The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
BRITT SHOWED
STREAK OF
YELLOW
Broken Arm Gag Not Ac-
copied Seriously by Those
Who We're at Ringside.

It will be a hard matter to convince the
talent that Jimmy Britt'H broken arm wo,
not n fake. meant 10 lot him down eRsy
with his friends and neighbors. All the
special correspondents at the rinsside Of
the fight NJ Frisco Monday. discredit the
statement, and intimate that the native
son framed It ZIP IN order to save himself
from a Kruelling fight. One prominent
scribe sizes It up IN this way:
James Britt has retired from the ring
after assisting in the. performance OF one
Vof old DR.. Fistiana's best comedies, en-
titled When Jimmy Slipped His Ulaa
Zone" That IS what the learned Frisco
medico called 1.-THE ulna bone-when Il
was announced III the intermiss,on between
the fifth and sixth rounds, that James Ed
ward had had sufficient punishment 20
cause his serious ennui.
But the announcer did not have the cour-
age to tell the immense throng OF fight
hungry men that they had paid sixty
thousand hard-earned simoleons to learn
something about The ulna- gulna bono. He
said that the native son had broken his
arm-his while left Rrm-somewhere be-
tween the little finger and the medulla cb-
longata.
Poor James. 1t was so pathetic to have
struck only one blow during the five
rounds and then go to pieces like a Kansas
clay pipe. Science tells us that the ulna
bone is a part of marble-like bit of osseous
anatomy in the wrist that works in a
socket. When dislocated 1t slips right out
of the socket, but a little twist and IL
slips right in asaan. Clever plcispockets
have their ulna bones dislocated purposely
ITO give free action to the wrist.
But, of course. ii was different with jim
my Britt. His was an accident. He fought
quite gamely for two or three rounds, stood
up and had his head Jared until he
thought it was a flying pendulum by those
terrible right jabs that have made Joe
Cans the inyincible Chocolate Kid. As for
returning punishment, the Britt boy landed
only one left swing that made Joe vince,
Britt has not come back, except 10 turn
around and walk back again. Battling
Nelson was twenty times the fighter in
thai Goldheld battle that Britt showed
himself to be in the Admission day opera
bouffe.
In the first round It was a case of WALTZ
Me Around Again, Willie" Joe was siz-
ing up his man, teasing him as a grim
sleek cat leases a determined rat. Then
he just hung out one of his gloves-the
right-and allowed the pride of Fillmore
street to bump his head off against It,
Had James gone out Of his corner after
the gong that started the sixth round Cant
would have put him into the arms OF
Colonel Morpheus in about six seconds
His tongue was hanging out and he wa:
all in.
willis Britt. tender-hearted and crafty
brother, thought a swift think and whis'
pered In Jimmy's ear: why, James
you have broken your arm" Brother
James looked up, haggered eyed, glaneet
| over his shoulder at the cool, smiling an6
: utterly fresh champion. The yellow streal
cropped out under the bruised and beatel
but not scratched skin. He uttered a littl
forced sGneal of pain and said Wills
have broken my arm and can tight NJ
5 more"
When Referee Jim Walsh announced t.
the crowd that the fight was over he haf
to smile and turn his face away in disgis'
from Britt's corner. In giving his decision
to those that were inside he said that never
for a moment was Jimmy Britt In the
fight and that he had about as much show
with Cans as a jellyfsh in the claw OF .
lobster. II was no frame-up, no fake
Britt simply quit-quit cold. The battline
Dane never could have done that, and
BIRTHS friends had always given him credit
) for gameness. They will have to exhaust
, a few l~exicons In making excuses for him
row.
r Joe Cans broke a bone In his right hand
! in the seventeenth round of his fight witt
> Nelson at Goldheld, but the dusky chamI
/ fought on for twenty-five more rounds. il
the folk at the Golden Gate ever pay an
other dollar to see Britt fight, they will pu'
themselves on record as the easiest mark
who have ever been stung by the lemor
! worm. a little creature that is raised II
large yellow fiocks by the tight trust o.
San Francisco.