The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1908, Page 4

IRS spe S THE EVENING WORLD, _ STORIES OF SPORTS TOLD B' BY EXPERTS TALK FROM OUT THE LIPS OF A FIGHTER Tommy Burns Rips Out a Few) Chunks of Wisdom That Would Make Even the Old Greeks Sit Up and Take Notice. OMMY BURNS, world’s champion, is | a philosopher. It's one thing to have two fists and the muscle to| drive them. It's another to have the brain bebind the fists—the brain that enables a champion to win his title, and then to keep himself in shape to defend it. How many champions have lasted as long as they ehould last, taking their orig- {nal fighting ability into considera- tion? Not many. Young Corbett’s was a typical case of the young fighter who comes sud- denly into the limelight. The glare ee was too much for him. He was Diinded to the fact that only perfect physical condition would keep ay under the glare for a while, and that gathering gate recelpts would be hard| | work when he once slipped aside into the shadow. 4 aeiie | Tommy Burns, according to the following letter, doesn’t intend to | i | another Young Corbett. Some of Tommy's sayings are worth I} n the ring, and favors. remembering—for any one. U certainly Was a poor boy when 1! eee |etarted In the bus ness. They knocked | May 13, ‘08. | me and wrote untruthful stories lines with |ine, and vet they couldn't keep we Tin not the greatest. cham= Dub Dear Friend Bob—A fe 3 the pen to-night. I'm in Ireland trying do wut to arrange the Squires match. If he/ 2). CH Es aps. ty =| fights me again he'll last about 45 /two, and I could now Jong as he did before. Then Johnson's /and live comfortably. the ight kind of c: oosters will come out and say I had! the people who it framed. They are trying to get | cepend on me ramed, hey Squires at the National Club for John- CUTS OUT THE RED STUFF. fon, and I jumped over here to beat! “Those wine dinners never go for only in this busines: them to it. y "He was a good f he had WILL BE ON THE LIVEL. | Kick me out on the sidewalk like they Knocks won't hurt me with my! used to kick poor Ge Dixon, You mmy Bu coming ba friends, and the others 1 don't care | won't si about. -|and hanging around “Can you imagine me asking Palmer | throw him a bone and to lay down? 1 wonder what they licking In a semi-windup silpped Palmer for that fake letter. The yas a next Invention will probably be a letter | im pow. fron. Roche with some other dream in| pened to fools, mebod sit I don't want any of ft. Anybody can fake up a knock. | it in mine. @ fighter doesn’ mean to be disgraced any aa posaRI Mat) aveni@henir’ whip tsehns||Sarewor iiiselt ‘hobely else seh for while this great classic, run to-day T have a few good we eon, which I certainly will when the | cal dates signed up, Jonnson will kee time comes, they much good, for the h without being defiled, and this Jounson | white nen) nnd athe one yee 4s well known as a faker. But you can | Soclety and wine suppers {an't goin put this down in black and white, and /}Ut any medals on anybody @take your life on it: I'll do my share of the fighting right on the level. I'll! Withers, have no word to say to the coon ott ve . the fight is over. I know J can ea Save him, and f'm going to do it, Bieeplecnase “Johnson is working at a theatre | i London for £75 a week—about $3% Fitz and Johnson are broke—so I =| i MD the other da. No wonder they didn’t | heave their 32, In the Fudge office when Billy Neail call “1 wish the fellows me would } English language, so they could do a| ought East by F. A. Forsythe to Detter job. They