Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-21
CLARENCE CULLEN'S
INTERESTING SCREED
Writes Originally of Prominent
Boxers and Ball
Players.
By Clarence L. Cullen.
ial Correspondence Of Tho star.


Srrcial Correspondence of The star.
NEW YORK. February 20, 1899.
The moving pictures of the Johnson
Burns fight in Australia are on view here.
'rley are the best films ever made of a
Iu- ring event.
THAT which they chiefly reveal is the
fact that Burns vas mere ten-pin for
johnson. Johnson merely fools with the
Canuck from the beginning To the end
Of the films The dinGe wears d constant
cIin on his face as he wallops Burns
all over the Enclosure al will. Burns
looks ike an amateur throughout All
-; his leads are blocked in the most
!eistuely manner, and you can't see in
the pictures whore Burns ever put glove
anywhere near the black mans head
II is apparent. too. that Burns was
afraid OF Johnson from the beSinn nS
81 the scrap for he puts in great
amount OF his time covering up and
dancing out of range. For all of his
dancing. however. johnson sends EN-
over and lands whenever and wherever
Ire seems L. want TO As a straight
matter OF fact, it looks IS if Johnson
sure was under pull up to he time OF
the tiuish-oue of those pulls framed up
for the purpose uf letting the film man
l,t together a good mess of pictures
Burns Il a Sad-loukiuC sight at the nniSh,
with his face spread all over his head.
lie looks like snow man that's begun
10 tiaw.
II anything were needed 10 clincn the
contention that Noah BruSso. or Tommy
BURNS. a. he calls himself. always was
third-rdte nuS!list. these films from
Australia do the clinChing. In truth, the
flms make Johnson look great deal
better. perhaps. than he really is.
clever man. even if he doesn't belong
among the cleveresI : bound to show
jgp like a hear catcher when contraSted in
moving pictures with a man of the loSgy.
dUbhy character of Burns, and Johnson
certainly is chain lightning in these films.
Perhaps he wouldn't he so lightningisn
WI. a fast fellow But. at any rate.
Is fight with Burns was d joke. and
Tor once were able To believe Jack
London London happened to see the
night and cablCd account of ii to
New York newspaper in which lie said
that Johnson looked throughout the fight
Ike somebody rpproving a fractions
young one. Johnson looks worse than
that He looks like somebody picking
Gn Il booby.
1t is. said that Burns presently will
be cOmint. back To the states with some
challenges. He'll get his answer. They'll
all tight him now. and probably they II
all thrash him. for ii ever fighters
goat was taken Burns must have been
10y the big Galveston dinge in that
Australian scrap
II is so rare, these days to be able
10 truthfuly record the superior proves
of a British fighter that the salve can't
be spread too thickly on the performances
OF this Jem Driscoll boy, the feather
weight from Wales who's been cleaning
'em all up over here as if they were
bright work on d man-o-war Quite
while ago. in this correspondence. called
attention to the entirely marvellous ability
oi this modest little chap. But he hadn I
proven himself then as he has now. 1t
- not too much 10 say (and In saying
il one merely echoes the opinion of the
hest judges in America) that this little fel-
low is the fastest fighter of his weight
ever seen in a prize ring in the United
States. He is a Sure-cnouCh phantom. He
simply never is there when things start TO
travel toward him. This East Side KID
each Cross Of whom DriScoll made
such perfect holy show the other night,
always has been considered rapid box
fighter, and lie has stiff punch with
him at all times. too. But he was simply
one long laugh III his scrap with Driscoll.
DriSColl often stood with his hands at
his sides and permitted Cross to start
n long. hard wallop for his jaw, and
then Driscoll merely leaned to one side,
sort o. and when the punch arrived
OF second previously the momentum
OF Cross in trying to land it was so great
THAI the East Slider would almost fall
down. AT the end Driscol had Cross
nanny to- such an extent that the East
Slider simply kept his gloves I'm front of
his face to keep from being killed. This
brought about some genuinely funny
stun. Driscoll would reach out, take
hold OF Cross gloves and pry them
apart like you'd pry apart the fingers
OF somebody who'd come up behind you
and nut his hands over your eyes. After
pTyiHG Cross gloves away from his face
Driscoll would hand him a cute little up
TerCut or something and then Cross would
wabblc around and wish that he had
never heard of box fighting. DrScoll
also pulled lot OF new stuff. One of
lis entirely new ones he calls down
cut" as opposed to the uppercut The
dnwncut makes the other fellows nose
jIst about level with his teeth. and when
cross got through he was ready to go
10 u dermatclogist and get new chart
FOR himself. | used To think that Young
Critic. that crazy Australian youngster
who came to this country a good many
years ago. was the phantomest PROPOSE
tion of his weight that ever pulled on a
fuitten, but | believe that if Critic were
III tine game today DrisCOll would make
him look Ike old woman in a sun
bonnet.
Driscoll is going To fight Abe Attell
Take any price YOU can get. feliers that
Eriscoll will make Attell look like d
DeanDag that's been lett out in the back
ward and rdined on. Any price is a good
one. From where sit ii looks as if
tire DriScoll kid will have to quit and
start pub over in Wales before very
long. There isn't any body Of his weight
within eighteen lunar leagues OF being
IL his class.
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