The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1914, Page 6

BRITS “DUDE” CLOTHES > EARLY LANDED HIM AS ~~ UBHTWEIGHT CHAMPION © His One-Punch Knockout of Heavy- > weight Who Made Fun of His Sar- torial Taste Really Started Ca- reer of James Edward. UNTOLD TALES OF THE RING ‘This is the third of « series by Robert Edgren on fights and fighters of the past and present, including stories that have never found thelr way into Print. The series will be continued on these pages at least twice a week. Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), ‘HIS is the story of a yellow coat and a chrysanthemum and a Nile Green tie that came near making a world’s champion. Such a combination, of cou! never could have belonged to any one but James Kdward Britt of Sy } e @ permissible combination in San Francisco in those days, especially Ban Francisco. To Jimmy it wa : south of Market atrect, Just the commonplace of ordinary tea-time wear, After 6 Jimmy slipped into his little “Tux” and a silk hat—Tuxedo and silk hat being 4 To set the exact time, just as a matter of historical interest, this F ‘was in 1900, when James was twon- Me ty-one years of age. It was before Jim had the slightest intention of becoming a fighter and beating such) men as tho then unheard of Battling! Nelson and Young Corbett. Jimmy! ss was just a young plumber with al sport and light tan colored gloves, His brother Billy was,| bantam, feather and lightweight amateur champion on the! but Jimmy's father said that if he ever caught James mon- the gloves there'd be at least one good punch delivered by al the Britt family, and James would know who it was. is ultimatum Billy and Jimmy confined, their boxing bouts in the back yard to such times as Britt er. happened to be away on busines: BEAU BRUMMEL OF “THE DISTRICT.” Be- sported one of time. He al sy ee propt faur incbes at the bottom to show his lavender socks, patent %: y Sas With gray tobe, a cane and a big fat Kouth-of-Market Street In tact J: was the very Beau Brummel of his district “South of "and he didn't caro who knew it, James entered the Richelieu @ tall, broad, lanky individual was leaning the bar, holding cheerful conversation with a party of friends, Al- Jimmy Gidn't know it, this gentleman was a former shot putter and cs a nae then an officer in the Chilean around the world with a few hundred Chil s 4 ‘The official part of it came with his appointment as boxing lnateueter A “are fleet. His name was Mike Collins. always was an outspoken individual. As his eye took in ing Britt's attire he exclaimed impulsively: “Hully smoke! he ae SHOWED HE HAD THE WALLOP. walked to the end of the mahogany bar, took off his yellow cont, earefully and laid it down. On the coat he deposited his hat, his and the chrysanthemum: Having done al! thia with the utmost delit Re walked back and looked uw, a couple of fect into the blue eyes of ae we from his friends, brushing his long hair fr air of one clearing the deck for action. ate Uttle runt. What's it to you?" replied the giant, controlling his for & moment. ‘ad 0.” ee eit “take off your cont.” wi exclal ike, winking to his party, “I don't need to take off m: Mek you." And he raised hie hand to take a reef in the top buttons, ae: Jumped up about two feet. Bimultaneously his % j bed a arc and ker-plunked solidly on Mr. Collins's lower . » Mr. Collins wobbled, His knees bent. His body slowly caved in Waist, and he slid gent!y te the Noor on his face. turned one truoulent glance upon the friends o ‘vut blank ypragee ys in their faces, if Collins and, deliberately walked to the end coat, put it on, replaced his hat, alipped Inte his buttomhole, picked up hi; jingrgrels tach ysl ip bis cane and strolled still @ plumber “South of the Blot” if it hadn't aunt oe. reengntnes him and told the tale all over ing reputation @ in the ring. He had knocked mre sha g@ome material there, All the peamety have the slightest intention in the world | © lumbing business looked too oud aa consent to appear in the Coast ever met. Chartie Gleger, Ma: hole and Young Corbett followed. quick: ly. He beat Young Corbett in twenty rounds, and broke Corbett's heart. It @ first defeat Corbett had met @ut Terry MoGovern Joe Gans fousm &: ight Britt next. in Ca: James tn the fifth round and with the world's cham- | ® plonship almost in his excitement, swung once more Gane could get up and test ono fone GREAT RIVALS. — felaon in the elghteenth round of a fu- rious and even fight. A little over & USAT tater he whipped Nelson again in hanging founds, having the Durahin Dane heipless on the ropes at the fin- feh. Here Hritt just missed a cham- plonship, for only a year afterward Nel- fon knocked out Gane and took the ttle, months ter beat: Britt fought Gane and lost