The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-02

from. and when I told them New Britain, they started referring to me always as the Britain fellow" They never heard of such a place and they thought 1 was some kind of a circus freak.
 When I made my first public ap- pearance in the ring in Chicago. the announcer asked me my name. l was badly stage struck and told him my name was Breslin, but they called me Britain. He asked me what my first name was and l hesitated too long. You gotta have some kind of a first name" he said, and with that he went over to the center of the ring and yelled: Tn this corner Jack Brit tain."
 The next morning the papers said l was Jack Britton," and have been Jack Britton in public life ever since. The name was also passed on to my brother, Frank Britton. lightweight and a good one, too. He beat Shamus O'Brien, Freddie Haas and other good ones, but he got tired of the game and got out of it. Charley Leonard brother of Bennys, was the same way, it will be recalled.
 Jack Decides To Be Banker. About this time I was reaching the age where d boy in a large family be- gins to realize that he should begin to assist in providing food for the table instead of removing it all. Most of the boys in my crowd were talking about becoming engineers brakemen, conductors, firemen or cops. The ap- peal of any kind of a uniform is a great urge for the boys in any large city where it is largely symbolic of power and standing in the commu- nifty.
 As far as I was concerned I wanted to be a director of a bank. However guarded that ambition as a terrible secret, as such aspiration voiced among my mates would have been taken for the symptoms of first class sissy. I didn't know anything about banking, but I had the Idea that the men listed as directors on the front window of the bank in our neighborhood were allowed to spend all the money they wanted to out of the bank.
 While I did not start out to be banker, I finally realized that ambi- tion, however, by getting on the board of a bank in Canton, O.
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 Requisites of n Good Boxer.
 went to school for two years more. l was never what might have classed a mental giant, but got along fairly well. By the time had WOThtu up tO lHo IllkH SCHOOl StdSc l decided to start out and get job.
 As I pointed out in starting this chapter experience is a great thing in any line of work. but 1t Is not everything. Unless one applies him. self mentally in always trying to learn something new. experiences will only develop the instinct.
 To be a success in the ring a boxer must be constructed properly. l mean by that that he must have cour- age. what we call in the ring "a heart" and he must be built well physically. He must be mentally alert and willing to live cleanly. To live clean. I believe, is the most impor- perfect physical specimen. he might be able to box like Gang and hit like Dempsey; he might have the heart of q lion and the disposition of tiger, but if he doesn't take care of himself, he will get no place. My first job really started me in the fighting game because l had to fight to get along in the business. as I will relate in the next chapter.
 Note: In. the fifth instafment of My Twenty Years in the Ring" Brit ton explains how he learned to fight in Chicago, his first matches in the days when boxing was prohibited by law. the initial purse of S1O and his first knockout.
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