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Show HOUSEMAN SAYS FAKE. Chicago Sporting Writer Declares Gans-Britt Go Was Not on Square. Here Is what Lou Houseman of Chicago Chi-cago says of the Brltt-Gans fight: The best executed coup of recent years properly planned, admirably rehearsed, re-hearsed, and faultlessly carried out marked the meeting of Joe Gans and Jimmy Brltt In San Francisco last Monday night. It is pretty certain that both principals prin-cipals profited . handsomely by It, and that neither will have to resort to day labor for a long while to come. JVhlle the plan originally agreed upon was abandoned for the better one adopted, the shift was so adroitly made and so well carried out that for a time It threatened to dissipate all doubts as to the Integrity of the match. Nothing Noth-ing stamped the affair as being a fake so much as the fact that Brltt outboxed Gans This Is not In the pins. The negro agreed to be outboxed. He went so far as to go right up to the verge of a knockout In order to make good his reading lines and by-plays. It was then that Brltt. tentatively victor, was to lose his head, finding the money at the same time. In picking up this easy money, Gans had agreed to condone Brltt's loss by standing for a foul decision after being be-ing "made a monkey of" by the San Francisco lad. This was deemed the better and safer way out of a very tight corner. Gans's known proneness to fake had stirred up affairs on the coast to the point of being highly uncomfortable. un-comfortable. If there was to be a lay-down, lay-down, the sports figured. Gans would deliver the goods. Just as this feeling became general enough to steady the Brltt money and strengthen the Brltt market, the switch was decided upon and the money raked In from the Atlantic At-lantic to the Pacific. Inviting a foul, as Gans vows he did, |