Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-22
BRITT WILL NOT
MEET JOE CANS
SAYS NEGRO Is NOT IN LINE
FOR FIGHT
Native Son Believes Nelson viii En-
deavor to Crawfish From Third
Battle-Is Willing to Re-
move All Obstacles

James Edward Britt has no desire to
enter the ring with Joe Cans whose
stock took rise last Friday night
when he somewhat curtaled the aspira-
tions of Mike Twin" Sullivan, at
Woodwards pavilion. San Francisco.
Jimmy, when questioned last night as
to whether he would be willing to meet
the dusky ringster. replied most en-
phatically that under no circumstances
could he be induced to consider any
proposition involving the Ethiopian.
my ambition is to win back the
championship from Nelson" said
Britt, land to that end / am willing
to meet any one who may be considered
as an obstacle to a match Both Nell
son and McGovern have promised me
match in case they win the coming
fight which has been arranged between
them, but believe that Nelson viii use
every pretext to avoid meeting me. In
order to leave him no excuse / want to
box those who can in any way be con-
sidered as hindrance to our match.
"Gans. however, does not stand in
such light. In the first place l fought
him once and though losing on a foul
demonstrated who was the better man..
The affair while on the square was
unsatisfactory all around and / don't
want to take any more chances of a
repetition. Everyone knows my posi-
tion on the color line and the only
reason I matched with Cans in the
first place was because the public forced
the fight.
Again Cans would never agre to
Nelson's weight terms should a meet
ing between the two be proposed. /
positively will never fight him again.
lie I
won't leave anything undone TO get him
in the ring again, so far as meeting
all comers that have a claim on the
ladder I am going to get back to my
old position again and when I meet
Nelson there will be a different scene
on the tail end of the moving pictures.
/ realize where and how I went wrong
last time and am sure that when we
get together again Mr.. Nelson will not
come out on the long end"
The outcome of the Cans Sullivan
battle set the wires burning as TO
whether Britt and Cans could possibly
be brought together again, and Britt
evidently has settled the question for
all time.
If Nelson and Cans cannot be
matched there would be no call for
Britt meeting the. negro and in any
event the Bryant street boy will prob
ably not be cajoled into conflict with
the Baltimore boxer.
Many ugly charges went floating
around after the Britt-Gans fight Octc-
Der, 81 1904, fraud being freely alleged
to have existed, when Jimmy, after al!
but putting the negro out, struck foul
blow and let the decision go against
him.
Britt says that the assertions Of
fake" we're absolutely false and may
hap the bitterness over the allegations
against his honesty are in a measure
responsible for his unwillngness to
mix it again with his former opponent.
A second match between Britt and
Cans at any time before the Nelson
fight at Colna would have been con-
ceded to the native son before the men
entered the ring. Just what the out
come would be at the present time
should the men get together is another
question, for Cans made remarkab BILE
showing against the clever Sullivan.
The probabilities are that should Mike
Sullivan be matched with Jimmy the
Twin would be counted a heavy
favorite not barring the fact that Cans
had Sullivan whipped practically from
the start of the mill.
Just who Cans will get on with is an
interesting problem now, for the negro
must be rated as drawing card of the
first number, despite the unsavory
reputation which he has attained dur
ing the course of his ring career.
To say that Britt was angry when he
learned of the demolishment of his
facial expression. which report had it
occurred in the fracas at downtown
cafe on Saturday evening, is putting it
mildly, In fact the travelling ringster
boiled over when greeted with the
announcement that he had taken the
count IN a midnight brawl
II don't see how they got me mixed
up with that affair" said he. II was
in the cafe but at the other end of the
room and at no time was l within 100
feet of the excitement. ! hate to be
classed as wanting to get into an affair
of that kind and would never offer to
raise a hand unless someone assaulted
me-"
Britt will not leave for Sar Francisco
for few days at least and in the
meantime is 10 box with AL Kaufman
at the Spring street training quarters.