The sun., 1907-12-02
SPORTING talk or INTEREST
IluENS AD wOIE EIGHT IN.
ENGLAND TONIGHT.


uUnul spOrtang etnb-Nany HORSE
t.M Players Wn Remain Here Fats winter.
h The first mt ternaiiOnal glove contest ever
Gbld IN England for tho title ~ champion
"A llea w weight Pusiist ~ the world will hc
dscided iu thcrSclUzlye arcus Or the National
eboftlNs Cub ~ tuuCion tU night. when
fomTny Burns NJ America and canada. who.
since kAR retirement of Je1Iier. has won the
chambIehship Of ths tpited States AMI
AustTaln, will meet Eugland's heavyweight
chanAtliop. Gunuer Moir. The men will boN
tweafN Jfo'Inds Eth. 1--WE ounce gloves for a
purse OF ea.SO0. or which e3.6oo goes TO the
winner pnd $500 10 the loser. There Is also n
e5fe hGF OG - non. Eugene COrri. HOlborn,
member cf the london stock EN"hange and
a-wrff-kpown boxing expert. will he tho
referee. England has not had worlds
heavyweight champion for thirty seven
srars trnd for that reason the possibility that
Mott mny score a success has stirred M .
grest amount of Interest not only In Great
Britain but also iu this country and Canada.
B1TNs went over 10 England solely for the
purpose Of meeting Moir, Who IN his opinion
will ,IEoVc soft mark In fact Burns has
prssHeted that the BritisheT will he put to
sleep inside of a coGpls of rounds. Moir IL
twOa.St.h half inches taller than Burns and
nbOBt Zen pouIldE heHN icr tipping the beam
At closa To isI pounds. Burns. though only
sres4 inches tall. is n fast boxer, persistent
X punaher atpl Coura geous man. When he
Fnocl,.A.I Bill SqNIircs Of Australia cut in
1unch he showed that hc could slug. for the
\ Apth,osic1n. while not a clever scientist-'
s with the mitts was n rugged. physical
u,arl 81 who was supposed TO be able to take
beating. Burns II something on the order
Uf Zoe MalrOtt b ring methods. His short
ness Of. stuiurc. coupled with a crOuching
aiiiiudc males II n difficult matter for an
0snOnsnt TO land effertivo blows upon his
hody while n long reach. backed up with
terrific hitting power. enables Burns to deal
crt punishment of deadly quality.
~ his best Burns does not class with such |
notcf hcaNyweights Of the past as COrbett. |
Fit1simmOns, SharSey. Rubin. Mccoy and
she great .TeiIries. but he Is the best white |
man az the weight in this country at the |
prc~ent time. although many believe that |
jack johnson. the big negro pugilist. will !
IN tune' give hinl the fight Of his life. In |
Moir. Burns viii meet Rplucky. methodicals |
fEi footed wallOper. who has never been re- |
gartied as a star boxer. nor even much Of a |
ring general But the fact that he has |
great punch in cit her hand. stand punish |
ment and does not know the meaning Of fear |
eonvinced English critics that Moir has !
really good chance to take the measure OF |
Burns Several Americans, however, who /
saw Moir beat Tiger Smith for the English |
championship IA year ago have made the |
unqualified statement that Moir Is nothing
more than q second rater. and that he will I
prove to be merely a Dlaytbing in the hands
AZ the American.
n Burns wins he says he will make a match |
With Ben Roche. a new Irish champion, and |
IN the event Of another victory he will then |
come back here ready 10 meet johnson. who |
has been hot on his trail ever since Burns beat |
Jack D Brien in California year ago. But |
before Burns gets into the ring with Moir |
ko-night no will probably be made to under |
stand that roughing In the clnches, holding
on With one hand and punching with the other
and other tactics in use in the American prize
n,... anxaN-
be tolerated in the National Sporting Club.
For that reason Burns will probably take
good care not to offer even the slightest
chance for a disqualification. The men will
shake hands at about o'clock. New York
eme, Every seat in the club has been sold.
members having paid as Pnuch as Si2S for
single ticket. -F
. Judging from the crowd Of racing men
~h0 came back from Bennlngs on the Cav
anagh special late Saturday night the winter
racetracks will not be patrOnized by many
regulars who went to them in former years.
BoOkmakers win go to New Orleans. Los
Angeles and Oakland, for they will have the
ready money with which to pay current
expenses. but players who have been in the
habit OF taking these OnR trips after the
wiuduD IN the East find themselves Just at
present In sore financial straits. Professional
horse players. those who have been bettinR
on the races daily ever since the season opened
at Washington last March. say that the cam
paign has been the hardest for them in many
years. Some OF them are practically broke"
while others are heavy losers. A few have quit
about en-. while a very small percentage
have'e0fhe ont ahead. But it is the practice
at these turf spectators to forget the past
and look To the future. Those who will re-
main here all winter intend to bet on the New
Orleans races or hose mt Oakland with the
handbook men, who numerous. in the
rooms ii thcy succeed in prying themselves
open. In this way the professional specula-
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he ln ,9Ood financial condition 10 20 against
the game WIN the Old speed as soon as Ben
Mh9s ovens next harch; Tor not one oi these
soldiers OF fortune belleves That "A repetition
o. thc nara IucI ana crratlc racing OF 1907 |
waH N%tertatcd next year lhe TACT that the
Rame,M behnings was much easier for the
hlens tan ~ any OF the metropolitan tracks
tbis season was encouraging. but the shit In
the fortune came 100 late. Still u was as
crioed TO the sudden vigilance OF the Jockey