Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-11
BARRY FIGHTS
TEN ROUNDS
CHICAGO BOY SUFFERS BAD At
TACK OF NOSTALGIA
His Scrap with Sam Lansford Is Cut
In Two Because White Lad
Lacks Time to
Train

Twenty-round shows are thing OF
the past in Los Angeles, and the sports
who were figuring on long drawn out
action when Jim Barry and Sam Lang
ford get together next week are
doomed to disappointment.
At Barry's request Manager McCarey
s- the Pacific Athletic club yesterday
announced that the bout would be OF
but ten rounds duration. and the onIy
way it will differ from those which are
to follow is in the decision which Will
be rendered by the referee.
Barry's part of it was what caused
McCarey to make thet change. The
big Chicago boy, fearing that he would
be unable to do himself justice with
only a week in which to train for a
twenty-round fight stated that he
would have to withdraw unless the
bout was chopped in half.
According to Barry he left Boston
with the understanding that if he did
not feel right when the time came for
the twenty-round scrap all he would
have to do would be to walt a day or
two as the ten-round ordinance was TO
take effect on the sixteenth OF this
month Upon arriving Barry discov-
cred that the battle on the 18th was
slated for the long course, and at the
first ODDOrIun1LY dSkeQ MCSdiCy "
change the numbers
ST don't want the fans to think I'm
afraid OF Langford," said Barry in ex-
planning his reasons for not wanting
long fight "I have fought him twice,
and on neither occasion did it look as
though he could whip me. But at the
same time those meetings proved to
me that he is tough man and want
to be at my best when tackling him
third time.
"Keevin told me that unless I felt
right they would not expect me to meet
Langford in anything but ten-round
encounter. I am new to the climate,
and think I would be taking chances If
1 went into the ring for long en-
gagement at so early a date as next
Tuesday. Therefore I asked McCarey
to cut the fight down or else 1 would
be unable to go on"
Same to Woodman
Ten or twenty rounds is all the same
to Sam Woodman Langfords manager,
who expects his man to win early in
the evening. Langford is in the best
of shape, and unless Barry is fixed the
same way physically one-sided mill
may be the result. Still. nothing like
that is looked for. as the Chicago lad
is able to hold his own with any of
them over the short course.
Barry's determination not to fight
twenty rounds is taken well by the
sports who understand the true condi-
tions which exist. Arriving here just
when those who usually would have
been on hand to greet him were busy
with their racing charts and dope
books. the Chicago fighter has found
Los Angeles rather chilly place, and
his camp at the Oakwood Inn is de-
serted during the afternoons.
Barry is rather sensitive for boxer,
and his mind was not in condition to
help him physically. His work has not
been strenuous enough to dispel the
feeling, and the result is that he feels
unable to get in the best of shape for
a long fight
Despite Barry's attitude toward the
twenty-round stuff. he is fighter who
is bound to be popular with the fans.
Quiet and unassuming. without the
staggering mannerisms so common to
the fighting fraternity he has already
made hit at Arcadia, and those who
have met him are hoping that he will
live up to John L. Sullivan's opinion
and prove the best man in the world in
active harness.