The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-14
MAY Of RENO
IS AFTER FIGHT
GANS-NELSON GO MAY BE
PULLED OFF IN NEVADA
CITY.
CANS WILL ASK EIGHTY PER CENT
Willns Britt Claims That Brother
Would Have Won Except for
Broken Arm.
CANS WILL ASK EIGHTY PER CENT

jim May of Reno, New, is after
fight between joe Cans and Battling
Nelson for Thanksgiving day, and
Yesterday made Nolan a proposition
to give the fighters a $4,000 purse
Inasmuch as May some weeks age
was so anxious to sign up the same
pair of lightweights, or even Cans
and Britt, that he offered them
$4,000 purse, it is quite possible
that Cans would stand out for that
sum, even should the other details
he adjusted without difficulty.
Mays advances were made to NO
Ian in the afternoon, and the man.
ager of the Dane proceeded on the
theory that Champion Joe would
Jump at the proposition. Nelson
said that he would fight, but that IL
must be a winner-take-al basis.
Cans, however, has good deal to
say about the proposition for tight
in Nevada. Nelson can have hight
if he really wants it, says Benny Sc
liz, but he must grant Cans 80 pei
cent of the purse, win, lose or draw
I'VE have our own proposition TO
make" Selig announced last night
eve want to have some OF the same
conditions that existed at the Gold
field fight AS to the weight, 1t must
be 1873 pounds, ringside, stripped. Al
Goldfield Nolan demanded $22,5OO
of the $4,000 purse. He SAID that
ne had the attraction in Nelson and
mat Cans should be willing to take
The short end of the money.
That was agreed to. Now 1t is
different. Nelson is a has been. lie
has lost the last two fights and GER
tainly is no card. With champion
we can't afford to go around the
country taking on every old mas
been that says purse Is onefeu
However, for so per cent OF tne
purse we might stop and pick Nell
son up.
"That is our stand and it goes
Nelson was defeated by Britt, who
was outclassed by Cans this Week
and why should he consider that he
has right to fight on a winner-take-
all basis lie can come to our terms
if he wants fight"
How much was Jimmy Britt in
iured i'm his fight with Cans, and
would it have been possible for him
10 have continued the fight last Mon
davq These and similar questions
form the topic of conversation among
tbe FiIlmore-street sports yesterday
when the Admission-d hight was
mentioned, and aside from surmises
there was no answer to be given. II
is largely latter OF speculation
Britt and his friends, on the one
hand, will continue to say mat II
would have been useless for the Gail
fornian to go ahead, Whine there are
others who intimate that he was
looking for an excuse to stop the go
ing.
Britt was. on the street Monday
night quite late, with his left arm
in a bandage and sling. Outside OF
the cut over his eye, that has already
been mentioned, he did not look any
the worse for wear. He says that
any one who is sufficiently interested
can have an X-ray examination made
in order to prove beyond doubt
whether there was a fracture or some
lighter injury.
It is the general opinion that Britt
hurt his hand, but when you talk
about how badly it was injured, you
come to the parting of the ways 9th
err fighters have broken their hands
and still gone on with their matches
as was, indeed the case with JOG
Cans when he fought Battling Mel
son in Goldfeld.
A suggestion was made yesterday
that Britt could easily have made
hero of himself by going on with the
fight and permitting himself to be
counted out. Britt doubtless prefer
red not to be a knocked-out hero, anC
for that reason was willing to accep
the advice of the men in his corner
and quit when he did.
DR.. ID. +. Reagan, the former health
officer and a friend of the Britt fam
lily, was in the dressing-room after
the fight, but had no chance to make
an examination. DR.. Raglan statet
Yesterday that when he was leaving
the grounds some one said that ht
ought to see Britt, as only the Two
physicians representing the club were
with the boxer. Accordingly he Wen
to the dressin g-rooms, but Drs. Apple
and Sullivan had already bandaget
the haund, and the courtesies of thu
profession forbade DR.. Raglan max
ing an inspection for himself.
Both Willis and Jimmy Britt still
maintain that up to the time of thu
accident it was an even fight, ant
Willis wants to arrange match TO
charity just to go on with Cans. VII
lis said yesterday:
II expected to see Cans cut Brit
to pieces for the first ten rounds
but he did nothing of the kind. Brit
hit him a good wallop on the jaw
All the hard blows We're delivered
by Britt
Being a member of the family
Willis can be excused for this line o
talk. Those who saw the fight know
for themselves that Britt was out
classed and bound to be defeated il
the end. He couldn't hit Cans. an
the colored man came back with hi
right just about as he pleased.
No decision has been reached re
garding the moving pictures, say
that Gleason and Britt have con
cluded that the scheme would not b
a paying proposition. The right t
use them has been turned over t
Miles Brothers, and it is harlly pos
sible that the films will be develope
for use in connection with vaudevill
shows. The original contract wa
drawn I'D between the firm and Wi
lis Britt and Jack Gleason. Ben Sc
lig was skeptical and refused to pa
the preliminary cost He reserve
+lo ,.;obt however TO cllt in If h