don’t make it strong MS horses at Be enough to suit me. Let them cail al) 1 the white Joc fights fakes. Knocks from some quar- | 0Pposed to him $ are as good as boosts. Jthem that they EVERY KNOCK A BOOST. [to put him over “I give you my word that I never | te first a Asked a fighter to lay down to | ee ee I'M admit 1 into the ring, Was the on claims tha‘ YS are so stro icked fellows to get which you no dou way I could get o: fellow there, r “I don't care about the knocks as long he claims, by @e 1 know that I have nothing to be riders mmed him Qshamed of in my own heart He eays he wi " fighting game, ands eera bie Who take a crack ! colored fockey and the Fegurd to the truth, craps to pay for course, if J have mone: them ou r meals me he will help some of 1 is a in view of the mat- the victim | future, T can say Tommy Bur MATTER of more than » the coming ya up wh his year part the » to have tn ¢ great competitions have alre shown speed which them in the front rank a pri: and the \ a J 1) of thelte th Beason !s yet youns. What may and field c m Dut {t would 1 aaeitt ies Willing ark of G35 the American team ely com- ree watches, posed of youngsters. That such should Reotor, be the case spenks volumes for the progress of physioa! culture in America, | For years it has been the common accepted belief abroad that our reco holders were freaks, and when our te ehall have won what at this time a Pears to be a lion's share of honors may strike e critics that ath! progress is not su uer of bir Dut of scientific deve! of good material It epeake well for America ghs 145 pounds. e expected | four sets of Olymy es our ‘ond in the have won fifty-six first prizes mplonships and geventy events. No other country bas DEO RADE OLN OLY: first In order to sc Later h *# season he has been ever made such a showing. The sea a hae been backward to an unusual de- t Gree and the big clubs now see the ab- 1g 94-6 wecunds in his hundred-yard eurdity of having held so many meets in| PTA°°* — March and April and so few in May it e407, B30 , Moker Ga de & just criticism of the powers that League Park, N. honestly, was always out to win when | —————— They Might Beat Colin, f But Never Dim His Past: PSS once. bout me, and then t him take a/ to the post. b | start aga thre as I|@n unbroken ch hap- | ture. To be beaten, however, would not 8 of theatri- jin ite thirty-third renewal, has been come out and say | until T am ready ‘for “him. In’ fact, 3 | won by it was “fixed.” You can't touch pitch |f€W months over here won't do him ieee and eaten. reaches a $10,000 but Commands, his sire, was besides the Withers the friend, TOMMY BS fs eae is the best of the Eastern id be @ public day, as it lovks as if lavoritus will sec) the Gard, ed their blutt, iso if One are roasting | [Sear nd na little more about the! J: Lee, the colored jockey who was | 2! You won't see {TOMMN BURNS HANGING AROUND FIGHTING Cwves TEN YEARD- FROM NOW BY Se TOD S!.0A OLIN, the greatest two-year-old of last season, w strate that he was a good mudder, will have a la porters should he be started in the Wither: the Belmont Park racing card to-day. lups ten is an accepted fact, for Trainer Jimmy Rowe would not otherwise send him Neither he noy Mr. Keene would wan year-old, aside from the sentime in of victories on the horses, others whose bore ty the ra name stily live ba en ame {Stiey ves bevel: beset Harry Allen ‘ba w view. of Colin, won in the Sy @ on iey — Memmoriai we cara, which ran a game Don't 0 Rood col Horner won't 1 wonder T* THEY Won't Sax HE WAS-A Goon | which is to