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\ @ thick neck. and he taller than Waloott. exactly the xame aa Sharkey ™. famous twenty-five furious rounds. B “Nevada, Hart had knocked out Jack fm twenty rounds. @ locomotive fireman who occasionally Gabbled in fistic art named Jim Flynn. TOLD BY STORIES OF SPORTS EXPERTS BURNS IS A SORT ~ OF GIAN ~ AMONG HEAVIES: Is Built: on the Lines of Walcott and, Sharkey — Victories. Over Hart ‘Flynn, O’Brien and Squires _ Earned Him Title, in Serie on training quartets he said so. "The malin reason for expecting Hart to whip Burns easily was that Sart won six-footer, and weighed well above 20) pounds. my five feet saven_in his socks, as Hart saw him when he made the Therein he tesembles Tom Sharkey and Joe Waleott. j But stripped to fighting togx Burns @- esembles Sharkey and Whole lot more. He) is built cn the Mires of Walcott a the “Giant Killer,” with huge Shoulders and big arms and legs, and inches ts ts six His wolght on th: sailor draw in occasion “when “the fought Jeffries almost to & ITRNS {s a little giant. and that's what Hart everlooked. % A short time before that, ta Root, ‘of Chicago, in a finish fight billed ae a world's championship. Of gouree, it wasn't a championahip, dut Hart claimed the title, and he jooked big enough to get away with it. Burne whipped Hart to a standatin ‘Then Burns went on fighting and xet- tng the coin, His first victim was Burns knocked him out in fifteen rounds. People laughed, and accused @urns of picking out « lemon. A few days ago Johnson, = negro boxer, Ynoeked Flynn out and tried to declare himgelt tn on the world's championship. tn consequence. Yack O'Brlen, who claimed the cham plonship contemporaneously with Burns, became very Jealous when he saw Tommy gathering in easy marks and eoln, and‘went to-Los Angeles (looking for the new scrapper's scalp, O'Brie ada fairly legitimate claim to the heavy-welght title, having stopped Bob | Fitusimmons, to ‘whom the title had Teverted \ipon the retirement of Jeffries Burns chased O'Brien around the ring for twenty rounds, broke his nose, Dlackened “his eyes, battered hie face Umtil all of its pristine beauty departed, never to return, and got a effries, the refetes, -sald that both fighters had aske if the contest went the linit the next few months there 3 @ world of talk and challenging. In New York urns told me his only fair was that e’'d never be able to get O'Brien into ie ring again, and sald that he might ave to trick ‘him into it HAT'S what Burns did. O'Brien | came to him and proposed a» take. .Foxy Jack's pri “wee that Burns should Ne do During oxition take a big piece o! O'Brien would make his money” by ektndtng thet O'Brien's comiiiissioners put down a pile ef money on the“fight."” Burns had tricked O'Brien -and tate the tins “ten % Peer 1 eee “te sound the beginning of the battle {t wes suddenly ax sthet all bets Were called off. O'Brien wanted two jump out of the ring, but {t was too late ‘The bell clanged, and. hs fou 5 self caught. Burns was ‘bearing dow on film. To jump out then would be eternal disgrace, O'Brien compromil by Funning for ils ite, with er him, for twenty rounds. took the decislo: Perhaps the bet: paye ‘ONrie some were called 0: 8 money, There wide twist to u Rever came out. ‘At unsavery favor in the and Burna found him. lar as the have public slg Rimost as un aroh-faker, O'Brien. hiladelphia Jack aquoaied and. heme | y fessing. When hs had no of gwn fakes to confess he things to confes: HACKENSCHMIDT 10. WEE COTCH HERE CHISAGO, ML, Noy. %—William 3B, Wittig lam night announced that he fad recetved letters from Geo. Hack- @rechoddt and Frank Gotoh which geem po indicate that he will be abi: eo Hotes the oren togetiier in this a Mason or Apel, Witts's etce the wrestlem mest here ef