In the eieth round, can't allow coat, a Nile | Be-| Players Sending in Contracts So BRITT ANO NELEON were|: 5 championship tournament begins. Majority of Giants And Yanks Have Signed For the Coming Season from New York, in @ way, ts pretty tough.” “What d'ye mean tough?” asked one of the scribes who had gath- ered in the home of the Yanks, “Tough on you fellows,” laughed “Ita left you flat with nothing to write about.” Farrell wae right. mysterious man Gilmore hi — Fast That Two Local Clubs ‘Have Little Reason to Fear Federal League. Frank, And Mr. By Bozeman Bulger. Ts announcement of Mr, Gilmore's ‘ei ‘ ‘ ‘Si te rs aene b team ot kee vor: bat eqeal- devia) it invade New York ‘wo a letter from y Evans, a of fer young diptance with a Federal League team has[ Umpire, yerterday and he has some Levinsky and. Coffey Performers; Harvard will be repre-| Tene pl, Mtns gana matnet es om Ufted quite a load from the shoulders tte ke ey. Re ceninae ae sented by the celebrated Brickley, and | ute 1¢ seconde in practice for the shert | of Frank Farrell and John Foster, but) Mitte eit wee Ban Johneon work ain 0. i jae levis a eens Juntor athiete | run, not nearly #9 much as did the New | tie Ome youll see wave Billy, “and, J ig around these part 0 hasn't entered! The full entry Met for the race i- Year's mails, Shisve wie Helther, Te) Gaus. ter he must ve either sick or in hiding. | cludes Hirechon, Fraser, Kell of thi * At the office of the Yanks the signed! speaker nor Hans Wagner has a —— middleweight, who won three fights in| There are eleven events on the pro-|Iriah-American Club; Mahoney and contract of! nearly every astur player) thing on Ban B. wi it comes to hit- ie . succession in Ban Franciaco in the last| gramme, with the 00-yard run and the ante hoeyg mots ei Guctiing of Mas- has been repelved, and the chances of |ting when a bi 1 fight starts. They'll Meet in a Six-Round sachusetts Institute, Weg and Waldron players jumping to the new league | That's where he have lessened to such a degree, or to such individuals, that there is really Uttle concern, ‘The jumping of some of them might be a blessing in dis- guise. Over at the offices of the Giants many contracts have been received, ut the John Hancocks of several of the stars are missing for the simple Teason that they are out of the country or in remote corn: ‘There 18 no necessity for a contract from Rube Marquard, as he In aleady under a three-year agreement. Matty's three-year contact has expired, but It fe believed he will sign the new one an n00n as he returns from California. Chiet Meyers la already under con- tract, having signed for three years. “still.” remarked Mr. Farrell, “this decision on the part of the Federal League to keep away man doe! ball player. Frank Chai that he will to Texas. might juat as well hi had for many seasons. shines. Young Mr. Stallings, son of George, is in town on @ literary mission, This puny youngster, who stands six feet six and looks as strong as a burglar-proof safe, has given up the {dea of becoming a ball player and has taken to writing. He brought in a bundle of stuff from the Georgia farm—Hterary stuff—and {t's good reading, too. writes trom California art Kast in a wei two to make preparations for th All of his Kastern players will Join him in New York, while those waited a He saya the old ‘t care to have him become a! TE eg hate? Ae I PY Map GRIMM SCT Pea KYCRSLY, SKWTARY ¢ ra ibs 7 OT Rar Saas a NEW iy Copyright, 1914, by the Preas Publishing Company (The New York World.) Giants Defeat the White Sox in First Game in Australia three months, has been signed by Tom McCarey to meet Sauor Petroskey, of | San Francisco, in a twenty-round at Vernon, Cal, tle on Jan, 17, Clabby has Bout Before the National A. Cc. of Philade P Nae five hours before the bow. sia Joe Rivera, who has refused to meet Leach Cross in another twenty-round | bout at Vernon, Cal., on Washington's coming Eant for | cos are that he| By John Pollock. HILADELPHIANS are unusually P interested in the six-round bout that will be held at the National A. C. of their ality to-night between A.C, with either Freda! Battling Levinaky, who received his the English champion, rly schooling in the manly art there, Rivera will leave Los An- and Jim Coffey, the Dublin Giant. This pair met recently at Madison Square Garden, Coffey losing on points after a fast and interesting battle, This is lev- insky'’s firet appearance in his home | city since he started the ohenomenal j spurt. * geles for this city next week. tr a ie Fyeddte Welsh, the lightweight cham- pion of England, who bested Johnny | Dundee in @ bout at New Orleans on | New Day, He e crack lightweight of t Jimmy Clabby, the crack Milwaukee on next Tuesday night, and on Jan. 19 | 7 Ottawa