Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-10
JIMMY FRACTURES A BONE
AND QUITS
LOSES WHAT LITTLE CHANCE HE
HAD BY ACCIDENT
Negro Has by Far the Best of It, and
the Native Son for Once In
His Life Is Out
cIassed
Bv Associated Press.


by Joe Cans, cost Jimmy Britt any
chance he might have had to win the
lightweight championship of the worlo
today and brought to close five rounds
of fast fighting witnessed by crowd OF
about 1900 persons at Recreation park
The blow caught by Cans on his elbow
was struck in the middle of the fourth
round 1t broke Britt's wrist, and though
he went on again in the fifth round he
was helpless in both offense and defense.
1t was not until this round that he in
formed his seconds of the mishap.
whats the use of my going on?
can't fight am helpless" he said to
Tiv Kreling.
Captain of Police Gleason was notified
at ringside and stopped the fight
The referee Walsh, gave the decision
to Cans.
Doctors Rosecrans. Apple, Ellis and
Sullivan followed Britt to his quarter s
in the far corner of the park and stripped
off the rubber bandages and made an
examination. Drs. Apple, Ellis and Sui
Ivan were unanimous in their statement
that the injury was fracture and dis
location of the lower end of the ulna,
the innermost of the wrist bones
Doctors Near Fight
DR.. Rosecrans dissented from this opin'.
ion and the doctors got into a pretty
wrangle among themselves which for
moment threatened to develop into an
unscheduled contest. The dissenting sur
geon started to go away, but was called
back and eventually reversed his judg-
ment to coincide with that of the other
three. Whether it was a genuine fracture
or not, Britt showed such intense suffer-
ing while the doctors were manipulating
his wrist that the tears rolled unchecked
down his cheeks.
rI was utterly helpless he said. Il
could not even hold up my left hand
after 1 broke 1t. 1 had no guard for
Cans left and no punch except with my
right" The fight while it lasted was
smuggling match, but it was perfectly evil
dent to every trained observer that Britt
had no chance to win from the negro
For the first time in his life he was out
matched 1t could not have been summed
up more accurately than by Cans him
self when he said on quitting the ring
II saw that l had him outclassed. 1t
could not have lasted more than couple
of rounds longer
The very thing happened to Britt was
prophesied by newspaper men at the
ringside before the fight had gone three
rounds.
Hell break his right wrist on Joe's
elbow If he isn't careful" was the COM
ment at the press benches.
Britt's lack of GOODNESS was partly re-
sponsible for the miserable ending of tho
fight. From the first tap of the gong he
appeared overeager. He was not content
to take the advice of his seconds to make
Cans do the leading but he rushed head
long into quarters that developed an IN
evitable slugging match in which the
champion had by far the advantage.
1t looked as though Britt was trying
for a knockout blow from the first round
or apparently giving little Thought 10
the fact that there were twenty rounds
to go and that he was up against the
cleverest man of his class the ring has
produced
Britt Lands in First
In the first round Britt staggered Cans
to the ropes with a left swing on the neck
that had lots of force in it and evoked
yells of admiration and encouragement
from the crowd. In the same round he
also used left and right successfully to
the body and face. but took in punish
ment straight left on the nose that
slowed him down.
The second round developed a miXup at
the ropes in which both men exchanged
vicious rights and left, Cans taking the
advantage. In the third Cans followed
the tactics of crowding Britt to a corner
and the Californian had his hands and
feet busy working his way out. The round
was even.
Cans drew first blood in the fourth with
a lightning-lik straight left that brought
a scarlet stream trickling from the corner
of Britt's mouth. 1t was right after this
that Britt threw all of his strength into 3
left swing that proved his merciful un-
doing, for when he went to his corner to
recAperate for the fifth he was looking a
bit groggy and the last vestige Of hope
of victory for him vanished before the
eyes of the ringsiders.
The fifth round was devoted to sparriug
and devoid of sensation. AT its close Britt
declared his broken wrist and his in
ability to continue the fight. and it was
stopped. The disappointment of the
crowd was voiced at first in boots and
groAns of disappointment, which died
down to silence when the cause was made
known. Even so, hundreds went away
murmuring and unconvinced, believing
Britt had deliberately quit and that the
whole thing was fixed. The word of the
doctors effectually disposes of any claim
Of fake.