The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
EASY MONEY Is
JIMMY'S GAME
Britt Still DOdging Nelson and
COrbett.
HYLAND-NElL FIGHT NEXT
BANTAMWEIGHTS SLATED FOR
GOOD CONTEST.

james Edward Britt. who is better
knewn outside the state of California as
Jimmy the Picker is busy person
these days lodging the challenges of
Battling Nelson and Young COrbett
BTltt says he wants to meet Jabez
tone in his voice:
1t will be America against England
The Frisco press are all boosting for
the fight and giving as little attention
TO Nelson and Young Corbett as pos
Nelson has returned from his hunting
trip, and looks stronger and better than
he did was to deposit 5000 in cash with
Harry COFbett for side bet with Britt.
but the native son put him off with the
tirSt- COrbett also tried the 1000 SIDE
bet proposition. but Britt wants none
of his game.
As a matter of fact. White is dead
one If there ever was one. There are
some dozen hghtweights i'm America to-
DAY VINO could easily put the English
man TO the bad. and no one knows this
better than Britt. 1t is for this rea-
son that the native son wants the match
and il viii probably be arranged in time
and Nelson and COrbett will be given
the go-by-. Britt may convince the coast
using these tactics, but the greater part
OF the American public desires something
more tangible than fake, with Gems.
able decision over Nelson to cinch a
championship title
Little Fighters Next
One week from next Tuesday frankie
Neil and Dick HyIand viii get together
in the ring at San Francisco. This is
the next big fight on the coast and.
while ii promises to be "A great battle.
as the O other Tscen bs qiR 9 of tb8
way. The fight VIII settle, the question
Of the bantamweight championship Of
America but as there are compare
lively few fighters in the class one does
not hear much about them as in the
heavier weights. Neil is picked as a
experience in the ring. Hyland will en-
ter the ring for the first time as pro-
amateur fighter.
Nolan to Manage Nelson
Billy Nolan OF Butte is to he Battling
Nelson's new manager. This notice has
not been officially given out by the
Durable Dane, but Indications point
of Nelson's affairs in Frisco at the
present time and is trying to get a
match for the Champion of Hegewitsch.
Biddy Bishop After Flynn.
Jim Flynn has sent word TO Rfddy
Bishop that he would accept a match
with Billy Woods. providing Bishop would
agree TO bet 500 on the. side and let the
winner take the whole purse Bishop
has sent his reply that he would be
agreeable 20 betting $780, but he wanted
10 see tlynnS money up, and he has
suggested that Flynn SEM his money on
10 Harry Corbett, and il would be duly
covered Bishop now has "a forfeit of
$500 in COrbettS hands which he posted
when he challenged Sullivan and l'lynn,
and he says if Flynn viii send on his
money he viii See that IT is covered
II the match is made, II will take place
az san Diego next month. The club has
ana al that now remains Is for the men
10 put up their money and sign the
artlctes- the match will be fought at l5D
pounds at ? o'clock.
''Teddy" Murphy Still "sore."
Ted Murphy, now in Chicago, believes
that he will Quit the fighting game. His
sOured him
Nh NeIs sfg certainly put me in bad. AIur,
the authorities out there that Chicago
was the place where he and I settled
ali our business and where all our divi-
dends were declared. That was the spot
we started from and that was the spot
decided TO split. l wanted 10 get Nelson
away from some of the company out
there. 50 started east and LETT him a
hundred ana = railroad ticket.
Nelson should have had draw in that
tH'tf nRnI- kTltt held continually. and
Roche. in breaking them, interfered with
bett before | left. He looks hog tat and
was training trying TO get down some
any day they fight now.
suppose Nelson viii hook up with
the winner of the next Britt-C,orbett
fight Nelson must be worth fully So
600, think. right now. l guess he has
ii in a bank out there. 1t took me
four years TO put him where he is and
about week to have him put me where
! am. That is what / am sore at /
suppose il happens to all managers of
fighters sometimes"
Fight Hundred Years Ago.
The account of a prize fight hundred
years ago is certainly a curiosity nova
days. Therefore the following little artI-
Gle printed in the London Times Nov. 80.
1904 and reprinted here, ought to make
good reading:
''PUGILISM.
THE fight which we stated few days
since to be about to take place between
Tom Belcher. brother to the champion OF
that name, and Billy Ryan, son Of the late
noted pugilst. was yesterday decided at
Widen Green, on the Edgeware road. "A
council was held among the gentry of the
fists on Tuesday last, when the under
standing regarding the purse to re fought
for YVES adjusted and the champions
agreed that the fight should take place
champions arrived at Widen Green at n
O'Clock. when a ring was formed by the
spectators. who greeted the tools of their
amusement by loud cheers--BelCher first
threw his hat into the ring over the heads
of the spectators as an act Of defiance ~
his antagonist. who received him into the
ring with welcome smile. Befcher
was Greadfuliy beaten in comparison TO
Ryan. who had, nevertheless, some very
ugly hftS.-JOneS and Whale seconded
Ryan. and Belcher was seconded by Mad
dox ard Norton. The eight lasted one
hour and twenty minutes"