The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-30
THE ONLY HOPE
OF JIMMY BRITT
He Is Figuring That Joe Cans Has
Gone Back-Coming Fight
Will BE CorkeP.

The Britt boys worried themselves
little over getting the first crack al
the Old Master but on the morning
of September 10 they may wish they
had let some one else play with the
grand old gent from Baltimore
writes G. L Van Loan in the Los An
geles Examiner.
Cans is said to be the cleverest
fighter of the age. In the words OF
the Battle Creek ad, there's a rea-
SON."
Joseph says he has often spent
sleepless nights, figuring how he
would defeat certain fighters. He
study himself; he knew every blow
and then he studied out ways to
make those blows null and void.
He always managed to think up
an antidote, so it will be seen that
with Cans fine shoulders, powerful
arms and broad Furnishing fists, he
has the mind which directs their use
Give an ordinary brainless fighter
Cans physical equipment, and ii
would be useless to him, unless he
could land a crazy swing and put his
opponent away. Joseph never uses
a haymaker any more. He used to,
but that was while he was serving
his apprenticeship. Nowadays he
moves about the ring as if half asleep.
He is never excited; never hurried,
and never more than half interested
in the proceedings. His blows are
delivered with lightning-like speed,
and they always hit the spot. If
Joe makes up his mind to use the
right to the jaw, he does not hit his
opponent on the ear, the top of the
head or the neck. He hits him right
where the hair begins to turn the
other way-on the angle of the jaw.
Naturally, the man who can make
every punch a telling one does not
have to punch as many times as the
man who must connect by accident.
In Britt, Cans will meet a clever
ringster who knows all the tricks of
the game, and unquestionably a man
who will die fighting. There ism t
trace of yellow in the Irish-Am-
erican lad. He will fight until he
is downed.
Jimmy is as cool as an iceberg I'M
til he receives a punch which hurts
him all over. Then unless he has
changed in the last two years, he
will wade in with both hands, teeth
set and eyes flashing. He has tenn
per, and Cans knows it. If Jimmy
loses his temper and grows peevish
it will be all over in about seventeen
seconds, for Cams, who never loses
his temper, will be right there to take
advantage of Britt's lapse.
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Britt has just one chance to win
and one only. If Cans has gone back
and his fight with Herman was MOI
enough of contest to decide this
point-Britt will have "a chance tc
tire him in a twenty-round contest
If Cans is the same old master of two
years ago, the clean rights and lefts
which battered Nelson at Goldfield
will drop Britt for the count.
Britt is said to have developed g
great punch. His battle with Nelson
is cited as an example. Nelson was
groggy at the finish and Britt's
friends claim that Jimmy's constant
hammering did it. If Britt had the
punch he is credited with, the last
three punches he landed on Nelson
would have sent Bat to the floor for
keeps. He was so tired he could not
raise his hands; Britt pelted him
at will but did not knock him off his
feet.
Give Britt all the punch he is cred
tied with and Cans will outhit him
two pounds for one.
III Cans goes into the ring in good
condition, he should win any time
he pleases.