The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-11

has all to gain in the result of the bat
tie. l mean Packey Mcfarland, who is
said by good judges of the game to be
the coming champion in his class.
Packey will meet Jimmie Britt, the
native SON of the Golden Gate, While
there is no title hinging on the outcome
of the battle. yet if Britt. by hook or
crook, should win, IL would mean Macs
death knell in the arena of 1stiana.
Britt IL n "Wusxer."
In the parlance of the sporting gos-
Slippers, Britt is a has been.'' or as the
Small Boy puts 1t a "wuzzer." He has
seen his day and. while he owes what
success he has to the fact that he al
ways fought on his own stamping
ground, he is clever enough to give
Packey or the most of the boys In his
class a good warming-up, or what the
racing fraternity style it, a 'gallop.
Jimmie Britt is a pugilistic somebody,
because he saved his pennies has
the coin, and whenever a man has thai
he has a certain following. 1t Is the
following that keeps Jimmie in front OF
the fight fans. The club managers OF
the coast realize that Britt has a suffi-
cient following to make his appearance
a paying one, hence his engagement
with Mcfarland.
He Is Not Popular.
None of the Britts of San Francisco
are popular, because when they were
on the top they made their best friends
feel it. l can recall when Britt was
slashing right and left at every fighter
who came his way. and was getting the
decisions and the money without ever
putting any of his opponents out. l
spoke of this to an old sport and he
said: Take it from me, the first time
this fellow Britt comes away from the
coast fans he will be licked" and he
was. He broke his ulna bone, what
ever that is. and he strutted around
New York looking for sympathy, but he
got none. There is one thing about us
people out this way and that is that we
are far way from that place called
Missouri, but, nevertheless. we have an
awful desire to be shown before We tie
up permanently to any one man or
thing. Jimmie couldn't show us any
thing out this way in the line of mirac-
ulous work, so he had to hike it back to
lear old California.
what About Packey. il@ f@'
That Is the question hat o lovers
of cleverness have a right to ask any
one, and I am going to answer it right
now. With a referee other than Britt's
father, brother or some other relation,
Packey ought to have little trouble put
ting Britt out of his way. 1 have never
seer Mcfarland work, but If he is half
as good as he has been cracked up to
ha than Britt has nc m11nh phanra
beating him as an egg has in a kettle
of boiling water. 1t will be rather late
when the returns of this fight are re-
ceived here in the East. Many are
anxious to hear the result because the.
have been told that Mcfarland intends
going after Joe Cans. Well, il he dis
poses of Britt I, for one, will say thai
he has a perfect right to look for the
black mans scalp. II he doesn't. then
l will advise Tommie Murphy to take
III
Red Headed Tommie.
A few years ago there was fighting
around Brooklyn a little r~ed-headed
ellow of the Sullivan clan with the
first name of Tommie. He could lick
any boy in his neighborhood, and when
the Greenwood Athletic Club was doing
business in that city me Charley
Bangs was it's manager, this Sullivan
boy was trotted out to meet other laos.
He disposed of these 80 quickly that
he was given higher game, and finally,
after fighting his way through the riff
raft of Brooklyn and New York. he
went West. Before going there he Was
given a chance to meet Abe Atte'i,
and what do you think. in FIVE rounds
Tommie, the red headed kid. knocked
Attell cold. 1t is the only time this
Attell boy was knocked out in the ring.
Matched Again.
Now l see where these two lads have
tied up for another so. Many a time
Tommie Sullivan told me that he could
whip Terry McGovern and this was
before Terry went to the bad, He told
me-, too. that he had the Indian sign on
the Atteil boy and said in speaking OF
this lad that he could whip him when
ever he plased, I haven't seen Tommie
in several years, but if he is as good as
he was when he was moving them
down here in the East this Attell boy
win do well to fight at long-range
style. The boys are to meet on the last
day of this month. You can figure out
the date, can't you? They are to weigh
In at 123 pounds 8 O'Clock on the after
noon of the fight. This gives Sullivan
the better of the weight argument.
Billy Potts ON Earth.
Guess who dropped in to see me the
other night. He was we'll known here
in the days of Glori, Charley Norton
and other fighting celebrities, and he
had at one time quite a string of fight