Show HANDED IT TO BA BATTLER TILER Twenty Rounds of Fighting in Which the Native Son Greatly EXcelled DANE SIMPLY OUTCLASSED ENORMOUS CROWD WITNESSED I THE MILL Auditorium Sun San Francisco July 31 Jimmy Britt of San Francisco gained the derision over Battling Nelson of Hege Hegewisch wisch at the end of 20 rounds of as fast and pretty fighting as has been seen In San Francisco in many years At no notime time was either man In danger of a until near the end or of the last round when Britts right and left swings and uppercuts which he landed cne ne after aUe another at will on Nelsons face all but put the Dane down and out Nelson lson did the greater part of the lead leadIng leadin Ing in from start to finish but he was out outdone outdone done by Britt In cleverness ring general generalship generalship ship and everything but gameness antI and ability to take punishment Only Two Rounds for Nelson Referee Welsh after announcing his de decision Islon gave No Nelson son only onh two rounds out of the second and the seventh By his game fight Britt wiped out final lv Iv the aspersions that some former bat battles tics had placed on him He showed that keeping away from his adversary Is the chief part of his ring generalship His defense showed up better than ever be before before fore and his accuracy was never so mark marked ed He found his man almost at will willand and from the tap of the opening gong to the end of the last round there was no lack aek of steam In hL blows It If anything he showed up stronger In the last five rounds than in the first fifteen while in inthe the last half of the mill Nelsons hitting powers obviously diminished Britt Took No Chances While Britt took no foolish chances he gave Nelson plenty of close quarter op opportunities opportunities to put him out It the battler had been able to land Nelson disappoint disappointed ed d many of his admirers by his wildness In the last eight or ten rounds he swung with right and left for the face scores of times and missed by a small margin His favorite hitting were to crowd his man go into a clinch and then with Ids his bull head pressing his neck uppercut him again and again to the face and body The great strength of Nelson was noth nothIng Ing ng new to the crowd of ring fol followers lowers who watched him tonight but the equal and undiminished strength of Britt was a surprise that set them by the ears and won for the local fighter ringing yells of applause in at least half a dozen rOUnds Nelson on the other hand was distinctly weakened toward the close or of orthe the fight and ir Ir the ninth wa was cose jard jarred backward several paces and all but off his feet by right and left swings to the head ead The Dae Dane showed his lessening strength In his faltering footwork and the Litter ineffectiveness of the blows he fal fail failed td ed to land AI All through the fight the of Britts blows I forcE Brits a great majority of which found theIr mark was such that thata n a fighter with less than Nelsons Immense would hav taken the count a of times and then stayed dow down downA A summed i it up rather neaty neatly at ed cd the cose close of the fight wh n he remark remarked 1 call It Batting and The Thep p Enduring Dane Vicious Last Round tast Both men came to the center of the ring ath ith a jumi jump when the gong sounded the of the last round Alternately the two men vied wih with ech each other in holding n and Nelon Nelson who in a Previous round lad had ben been warned b by the referee for but butt ng mg appealed to Welch Yelch to break Britts l ild ld They exchange exchanged light blows and i ithen then Nelsn Nelson Brit Britt to the ropes I m a neutral corner and jabbed his sore nose with a left left Ducking his wa way out Brit turne turned swinging right and lef left to the Danes Dane face with a vicious force that him reeling backwards to the ropes and following up his advantage he upper Zt and smashed with both hands while thc th blood flowed down Nelsons face and tiP crowd sent up a roar of delight the scent I Nelson Nelson Al All But Out Nelson failed to come back bacle The round cr ld with half a clinch and Nelson c es essaying saying a weak uppercut with his left I It looked as though the final gong was al all that saved him from a knockout In his corne corner a moment later Nelson vomited free freely Nelsn Nelson crrie carried awa away as mementoes of the hardest round fight he ever stood up to a right eye ec al alt but close a slight gash over the left cheek cheek a a cut mouth and n badly battered nose Aside from a bleed bleeding bleeding ing nose Britt showed up at the finish visible mark mark Gans Rooted for Brit Britt Joe oe Gans the lightweight champion of f the word world made himself a ringside feat feature feature ure Clad in Immaculate evening clothes and holding his opera hat In one hand he for Britt al all through the lat last hal half of the fight Go to him Brit Britt Good bo boy Jimmie he kept shouting and when the I of the crowd reache reached Its high tid in the last two rounds the negro flung ung his hat Into a chair and leaning up against the rIng floor clapped his hands and kept up a stream of en encouraging calls to the Californian Referee Walsh sid sidI said I It was a good clean fight and the best man won It fairly I Je gave Nelson elson only two rounds the second and the seventh Statement by Brit Britt Brit made the following statement to I Ithe the associated Press 1 have been going around two years claiming that I was Nelsons master and not making any cry a as Is the custom of the defeated fighters I bided my time when I could fight my mr own fight and not ne for the public and the result you see sec Nelson could not have gone a hal half a around around round further I never drew a long breath brath I 1 am willing to meet any pound man in the world Batter Battler Has No Excuses Nelson was seen in his dressing room lie He said saidI r I have no excuses Britt fought n a good fight but at that I think he won in the thelast thelast last round I think I ate too much sup supper supper per They cant sy say I went the pace and lost Jost I did m my best We Ve have no complaint said Nolan th the Danes manager The decision was just Nelson Is a good loser Regarding the distribution of the gate receipts the agreement wa was that 0 60 per percent c cent nt should go to the fighters and 40 J per cent to the cub club promoters but after f the fight i it was learned that at the eleventh hour Billy Nolan persuaded Alec Greggins to give up an extra 10 per cent to 10 him and the Dane Dane This let the club out wit with only 3 30 per cent Of the fighters money 0 GO per cent went to te the winner and 4 40 to the loser The total receipts were In the neighborhOOd of 20 fight ten thousand people witnessed thu |