London, man. wrote that he i man te this country if ‘5,00 for expenses and _jumped suddenly into prhminence a. T-KILLER es } s ‘Champions > ” I Have Known. OMMY BURNS, now cham- piou of America and Austra- _.a, who 18 matched to ‘fight nner Moir, of England) for the world’s. championship, om Dec. 2, little less than two whipping Marvin Hart. Before that fight Burns wasn't exactly what you might calf obviou in the heavyweight situafion. ° He didn’t stick out like a sore thumb. In fact, when he was matched with Hart some people laughed. It was} Just about that Ume that the ex-| pression “lemon” came into use. Hart thought Tommy Burns was a * gud in the privacy of tris years ago by Tommy Burns relghed 182. clothes, match, Burns wasn't very imposing. THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, | BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK - TOMMY BURNS CHAMPION HEAVYWEIGHT OF \os NOVEMBER ..10, 1907. ‘UP TO DATE, NEWSY AND WELL WRITTEN THE PLAN. Burns ano Joe WALCOTT. “GIANT -KILLER | ARE Bult t on THE SAME LS 07 Borns’ GREAtest FEAT 23 KNOCKING Out AUSTRALIAN CHAMPION Sa@uiREs: IN-A_ SINGLE ROUND... 30ys to Fight TFwelve-or-Fif-+ teen Rounds Before the Na- (1S AND BLOWIN SIN UPTOFIGHT EL AWUUITTT ; Tomar USED To BE AN amaTeuR ATHLETO™ tommy Buans, CuaMPIon OF DOLANDO, GREAT “BEEF AND” RACER, — "NOW WORKS AS COMMON FARM HORSE of Park Row; that sent ‘Reaf-and” I Park Row, ” ‘"Tis hard to have come to thi: first though the great Dolando, but with the pluck that was born within him, he bent shoulder to the collar, and 40 es a pleblan work hori Great Dolando is spending hie declining| yeara at Gravesend. It's ued to see how the mighty hath fallen, but false pride ‘is missing from the make-up of old Dolando. Sometimes he derams of the good old days when pa Lait tad BRAS Mie siuk and satins were apon him and leather boots enctroled hia but at daybreak he wakes u a former's and te to" ye Mensd to tas - t Eighteen - Year - Old Thoroughbred! # : Spends Last Days Hitched to | Wagon at Gravesend. _ BY BOZEMAN BULGER. N adveralty he hay the same haughty venring that inade him the pride Een Dreytuss, the milk-can man; Bent-Nose Micke ard othera who drew thelr nourishment from Johnny Meehan's place on @t| wagpn.: He works four hours in the flock of peddlers, mail carriers, pusii- | morting. but on account of hin age ia, Cart turned loose for the afternoon and al: }lowed to stand eround and reminisce’ help the once’ with his stablemates. Yea, cohorts of Park Row, it's true. | dozen banana men ou! The great and only Dolado fs pulling | a harrow on Gravepead track. And he does it aa well as /h sTeenbecks Into tle When once 1s and that night the nlong the ritlto. ikea a f heeft. and lowed like hee Dolando cas! days. they didn't. care ‘whether Snilckerbocker Trust Company in the morning or staid 2 all rservative figures, which nana still have on file, show that 9 was won that night, Ryan, the butche: Jeaned up! $3. Nephew DOUL $10.00 for Welsh, nailed nim While a living ‘To he would a ca y could buy him, € getting, stim, it wast morning exerclie would 1, and he was loaned out upt. Brush at Gravesend to. work \ harrow, Any morning you can ¢o there and seo tha “Pride of Park | StagKing & wagon or a harrow track. nigh The stablemate of Dolando, the great | was’ atoall $: E to the of candies and rdpaired every Me us, fas ono’ camnietoly he Meehana know he hls green fckey, th p isjnow hoboing caslied in $00; Vope, the exe man, newhere throukl the West, § Duck-Egg Drewfus landed for n 1 biadslof-aihas hore mid Pistro, the pushcart boss, pulled do there and siexping in the afieltar of some $3, and App a | old burn. "i nppt. Guy |The announvement that Dolando had of the a |more than two hours # day for a wee! | Rone to work ‘for a living brought “Them wys great days