The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-01
BRITT GIVEN
THE DECISION
Is Awarded Well Earned Victory
At the End Of Twentieth
Round.
NELSON CREDITED 2 ROUNDS
The Native Son Put 1t All Over the
Dane From Start to
Finish.
NELSON CREDITED 2 ROUNDS
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
AUDITORIUM RINK, SAN FRAN.
CISCO, July 31.-Jimmy Britt OF
San Francisco, gained the decision
over Battling Nelson of Hegewisch
Illinois, at the end of twenty rounds
of as fast fighting as has been seen
in San Francisco in many years. AT
no time was either man in danger OF
a knockout until near the end of the
last round, when Britt's right and
left swings and uppercuts, which he
landed one after another at will on
Nelson's face, all but put the Dane
down and out.
Nelson did the greater part of the
leading from start to finish, but he
was out-done by Britt in cleverness,
ring generalship and everything but
gameness and ability to take punish
ment.
Referee Welsh, after announcing
his decision, gave Nelson only two
rounds out of the twenty-five Sec
ond and the seventh.
By his game fight Britt wiped out
finally the aspersions that some for
mer battles had placed on him. He
showed that keeping away from his
adversary is not the chief part of his
ring generalship. His defense show
ed up better than ever before and his
accuracy was never so marked. He
found his man almost at will, and
from the tap of the opening gong to
the end of the last round, there was
no lack of steam in his blows. If
anything, he showed up stronger in
the last five rounds than in the first
Is, while in the last half of the mill
Nelson's hitting powers obviously
diminished.
While Britt took no foolish chanc-
es, he gace Nelson plenty of close
quarter opportunities to put him out
II the Battler had been able to land.
Nelson disappointed many of his ad-
mirers by his wildness. In the last
eight or ten rounds he swung with
right and left for the face scores of
times and missed by big margin of
inches. His favorite fighting tactics
were to crowd his man, go into a
clinch and then with his head press
ing his adversary's neck ,uppercut
him again and again to the face and
body.
The great strength of Nelson was
nothing new to the crowd of 10000
ring followers, who watched him to-
night, but the equal and undimin-
ishing strength of Britt was a sur
prise that set them by the ears and
won for the local fighter ringing yells
of applause in at least half a dozen
rounds. Nelson, on the other hand,
CT tn nd 10
close of the fight and in the 10th
was Jared backward several PAGES
and all but off his feet by right and
left swings to the head.
The Dane showed his lessening
strength In his faltering footwork
and the utter ineffectiveness of the
blows he failed to land. All through
the force of Britt's blows, great
majority of which found their mark,
was such that fighter with less than
Nelson's immense stamina would
have taken the count couple of
times and then stayed down.
A ringsider summed it up rather
neatly at the close of the fight when
he remarked: Lets call it Battling
Britt and The Enduring Dane.
Both men came to the center of
the ring with jump when the gong
sounded the opening of the last
round. Alternately the two men We'd
with each other in holding on and
Nelson, who in a previous round had
been warned by the referee for but
ting, appealed to Welsh to break
Britt's hold. They exchanged light
blows and then Nelson crowded Britt
to the ropes in a neutral corner and
iabbed his man with a left. Ducking
his way out, Britt turned, swinging
right and left to the Danes face, with
a vicious force that sent him reeling
backwards to the ropes, and follow
ing up his advantage, he uppercut
and smashed with both hands, while
blood flowed down Nelson's face and
the crowd sent up roar of delight
that shook the incandescents.
Nelson failed to come back. The
round ended with half clinch. and
Nelson essaying weak uppercut
with his left. 1t looked as though
the final gong was all that saved him
from a knockout. In his corner a
moment later, Nelson vomited freely
Nelson carried away as memen-
toes of the hardest 20-round fight he
ever stood up to, right eye all Dul
closed, slight cash over the left
cheek, a cut mouth and a badly bat
tered nose. Aside from bleeding al
the nose, Britt showed up at the
finish without a visible mark.
The fight by rounds:
Round Britt sent Nelson tot
tering back with terrific right to the
Jaw and Nelson almost went to the
floor. He was up quickly in fighting
position and Britt smashed right and
: left hard to the face and then hooked
a hard left to the body. Nelson closed
in, smiling at his seconds. Britt
cleverly protected himself from the
Danes onslaughts. Britt had the ad
vantage of the round.
Round 2.-They closed in and al
/, close range Nelson uppercut twice
! with right to the body. Breaking
Britt shot his left with great force tt
the stomach. After Nelson had driv
en- a hard right to the face, Nelson
wolloped his man with two forcefu
Ioftc IN the stomach At close range