Show WILLUS BRITT DIED OF OFA OFA A BRO BROKEN EN Such Is the Statement of Jimmy Cof Coffroth froth in New York B By Tad New York Nov Britt tho most widely known md and figure in the boxIng world died Satur Saturday day dar In San Francisco That boy died of n a broken heart hoart said Jim when told of the sudden death of the little illo Ho was aM heart and soul Goul with Kotch ci 01 In that Johnson fight Sri saw before him i he brought homo home a winner and no ono one over ever lived who was as moro more confident Ho hot hol every nIckel he be could scrape up on Stove rind and bog bogged sed hIs friends to get on too hen dropped the champion In the round Willus Villus saw a for fortuno fortine tuno tine before luigi burt sIx seconds later hit hIp little champIon was stretched out outon outon on the tho floor like a dead man It broko his heart The finIsh was too for him antI and lie he went 00 o a spree I Ican Ican can hardly belIeve now that the poor little fellow is no more moreNo moreNo No ono one In the llio world lII liked ed Wiilus better than Jim did It was who the tho cafe named after rilus Every Eyer time LImo ho took a vacation or a trip to tho moon moun for fOI a few days bo be took him Ihs pull pair fought a all I I lV tVA lV vA i iu imer u oer mer Jim cafe ono one night and before time the thing was stopped both wore were coele covered with blood but they thoy patched It up ti after that and wore were bet bek better bekter ter friends than eVOl evoi Coffroth loved loe to play pIa jokes VII Ins Ius and the tho ho he n nevor stopped to tell telling Ing Was the joko had Ind hada n a habit or of couming into of office flee fice In Frisco and amid using the phone Hed ca call up In town and then call up different towns through throughout out the state and aid leave tho for Coffroth One day Willus VIllus as In Lo Jo Angeles Angele miles away from FrIsco and ho called Coffroth up It only cost costI I 1 a minute to phone and when Cof CoC Coffroth froth heard beard tho th voice ho told lold Willus funn funny storIes read him letters from frIends told hIm about matches matcho he never dreamed o oi malduS anti and when Villus lied had finished his bill was as 60 lIe never called up again un unless loss It was right In the th ell ellI city Britt always had the fight hug The fighter was in the same sarno class with his brother Jimmy at the Pol PolytechnIc t school In Frisco and ev cv cry day at recess the little HUla fellow lund hud 20 scholars around him learning time tho game At this time Villus was an inn am amateur or of the coast and a wonder at that He od unbeaten loft left school to work as a re reporter reporter porter on The San Francisco Exam Inor During DurinS the III tush h Vil ins Ius anti and Wilson went to Nomo Tho They started the tho first dall daily paper In Alaska anti and had a rough time return returnIng lag Ing to San Saum Francisco a year car later |