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Salt Lake Herald | 1905-09-14 | Page 7 | Curley Talks on Big Fight

Type issue
Date 1905-09-14
Paper Salt Lake Herald
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Curley Talks on Big Fight
Type article
Date 1905-09-14
Paper Salt Lake Herald
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 7
OCR Text CURLEY TALKS ON BIG FiGHT One of Nelsons Seconds Second Tells How Eow Dane Beat Britt v THE KNOCKOUT BLOW A WAS A RIGHT TO BODY AND A ALIGHT LIGHT LEFT TO JAW BY cY JACK JACKWell cic Well I am beck back from San ICO and everybody I meet want wanta to know tow how soon Wile wilt will box boz Gus the Akron giant Int The Th lattera manager Bil Billy ly Madden h a kept buss several dayn telling how scared Will WHIs IB I Of Or Mr Madden need not worry as S my ny man will willingly meat neet pro providing providing viding nothing easier esier in is in n sight So many torio have reached here bere re regarding r garding the Battling Britt battle that I take It for granted local tight fans will for an all unbiased atory Ory from me mei i of o all let it be known tu tt Billy Nolan at no stag atago charged Jim Jeffries with dishonesty True he be considered that the Britts bear watching and aad expected job of some oma kind on account of Britt be being lug ing the tho favorite In the betting at 10 to flut never navor did Nelson or Nolan or charge James Jam J Jeffrie with play ills bIt any y part of a However when lEddy IMly entered the ring to act as referee betting stopped suddenly and what there was wan of offered fared quoted Britt at even During the entire eighteen rounds or vicious Graney wa u perfection Graney Grane was waa ever in tit the right he hw never touched the tighten fighters and ana when he ha stood over Britt the signal of ten from the official timekeeper he wag wa as cool a aa though posing for a picture to ta Associated Pre Pree reports report 1 the blows that finished Britt were a straight right to the body on the break breakaway breakaway away quickly followed by u a short ehor seem etem seemingly left hook to the saw jaw Britt sprawled to the floor and gamely tried to rise ris but nature proved superior to will rower power IL Britt was su declared loa l eer r by a slight wave waver r of Grannys arm arm and strange as aa it may sound Nelson danced no Jig hut but tenderly helped heaped pick up James Edward Britt and quietly returned to bin hla aerne Everybody was wa excited and wild with Joy everybody except ecot the tha little battler from I Later lift ha shook hands bands with Britt and the latter further hie lile extreme I by simply looking up saying Well you won fair and square After a rubdown In his lii room roomi u i ride to town eating supper Nelson was in bed at the same name oath batt house where I slept with him him the night before at 10 Barly Isely Sunday lie he crossed cro eed the bay to Manager Nolans residence at Larkspur and when I first saw naw him in the after afternoon afternoon noon he was we engaged playing marbles as tta though his hi Hf life depended on the re result reI t sult nult of the game eme I For Monday h lie claimed an automobile ride and when told by Nolan Nedan to appear at the California theatre lie he cheerfully cancelled it Britt deserves Iota lota of credit for tight fight fighting I I ing fate fair and taking his medicine like a aman aI I man nian I Nelson deserves the credit and glory of ofa ofU a U fair winner Nolan deserves his share for tor looking locking honestly after his hi boys boye interest tot for fair at all Ural arid 1 Jeffrie deserves sympathy for maKing the he mistake of ever eer allowing his hi name to tobe toI I be an as referee and for not re to act Nolan objected to him San Fraacisco people have forever re removed removed moved the stain of native son prejudice I Mr Lr Curley was wais one of Battling Nelsons 3 seconds cond in thia tight fight
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