The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-28
BOTH BRITT AND
NELSON CONFIDENT
Will be One of the Tiercest
Fights in History
LATTER is A LASTER
CONTEST is TO A FINISH AND
WILL NOT END UNTIL ONE OF
THE MEN is RENDERED
HoRs pu COMBAT.

Chicago. Aug 27.---A real prize fight
will occur al Colna. Cal. Sept. .. Jim.
my Britt and Battling Nelson are to
be the contestants. There have been
many contests in the eight months
of the year SO far passed, but in com
parison with this fight between Britt
and Nelson 1t Is expected they will
appear like an old maids tea party to
Donnybrook session.
With all due respect to the cham
pionship viich Joe Cans owns, Jimmy
Britt today must be clased as the best
lightweight in action Close behind
HIM. aud placed behind because the
California lad has a decision over him.
Is Battling Nelson, the Chicago fight
ing machine. There is not a follower
of sport in all this big country who
does not know these poys or some
thing Of their prowess. Today public
opinion Is divided as to which is the
better
Try to Eat Each Other.
Some alleged critics who do not be-
lieve that an honest man lives have
already tired 10 taint the prospective
so with fake There Is no reason for
such statements. There Is a. much
good feeling existing between Britt
aud Nelson AZ there was between
missionary and a clunihal Years ago.
To ann hiiate the other Is the honest
intention Of elch. aud failure 10 do
50 under tho mold process advised by
Marquis Of QHeeusbery rules by eith-
or viii mean lack of power In the
loser.
Reports have had th event slated.
from twenty-five rounds to finish
The truth Of the conditions Is that the
bout shall be of fofty-fve rounds or
MORE or In other words, a finish
fight Britt, In brain, ranks nearly rs
far above other fighters as he does
In the requirements which go 10 make
successful boxer When he signed
TO meet Britt, Nelson talked about q
finish fight Britt did not lose his
temper and declare that he could beat
Nelson in six rounds, ten rounds, fifty
rounds or a finish. He had taken ev
erything into consideration and met
Nelson's request
Nelson is Laster.
Nelson thinks that Britt will prove
an easy victim for him The general
sporting public Is beginning to think
that way too, because of the Califor
mans reluctance in agreeing to fight
everybody but Nelson. All Jimmy
was looking for was the money, how
ever. He wanted the best purse OBJ
tainable and when he thought the
highest bid had been made he agreed
to terms. Britt Is his own manager
and he Is rating himself just as nicely
as in the days when Sam Harris pilot
ed the way for Terry McGovern when
the latter was regarded as inyincible. |
Harris made one mistake. however, |
and that was in the Thanksgiving day
fallible, and IL is just possible that he
Is making mistake this time in al
lowing Nelson indefinite time to wear
down his opponent.
That Is the way a majority Of sport
Ing Inen think. but Britt at all tines
appears to know what he Is doing. He
has fought Nelson aud knows him, and
his statembents after that "go" relat
ing to his belief that he can beat Mel
son any time he fights him must now
be taken as sound reasoning On the
night Of the fight two OF the best light
weights in the couniry-and as a
matter of fact, III the worldwil get
into that Colnia ring, and fight such
MS has not been seen for many a day
will take place. Both are now In hard
training, and confidence will beam In
them from now on
1t will he to great degree boxer
OF the most advanced type against a
fighter who never knows when defeat
is nigh There is little to Judge be-
tween the men in fight Of such
length as this one Is scheduled. but
were II limited to twenty or twenty
five rounds, there is not the 81 'ghtest
doubt that Britt would repeat his vic
tory Of several months ago.