Five Defies A. A. U. Mi Facing a charge of competing an unregistered team and thereby ting in bad graces with A. A. U. oM- cials in Canada, Ottawa ¥, M. C. A. team went on the floor in @ basketball game against Creacent A. C., in Brook- lyn, and was defeated 32 to 2. The Ottawa piayers led 17 to 14 at the end of te first half, J. Adelson, manager of the Ottawa team, vald he had re- ceived no official notive of the Crescent A. C's differences with the A. A. U, Messages from the Canadian and metro- politan divisions of the A. A, U, did not reach Abelson until after the game, feature of th scrambli Joshua Crane of the Tennis and Racquet Club of Boston and formerly court tennis champion of the United cou 1a t Mr. April 20. will leave on hil, Hi will play ee ‘on public and pi compare courts before star America, ‘The The tur tack of the Ottawa Unl-| AmOr Om ne 2 versity forwards wore down the Har- |vard hockey team, regulars and nubsti- jtutes alike, and the speedy Canadians were returned a 2 to 0 winner at the Boston Arena, The battle wan & fant and furious one, both sides discarding all horsemen are ke to dle other Hawthorn or Old Rosebud. a performer they think is sure to show up here this winter from among th for the big asprin tumn two-year-old atakes of 1914, ‘|Looking for A Two-Year-Old Sport Began at Mexico Track New Year's Day. JUAREZ, Jan, 8.-—The beginning of the two-year-old racing makes an add- cing EMe May, eat winning ; ; , ky box,” ‘accompanied by Wal many good looking and royally-bred 5 i nk ; ly professional t Youngsters at present quartered here. ae monies Me tos Pate acquet and Tennis Club, are go-/tn money value they far exceed any ing him. If I fail Tam going to take ing to Englans Fe eee eaita collection ever housed before at this great two-year-old of long the firet train back to Cal:fornia.” or for that matter any other winter track, and in individuality they favorably f the big stable Kentucky and with sa by The meeting now on for the winter | begun to take on its usual ly watching these ver If possible an-|Hoth are now fully eligible to race, ‘The | Heavymelait, who (Nill ineet Battling Buch | Name of the brown filly by imp. Marta t the Garden A, ©, on Monday Banta, out of Damo, by His Hignens, is while the cheetnut filly by Fastern stables re colts and fll summer and au- nother Old Rosebu will box Earl Fisher, the Cincinnat! | fighter, for ten rounds in that city, Nine clubs will hold boxing shows run off on March 15, meeting ends that da: Present season 107 first meeting held ran for 82 daya. meeting was 107 racing days, while in 1911-19123 it covered a period of 102 racing days. Last season there were 107 days given over to the sport, which, if the livery Hirsch va. Wi will make the Atlantic Garden A. C. Billy Kramer: Irvi Cal In nd Cit : Vand Bert Hayes er | Btaten land, Britton: Sharkey vs, Eddie Fitzsimmons, 8. Veltler has received notice from the Register o} Jockey Club that the names he selected for his patr_ of | {wo-year-old fillies have been accepted. | and now | Rob McAllister, the Cal!fornia leht a confident that he will put Punater, and her work wo far has been moat satisfactory, her trials, in fact, the younge: | being good enough to warrant the bi wintering in| lief that she will be a very early win- of |ner this season, ies | thelr owners Tom O'Rourke has alened up Harlem Tommy Hopkina, the prom'sing local lightweight, to meet Lew Fisher in the semi-final to the ten round go between Porky Flynn of Boston and Rattling Levinsky at the National Sporting Club on Tuesday evening, Jan. 13 Jockey J. Groth, who now ranks one of the leading winning race riders of 1913, with 13 winning mounts to his credit, recently celebrated his twenty- | firat birthday. Groth will evidently be | Jack McCarthy, manager of the Brown Gymnasium A. A., arranged a match to- day between Kid Black, the good little west #de fighter, and Benny Leonard of YORK HOW JIMMY BRITT BECAME A FIGHTER all-star round bout at the | To the Sporting Editor Would you ki weight. gned up for two | aay riders gain 11 firat meet Frank pounds during @ race. Some, of course, | want Devinehy is his right mame, but; from another source we learn it is} Barney Ledorits, thet he is twenty. ‘” three years old, and lives in Brooklya. | Me formerly eciled himself Barney ‘Williams. cast.” most prominent ownel |ton Race Track, and is the magazine published? Brickley As Best Shot Putter, Too | Hundreds of Athletes Try To- oe ee + 4 ae Night to Win Junior Ath- letic Championship. The annual junior indoor champion- whips of the Amateur Athletic Union in. the Thirteenth Regiment Armory to-night will bring out a fied could be conservatively billed as “an Dartmouth College, fay up in the Green Mountains, sends shotput