The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-19
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COLUMN
Burns Will Give johnson
$4,000 and Expenses for
Battle - $4,000 Win.
Lose or Draw for Tommy.

lowing cable to his manager,
= Billy Neail. who is unable to
Ioin him in Australia because OF
serious illness:
Billy Neail, Monrovia, Cal, U. 8. A:
johnson end, $1,000 and expenses.
My end. $4,000, win, lose or draw.
Fighting my last battle Dec. 1st
Come sure Rules same as outlined.
p. TOMMY BURNS"
Neal explains that Rules same as
outlined" means:
z, THAT 1t Is to be a l6-foot ring hight
10 finish. Men to fight themselves
loose-fght at all times. Either can
! use fingerless kid gloves or soft ban
dages next to hand. but not both"
Writing Of other things, Neail says:
TOO bad Ketchel got beat. Twenty
thousand dollars sure and easy money
gone for Tommy. All Tom had to do
was climb through the ropes-one
punch-and out the other side. Papke
will win again from ketchel Thanks
siy KY . pay " l know Papke and Jones.
lows-too good for the fighting game"
~ URNs's cable shows that there ha.
been some tall blufflng somewhere
sort OF "a niger in the wood
pile" as the old saying has 1t. Mr..
Fitzpatrick, who handles johnson. gave
out before leaving England that the
terms were 80 per cent. to winner and
70 per cent. to loser" This statement
vas Joke to every one who had heard
Tor a match before.
THE old style OF football L. more
popular than the kind that can be
played under the new rules"
rms Is shown in reports of all the col.
iege games played Saturday. In every
enc the forward pass and thu ts,ov
sVies OF kicking that were designed to
make the game more ladylike, ar, no.
".eaDiy laissinS. Good old football"
seems to suit the players best.
Ferhaps little later in the season
tne friLs will be put on. II NAV he
cary 10 fisk anything but straight line
pays ana END runs. But the probabil-
~ Is mat rules committees have ,ou,d
tne good old game hard to suuash anS
aootoail VIII go on without any ,rsa1
49, SIS as long as American college
athletics eAass OF
TOE THOMAS says that Packev Mo
Fariand LIS the best lightweight he
= ever saw. Joe thinks Packey will
De the man TO succeed Nelson. This IA
going some in the prophecy line In
every fight he has had since co,dr,,,
people have been looking for IN. o.,
glimpse OF Nelson's successor But with
tue single exception OF the fight he loot
70 br1pt' no blots worth mentioning
nave appeared on the Danes escu,cb.
con.
mcfarland may be a gnea. hou II.
is, no doubt. But he has snen, 49,.
OF mis- time fighting easy ones. and has
never gone after the hardest n,an a.,
nsh the way Nelson did. No IN. 80
saw Bat sidestep a hard fight eyea
ka rt1 an the best of them. from
lighters were Keeping our q, sien, oIaer
"a Sa,iahd has passed up Cans and Vel
son. the two toughest in the land H. H.
= Sood tighter, OF course. but the ns,a
son is the rT first py "a, wide margin, Mel
une DAYS Of Bob Fitzsimmons s VIZ
w vver sluest epped a match. and Who
Ing or avs reaay to fight any one i.v.
r. There Is ANYTHING on earth cana
Die OF making an impress,on
Nelson It hasn't shown nm rn.
When a small boy Bat worked -
foundry. One day trip-ban,r,-
grazed his head and broke his slnII ,Dt.
DOZEN sections like the pie,e, n,
smashed teacup. Discovering signs .,
NE the doctors sent him to hospital
There his skull was laced with niaoa.
OF silver wire. and a cast u,t y,
h9ld II In shape; In about two montb be
ne msison was dscharsed-cured. And
ing game. 'o i'Bht-
y knew" said Bat, ut would tall.
frp-hammer 10 lay me out again -
Judging from The way ne laughsd
Joe Gans's hardest punches the Dsn ns
has the right dope. LANE