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JACK BRITTON IS A coming LightweightFootwork, Punches and a Great Right Hand Body Smash, Make Him the Pick of Hla Claes.There Is one lad whSm Willie Kittlili* Imd better sidestep for a year or mo If Willie expects to koep hi* Ml.'. The boy Is Jack Britton, of lt;hieogo. There Is no better light w.lght in the world today than Brit ton.I IiIh boy has been press-agented foi months. Probably he has been prose agcntcd too much, aud conservative ring followers back away from the stories, but here Is one case whore tin* man deserves the praise.Jack’s wonderful footwork, his dean, snappy manner of delivering punches, and the way he boxes without apparent effort win the admiration of the fans.Secret of Hla 8uccess,Britton has one groat punch that is M*cr»*t of his success as a knocker-out. It in a right-hand body smash, dellv-••red when an opponent leads with his b ft hand. Britton times tiu other Mlow's wallop, and when he let* go with the left for a lead at the face or head Jack drives his right with all the force in his body. And when the blow lands It has the crushing power of a pile driver behind It.A right-hand punch Just below the heart la one of the most damaging blows that can be delivered by a fighter. Britton has this punch down to perfection, and when It lands It causes a smothered feeling around the chest aud paralyzes the recipient f*r the time being and makes him a target fpr the knockout punch on the i Inn.Differs From Packey.Compared to Packey McFarland. Britton's style is entirely different. Britton la sure and deliberate In hla attack. He seldom misses, and hlablows, when landlug, are as sure and true as a sharpshooter’s bullet.Britton seldom hooks with his lefl hand, lie bluffs at missing a lead, apparently to get his opponent off guard. • Then a second later he will shoot In • Ills left glove as straight and as hard as an urrow from a bow. Then again Jack's footwork differs entirely from i McFarland's. Britton sneaks In with i hla feet close together,'seldom raising j them off the floor, and always at a : distance from his opponent to get out ! of danger by a step in or a stop out, i Feet Set Firmly. iOnly when Britton gets In close and t bangs away with both hands are hla feet In any way observed. Then one • will se that Jack’s underpinning Is set • firmly on the floor. His feet are In I the same position as a fellow moving a piano or bracing himself against a heavy falling object He bends his body forward with Ills head planted on the other fellow's shoulder. Ills right and left gloves go faster than the eye can follow. Then suddenly ho will step away, not covered, but with his hands In a ready position to hit from any angle.Britton never covers his face with his hands. He either slips his head from a punch or steps out of danger with his feet. Sizing Jack up from all angles and with a cold-blooded comparison between him and wlllie Ritchie, It looks as if he had only got Ritchie to beat. He has a grand chance to be the next lightweight champion of the world.JACK BRITTON WINS.New York. Dec. 23.—Jack Britton cf Chicago outfought Young Ahearn of Brooklyn In a 10-round bout tonight. Britton was the aggressor but many of his swings went wild. Hla body punches were used to god effect. The Chicago man weighed 135V4 and the Brooklyn man 136%.
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New Westminster News
New Westminster, British Columbia, CA
Tue, Dec 24, 1912
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