Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-11
JIMMY BRITT CHARGED
WITH QUITTING COLD

| 1t will be a hard matter to convince the
| talent that Britts broken arm was not
! fake, meant to let him down easy with his
| friends and neighbors. All the special cor
| respondents at the ringsfde discred!t the
| statement. and intimate that the native son
| framed 1t UP in order to save himself from
a grueling fight. Banton w. Currie of the
| World sizes 1t up in this way:
| James Britt has retired from the ring
| after assisting in the performance of one
| of old DIR. Fistianas best comedies. entitled,
when Jimmie Slipped His Ulna Bone"
| That's what the learned Frisco medico
| called 1.-THE uIna bone-when It was an
| nounced in the intermission between the
! fifth and sixth rounds that James Edward
had had sufficient punishment to cause him
| 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 thou
sand hard-earned SimOleons to learn some
| thing about the ulna-gulna bone He SAID
| that the native son had broken his arm
| his whole left arm-somewhere between the
| little finger and the medulla ob.ongata-
| Poor James 1t was pathetic to have
| struck only one blow during the Ave rounds
| and then go to pieces like Kansas cay
pipe. Science tells us that the u!na bone Is
q part of marbe-like bit of osseous anatomy
in the wrist that works in a socket. When
dislocated it slips right out of the socket.
but a little twist and 1t slips right in again
Clever pickpockets have their ulna bones
dslocated purposely to give free action
to the wrist.
But. Of course. it 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 flying pendulum by those terrible
right jabs that have made Joe Cans the In
vincible Chocolate KID. AS for returning
punishment. the Britt boy landed only one
left swing that made Joe vince. Britt has
not come back. except to turn around and
walk back again. Battling Nelson was TWEEN
ty times the fighter In that GoldheI battle
that Britt showed himself to be in the Ad-
mission Day opera bouffe.
In the first round 1t was a case OF Waltz
Me Around Again. Willie" Joe was sizing
up his man, teasing him as grim. sleek
cat leases determined rat Then he just
hung out one Of his goves-the right-and
allowed the pride of Fillmore street to
bump his head off against 1t. Had James
gone out of his corner after the gong that
started the sixth round Cans would have
put him into the arms of Colonel Morphe us
in about six seconds. His tongue was hang
ing out and he was all in.
Wills Britt. tender-hearted and crafty
brother thought swift think and whis-
pered in Jimmy's ear: Why. James, you
have broken your arm" Brother James
looked up. haggard-syed. glanced over his
shoulder at the cool. smiling and utterly
! fresh champion. The yellow streak cropped
scratched skin. He uttered little forced
squeal of pain and said: Willis, 1 have
broken my arm and can fight no more"
When Referee Jim WEIGH announced to
the crowd that the fight over he
had to smile and turn his face away in
disgust from Britts corner. In giving
his decision to those that were Inside he
said that never for moment was Jimmy
Britt in the fight, and that he had about
as much show with Cans jellyfsh in
the claw Of lobster. 1t was no frame-up,
no fake; Britt simply OUTPUT cold The
battling Dane never could have done that.
and Britt's friends had always given him
credit for gameness. They will have to ex-
haust a few lexicons in making excuses for
him now.
Joe Cans broke a bone In his right hand
in the seventeenth round of his fight with
Nelson at Goldfield. but the dusky champ
fought on for twenty-five more rounds. If
the folk at the Golden Gate ever pay an
other dollar to Britt fight they will put
themselves on record the easiest marks
who have ever been stung by the lemon
worm a little creature that is raised in
large yellow focks by the fight trust Of
San Francisco.