The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-16
ROCHE WILL TAKE
NONSENSE OUT OF
TALKING TOMMY
Irish Sporting Writer Spreads
SaIye All Round Wex-
ford Man.
BURNS is topping
BUSINESS MAN.
So Declares Enthusiastic Pencil
Pusher of "0uld Sod" of
American Fighter.

lust what the Irish sporting public
thinks of the fight tomorrow can be
Imagined from the following clipping
which appears in a Wexford paper,
which was recently received by Joseph
keegan, of 472 East Ferry street:
There is nothing of Importance in the
Irish sporting world to compar with
the coming battle between Jem Roche
and the Canadian, Burns. The men are
matched for 1900. and the worlds
championship. to be decided in the
Theatre Royal. Dublin. on Tuesday.
March II, the men to be in the ring
between the hours of 5 n 10 p. M. The
battle is q 2O-round one, three mini
utes' fight and one minute rest, under
oueensbury rules.
This Burns is one of the smartest
businessmen the prize ring has ever
known. And ii is a business with him,
He openly avows he is in it for money
and nothing else. One would imagine
from his manner that defeat was u
of the question. He must AVE he
stake money handed over to the winner
i before the referee declares same, and
the purse must be in the referees
hands, Fl, 200 of it to go to the winner
and $500 to the loser. Verify, Tommy
is q topping man of business.
The other day / rea a sketch on the
Dublin battle. penned by a blutfing
Britisher. Ever since NOR got the
order OF the knock from Burns there
has been every possible effort made by
a certain crowd in london to prevent
a match between Burns, who had beat
their champion, and Jem Roche. IL
would never do for a Paddy" to ac~
conlplish what the champion of Eng
land failed to do. Such was the move
on in sport-loving England.
To put an obstacle in the way of q
match between Jem Roche and the
stranger they got on a battle with
Palmer. 1t was their last chance. 1t
would cut two ways, Palmer might
defeat Burns, or the latter might go
homewards, having pocketed enough
cash, anything TO prevent an Irish
mans chance of doing what the best
in bloated, boasting Britain had failed
to do. That was the game.
1t failed. Burns is bumptious for
one thing and feels he is Cock of the
walk and again he is ''out for
money" He is coming to Ireland.
Then on the off chance of making Jem
like Moir. namely. to put him in d
hue funk of fear. a British scribe
writes a cowardly insulting article. II
is 90 to against Roche on form says
this fellow. He does not say how he
arrives at this. 1t is not British 10
use reason or attempt at argument.
Needless to state this Saxon scribe
or a score such would not brighten
Roche. But let us see what this mighty
Burns is. They say he is a machine
who a keep jabbing with his left like
a piston rod working. and then counter
inside with the right on the jaw. Any
of you will agree that the heavy~
weight fighters Of today are not as
good as a decade ago. For instance,
it would be absurd to imagine tina
Burns would fight Jeffries when the
latter was in it. Burns lacks the size
for tina A good big maj win beat q
good little man any day.
Again. although Burns has a good
record, and holds the worlds cham
pionship, he is not anything like in
vincible. He got a verdict over Jack
O'Brien, but il report speaks truly
Jack was not spinning on hat par
ticular occasion. Hugo Kelly.
Jem is in training and fast foot-work
will be his aim. Not tina he wants
much extra. A few punches with his
terrible sight or terrible left viii soon
take 80 per cent. of the nonsense out
OF Talking Tommy To all who fol-
low the lead of the English writer. /
give the back of my hand. l know the
task in front of lem. but it is not
alone my Wexford pride in our chain-
pion that guides me. No; they laugh
best who laugh last. They try to laugh
at the wexford blacksmith but they
laugh little who feel his siedge- han1-