The evening world., 1905-12-12
~Acting and Fighting Go To-
gether Like the Devil and
,sHoly Water" says Britt.
= EDWARD BRITT dropped in on

Tle ldkl IlkuN ehANi sNf N'i'eN' -
II ~ full dress, silk hat, and all the
Eyest pf 1t. He was all there, from ms
4, pNent feathers to his spo,css eNpanse
I, Of snowy shirt bosom, almost as broad
as Thomas J. Sharkeys
h. ], Edward Is natural manager ohe
Z time we had him posing with Terry Nc
y Govern for series OF hghtlng pic
tures. II was all Terry stand mere
NJ and 'sTerry hold your hands THIS way
y with Britt as the stage director Jus'
before the nght with JabeE Whils
H Jimmy posed the Englishman for a
4 flash-light picture. He bJid Young COR
fbett how TO look pretty on another sur
!, ilar occasion. He even showed ba'u'"s
Nielsen how to stand before the camer"'
"Jimmy." / said, after the handshak'
ing, "I am Just about to write an iH'er'
n view with you, and --
1 Listen" saii Britt. TN telI you
I what 20 write. You want 10 quo'e me
7 IN say this, and you can add any fancy
4 touches you want, and III stand TOR IT.
"r left California with one deteThiha-
I tion nrmly hxed in my mind In1'
was TO force Nelson into giving me
4 another hght For that specinc pur-
y pose Joined a theatrical comolhauoh
and begin touring the country IN
! tended 70 show in the same towns tol-
low him from place to place, prove 10
the people who saw us that Nelson can
boast no superiority, and finally corner
him and make him agree to fight me
again.
when I learned the unpleasant fact
that Nelson had hooked up with an
ether engagement and that the com
many was with would play In cities
not already booked for the Nelson com.
bina ton. | at once packed up my little
trunk and left the saow business. I'm
a fighter rot an actor, ana the stage
held no allurements for me when the
Sl,arce Of forcing Nelson into a match
had departed Now i am back In the
delightful environments OF New YORK.
/ tntend to take on one or TWO SIX
round bouts with the best men they
can get for me, and then | shall HE
me back 70 the Pacific Coast There !
Rave two offers fog good twenty-round
arrangements with Young Coroett and
Willie Fitzgerald Let Nelson be the
actor Hereafter ! shall confine my
sndeavors to the ropcl arena
"Thec you will nght here before you
60 West again."
Sure" said Brit "The thing ! want
ncSt in the world is to fgh, Nelson.
The last fight didn't take the heart
out OF me by any means, Up to the
eighteenth-but we'll cut mat talk out
! / know that / can beat Nelson He
knows II, too, or he would he willing
I 10 fight me again. I've even offered
him q side bet of 5000 which he would
take quickly enough II he really
tlinugAt he had a lead pipe. II he beats
Terry McGovern he VIII he given an
oater chance. But like this fghtIng
game, and I'm not going 10 lie idle
and await the august pleasure Of Mr..
Nelson That's the reason I'm going
10 take on few others In the mean
time incidentally, ! have a number Of
friends here in New York good friends
Who haven't time to go ou 10 CALI
imhia, and ] want 10 SHOW them
what Jimmy Britt can do"
'Ther YOU have cut oIt the theatrical
end?"
Acting and fghting," said Jimmy
bFi, sagely go together Ike the devil
ana holy water, Let Nelson do the
acting I'll we meet again"
KIOW comes before us XII Mccoy.
N and says tlst James ] Corbett
only few years ago 'pu, a blot
on his scutcheon" which must be
wiped out before his Kidlets finally and
.rrevocably retires from the ring
'Hls 'scutcheon'" | wonder what he
means? Come down from the shelf
there, old friend Webster-Ah, Here
1t is; "Escutcheon Cschutcneon), o. A
shield for arrorial bearings Hala.
Discovered Mccoy the man OF mystery,
is a nobleman in disguise, He has a shield
with armoral bearings VIVA, are they2
For what heroic wallop was his re-
motest ancestor rewarded? What are
his armorIdl bearngs-a corHs'rew
rampant on field vert-or a bOXe.
couchant on field dor?
But watt There is another definition.
Let's see. "scutcheon. % a cover or
frame to a keyhole."
No, This cant be II, Corbett never
"blotted" a keyhole, even By peep.ng
through It. Perish the thought
one more;
scutcheon, 80 4 name plate on a
coffin"
Now maybe that's II, Mccoy was
something Of a dead one after the
AMIR with Corbet,. Bat TIE "llo, on
the scutcheon" NO. Ttat can't be a..
Corbett may have put MrCoy into his
ooiiin puglistically speaking, but /
can't for the life Of ne imagine why be
saculd put bio, on the name pla e
sIterwarJ That isn't lie CorDett- no,
not bit like CJrbe,It,
This thing looked SIMPLE elouYl when
AcCoy sprung II on us, Dut NeoJ,t.
seems 10 have tangled Il AL up, 1
can't make head or tail out O.. 1t. NhG
Corbett really did was 10 slap Mr. Nc
Coy ruiely on tDe stomach. SlOmaeu-
Aolar plCXus-Haat some people rerlr
TO slans.ly as Ihe "brcll basket"-the
boiler the "Gcut'-- GIcat Sl0u,
There +, b. Mccoy simply got mis- W.
caoulaly twisted, lie dldlt mean 10
say "scutchcon' at all What he did
mean to say was that Jim Cor0ett put
a blot on his 'scuttle,' his boiler
his bread basket" bis stomach. In
short Seer Put blot on his stomach,