Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-13

Jimmy Britt made a big hit at the
Washington Theatre yesterday The
| house was packed afternoon and eve
ming to see the little fighter make
! his first bow to a Newark audience.
/ As the saying goes, he made good.
| He has a dandy little monologue,
something after the style of the talk
given by Jim Corbett, but Britt has
n Finish" TO his performance that
fairly astounded those who know OF
| Jimmy only as a fighter From a
good story teller he becomes a real
actor and his recitation of how he
| fought an old pal in the ring against
his will was well done. Really, Britt
was so good that some doubted that
1t was the once clever fighter-the
man who had met Nelson, Cans,
Erne, Young Corbett, McGovern and
other noted followers of the game.
But it is Britt and his performance
is credit TO the profession. As a
fighter he was a credit to the game.
As an actor he has no apologies to
make
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Britt makes a change in his act and
he requires much use of the spotlight.
After getting the audience by his
nifty recital of few events in his
career. he comes back in ring attire
and gives a recitation in true thes-
plan style. He touches the heart and
he vets the eye and he does his
little act so well that his hearers give
him an ovation. This was SO at the
Washington yesterday. Britt is
really q big surprise. Those who
went to the theatre with the expec-
tation of seeing a rough fellow with
n caulifower ear were sadly disap-
pointed. Instead they saw a neat
little fellow in fashionable dress make
most interesting talk In perfect
English. He wins you with his cum
ming little smile when he walks out
on the stage, and he maintains your
friendship throughout his act. AS a
fighter, Jimmy Britt was all wool
and a yard wide. AS on actor, he
compares favorably with James j.
Corbett. and that is saying sufficient
CO
On the page following of the Eve
ming Star is a story written by Jimmy
Britt 1t deals with the heavyweight
situation. Coming as it does from
such an authority. the story by Britt
4 tvata q
doesn't think much of the white
hope" crop. and he declares that
johnson is a pugilistic master. Britt,
who has done considerable newspaper
work in his day, will write a story
on the lightweight situation for pub
LEGATION in the Evening Star tomor-
row.
O.
The Richie Wolgast battle was
great one and Richie Won The new
champion was the master of the old
champion at all stages of the bout,
and Wolgast gave him a most inter
esting argument. In their previous
fight Wolgast had the better of the
first ten rounds, but Richie has inn
proved much since he won the cham
pionship. and he outboxed Ad from
the start last night.
G
Now that Billy Gibson is out of the
Garden A. c., he will very likely find
time to make a few dollars for him
self During his reign at the Garden
the lighters and the Garden people
got all the money and Gibson got
shucks. Billy is going to run his old
Paramount Club on big lines. He is
negotiating for bout between
Packey Mcfarland and Jack Britton,
and he will also put on Charley
Weinert and Jim Coffey. Weinert,
by the way, saw Coffey fight Bat
ting Levinsky. and he rushed up to
Percy Woodruff, his manager, after
the bout was over and said: Percy,
please get me those fellows, one at
a time" Woodruff went to Gibson.
and Billy said: "All right, Percy,
we'll give you Coffey," So Coffey and
Weinert will likely meet in week or
so.
Jerry Travers is on his way to
Europe, where he will endeavor to
match his skill against the greatest
amateur golfers in the world. on
this side of the ocean Travers is
surely the best among the simon
pures, but the good ones" abroad
are looked upon as being of a SUI
perior class in the game of golf.
This is evidently quite true, although
Harold Hilton, the British champion.
came over here and was beaten by
Travers, and Chick Evans and an
other little American amateur won
from the two great English expon-
ents of goif-Edward Ray and Harry
| Vardon.
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Travers has been across the water
before, but his success was remote.
He goes now, though, a more expert
enced player and he hopes TO make