The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-12-14
BURNS AGAINST PERSELL
The Scientific Battering Rams Who
VIII Meet in Helena Next
Week.
How the Men Are Training to
Get Themselves in Con-
dition.
Together with the Records They Have
Each Made In the Koped Arena or
punchdom.

Punchdom.
The coming contest between Charley
Perssll, OF San Francisco. and j. A.. Burns,
of philadelphia, before the Helena Athletic
club, promises to be the biggest event oil
She kind thai has ever taken place IN the
northwest. Besides the purse and side bets
involved the result will SO Il long way
toward settling the welter-weight cham
pionship OF this part of the country. The
contest comes off on Thursday night of
next week, and will be with fve-ounce
gloves, twenty rounds. more or less. Queens
burv rnles. Bets have already been made
that the struggle will last over twenty
rounds.
Frank Freeman ia training Burns at
Toole's road house. AS no forfelts ms Sloo
deposit unless he scales down TO 100 pounds
he IL training hard to get to that weight.
He has nov reached III pounds aud ex-
pects to enter the ring at 14S. He has nine
days to accomplish this and ges BACK the
strength the waste entails. Burns Is FOL
lowing a regular system. lie gets up
about half past six o'clock in the morning
and takes a spin up the road for about
three miles, When he gets back he has a
sronge bath and 10 rubbed dow Then he
takes another sponge bath and g rub down.
and after a short rest goes TO breakfast.
Following breakfast comes a rest OF from
half TO t~hree-quarters of an hour. Now
comea a spin Of twenty miles, in which he
ignores the roads and takes to the hills.
Very often Burns goes to Ba1endale,
and sometimes stops al tbs fair
grounds ON the way back to
his quarters. Baths, rubbing down and the
like follow, after which comes a rest. By
this time il may naturally be inferred
Burns is hungry. One dinner will serve as
an example of his regular diet. The platter
which came to the table recently brought
che following: For Freeman. she tralner,
two and a half pounds Of beefsteak; for
Burns two pounds of mutton chops; for the
pair two loaves of bread and a big dish or
potatoes. There is q rest OF half an hour
or 90 after dinner, and shortly after three
in the afternoon comes the regular exercise.
Barns and freeman spar q little, say three
short rounds. Then Burns punches the
bag for half an hour, and skips the rope for
about twenty minutes. -Four hard rounds
follow, and the days work is done. Burns
xstires early and rests well.
Persell has q different style of training.
He employs no regular trainer. and whas
assistance he needs ID furnished him by his
wife, who ia stopping with him at the Bel
videre. He believes more in outdoor exer-
cises than in any other style. Indoors his
work is confined almost entirely to punch
ing the bag, swinging clubs and skipping
the rope He gets up bssween six and seven
every morning, and as an appetizer takes a
walk to about half a mile beyond she North
ern Pacific depot and back. On getting back
to tho hotel he has a good rubbing down
and an alcohol bath. A light breakfast
follows. After half an hours rest he starts
out for his daily ran, which varies from ten
to twenty-five miles, according TO how he
firing himself by doing more work than
strikes him as needful. His runs generally
over the hills and up Mount Helena and
thence to East Helena. He varies his route
from day to day. 80 as not to tire his MIND
grounds is one of his favorits days exer.
cises. When he gets there he is liable tt
pallop around the track six times, or more
IL he cares 80. Then he gets to a sheltered
spot and punches the bag as long as he feels
like it. Then he runs back to the hotel
In any STYLE Of exercise he never forces him.
self, but stops when he feels he has enough
He now weighs 146 pounds and will likely
weigh in ut the ring side at shat. In all hi
runs Persell protects himself from danger
of cold OF chill by wearing double under
clothing. Ike Hays went with him ovel
the course yesterday.
Here ia a record of Burns work in the
ring: Defeated Dan McGrimm in seven
teen rounds at Philadelphia; Ed Stokes il
seven rounds at Scranton. Pa; Charles
Wilkes in eleven rounds at the same place
Joe McGill in thirty-three rounds at the
Baltimore Athletic club rooms; Al Lansing
In three rounds at Providence, Il. L.; Ton
Smith in two at Sheboygan, Wis; jim
Woods in seventeen at Milwaukee; anc
George Walker III ten at Hurley, Wis.
Dill "aNaru rhp-pnSnn vTojtnrpuaSrh% ~
the English navy. lasted eight rounds a
Seattle, and Jack Case five rounds at Yaki-
ma. Wash. j. 7. Bonner was q tougheI
customer. He was able 30 stand up TO.
thirty rounds at Moscow, Idaho, for the
championship Of the northwest, before h,
concluded he didn't want it. OF this con
test Burns fought twenty-eiaht rounds will
a broken arm. Burns next defeated
Frank Coy in ten rounds before thu
Greenwood Athletic club of Cal
i%fornia. He got the none,
offered for standing off Jim DAILY. the spar
ring partner of Jim Corbett, for fou
rounds at Missoula. Burns also tackled
Ike Hays at Missoula and won on a fou
after the fight had lasted five rounds. II
also beat Jack Smith of Australia in tw,
Francisco. Against this graveyard o
blasted hopes and bruised heads stands bu
one defeat and two draws. Burns lost t
Danny Needhsm in forty-one rounds an,
made q draw of ten rounds with Pats
KerriRan and one of eighteen rounds wit
George LeBlanche.
Persell also has a record. 1t include
seven victories and one defeat. He woi
from Billy Lynn in fifteen rounds aud jim
Brennan in twenty-oue, both at Tacoma
from John Springer in three rounds an
Hank Norton in forty rounds at HALEY
idaho; from Bob Dobbs in twenty one a
Denver, and John Reagan in fourteen a
Brooklyn. the latter on q foul. Then h
trained too fine in order TO get down TO IL
pounds for a second trial with Bob Dobbl
and SO weakened himself that he lost j
four rounds before the California AthIeti
club. He defeated Harry Gilmore, how
ever, in twelve rounds at Toronto, Canad,
New and elegant line of winter underwea
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