men. apace writers _and other deni-| the Newsboy, “But dey don't ena of Park Row into Johnny Mee-| like dat now.” hana to offer condolences and extend! It Thov have not forgotten ono race | jast | When Dolando ov'tfooted hia feld and | showed these poorle what tho elasticity put on a pensfon, but jot currency really meant. It started a | with pushoarts, | bought a new set of garving toola for the "beef-and’ man. and equipped the Jotter carriers with a complete set of @ threw lumps ef/ instruments for the brass band, Every old street some | tody was down. if | Uncle Dolan Hyed in those days, and Ip his, roodness of heart he bed spread (io with « lavian'hand,. ‘They migns | ) | not bel: i) tet Satlvved Crate | chi TS: ratting down the throats of Duck , the towel man, * biting won, $25 and mar night that ever; bute something and ve old Dolani Dolando Works Every Day, Mechan ‘or @ iiving, but, like Weston, the walker, was and that hel ther reports, Meehanus, the other bean getter twelve years ago. to-day is hteon years old, value aa a ‘Oeef-end" gette many years ago, him Caeser after Young's ren wb wan gteat doings ed ery customer added | by finishing third to O'Connell and Belts, d syrup to his regular onier|tha Now York cracks, the Mopriot article dat 19 to 1, and tn those whe closed | the Mee: 7 ¥ Meehan Kel | aWay with $1,200; Ryan, the undertaker, and Installed a new #6 | jengue will be alm in cher, for a V- pace writers didn't have to wor nald Mon come wan suggested et the gathering winner oontri- ex- ained that he did not have to work just doing it for exercise, things up ewaiting fur Park Row, wan eold to Sam Hildreth ‘and he In turn sold oung. who was killed while In oab with Nan Patterson. Boon death ae wan: tional A. C. of Waterbury. BY JOHN POLLOCK. "NOTHER important mateh ~ tween good little fighters A clinched last night.- The tad: xuged for tt ere Matty Baldwin H clever light-weizht of Boston, and Bert | Keyes, the-ex-Quaker City fighter, whot {s now regarded as one of the top- 1otchers In the light-wolght division as a result of his recent victory aver Jonnny Summers, the English boxer. The articles were drawn up in The ening World oltice, and the ‘club's renresentativeposted 350 with Robert | Edgren to fulfl hin part of the agree- ment. They will mee: in a twelve or fiftesh round buut before the National of ‘Waterbury, Conn. on the 5 i Fiat 133-pounds—weigh—in- “;at the ring side, This will be their sec- ond meeting. they having engaged In a fast_six-round bout before the Sharkey A C.,/of this city, about four months | i OWDN MORAN—In my opinion, ‘world outside of Jeffries. I think he fident of it that I have sent $%0 to my friends {n London to bet on Molr. It Is true that Moir has never beatin any good men and neither has Burne JOHNNY SUMMERS—Gunner’ Moir is a big fellow and he fs as strong as Hackenschmidt, the wreatler, and al Burna easily. driver. - PAT O'KEEFE-—If Burns stops Gui Moir is a powerful man and from What I have heard $s as largo and strong” as Jeffries. I do not know so much about him as some of my friends, when a fellow like Owen Moran, who knows the game from start to finish, ig willing to bet on him, you can be sure Decker and Frankie Ma Fight George Decker, the Philadelphia lightweight, By who made goof showing with Matty Haidain—tn—s_six-round bout before the Crown A.C. of Brooklyn a few months azo, baa been matched to meet Frankie Madden; the local boxer, for six rounie next stag of the which will be decided ot; lade are really for the contest, “and ought to hard battle. in the main event at ti Consolidated A.C. hon Monday nigh t ining up Jim Flynn to Meet 8am Langford Jim Flynn, the game heavyweight fishter of Pueblo, Col., who was knocked out by Dix Jack Johnayn at the Colma (Cal.) A. C. a few weeks amo, is one