The San Francisco call., 1905-05-06
CALIFORNIAN STOPS THE ENGLISH BOXER
WHEN TWENTY SECONDS OF TIME REMAIN
Referee Smith Ends Fight
to Prevent Injury to
the Loser.
Contest Proves Sensational

warmest receptions ever given boxer
In the ring. He challenged the winner
Tor $1,000 or $4,000 a side and each
boxer said he would accept the chal
lenge If he won. Britt and Nelson are
TO meet at o'clock this afternoon to
discuss the possibility of a meeting be-
tween them.
When the two boxers stripped in
the ring Britt seemed much the larg-
er all over. especially about the body.
White had remarkable muscular de-
Velopment about the shoulders. but he
seemed deficient about the body. This
deficiency did not seem to affect his
fighting, as he showed wonderful vi
tality during the fight. His legs are
particularly shapely being more of
the type seen in sprinters than in, men
who follow the fortunes of the ring
for livelihood. Early in the fight
Whites footwork seemed defective, as
he seemed TO stand fiatfooted. which
made him slow to get into action.
This defect apparently wore off as the
night advanced and did not seem to
hurt his style.
Britt was outfeinting White in the
opening rounds, but in the third White
measured him with the eye of the
clever boxer and sent a right to the
body which surprised the spectators.
There was q buzz of comment around
the ringside, the opinion being that
White had a lot of tricks up his sleeve
which would puzzle Britt. He tried
this same blow a number of times, but
could not do any execution with ii.
Both men did lot of swinging. the
blows going wide of their mark.
BRITT is TOO EAGER.
Britt especially was an offender in
this regard, his eagerness to land up
setting his judgment of distance COM
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shift a number of times and also tried
a double shift, which proved effective.
From the sixth round to the tenth
Britt seemed intent on bringing the
victory before the tenth round. At the
end of the sixth both were slugging
wildly when the bell rang, which they
did not heed, and the referee had to
send them TO their corners.
The first blow that Britt landed and
which seemed to affect White was q
right over the heart which was deliv-
cred near the end OF the seventh round.
Britt followed this with left to the
body and White hung out signals Of
distress as he went to his corner. White
could not keep Britt away from him in
the eighth round, the Californian being
all over him. In this round he started
Whites mouth and nose bleeding.
Early in the round Britt seemed to
have lost his head completely, he was
so wild in his fighting.
1t was in the ninth round that Britt
tried his new righthand punch for the
first time. He caught White on the
head, but did no material damage
White sent one of his clean rights to
the head in the tenth round. This
shook Britt up, but 1t only had the ef-
feet of making him fight all the faster
White apparently thought to worry
Britt by peppering him on the sore
eye, but he soon gave this up, As in his
efforts to land there he left himself
open TO the attacks of the Californian
In the seventeenth round White
claimed a foul, which was not allowed
Britt had tried for a body blow and
White in blocking it sent it below the
waist line. Britt had White dazed in
this round and for time it seemed
he would win there. He caught White
hard left on the head and followed
this up with a shower of blows to the
head and body.
White was tired in the eighteenth
round and did not recover during the
remainder of the struggle Britt was
the aggressor throughout the last
round and forced White all over the
ring until he finally landed the blow
which gave him the greatest fight in
his ring career.
The spectators were astonished at the
pace set by the men during the first
i've rounds and were more astonished
as the fight progressed to find that
they slowed down but little 1t seemed
that mere flesh and blood could not
stand the strain, but the two boxers
came out of it in a condition which
showed that they had been trained to
perfection