come off a’ ge number of the principal fea That the colt is in good ¢ Colin beaten in bis first attached to a ho Pace cut, as overt can The Long Isia OUT BY CROSS Battling Hurley, who '* « Little fighters tut ‘ast } right-hand oungs ers fo Tr fer ceabaeieaeg ite ac ny White, seeing ¥ White picked up He For the Olympic Team: ae » Of} sent him All hie on | through y the] ting hard or storatiy his Frank Meow! Care Years old, 6 toot | Rt The stag all of the bouts w Ftapec rece eet rolt at ‘aah tiny Cleveland at Philadephia. the ma fon of small on the fivo ne Was ‘Compe trou is corner, rang for the battle to fis corner cx ht left Hat ross, and tie crossed his dropping kot up at! rushing tn The f indup | (rhe, forty rx and Tom cht a wren! ‘ aving @ big | oNnet iy when the battle wi endid one, as STANDIWC OF THE CL’ UBS. LPAGUE, 81 nial 14 12 ow York 14 14 201 et " fcago kame post Wet grounds. Yachting Season Will Open on Decoration. Special furs Tected toward went into com- ti be a prom: rty-footer Feat eres i cerammacre waleeaiidat i 4 _ RESULTS or YESTER DAY'S GAMES. | THALIA 82 Oe SCHEVULED FOB TO-DAY. y York. | New York at Bt. Louls. Beans bt bittabura, niladelphia. ig ening, Sai SATURDAY. MAY 238, 1908.' BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK he ' FELLOW WHEN HE HAD IT! aBouT me 7 Zifice | McFarland Coming Here | | to Fight at National A. C. BY JOHN POLLOCK. one of of the National A. C j here and meet the w of the contest, lund brought aff in two Weeks. he Tonk Ac Thess Tas ‘are ry at their w Siar bout at the sia Billy ‘Honey Meilody, the welter-weig! figater, of Boston, ts clainoring fe th who will barry has always. he can beat Ross. They weg iid decline to ‘mect, Ha: Hage Duron Mtellogy wita Willis Leswiatt aa two tetories over Weil ey should put“up a hurd fight. Ho has ven! | After Leach Cross had defeated Ba e Ste | Hurley, Inet nlaht he told hie mana ‘Og: | ty and clinch @ match for him with 'e Rimbting Dick Hyland or Tommy “Murphy Cross will probably ood inen. ore, has been matched to meet Kid Wi! ma for #ix rounds at the Grand Unton A. ¢ {ile welg’ ae the matches for that club now, er up Mards. again. They will box m aix-nou: next big ben which will come off at the Of America on Tuesday ni e yew has been uway to At City taking the beat of ot his while Murphy has been get jar the New Polo | meet t. Harry a few n "ak" Russell Ad Wolgast who boxed Uwe AKO, Ail indelpina, 1 meet Jett C for ten ro of Wins ought to win wit i| Amy Moca jerelent, ana J the Bronx ligh! hard six-rourel | the open Cy at One t le in the main bow and un) d for the race late in the TA speclal coures eison, fenth’ street a Third a last — Jnight. At the finish both men’ were nH Yo . tired, and a di ision of a draw was Firemen’s Memorial Jabout the ons one which’ could have | s-———— ; Ty, p} -¢ | been rendered Fund Will Get Boost. rum the fat tap of the bel! unttt| -_— It rang &yaln ending the contest the - ree A 7 tq men slugged each other ax hard as they The athletic carnival of the F S\Could, McGarry, a# usual, carried the | Memorial Fund at Celt Memorial) tight to Dohan, but Johnny was always the ersary | there with a body. I m t » wolding of cind it famous field. New York and vi tle Hlete ration that not st mes on | AMUSEMENTS, an Pictures: lay Afternoon and Ei ween Ari nine nt fain TO DAY Soet3'ecntatea. | wo will Honha, Dal London, for crisn coltegen| Italian Grand Opera Co. Chr men who » Olymple gi e is no one in of bother.ng ad int! HO. N FULL ng of tooesa” PATD IN eg Ran ake AMUSEMENTS. Jina, Bway, ooh, By 88 | hie Ween U To-day. BLANEY'S "CECE “Tine DANCER | UNUM" ASey OLCOTT: ABUL Matinee. 