puxilist who la not afraid of oolored fighters, He was of- fered. & maton with Sam the yer colored light middlewe of | Bos- n by Matchmaker Tom Mev of the fie Av C., of Lom Angeles, Cal. re- cently. no time in accepting It Langford will probably do tkew!se, Langtord, ignt and Jost “Twin” Sullivan to Box Farmer. Mike ("Twin") Sullivan, the New Eng. Jand weller-welght, who doféated Frank Fields, a light heavy: In twenty rounds at: Goldfield, 1 han teturned to Los AnKel a sixned articles of agreement to meet Kid Farmer, the Western middle weight, for ten ror before the Pacific A.C. of that city In two weeks. Bulllvan ought to have no trouble inoutpolnting Farmer, asthe latter 1s slow ja not clever. He might have been belleved if he c age, hadn't tried to amirch the reputation of ACERIA_AND » "Keefe Gi Match. tonest Jim Jeffries, the squareat fixhter » AUSTRALIA 1 O'Keefe Gets a Match. that evec trod in shoe leather Chariey Harvey. t matched Pat} urns, partially tn diskrace, was} -—-— a — hariey ¥ 6 matebed with Bill Squires of Austral O'Keete, 1) trisn““wonder, to meet If ever x stranger came here well | Bartley Connolly tn a ten-round go xt} ommended, and showing all the e 3 , Fihe Wir Club on Nov. . 20. | snarks of @ mpion, that was bill re | Johnny of ay ‘ey eed i Squires. Interest in the mill caused was {0 1 off Uae alone i Burns's tangie with O'Brien to be for. b | Philadeip weit tHe | gotten, and when ‘Tommy laid out t Moody. ned himself tn | redoubtable champion of Australia with if a inpinthe, Fred will take his three whaling wallops in the first round lace. he rose on the crest of a wave of popu-|._, eS gee ay | cf luxury, he had plenty of opportunity Indi = tevy papers he Ge Murphy to Box Keyes. larity. When “a Child His Mother} to devetop the muscles of his long ,thin| Indian First Gained Distinc- orge phy yes. | HAMPION 0f America by virt lors Walle: he: imag) yet: camel: the | 1/4 : tar sreelkepr eenaiise Slat ere tags fs y virtue Valk j 5 Mi a nown in the be. ¥ \d ( of his victories over Hart and Walked Him 25 Miles mother would take him and Simon, ed tion by Running a Neigh: Murphy, will spar three rounds op Mon. O'Brien, Burns was now also cham- on each hand, and walk them all the| jos day, Nov, 2, at utiner's Bowery pion of’ Australia!” He coutd'not be cham: a Day. way to Brantford, @ distance of twelve] bor’s Cow to Deatlt. Theatre, with Bert Keyes, and, on the pion of the world yet. Jeffries resigned or thirteen miles, Of course, 1 was tes of Boston, | "Kid Lewis: ts that title, but to beco: 0 just ax for back again. ny and Js out—wiling to} the world it #ras Leos Ga | he poor Indian boy from} igiinst_ Johnny Summers, holder to wade thrbugh the champions HERE {s a prospect that Tpmj First Race at Twelve. i the bush to-day veing | Tommy Murphy oF Dick Hyland, before felewenilice ervey ity eed eee \Longboat, the xccat Indian rin) When he wos about twelve yearn-of | Mtcye to) develop ieee aen Simmie Kelly will retoree the exhibition, and. beatdes Burns did the best thing he-could do to ner, will Join the professtonal|age Tom ran bis first race. It waa with stamina. ~ a os gppuish fis right to that honor. A new | class, He is under a cloud in Canada as/a cow belonging to a neighbor. Tom| Ran Morning and Evening y ) rine ves awe bE Enrland, far outshining the other Engu| well as in the States fot her by the tall and ran her around a4 fea @agent en heavywelents, Burna matched him-| Longboat, in some rospects, ts the|a ileli till she died. He reaped more ! the ocean fo Hen Hee and cfoMsed | most interesting athlete the Kame has| trouble thin glory trom the race. After! "He run and evening SEs and will be ft, If aair can beat in| ever produced. He ts nature's own. He om went to the school in\| Herrin down at lon bth tee See sou teh alee ace ta erie: