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Show Sports. Probably the biggest surprise in fisticland since Terry McGovern's defeat at Hartford, was provided by the imported Cockney, Jabez White, in his masterly showing against James E. Britt, hitherto the American, and now the international, lightweight champion. It would have been worth the price of the trip from here to the coast to witness the expression on the face of the Chronicle Chron-icle sporting reporters, as the mill progressed and as it became a pronounced certainty that White was one of the phenomenal fighters of his day. For months the astute sporting writers for that I paper had berated the match as an imposition on the sporting public, had it cartooned, and worked themselves into hysteria because Nelson was not the other principal. The result is that about the best they get now is a derisive chuckle from the coast fistic followers. By the same token, the fight demonstrated the I great talent of W. W. Naughton, the Examiner's sporting authority, as a fight critic and prognosti-1 prognosti-1 cator. Several days ago, Big Naughton announced that White was a superb boxer, described his fa il vorite style of milling, and predicted that he I would put up a grueling argument with the fast and hard-hitting native son. His judgment was 3 amply vindicated by one of the most spectacular and scientific battles ever fought in this or any 1 other clime. After his great exhibition, White, 3 even in defeat, looks better to the fans than any E other lightweight except his conquerer. Nelson has renewed his clamor for another engagement with Britt, and will probably be ac- Icommodated, although a recent conversation between be-tween Nelson and Willie Britt indicates that the feeling between the two lightweights is so hostile that a second meeting may be postponed for a long time at least. It is certain that the Britts will ' not submit to anything approaching dictation from the Dane. If such a match falls through, it is possible that Nelson and White will be matched for a fifteen round go. When this contingency was recently mentioned by Charley Mitchell, Willie Britt jeeringly told Nelson that he couldn't hit the Englishman with a hand full of buck shot, a graphically expressed opinion which is generally gener-ally shared by people who saw the recent mill. The fight also showed clearly that Britt is more rugged, stronger and faster than ever, and that if Nelson meets him a second time he will face a shiftier and much harder-hitting antagonist than the Britt he bartered uppercuts with a few months ago. |