The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-27
NOT BEATEN TOPNoTCHERs.
Critic Says White VIII Have a Tough
Time Beating Britt.


Time Beating Britt.
Robert Edgren, the eastern fight
critic, has this to say of Jabez White S
ION June 81. 1909. Jabez White
fought Spike Sullivan before the Ma
tional Sporting club of London. The
fight went the distance, twenty rounds
and the English champion took the
decision. He repeated the perform
ance on April 20, 1908. That is about
the best thing that American follow
ers of the game have to dope out this
invaders fighting ability with. He has
had plenty of other fights since then.
but almost all of them have been with
other English scrappers, who are I'M
known on this side of the pond.
Il saw this first fight between Sui
liVan and White 1t was a good one,
without any pink tea features. That's
one thing about Spike. He never
takes a beating without putting up a
fight. He is a famous fighting man,
Irish, and in condition or out of it
likes a scrimmage.
Sullivan has been somewhat out of
fighting trim for three or four years.
He was a tough one in his day, and
could take a fearful beating without
losing the ability to deliver a knockout
if he happened to get an opening. Sew
eral times he won hard fights after
being. sent to the floor again and
again.
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Spike had his love of the game still,
but he was slow and lacked judgment
70 distance. He could take beating,
but he couldn't give one.
early in the fight White showed he
was quicker. He stood straight and
iabbed away in the good old English
style. His head was dropped forward
a bit, and his high beak of a nose
looked like a target to the eager Amer
lean fighter. Time and again Sullivan
ately blocked and then countered IN
a way that made Spike stagger about
the ring. White fought on the defen-
sive most of the time. he dld nttle
advauciner: but he didn't need to, for
Sullivan rushed in time after time. he
was always in range
1.-THE BTftons was quick and clever
enough to avoid punishment whlle an
the time his well directed Jabs ana
rfeht-harid counters were wearing MS
eager opponent down. The English
men around the ring made up their
minds that White would win long be-
fore the fight was half over.
1.-The Americans expected to see sui
Ivan. badly outpointed as he was, ger
in one of his famous wallops before
the final gong. But White was roxy.
Toward the end, feeling sure tnat ne
had the decision well in hand: ne
spared cautiously, and Spike ralneo
his blows on a perfect defense.
ssRut Spike Sullivan at the tail emo
of his ring career isn't to be compared
with Jimmy Britt at the height OF his.
The White who fought Sullivan that
,,ieI,t' in the ring of the National
slegti AZ club of London wouldn't have
madeueae-serious impression on our
Californian. He may have been I'M
proving all along since that tiIne,
which is likely, or he may have peen
6 wllno off. The English papers
s az that Label White is a heady lit
tie fellow and that he has never fallen
into the habit of dissipaung aIee 7lt,I a
e es5i4 off SO many of the good ones in this
Country co mt " With the added experience
of occasional fights during the three
Years that have passed since ne met
Spike Sullivan. White will prona,plly -I pe
= much improved boxer. Charle
Nri+cheiI isn't addicted to picking up
dead ones. .