Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-01-23

TOMMY BURNS IN a LUNNoN FOG.
simmons, at his weight the greatest
fighter of them ALL has said nothing.
Bob is a good sport. 1t is fair to say
that he is not jealous because youn--
ger man has done what he could do In
his youth.
"Oh, that fellow was just a dubr"
said Jeffries after Burns had defeated
Gunner Moir.
"The fight was of as much impor-
tance as the little bouts that are hello
nightly in New York." said Corbett.
"As compared with the heavy
weights when Jeffries, Corhett Fitz-
simmons and myself were fighting.
Burns is a fourth rater," says Shar--
key.
All this talk is decidedly out OF
place and will not help them in the
eyes of the public. These men all had
their day, and now, having retired
from the ring, they should not be-
grudge the new champion his inst
need of praise. The trouble with the
! old fellows is that the coming Of q
| new champion dims their renown and
| impairs their drawing ability. They
| would do well to maintain a dignifed
! silence.
| While Burns hasn't by any means.
! proved that he is the equal Of Fitzsfm-
mons or Jeffries, it is true that he has.
! beaten more good men than either Cor
bett or Sharkey. He is improving rap
iIly- nd ba r-iI Gcrb+ +bo
there is little doubt that he will soon
be considered one of the best pugiIistas
the country has produced.
"Iye had many peculiar inquiries :
concerning that missing finger Oh my
pitching hand" Mordecai Brown, the -
star twirler of the Chicago National
league club, said the other morning,
''but the strangest of all occurred in o
+ the south during our training trip last =.
spring.
'One of the many recruits that Pres
ident Murphy took on the trip was a
twirler by the name of Purdue. He
was rather an enigma to the majority
of the players, who did not know
whether to take his funny little say
ings and doings as jokes or whether
Purdue really was serious about them
'One day while we We're gathered in
the hotel lobby discussing things In,
general and nothing in particular Pur-
due came over to me and said:
"'Brownie, let me see what's left OF
that pitching mitt of yours
Il pushed out the MANNED hand, and
after he had examined it closely he
said:
"'And do you mean to tell me that
you win all your games with your
hand in that shape?
81 confessed that did
"'Well, l swan he replied. And
how did you lose the finger?
81 told him that had it chopped CT
in feed cutter and that the remain
ing three fingers were broken at the
same time.
'Then he deliberately reached down
into his pocket. pulled out an indelible
pencil and marked a line across his
pitching hand that correspondent to the
cuts on mine.
"'When l get home, Pm going to put
, uly uduu III lieu CuIleT, lOO, LIE SAM
solemnly, and maybe III get to be a
star twirler.'
"And when we left him in NashvfIle
the marks were still on his hand.'
Owner Dovey of the Boston NATIONAL
league club purchased a dozen crates
OF bats recently, Wonder if he had tn.
get Barney Dreyfuss' o. K
He-I see a college presiden. II Aa>-
rora, ILL.,, has discovered that uian caEgs
subsist upon peanuts.
Shelf that is true, you can get your
supper at the baseball park next sum-,
mer, and we can keep our cook-
An inventor proposes to make pa
per bat. Even if he got the nei essary
weight the invention would prohahsy5
lack resiliency This would he fataE
In view of the steady decline III bak-
ting, a rubber bat might be more fa>
vOrably considered.
WILLIE WEST