The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-14

{ ooned, fierce, pugiIistie locking person with an iron jaw and an iron hand. But not so with Mir Jtuimy Brftt he $ ' the elegant. anabIe geutIen1an from the crown of his head to the tips of ht.s goots mes blond and fair. wHch nice, honest eyes into which often ereeps the mosr delicious hu1nor, they are newer quick or cynical because Il mar who earns his living with his fisus rs never 5itter9 bitterness usuaIlv is Q. product of disappointed gray matEeB. nor upon his person is there any sign of opulence, although the EHonorable Jimmy is terribly and ferocfcu.siy riehs yet there's no. glitter of the u1an de : | seending from the ropes no aggressiye tie, nor glaring -spats.'' nor siIls shirt nor latest cut in Norfolk iaclzets,'' al.l bfessed be the saints. no--n1annerisl1lsi
 stammered out something about how hazY he must feel about every newspaper individual who uppgoaehed him. especially if said individual wara petticoats. He Iallgiled his nice, cor dial laugh, and safd-
 Not q bit of it. [ Like to taIlA to la adies-new spaper Iadiea-if they ara clever. and they tell me Yous-i'
 sWateln out; hold on or I'll be knocked out in the first round; oe- sides people, don't want to hear amy thing about ne--it's yolu they ana wanting to hear about. so out with the secret of yum young life. were you a Willie boy. or u rolghneck when you were growing up to fan1es: asked.
 How Jimmy Britt did smile at that question and he has the incest siniis. you ever saw; and then he said quick Iy:
 "Thev used to calI me out home the 'Hoodlun in dude's cioti1es,' lie laughed
 Where's out home, 2 I intarrogated.
 'California, Mir Britt said, and, by the way, was intended to be either q lawyer or a musician [ simply could not see the fornesf and a5 for the lat- ter it was out of the question. although took violin lessons long enough to ne HaDle to nultilate some of the ariaa from Martini, 'Traviata' "rroWature, and tie rest But. was by naLiira Agfter; | had to be to live wilere [ did; that see- ticn of San Francisco that was home to me, south of Maraef,' as we called it-was a lighting. neignDorhood Tn that one intie spot many of the world B great- est champions lived. There was Frankie. Neil. bantamwegiit champion of the worid,; A. B. Attel. featl1erweiglit cham pion. Joe Thomas, wererweiglit. cham. pion, and Jim Garbett who has done
  ever lived. So you see. [ couldn't very well live in that neck or the woods aIlll not fight. I held for q long time the amateur championship of that section, and then went into the professional game, and let me say right here that. boxing today is a science--it's an art. It is the finest exereise on the face of the earth for d man or q woman, and it's come tu be in latter years one of the eleanest games ever played. Prfze fighting has brought odium upnn itself but that was long ago; boxing has irn- proved. just as everything else has. Moeg tho boxing game is carried on like the banking husinesS: rules and regulations and every pugilist has got to build his own monument as he goes along and every fight must be fnr most important igfltt-aa If it were the last I've viaited every city in Europe-evei'y capital of Europe. Australia and tl1e. Orient and I've never vet seen monument raised to the. memory of prize fgilter He 5 the talk oI the world today and gone tomorrow, unless he builds d character for himself which is monument to his fane.''
 What dn vu,r consider the most iin-