Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-09-07
BRITT FIGURES
CANS is STALE


torture to the average pugilist to be
restrained like a hound in the leash
when weeks of training have quickened
his fighting impulses. OF course no
ring man cares to infiict his best
punches on a sparring partner, but Ii
he could only do so he would feel much
relieved, no doubt.
Tiv KrplIng, who is nothing If not
resourcefuI, has devised a scheme
which permits of Jimmy Britt whaling
away with full force hooks and swings
without fear of inflicting injury or de-
molishing anything.
When jimmy gets through each day
with his light sparring exercise with
Madsen and Horner, Tiv comes for
ward arrayed for rough work. The left
glove Tiv wears is the ordinary sized
mitten of pugilistic commerce, but the
right hand covering suggests elephan-
tits. 1t is as big as a sofa cushion
and when Tiv places it in front of his
face or stomach he is effectually pro-
teted from assault
KEELING Uses Movable Bag.
Tiv manipulates this movable but
tress according to preconcerted signals
and Jimmy smashes away without fear
Of doing damage. The words Tiv en-
ploys were picked up probably during
his sojourn among the Indians of the
far North. Anyhow, they sound like
the things Sherlock Guck says to the
captain in the KatZenjammer Kids.
Each word signifies that it is the ribs,
the stomach or the jaw that is to be
the next target. And, oh, my, what
ripping, tearing blows Jimmy does
sent in.
| Yesterday there was quite large
attendance on hand at Shannon's, sew
eral members of the fair sex being
among the spectators. do not know
, whether this was the cause of Krel-
ling becoming ratified, or maybe it was
that Jimmy misnterpreted the signals
Anyhow, the big glove was across TVS
face just as Jimmy sped an extra swift
: punch for the stomach The blow
landed and Tiv for a few seconds dis
carded the language of the Eskimo and
expressed himself in vigorous, varie-
gated Anglo Saxon.
Britt did a full days work yester'
= day. In the morning he was out fol
= ten-mile tramp with Bill Squires
the Australian champion. In the aft
ernoon he did everything but puncl
!. the bag He SPARED four rounds eacl
I with Madsen and Homer, worked tn
pulleys, used the skipping rope, shad
d ow-boxed and then wound up will
t his savage assault at arms with Til
K Krelling.
It Jimmy said that his weight was be
q tween 1876 and 1876, and that he couI
drop to the scale figure at "a hours
n notice if necessary. He showed grea
1t zest for every department of his in
le door exercise.
a Jimmy Likes the Work.
n "I intend to keep up my full lick c
u work until Saturday" said Jimmy.
have got into the full swing of thing!
II and l would feel lost If l shortene
down. | like the work and it doe
!, :; me good, and such being the cas-
there is no fear that 1 will get to
: much Of it.
so Cans thinks he can do tn
" weight easier than I can? l hope h
\ is right about that. l know one thin
~ When George Lavigne began to fin
n. that making the weight came easy
him he wasn't as fierce a fighter as
IL was when he had to work hard
W get theer. At that, Cans may be &
nv good as he thinks he is, and motto
where he says he can put up as goo
~ battle as he did dozen years ag
he why do / think 1 can lick Cans
or Because 1 think l am stronger tha
1d he. He says he has a better pune
to than either Nelson or myself. Yet
X. saw him hit Nelson on the jaw SEQ
nd of times without staggering him. TIL
ny was at Goldfeld. 1t seems to me tn
ed any ordinary observer must adm
ay that the punches gave Nelson in o.
n recent fight knocked him about mo
W. than the blows he received from Gar
st know that Cans Is clever-no
'nn cleverer, in fact-but there are othel
ny When he is figuring just what kind
~ punch he will shoot over on you
% truly he will leave himself op
- somewhere, and that's where will
~, heard from. In a few words, I ha
- no fear of Cans blows. I am strong
than he is and stronger than 1 ey
was / am as confident of success
m Mondays battle as I was before goi
m into the ring with Nelson, and tt
ev tells the story as far as I am co
cerOad"