The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-24
SPORTING TALK OF INTEREST.
BURNS AND O'BRIEN SIGN TO
FIGHT At LOS ANGELES.
VIII Come Together Next May in n twenty
nNe Round IsOut for n $4,000 Purse.
t:Sich Means That JefYrlcs VIII Not
Ncenter the Ring for Nearly a Year.

Itcenter the Ring for Nearly a Year.
Btter waiting in vain for a larger offer from
The Rhyolite A. G, OF Nevada, jack O'Crien
ard Tommy BURNS have signed articles for
q twenty-five round fight. to be decided AZ
the Pacific A. &. of Los Angeles some time
between May : and ~. for q purse Of $50. 900.
The pugiIists reached an agreement on Sat
urday night. each man posting a forfeit Of
o., 500 to appear at Los Angeles on March rs
and begin training. Either james J. Jenries
or George Siler will he the referee. and in case
neither can be induced TO accept some other
competent boxing Judge will be mutually
agreed upon. The $4,000 purse will be cut
UP on the basis of CO per cent. to the winner
and 20 per cent TO the loser. The contest will
be governed by straight Queensberry rules,
ell other points at issue to be decided by the
manager Of the club. The men will be per-
mitted TO wear hngerless kid gloves and soft
bandsges on their hands prior to draw ing
on the four ounce mitts. O'Brien has received
permission to box any one he may select be-
fore March 10. and intimates that he may
accept a challenge from Gunner Moir. the
English heavyweight.
As soon as the articles had been signed
Burns started East to begin a theatrical
tour, In making this match Burns and O'Brien
have avoided taking part In a fight to a IN
tsh in the State of Nevada which would have
definitely settled the question Of supremacy.
Referee Jenries. It will be recalled. declared
their recent limited round battle at Los An
Eeles a draw. which has caused a great deal
.of discussion ever since. From the moving
pictures Of this mill Burns appears to have
been the winner all the way. II only because
c! his persist ent aggressive tactics. The
battle on canvas also demonstrates the fact
that both pugilists are pigmies compared to
the gigantic JeTries.
II the mill be strictly on the level sporting
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trouble in defeating O'Brien next May In a
decisive manner. But the fact that the men
have decided to rely upon a referees decision
In case there Is no knockout may cause many
ring followers to think tv ice before they ex-
press a willingness to bet on the result. II
Burns had not been tied up with the manager
Of the Los Angeles club O'Brien would
probably have held out for a fight in Nevada.
according to the latter's friends. but O'Brien
s a very foxy young mar when IL comes TO
getting his share of the coin without running
any risks Of having his reputation as a first
class pugilist punctured. This match Incl
dentally means that Jeffries will not have a
chance to return to the ring for nearly Il year.
II then. The Boilermaker has declared that
he would aRht the winner OF the Burns
O'Brien affair for a purse OF sJO.0OO. but. as
all sporting men know, an offer of this kind
for such an undressing, one sided contest
ONA AAANAy W AaN W ifEboAh''bA' bNS-
moters. SO Jeffries will have TO walt until
some young giant looms mp, equipped with
both skill and prestige.
Next week -ptries will close for the Brook
Ign and suburban handlcaps and a few
weeks later Handicapped W. s. vosburGh
will make known the weights. If II. p.
Whitney enters Artful and Burgomaster.
which now seems probable. they will prob
ably receive the top imposts. Burgomaster
Is more Xix ely to race than Artful. The
Hamburg colt. who looked like the oham-
pion three-year-old OF the season when he
went wrong last spring. has been coming
around nicely since he was fired and blistered.
A slightly bound tendon threw him out Of
training, but John W. Rogers at the tim e
did not r~elinquish all hope Of getting Burgo-
master back to the races. The Hamburg
coit-a MAGNIFICENT racehorse in all that
the word implies-is winterinR well and his
apparently recovered from his disability to
such an extent that MIR. Whitney and bis
trainer believe that he will go TO the post
early next year. Artful. who went wrong
-sveral days before the Brooklyn Handicap
~gs run last spring, has not improved so
: pidly as ~Burgomaster. but there is still a
nance that she may be able to face the
again. Accountant. who carried of
hearty all the three-year-old stakes OF i'm
will surely be named for the handi-
cap. together with the crack three-year-old
Whimsical. Flip Flap. Tangle and
Water; the three-yeer-old Ormon-
dale and others of the same age. OF the
older division Go-Between. winner Of this
years suburban. and Tokalon. victorious in
the Brooklyn. will also be found among the
big handicap entries. IL is an accepted
prophecy that T.. Hitchcock. Jr.'s. Salvidere.
the champion two-yesr-old Of 1909, will re-
ceive the post Of honor among the coming
threa-yoar-olds in the weight assignments
for the Suburban., Brooklyn, Brighton and
other big events for which he will probably
be named. Nealon. now owned by Boots
will also be named for nearly all
the distance events TO be run in 1907.
IL il now said that Jockey Miller's real
is william Goldstein and that not many
years 20 he was a Park row newsboy. He Ia
spending the evenings at Oakland in dis
porting hims elf in a roller skating rink and
in wearing a 81 900 solitaire diamond ring.
turfmen insist that the midget's head
has become greatly swollen. but this is not a
,erious fault II he continues T. ride with the
phenomenal skill he has shown in the past.
Jockey William Cannon. who formerly rode
FOR L.. V. Bell and J. II. Mccormick until he
took on so much weight that he decided to
become a trainer, will ride in Russia next
season. Cannon, who IL at New Orleans,
has made arrangements to ride for Prince
Leberiskey, a nephew of the Car. who Is a
Of Reginald Vanderbilt and Is in this
just at present. The Prince has charge
Of the imperial stables at st. Petersburg and
and will have 10 horses in training.
who can easily make the weights on
The other side. will be the head rider among
/ dozen jock eys He will receive a salary Of
b. 900 for the season. with 5000 extra for
He will sail for Europe In about
ten days.
The veteran Jack Doyle. once a ~favorite
New York player at the Polo Grounds. has
signed TO manage the Milwaukee Ameri-
an Association team. Doyle has been
associated with so many different ball Hubs
his career that II is a difficult matter
o keep track OF his movements. Doyle
began his professional career with the Cam
Ohio. team in 1889. but he was quickly
up by the Clevelands. who turned
over TO the New Yorks in 1902. He was
! catcher then. but John NJ. Ward made him
! first baseman in 1894. Doyle for a time
vas the manager OF tn New Yorks in 1895.
liter which he was traded to the Baltimores,
Eith whom he remained a couple of seasons.
Then he went to TIN Washin gton club, only
10 be returned to the New Works.. After
that he was traded to Chicago. but New
York got him again in 1902. Another deal