started his fighlng ca rcer at 81
8pclndr and fought UP 10 80. On leaving Eng
land he weighed Sc. The seal les In an. uptown
resort regster red he san, weight IN his street
clothes, 80 lie must have sent about eight
pounds 10 the fishes while crossing the ocean.
However, iiforn!n climate Is famous for put
Ting weight on visiting fighters. ard White
will haSeS1no trouble In & that Inc ats Al
There lint $anything noisy about JabcZ. Hes
as modest as n brooklyn girl. Just as he
stepped down tho Cedric's gan -rla X Monday,
d a big fellow couutrsmnn slapped him on the
Y shoulder and roared IN. :555 IN .a&s NJ
S95 ,ope you knock the Yankees block of. 8
@las,,,..s S8 t53
white instantly rcpli ed: s5 Sa
S%Ss.TEank you. SIR only hope 10 see me
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