The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
BOXERS TAKE KINDLY
To OUT OF DOOR LIFE
Nelson, Burns and Others
Devote Less Time to
the Gymnasium

training. Time was when they sought
some roadhouse *ithins. easy reach of
the city by electric car and did their
had no privacy and were bored by
men who wanted to know in what
round they expected to win, and what
they weighed, and other things. Their
nights were disturbed by roysterers,
and they were In anything but de-
reach the highest possible development.
Burns, who is to fight Squires in
July, and Nelson, who is to meet Britt
have gone to the other extreme. Nell
son has arranged to make Tallac, on
Lake Tahoe, his headquarters, and
from there he will strike farther into
the mountains on two weeks camp
ing trip. He will have saddle horses
for himself and Manager Billy Nolan,
and they will take tents and provisions
in a big wagon. There will be cook
and other camp attendants and all the
comforts of a camping trip. -
The Hegewisch man expects to get
condition with health and will not try
to go through the routine; of ordinary
training. His outdoor walking and
riding will bring his weight down to
the required point and should fill him
with vitality.
Burns will follow the system of
training which worked so we'll with
Jim Jeffries when he trained for his
meeting with Jim Corbett. Burns will
spend the next three weeks at Harbin
Springs and expects to be benefited by
will prevail there. Ten. days before the
fight with Squires, which will take
place at Colma on July 4. Burns Will
change his camp to the Reliance club
at Oakland, where the finishing touches
will be put on his condition
Nelson also will true UP" his box
Ing eyes in this locality. as he will
complete his work at Larkspur, where
he has trained for a number Of his
fights.
Dick Hyland has two good matches
In view during his eastern trip. He
is to meet Packy McFarland at Daven-
port, Iowa, on June 25. and Charley
Neary at Milwaukee on July 4. Hyland
figures that he will have to undergo
but one course of training, and that If
he is punished in the first fight he will
have recovered sufficiently before the
second to be able to do himself justice
Cyclone Thompson has been offered
another match at Marysville. the date
being fixed at July 4. The fight will
be held in the daytime. in a huge tent.
There are a number of opponents in
sight for the hard hitting Chicago man.
Among them are INK Russell; Willie
Fitzgerald. the fighting harp of Brook
lyn, and Fred Landers, the California
lightweight. Manager Kelly says
Thompson will never again attempt to
make 1S3 pounds ringside weight. His
bitter experience in his match with
Hyland was all the lesson he needed to
make him decide that the lightweight
limit was too much for him to reach
and retain his strength.
Joe Thomas seems to have reached
that point in his career where there
are no men in his class willing to fight
him. Great Disappointment has been
expressed by the fight followers of
Denver over the fact that Mike (Twin)
Sullivan ducked out of a match with
the hard hitting Californian. The
Sullivan twin had up a forfeit of
800, but forfeited this and slipped
out of town quietly the night before
the hnal articles were to have been
signed. Both Thomas and Manager
Harry Foley expressed no surprise
when they learned Of Sullivan's ac-
tions. They said that from the start
they did not believe he Intended to
fight and that it was matter of great
surprise to them that he had put up
the original forfeit, although it was
small one.
While Mike Schreck's victory over
Marvin Hart was not a decisive one.
not being won through the knockout
route, it was still a victory and puts
him In line for some more matches.
There seems to be a reawakening of
interest in boxing in Nevada and it
is possible a brace of the leading
heavy weights will be seen in action
there in September. Mike Riley has
been sidetracked at Tonopah and the
new men in the game seem able to
carry through whatever matches they
make.
1t is believed that Tonopah will have
a fight on July and that Goldfeld
will be in line for another big fight
in September. Nat Goodwin. that dis
tinguished exponent of physical cul-
ture, when it assumes the guise of a
boxing match, will spend much of his
time this summer at Goldfield and his
vote will always be recorded upon the