1, SPOONER | AND THE KING |sun.,190-10 40 P.M. Marvellous Camerapnon “HURRA HILL THBATRE, «08 a Lax av. | WEST END UpthBhe, Se Ar base 2 misc « BEHMAN SHOW! HELEN NOLDI OERA Sunday Aft, & Evening—Moving Pletures, Samuel Tornberg The Peddler.” | iccpera.*“‘Tatsxram._ © Gay TUsiclan FTA IIS ———— | ACADEMY. ACADEMY OF MUBIO, 14th op & Inve DL HERN a4 ry | ATLANTIC Sigwert, eer Canal MR,SOTHE RN ov & Orchestra, 12 var € UP TO DATE, NEWSY | AND WELL WRITTEN| oy 4 They won't Kick ME OUT Like They USED To KICK PooR UTTLE GEORGE R nea ° : “Tose wine oinners \ WHAT HAPPENS ND, the crack Chicago light-weight who is to be he winner of the Joe Gans-Battling Nelson fight for the light-weight championship of the world, will be seen in a bout the local clubs within a few weeks. Charley Harvey, matchmaker America, has made Packey a flattering offer to come ner of the Terry McGovern-"Spike” Robson fight, Harvey's club nn Tuesday night. McFarland is anx- nagers of both boys had sages | Better - Hall c a Loaf Than No Bread—Track Motto eC BN VABSIE ENT TRE. All afrangements for the six-round go be | want to m Vartand, and will | tye. Wille Soh the local ™ fight hard to ney will Matian boxer Hrookiyn wastes Woonercnits aC igh with come’ tog friends 4 led off the first, of juicy propor- g prices from 6 to 1 to 18 to 5. Parke on Parkview, , which had wor: America stag. but in case Willie until the sixt et the chance to meet the winner of the six-round go between Hy- Ad and Murphy. Cross does not Intend to n any fighting until he gets one of these ‘Terry, Martin, of Philadelphia, who hes en showing up #0 Well In Douts Over! ig horse racing. no and then awaited OOO ag on, Monday, night. | Jonny, Mack. eho c Philadeiptia last night and signed Tommy Murphy and Bert Keyes are to ad given a t warn't a Bellw ‘LAST MAT. TO-DAY :jLast Time To-Night fn condieon fotreation up. Cangda Maz. To-de Wed, Mat, Beet Seats $1 | ii Blbatee Watters, oe ae GIRLS = Das even money £ MPGARAY AND DOWAN Day) BATTLE TOA DRAW, AMUSEMENTS. Brogan is Eye. 520 | WM, H. C itn AX RKERBOCKER, Bieay, George M. Cohan y as:1 2 Sat st a wag THE ‘<u Ea inny Dohan, the east the Crescent [Side fighter, who !s rapidly coming to » bei the front in Lightweight division as @ result of his many victories, fought & stag of the Fairmount Anette Pinwars red and Thirty-sev- HUDSON #7 &, OTIS SKINNER MATINEE 1 0-DAY SAM DEVERE’S BURLESQUERS. ~ Big Chorus Girls! 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(| THRATRA, Gus saraeen Bh 10 “THE MERRY-GO-ROUND.” Yt Forget—Sunday Nights in Rohomia, ~|PASTOR’S * ane tana aed ay Dan, rand & Go Jeanaia nine Tannen, &o | stage: | bb. Mate, Wed. de Ber, tages of this| [Bee ea be trays yo in Kast 3 ‘Turt and F cans Bre. 88, | WALLACK’S esses “At last 9 real com The Gay poe CIN OINNATI,O4| “MATS, spay. NEVER Go FoR MINE MD ee 277 IFA FIGHTER DOESN'T TAKE CARE of HIMSELF NoBopy exse Wiel. ANOR. lin one day. Al her, Dr. Matthews, brothers tried to of course, and failed d beaten Bellwether, went ting down whatever the layers would ¢) 1s @ bum. actor, tne fourth race, Rovert was a fine odds on favor 3 at sed? ren his half-brother xilbition he made of Jot of Rend fellows out er pat them back, { AMUSEMENTS. | | H os Grea way @ Jota Su inee To-day at 2.15. > SAM BERNARD =#_CASINO , f ty Neary 9 ere [aL Ba Soar LEWFIELDSI=" HERALD SO, | Girth Behiud the Counter, 265-266 noe Jokr WITCHING ; Mason HOURS on aa wee “fe Mat. 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