Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-13
It Is Charged Against
Britt by Many.
broken Arm Story Not En-.
dorsed by Those Present.
Cans the Better Man From Start
to the Finish.

The Philadelphia Inquirer of se,.
IL says: III VIII be hard matter IN
convince Inc talent that Britt's ''brok-
en- arm was not fake. meant Ia a.
nm down easy with his friends M
helGhbors. All the special corresnor
dents at the ringside discredit the STAT
ment, and intimate that the native Con
framed it up in order to save hins.Is
from gruellng fight Rantop ~
Currie, OF the World, sizes il IN in III,
way:
James Britt has retired from tbo rir,,
alter assisting in the performance If
one OF old DIR. F'iStiana's best comedies
entitled "When Jimmie Slipped HI.
Una Bone" That's what tho learncd
Frisco medicO called 1.-THE ulna bone
when it was announced in the inter-
mission between the fifth and sixth
rounds that James Edward had had
sufficient punishment to cause him Sc
rious ennui
But the announcer did not have the
courage to tell the immense throng
Of fight hungry men that they had paid
sixty thousand hard-earned simoleons
to learn something about the ulna- I
guina bone. He said that the nattva
son had broken his arm-his whole left
arm somewhere between the little fin
ger and the medulla oblongata.
Poor James! 1t was 50 pathetic 10
have struck only one blow during the
five rounds and then go to pieces like
a Kansas clay pipe. Science. tells III
that the ulna bone is part of marble
like bit Of oSScOus ANATOMY in the
Nwrist that works in socket When
.dislocated it slips right out of the
socket. but Il little twist and it Sins
right in again. Clever pickpockets hav,
their ulna bones dislocatcd purposely
10 give free action in the wrist.
But of course it was different with
Jimmy Britt. His was an accident. He
fought quite gamcly for two or three
rounds, stood up and had his head
Jared until he thought il was rs
ing pendulum by those terrible right
ia lbs that have made Joe Cans the in
vincible Chocolate Kid. As for re-
turning punishment, the Britt hoy
landed only one left swing that made
Joe vince. Britt has not come hack.
except to turn around and walk back
again. Battling Nelson was % times
the fighter in that Goldlield battle that
Britt showed himself to be in the Adj
mission Day opera bouffe.
In the first round it was case Of
WALTZ Me Around Again. Willie"
Joe was sizing up his man, teasing
| him as grim. sleek cat leases a de-
termined rat. Then he Just hung out
one of his gloves-the right-and al
lowed 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
Cans would have put him into the
| arms Of Colonel Morpheus in about
six seconds. His tongue was hanging
out and he was all in. IA
Willis Britt. tender-hearted and crafa
ty brother. thought a swift think and
whispered in Jimmy's ear: why
| James, you have broken your arm.
Brother James looked. up. haggards
| eyed, glanced over his shoulder at. the
| cool. smiling and utterly fresh cham
| pion. The yellow streak cropped out
under the bruised and beaten but not
scratched skin. He uttered a little
| forced squeal of pain and said: will
| lis, nave blbhGI lily aim CIV N''''
fight no more"
When Referee Jim Welch announcer
| to the crowd that the fight was over
he had to smile and turn his lace
away in disgust from BIRTHS corner
In giving his decision to those that
| were inside he said that never Tor
moment was Jimmy Britt in the fSht
| and that he had about as much sho"
| with Cans as n jcllyfish in the claws
| Of a lobster. 1t was no frame-up' ~
fake; Britt simply quit-quit coiu'
The battling Dane never couid nav
done that. and BIRTHS friends had al
| ways given him credit for gameneSS'
| They will have to exhaust rev ieM
| cons in making excuses for nm r'"'
Joe Cans broke bone in his rign'
hand in the seventeenth round OF MS
fight with Nelson at Goldfield. Dut 'ho
dusky champ fought on for 20 n'ho
| rounds If the folks of the Goi'on
Gate ever pay another dollar 10 III
Britt fight. they will put themselves w
record as the easiest marks VINO nav
ever been stung by the lemon Wol"'
a little creature that is raised ~ l',eY
yellow focks by the fight trust u %"
| Francisco.