contests ranking as the fea- tures, In the weight event Charles Ed- ward Brickley will take light exercise with the 13-pound shot, and the Har- vard football captain is particularly indly answer the fol- or Jack | lowing question: A bets that most of the ridera in @ si: B bets that | six-day race loses weight. WILLIAM ioagicne= a peculiar fact that most P aie anywhere from 1 to 5 CONSTANT READER. | Court, No. : Fifty-ningh street, “Ba 99 Ra Ji to-night, as followa: Fairmont A. C. Calendar, mos. | We" Ed Groden, national champion, mo rs Frankle Fleming va. Tommy Houe Apply to the Baciag ‘ls and Patrick Doble will meet W: ng by ce at Juarez. Brown Gymnasium A. A., Bpecial De-|@ and 8 Zest Forty-Afth street. ; je will meet William manager, $60 an To the Sporting Eaitor: A has 20 more, and plays a « figure up his e#core. ; middie of game the score can not he ,derson got $1,100 for the low Brooklyn, fight at Maspeth, L. I. Barry; | a. Yes, MoCoy won & 15-round decision | im 1896, Y: | To the Bporting ri In Levineky right name of C..| fighter known as Battling Levinaky® 4 melds 80 kings and HOCKEY PLAYERS. - WILL BE NUMBERED | INTO.NGHTS CANE Amateur League Opens Sea- son With Crescent A. C, Meeting Wanderers Club. { With its teams so evenly matehed that it impossible to predict the er, the Amateur Hockey the championship season :'Nicholaw Rink, with e me between the Crescent Athletic Club Wanderers. Hockey Club. ‘Tae ern, following the example of several football teamn last year, will be numbered and fans of the strenuous iy 10 follow the playing of their favorites in all of the title contesta, With such veterans in the line up as “Doc” Mills, Artie Lit Jimmy Sherriff and Sars Kennedy, who can atways be depended upon to pat up @ hard, fast game, the addition of Cox and Chauncey of last year's Yele Varsity team will give added to the New Mooners and the team equally the championship two yeare ago the Wanderers in one of the thrilling contests ever seen here. The We i i Hi i v i val i $e Fe itt Aspires to Shine that of Colby College; Valentine and ‘Casey, New York A. C.; MoHugh and @hea. Pastime Chib; fal} Blush, Knights of St. Hocking and Oltman, told unless A a to claim out. Is jit proper to figure et any time during the games A. COHEN, ‘Fos, @ player is entitied to know his Score at any time, A To the porting Rilitor: Let me know if Packey McFarland iy Trace gain ery rider in & Handball Stars Meet Te-Morrew. The four greatest handball players in America will be seen in action to-mer- row afternoon Coyne's Handball | Gallagher and Bill Sackman, best four out of seven games, Smyth will referee, Adi Handball lovers who watched the cent three great contests between Ire- | land's best playe will see another the| hummer to-morow afternoon in Cole lins's court, No. 20 ‘Third avenue. A. B. | This contest will be between Jimmy insiste | Keily, champion of Ireland, jinked with ‘Tom Ryan, a McGann and Martin Sharkey jecision wi go ning weather in Los An- | geles on New Year's a&ternoon certainly kept many fans away, an the gros re- pts, which were expected to be over Fd, asking to | $15,000, only amounted to $4,800. Cross ‘s drew down §, Semi- ;—__——_4 Twice a year New York men are given an opportunity to have made, tr woolens, a suit at '¢ its value. La’ rs beter able to ride as long as he cares to fol- rae Hees raghrt Fee oe Jeu ater int cee. eiTh . Until the 100 oF more days of |iow the profession of a Jockey, as though | thowing im. the squared je during the closing time but five minutes away. | Facing here are a rest and pat-|now of age he can ths Vaght ae They wilt box ten - - ronage from publie * ected | 103 pound: Groth native of Call- clud on next Tues- Daly Outpotnta Mickey Du dally to tner As In the last two! fornia and first got the idea of riding | day n Johnny Daly, the sturdy little bantam: | winters Pere, the beat art of the|by associating with Jockey J, Glass. | : ovmmem Wiweight of the east aide, outpointed | present seanion here will come in the | Groth is well educated and a young man | Chip, who la now regarded ae x Mickey Dunn of Harlem in a ten-round | anal itty days of the sport, With rac-| of good habite. He loves to ride, and inover Frank Klaus, | Broadway C& bout os the Ken | sary ee |) wariog, img every one of the seven days a| considers himself a Juares track devel Roy Kenny, Bis ewncapainey dhe veraranteat week from now on, the 100 racing daya | opment, in ‘as It wes on the Mex- rad Saal 9th St. the fifth session the Harlem iad began | Will run out om March § The Anal ico course he Gret came in Pe, op aad took the lead stake event has aitendy been get te be punlle aye of © : oh sth touble velore fo ae a rear, APU RR MUR A A Annual Event 82nd foreign and domestic Arnheim “ .