The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
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IT'S RIGHT
BEATEN MAN CAN
COME BACK AGAIN
So Declares Britt, Who Says
He Is Better Than
Ever Today.

Jimmy Britt. whose return to fighting
form and his subsequent victory over
Battling Nelson after practically two
years absence from the ring was a nine
DAYS wonder TO the sporting fraternity,
has broken into print to explain that it
is not impossible for a defeated top
notcner TO regain his high standing I'm
the ring. Brttt's temperance is the best
proof of the fact; but James adds con-
firmation by handing out the philosophy
Of the thing in this style
Jimmie Tells Why.
Fighters who have been on ton of the
perch and then shaken off in the uncer-
tainties of competition, as a rule never
do what the public terms come back
There IS a reason for that. The fighter
who goes along beating everybody in
sight for years and then finally runs into
failure. as they all do in time becomes
discouraged. He is carried away back
to the land Of the also rams on the wave
of public opinion. And just because no
body ever met the thing squarey in the
face and bucked it, everybody shakes his
head and says; He can never come
back The fighters friends tell him this
He sees IL written or limited al every day
In the newspapers, and his mana ger finds
II out when he sits down to talk bust
ness with a club or the fighter who is
on the ledge above. Finally the fighter
concludes that the public must be right
and that fate wills Il that a top-notcher
once beaten never shows his old form
again. Then he gets discouraged and
stops his exercise.
Throws Up Sponge.
He generally throws himself open ta
the easygoins Bohemian life that is held
out to public Characters, and then that
is the finish After a long siege of this
he concludes that he still has fight
left in him. and without sufficient train
ing, he enters the ring with an ordinary
fighter and gets licked. That Is the in
evitable finish and public opinion is at the
bottof Of IT. ] made up nv mind two
years ago when Battling Nelson knocked
me out that I could beat him. I knew ]
made a mistake when It was too late. /
STUDIED the fight over and took good care
10 duck the public opinion snare. I made
uD my mind that the adage fighters
never come back was a delusion and
that 1t would take more than one beat
Ing to convince me that it was time to
put on the carpet slippers and let the
whiskeTs grow.
Better Today Than Ever.
In my own mind I never allowed the
impression to get a foothold that it was
all over. Instead / made up my mind
that / had much to learn about the fight
ing gahe, even though everybody thought
] knew IT all 1t was a tough job, but I
never let it 60. l went about the thing
Systematically.
II could note the Improvement in my
ability from the start. Ny strength was
not impaired that day at Colma Instead
! made up my mind that 1 would take
hold of the situation like a bulldog and
never let il go until I had accomplished
the task / had mapped out for myself
It was really the turning point I'm my
career, but turned il to advantage to
myself instead Of being swallowed up in
the whirlpool of popular faIlacies I am
a better fighter twice over today than 7
was the Gay my sun seemed to set az
Colma- And intend to do better yet be-
fore the finish comes"