Deering had « very humble start In 11 | Brantford’ for about five years, where[and tun more. He ron round this) | ji pedi BY Bums was born in Canada, and there-| trained himself. He was born in i! leartied to write ange 4. But ¢du-| block," and she 1M a hand 0! bake! | : } fore js, an American. The proud ttle| six Nations Reserve, near Toronto. His} ia-love of tun] In) a” large. PSS ey att JOPPE sails to-day tor) ple who live In a portion of the angea. | mother and brothers eannot speak Eng-| OnE rS ok up Wis old: gee no hie rin on the Kaiser Victoria, amy cone nent cue a Ctattom the rest by | Hah. While he did not nates n uted ‘ i a a Ae fi See v eth beats SMoie'an American will again nog | Zrom what can be gleaned im ine] i Dare kere | biihardlst tn the world’ to play for the title Champion of all Champions of |nelehborhood it is apparent th tte | See eitia he coaxcTOMMmyy wither 't WEeseTeawaloaine cineentobe | the World. : ITom Longboat was not din the lap |to go to Hamilton and rungthere. ship eciine art ieee $500 aiaatoet The coming of this young cue expert. ja Ukely to enliven matters in the billiard circles on this side, i , Last January Hoppe, having ‘recelved @ flattering offer to play in an Amater-; {dam academy, forfeited the 18.1 world’s) championship emblem to George Sut-} ton, who later lost It to Jake Schaefer. Sutton {s now a challenger and will play Scheeter-tn~Caleago Dec. 2 Alber} Cutler, (of Boston, tas already de= posited. $240); with’ the (donors) of, the emblem and challenged tha winner, Hoppe will probably tssue his ohal-| lenge Immediately after hls artival in) rica; and there Is a strong: proba- | fty. that Sutton as the rman Count’ hax plenty of wack-| aitiong Chicago patrons of the! € is Invincible, | +r ffnns—can—get thie hack: ly to accept the chai- © pupil will accept, ink | lenge of for! It ecema hard to concelve: the idea of two | Las nxperis,..Deing entered in one Pmpent:ebd-wai eu tsarina tit Rast OnE J less.dt should be by sheer force of cir stances, which require sua meeting of cot | contestante In the big three-cushion billiard Aree wehioh: | won. by Colin. is ING WITH DEF| testants to determine the fina! 1 reablt of the competition, a Alfredo De Oro and Thomas Hueston, for- mer rivala for ohamptonahtp-poot honors, tournament in @ St. Louis academy, with ten Of the best exports in this wtyle of game Such, however. Is the bitter feeling between the (wo that before the tournament started It was agreed between them and. the pro- motera that unless actually necesmry they would not be scheduled to meet, Buch a. ase hed no parallel in billiards, end prob- ‘bly no other form of sport. KEENEIVES MI ALTER MILLER, the premier W Jockey of America. who leaves for California to-day, wherg! he will side for Thomas A: Williamhs,| was, presented with a check for $12,000.38 by James R. ‘Keene, the amount being 9 er cent. of the money he won on the nie horse: Miller zode Atty vinit Chairman of the Sod lub, thi Bars atikes oleviin hevig. Miller all (14 won ¥ for Mr, Keene, this season. Miller's income ‘this > season © amount to 960,00. Io ¢ut-of- 882 -aince che _commensement 0 / the -eeaeon,--- This kdds— Bite tohie carnings. : Denis Murray, ox-Irish champion printer and holder of the English | broad jump championship, sallod to-day jon the Luistania. Murthy was the frat {Irish champion, tov cross the ocean to |Eemsure vatrides with the American | fers, und. though he wae not very Successful he sustained his reputation in the tnaeasl |champlonship. There were only inchos between, tho men, and it was Murray's first race on a board floor, @ The Public Schools Athletic Leagde t. | purposes to (mmedintely make arrange- | ments for it» Indoor championships. At a recent meeting of the P. 8, A. I. Committee 11 wax resolyed that no boy