Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-18
BATTLE WITH TOMMY BURNS
GOES TO LIMIT
Jack Twin Is Given Decision After the
Twentieth Round-Rube Jeffrles
Is Knocked Out In Secono
by Zubrlck

sion and saws that the worst he should
have received was a draw flgnt eA-
perts, and even some of those VINO WEI
backing Tommy to win, say that the'
decision was eminently fair and correct
Twin was much the cleverer ana eH-
hihited better Judgment and superior
generalship. He repeatedly landeu ms
mighty left on the head and race OF
his opponent and whenever ne put LIS LIZ
left to Tommy's stomach the sHldGA
made the audience groan.
once during the fight Twin put rom
nv through the ropes and saved burns
from a fall by cetching him ana drag
ging him back into the ring
The fight was characterized by the
savage pounding which each OF tns
battlers indulged in and the give ana
take order which prevailed TO" the
first ten rounds, with Sullivan Settlns
slightly the best of the argument:
He was better able to guard hlmsell
from Burns vicious swings and up
percuts and demonstrated better aolll-
ty as an in1ghter.
Both played for the head and face
during the early stages and each gol
in some decided wallops, Burns
scratching Twins head in the thlrd'
but the injury was slight.
Twin Has Full Head of Steam
Sullivan planted his left on Burns
head almost at will and occasionally
transferred the punch to his race ana
stomach During the latter stages OF
the fight Sullivan played for Burns
wind and landed some terrific punches
to the stomach.
So fierce did they fight that at al
most every exchange of blows they
would go into clinches' and WINE ti,ir IN
these positions would get in their
most effective work in uppercuts and
jabs for the wind.
At infighting Twin had all the pest
of it, He landed numerous vicious
stabs which aided him on the road to
victory. In their leads it was gener-
ally give and take, although Sullivan
managed to get in the most effective
blows and got away with more than
his opponent.
Several times Twin rushed Burns to
the ropes and in the mixups got in
some telling punches to the stomach.
The most effective of Twins stabs was
his frequent punches to that portion
of his opponents anatomy, all of which
were placed with full head of steam
behind them.
Burns landed several important wal
lops to Twins head, which must have
given him a headache, judging from
the force with which they were deliv-
cred, but these did not daze him nor
have any outward appearance of caus-
ing any harm.
The audience was about evenly
divided in choice of the fighters and
when Burns was getting the worst of
the terrific pounding, mighty roars of
encouragement went up to cheer him to
mightier deeds and more valiant re-
sponses to the terrible wallopings OF the
Twin.
Fight Rough Battle
The men fought in the toughest pos
sible manner and Referee Eyton
warned them repeatedly against foul
ing one another. Burns made a claim
of foul early in the fight, but his claim
was not allowed. Both were equally
guilty of this sort of business, although
the low punches had no effect in the
final result.
Twin was very merry after the bat
tie and sang his favorite ditty, MOLLY
O." while being given rundown and
as he toweled himself he danced those
little ragtimers for which he has be-
come famous during his training stunts
at the pavilion.
Burns was disappointed with his
showing, but had no excuses to offer.
He held to the opinion that the battle
should have been called a draw, but
was not insistent upon this point.
Rube Jeffrles Disappointment
Young Mansfield failed to show UP
for his bout with Eddie Danaher. He
sent word to Manager McCarey that he
had sustained broken nose and would
Trimble boxed six rounds, but the bout
was more humorous than otherwise be-
cause of the difference in weight ano
the superiority of Trimble, who is ac-
counted clever fighter in middle
weights. The bout was stopped by the
referee in the sixth, Danaher sustaining
q broken hand.
The disappointment of the evening
was Rube Jeffries' poor showing
against Warren zubrick, the latter
winning via the knockout route in the
second round.
This bout demonstrated the difference
between science and fighting. Zubrick
had the science, the ring experience and
was able to keep out of distance when
ever Rube swung that fearful right of
his and before Rube could recover the
unruly limb Zubrick would get in his
work by punching the Rube about the
ring at will.
Early In the second round Rube went
down for the count of nine and sec
ond later he was knocked down again
and remained until after Eddie Robin
son tolled off the fatal ten, when Zu-
brick picked him from the mat and as
sisted him to his corner.
By winning last night Sullivan gets
the match with Jack O'Brien, to be
fought here early In December. Sulli-
van is anxious to meet the Philadel-
phian and will attempt to wipe out a
former defeat by O'Brien and his show
ing against him in Alaska this summer
encourages Twin to believe he can turn
the trick
Before fighting began Eddie HanIon,
Aurelio Herrera and Jim Jeffries were
introduced to the audience. Eddie made
neat little speech, thanking the aud
ience for its vociferous cheering and
said that he hoped his boxing on the
evening of November would please
them as much as the ovation last night
pleased him. Herrera and Jeffries re-
fused to talk.
Round One
They fiddled for an opening and came
to clinch. Sullivan missed two lefts
for the head and landed a heavy left
to the stomach. Sullivan landed an up
percut with his left and they, clinched;
Twin missed a left for the head and
they clinched again, Sullivan landed two
lefts to the stomach and a clinch fol-
lowed. Twin landed left 4 al and Burns