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Author: London, Jack
Title: "BRAIN BEATEN BY BRUTE FORCE" - typescript of an article submitted to the San Francisco Examiner
Place Published: [Oakland]
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Date Published: Sept. 10, 1905
Description:

2½ pages, on 3 sheets of typing paper. With a few ink holograph corrections. 27.5x21.5 cm (11x8½").

Account of the boxing match between world [white] lightweight champion Jimmy Britt and Oscar Mathæus Nielsen, also known as Battling Nelson, on September 9, 1905. The match lasted 18 rounds, with Nelson winning by a knockout. This was the second epic fight between the two, with Britt winning a 20-round decision December of the preceding year to take over the vacant lightweight title. London contrasts the technique of Britt with the dogged force of Nelson, beginning "In the first round Britt hit Nelson half a dozen blows. At each blow Nelson was coming on. The blows did not stop him. He kept coming on. Then Nelson hit Britt, and Britt was staggered by the blow. The whole story of the fight was told right there. Blows did not stop Nelson from coming on. Blows did stop Britt; also they staggered him... It was the abysmal brute against a more highly organized, intelligent creature... I do not wish to call Nelson a brute; but what I wish to say is that Nelson possesses to an unusual degree the brute that you and I and all of us possess in varying degrees..." In places the typing is faint due to wear to the ribbon.

Very good condition.