should play on two basketball teams, The cross-country ehamptonship of the ona of the greatest ath- ar, Each public 4 to enter olght rt, | ents of the will be allow letic © ot DOINGS ON THE TRACK AND FIELD men, @llver medals will be given to the firat five and a team trophy to the athletes scoring the greatest number of points, Jack Kelly assumed the captaincy of the Pastime cross-country team. Jack has his men in good ahape-for the bic race Urel Hill next Saturday. The have held several handi- cap trial, and Kelly, the: welgh! proved that hia analytical ability was worthy of Handicapper O'B: , for a large table cloth would have covered “dozen men home on more ton. the first ha than one occy The Twenty-third Regiment will sym- bolize with its name by holding games in {ts Brooklyn atmory next Saturday night. There is no “twenty-three about the Brooklyn boys or thelr prizes. and in addition to a regular prosyseine, @ walking—matoh is included. Bevera! Ot the most artistic athletes will show thelr ourvés-in this even n n' i he is bilious. 60 ed of A Natural MAN is a misfit in business when % Glass Before breakfast overcomes ¢ He ! not what you would call clever, but no men at hie welght are Moir can not only box fairly well, but he-can hit like a pile ‘a for the Vicel| iy TW nner Moir is the beat man jin the will beat Burns easily. I am fo con- Imost an well built. He ought to beat finer Moly it will he a surprise to me, that-there {s something In the Gunnez, Callahan is ‘Tim Callahan, the Quaker City fighter, be Another of the good class of fightore ef & few years ago who ha become has-been. Timm: mi 101 yeninet Jim Bonner in the Quaker Cit fow nights ago, and after being knocked down fhe times In Uiree and a half rounds the referee stopped the bout to prevent kim being pur to nleep | When Tim was od he could bent ten fehters of Bonner’e ind. Fitzpatrick Says Flynn Can Fight, Sam Fitzpatrick, manager of Jack Johneon, fa a great ad 4 weight fighter, son stopped in eleven rounds a short tim ago, Fitzpatrick saya that Fiynn would di the Dikxest kind of avhit in six-rownd. bow in. PhNadelphta, he ie 01 greaive fighters who gone | the betf and do not mind jawor a Sab in the face, Training for Ketchett. the clever California figh' been matched. th fleht ‘Youn: Ketchell,"" the Montana puailist, tor t rounds in fan ‘Francisco on the night Dec, 12, has bequn training at Shansem iF. road-house for (he contest. Other flattery who are training there at present for beut are Jack (Twin) Sullivan, Owen Me and Bill Squires, the Australian heavy! welght, who expecta to get another batt! on the coast in the near future. Mantel! Wants to Fight Smith Agsi Frank Mantell, the welter welaht pusilla who knocked out Billy ‘‘Hone} Meliody, the, welterweight champion. In elghten founds at Dayton, O., @ short. ume WH leave for the Weat'In'a fen days. w Re expects to xnt on a match with Rub Smith, the Denver pugilist, for ten or twemt, rounds before the Dayton’ (0.1 A.C. Bratt the Hann declaton. over. Mantel is ahxious to wipe It out. 5 Fights to Be Held at Niagara Fall ‘The Riverside A. C., of Niagara bes | decided to pull off bouts between good fightera this winter. For their openti ne wured Eddie ‘Kellyoret ubrabe, | they have | too meet Leebe, of Philadelphia.” in © fineencfound. battle. at. 138" pounds on. the Binht cp Nov. 2 Scoey wore Ao here tought av tittefnround wo at Rochester, N.Y, weve eral weeks 0, but the ppite stopped the bout from, taf Pe ing place, : se ae en LLER I, 000 Miller receiver $10,0% 4 year from the for firs} call on. itte on to this ne rode Newoistle Stab! |nervices, In adds: | for tine months in month for his wo: ‘Miller will ride in the Cast next 3 for T, H. Willams, who will race a ©! stably of horses nere. i id won } greatest xu than $100,000, of which