The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
REAL FIGHT IF
THESE TWO MEET
Battling Nelson and Jimmy
Britt Can Be Depended
Upon for Great Scrap.
( (RS ROBERT ,EpeREN1

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Fhere will be great fight when Jim
my Britt and Battling Nelson come to-
i sether in Los Angeles. These two al
ways fight. No hippodroming when
they meet.
Britt and Nelson form a curious con-
tfast IN the ring. Nelson is rough,
shaggy, uneouth, rushing continuously
with head lowered, butting, elbowing,
rubbing his wire hair specially stiff
fened by being washed in alkali water)
in the other fellows eyes and against
his chest. Nelson is so illiterate that he
talks like the toughest tramp lie was
brought up among farmers and labor
ers. There are just two things TO gain
favor for Nelson-he always fights to
win and he always keeps on fighting as
long as he can stand on his feet.
Britt is exactly opposite in many
things. He is We'll educated for fight
er, having graduated from a high school
and continued his studies privately for
years afterward. He is almost a dude
IN his dress. He is smooth and polished
In manner and in cOnversatiO and he
always has his hair brushed with eX-
Nnef care, There's nothing shaggy
&C tlt Britt. He was born and brought
up luxury, and took up fighting be-
le' ie he liked ii.
Contrast in Ring.
- the ring he is Just as much
La htrast TO Nelson. Where the
p 49, - all for one T)ng continued, per
sAtent, unreasoning attack, Britt is
careful. diplomatic student. He is just
/ as aggressive as Nelson when it comes
10 miX-up. Britt is Irish, and he has
ali of the fighting qualities of his race.
He is very fast boxer. clean and
clever, always fighting. But for his last
tight with Cans. in which he refused tor
continue after the fifth round, claiming
broken arm, l would not have hest
tated to say that he was fully as game
! as the Dane. Britt has shown remark
,able gameness in several fights. not
|. ably the one in which he was knocked
j out by Nelson in the eighteenth round.
d L asked Cans about the finish of his
last Britt fight. Cans said: Britt did
WXtis seconds told him to do. He
~ fdazed he didn't know he was in
h9 p 1 laid myself out to give him
tie worst beating l knew how to give.
He was so near out l could have fin
ished him with a punch if he had got
up"
Beaten to Pulp.
However that may be. Britt didn't
stasSaAgx 10 be knocked out. and the
I'D Ia CAT Joke became famous. Prob
ably \ ~ iact were generally under
STOOD Britt would not have been the
butt of so much ridicusN A game man
doesn't lose his nerve in a moment.
l figure il out this way :. Jimmy came
back to his corner beaten to d pulp. II
was evident that he would be knocked
out in the next round. He could not
hold his guard because his right arm
was injured He was open for Cans
blows. Brother Wiilus, working on
Jimmy in his corner. was doing some
rapid calculation stunts in his mind, try
ing TO figure out way to keep that
X o. of the record books and save a
shred of Jimmys fighting reputation.
/ Jimmy, your arms broken. You can't
90 on, he said. And Jimmy, dazed and
sick and half delirious from the beating,
aecep(ed his managers judgment
o. Grudge Between Them.
Brit and Nelson always fight because
therR is an old grudge between them.
TheE couldn't meet in a fight and box
an Exhibition. Nelson hates Britt be-
ause he brushes his hair so neatly. He
is secretly Jealous of Jimmy's many ac-
cOmplshments, although Nelson would
Indignantly deny this. He probably
hasn't reasoned il out himself. He hates
Britt for his smooth air of superiority
when they meet outside of the ring. He
thinks Britt is a dude and Nelson
hates a dude on general principles. He
would like TO be a bit of a dude him.
self. and he can't. The rough, shaggy
Nelson sticks out plainly through any
tdisgui9e OF clothes
fave Fought Three Times.
S1k hates Nelson because Bat came
w. Without any of Britt's advantages
i'm breeding education, boxing clever
n, = cod To- OVuN
of the lightweKht championship. Britt
despises Nelson\ He always feels con-
fdent of his own SuperiOrity, when they
meet. Nelson hates Britt and thinks Il
can lick him, anyhAW,"
Three times they have. fought. The
first battle went TO Britt on the ref
eree's decision after twenty4haTd fought
rounds. The second was One continual
furious miX-up until Nelsont Knocked
Britt out in the eighteenth. The third
was fought on the 3lst of last July. and
Britt won this time decisively.
Bat in Bad Shape.
At the end of the twentieth round.
Battling Nelson, more terribly battered
than he was after the forty-two rounds
with GanS at Goldfeld. was hanging on
the ropeZ alf conscious. holding him
self M WITH the last shred of that grim
bulldog tenacity FOR which he is famous.
Harry Pollok, who sat at the ringside,
says Nelson could not have lasted ten
seconds longer AS il was. he stuck long
enough to lose on the referees decision
instead of by the X. O. route.
If anything. the conditions OF this next
Eight will favor Britt 1t is only ten
round affair. Nelson is a long distance
Fman, while Britt. with his speed, Scan
make a showing in a short scrap as well
AZ in a long one. A knockout b. either
man is unlikely and unless there is a
knockout the Nelson-Britt quarrel viii
Sbe continued later, no doubt (for con-
NatioID, where decision can be rem
o. the scrap can go TO finish.