The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-09-20
HOW NELSON
FOUGHT BRITT
BRITT ABANDONED HIS USUAL TACTICS
AND ATTEMPTED TO WIN FORCE AND
s1EDGEI1A AN1N1ER BLows-BUT STRENGTH TO
CARRY THIS PROGRAM THROUGH.
BY r. A. sMYTH.


SAN FRANCISCO, September TO-
Battling Nelson lived up to the name
his fond parents bestowed upon him at
his christening in far-away Denmark
and also to his title of the hardest nut
in the profession to crack by causing
Jimmy Britt, the premier lightweight
of the coast, to strike his colors yester-
day in the open-alr ring yesterday at
Colma.
l The end came somewhat Unexpectedly
rim the eighteenth round. Britt was
breaking ground at the time, but was
not in such dire distress as had mark
ed his condition at various stages of
the fight. He was backing away from
Nelson, and had reached his own cor
ner when the Dane caught him a COM
paratively light blow with his left glove
on the jaw. This was followed by the
right at almost the same instant.
Britt sank to the canvas-covered ring
and rolled over on his stomach. He
writhed about in apparent agony and
in an effort to regain his scattered
thoughts. One could imagine the pros
trate boxer saw the great world whirl-
ing about him, and everything in mad
confusion. AS his senses returned to
him slowly, he made an effort to arise.
The implacable timekeeper tolled off
the seconds, and Britt had caught the
lower rope of the ring just as the ten
seconds allowed by the Queensberry
rules elapsed.
The victorious Dane seemed to know
the power behind the blow he had de
livered. He took one look at Britt as
he lay on the floor, and then walked to-
ward his corner, apparently the coolest
man in the assemblage.
There was a hush over the great
crowd as Britt went down, the major
ity of the spectators apparently expect
ing him to regain his feet and continue
the struggle. But in an instant the
spectators grasped the situation, and
before Britt had been counted out they
were cheering the new star in the box
Ing armament. The crowd made a
rush for the ring and overwhelmed the
victorious fighter with congratulations.
Nelson's remarkable capacity to take
punishment was never more in evil
dence. Britt hit him with all his force
on jaw and head and body but there
was no stopping his advances. The
Dane was effective only in the close
work, where his blows had telling ef-
feet The blow with which he did the
most execution was a left hook to the
head Each time this landed it Distress
ed Britt, who seemed unable to with
stand punishment about the head.
Without detracting from Nelson's
brilliant and hard won victory it is on
ly fair to say Britt did not show the
judgment and the ring genera lship
which has carried him through his 9TH
er fights. He had confidence in his abil-
ity to knock Nelson out, and from the
first tap of the gong he bent all his eff
forts to accomplish the feat.
In his eagerness to score a clean-cut
victory Britt played directly into the
hands of his opponent, unconsciously
shaping his campaign in the ring or
the lines which made the Dane unusu-
ally effective. The latter was able tC
do the most damage at close range
and Britt, in his endeavor to land the
decisive blow, kept in close. Nelson
would take an incredible number o.
Britt's blows about the head in ordel
to land one; but that one invariably
shook up Britt.
Britt foolshly cast aside all mis- box
\ ing skill and depended on mere slug
Z ging. In addition to this, he aimed the
major portion of his blows at Nelson!
head, where they seemed to have tn,
least effect. At times he would rip il
a left to the body and the Dane woulC
curl up, indicating the blow LANDED
near a vulnerable spot. instead of fol
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