Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-12
''PENNYS' PRIZE
RING GOSSIP
Mike Sohrect Claims Tommy
Burns is Side Stepping
Him.
IT SOUNDS PRETTY RICH.
a Purse Of $4,000 is offered for n
MiddIewcight flight Between Tommy
Ryan and Hugo Kelly

You never can tell what fighter VIII
do or what he will say. Not many days
ngo Tommy Burns was in Salt Lake
and in the course OF a conversation with
the writer he said;
II certainly beat Jack oBrien. l
chased him forty miles and If we meet
again / will put him away in a decisive
manner | am open TO meet any man
In The world and | think / am entitled
TO fight Jeffries. why, ! am not any
smaller than Sharkey was when he
fought Jim, and he gave the big fellow
the hardest hght of his life.'
Rich, isn't IT?
Now, while Tommy Burns, whose
.iother and true name" is Noah Brusso,
is talking about pinohlnB JeuIleS
huge anatomy full of holes, one Mike
Schreclt breaks into the liIuelight ana
demands a hearing
II wonder II Tommy Burns remem-
bers the night he jumped nut of
window to dodge me" Mike remarked
IN Chicago while discussing the pres
ence IN the city OF Tommy Burns the
Pacific Athletic clubs homemade
champion. Mike and Tommy are old
ring rivals. and Mike Is anxious 10 get
another chance atsthe Los Angeles star.
mot long ago, while we were both
In Los Angeles. Tom McCarey couldn't
decide which one Of us he liked the
better" Mike continued. He said If
we would make up O match and fight
he would keep the winner and make
n star of him. Burns wouldn't listen
TO II. and then McCarey took him into
n side room and talked to him.
Later. McCarey came out OF tho
room alone and salt 1t was all off.
waited for Burns to come out, but he
T
In the room. 1t was empty, but an
open window the only way Il man
could have got out, was wide open.
Now, what do you think OF that?"
mike failed to notice the other door,
Mike said he would like to meet
Burns. II licked him and he never
licked me, and never could" Mike con-
tinued. II can beat this fellow In ten
rounds. and he knows 1t"
Before leaving Los Angeles, Burns
had another story to tell of his meet
ing with Schrcck. He says he was
robbed of the decision for he knocked
Schreck down five times and beat him
nearly to death. He contends that he
can do the trick again. Not bad
idea to match them again, eh2
Tommy Ryan and Hugo Kelly,
through their managers, have practice
ally accepted an offer 10 fight for the
lite, New. in April. Bids for their
bout were opened during the week, four
other clubs putting In offers. Denver,
Ogden and Indianapolis were thrown
out, and the decision narrowed down to
Hot Springs and the sagebrush
The Rhyolite proposition looked tho
best of all, az Manager +. w. skinner
of the Nevada club guaranteed the
lighters n purse Of $4,000 with a privi-
lege of SO per cent of the gross receipts.
Managers Curley and Fereth evidently
got nervous over the big offer. as they
accepted by wire without insisting on
railroad tickets for each fighter and
manager and 81 900 apiece as training
expenses. When they came to they
asked for the additional confederation.
which they expect will be granted
Tommy Ryan favored the Hot Springs
offer for a limited round contest, but
Kelly had his eye on the long end of
the $4,000 and Insisted on the finish
fight, which he thinks win return him
sure winner. He conceded Ryan n
chance for draw or "A decision on
points In Il twenty-round affair.
The weight VIII he 1868 pounds ring
side and Will be the first middle-weight
championship contest since Fitzsn-
mons defeated Dempsey for the title.
1t Is becoming the fashion for wo-
men OF the desert to attend pri2ofGhts.
A large number gov the Gans-Nelson
battle at Goldheld. Sept, 3. and a still
larger number were among the spec
tators ut the Gans-Herman fight at
Tonopah
Many women have made application
to buy tickets TO the fights In Los An-
geles, but Manager McCarey has
drawn the line and refuses to allow
them inside tho pavilion. Occasion
ally one accompanies man escort but
she usually is disguised In mannish at
tire and slips past the orkeeper, In
the rush. Once inside, everybody is 50
engrossed with the fights that the wo-
man passes unnoiced, except by the
few In her immediate vicinity
AS will be seen In the illustration,
the gold country women make no eff
fort TO disguise themselves, but so at
tired In usual costume. The manage
ments there are not so critical auA any
one who pays the price at the door
may enter The women watch tho
lighting with engerneSs, similar to the
woman race-gOer. They forget all
about the improprieties IN the heat of
contest, and cheer the features as
loudly as the men.
Much interest was aroused in Los
Angeles by the O'Brien-Burns fight
pictures and hundreds of women
viewed thom nightly. The pictures
were devoid Of the more CHASTITY and
turbulent features, and the general
idea prevalent among women was that
prlaeiighl Is not such a bad affair
after all
No doubt hundreds Of women I'm Los
Angeles would attend the lights We're
they granted permission 10 do SO, de-
spite the social bann against e. But
Manager McCarey says that so long us
ne has control of affairs they VIII not
be given the opportunity,
ENGLISH LIKE BASEBALL,
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