Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-04

Burns. The big negro distributed
some sickening punches in the stom-
aCh. They sounded like well-kick-
ed football banging against a wall
whoomph! Then there would be
sharp. grinding click-that was the
grinner sending his long, brawny
arm iolting upwards to the Canadi-
ans chin. But, worse than all for
Burns, as the men were locked to-
gether the long reach of the negro
enabled his right arm to have free
play over the smaller mans back. II
was raised deliberately, and descend
ed with gathering force, batterins
and crushing on to the flesh in the
region of Burns kidneys. Human
endurance has its limits, and Burns
had to be beaten.
One other feature of the contest i'm
pressed itself -- the fierceness Of the
negro, when he dropped his grin and
smashed into his opponent right and
left. This was Johnson's response to
the charge that he had "a yellow
street.-The cause of the terrible
! bitterness of the contest. These en-
ragged responses of the negro were
one of the real physical surprises Of
the contest, and the most unpalatable
to the disappointed spectators.
The sun did not wholly approve OF
the proceedings: Il hid itself behind
the clouds, until the fatal thirteenth
round, when it gloriously beamed
forth. With the sun came the end
II was the setting of the sun for the
White man. and the rising for the
! Black. Down went the champion,
thudded on the jaw, to struggle to
his feet, dazed, bruised, and beaten,
to receive another. Then the Law
humanely stepped in. and saved
Burns from further partial disfgure-
ment: the left side of his face was
then considerably out OF shape.
Happily. there is a silver lining to
most clouds. The screen will help
Australia to get great advertise
ment out of this grim business. Pic.
lures of the huddled crowd inside
and the throng outside, were taken
by the cinematOgraph, and the spec.
tators responded with a tempest OF
enthusiasm, which will reveal to the
four corners of the earth the facts
that there are people, and money, in
this land. Seventeen thousand in.
side, as many more outside, and II
there had been space $4,000 would
have been the record. II was not
the Stadium of Huge" d. M'lntOsh
but the Circus MaXimus of Rome that
was required. A slick-mlnded Amer.
lean, bubbling over with commercial
instincts, surveying the scene, as the
camera was focused on the masso;
of waving hats, umbrellas, coats
newspapers, flags, and other portable
articles, remarked, by Jove, this
beats a lot the bureau can do. Aus
tralia will be known where she has
never been heard of before when
they see these pictures
! There was momentary pause -
such as frequently unaccountably oc
: cur in great gatherings a lull before
, the storm like--then n sharp cracl
J of applause was heard on the west
2 ern side, where the gladiators wer,
5 getting ready for the fray. Then ;
4 big head, and grinning face, re
! vealing great rows of gold-stoppeI
3 and white teeth, was seen bobbln:
D about among the crowd, and will
. his attendants making a snakelik
! track to the ring. 1t was Johnson
+ and the colored man was cheered
: with more enthusiasm than was (
S be expected from the average talk q
J, the average man. AS, clothed in a
n old smoking jacket, he climbe
Y through the ropes, he created an i'm
= preston that was never afterward
J, destroyed-he looked confident an
I cheerful, That huge grin, that air
$ wave of the hand in recognition t
p someone In the crowd, perplexe
many. He seemed unconcerned, boz
I. ed even, so far as the thrilling ad
d venture he was about to participai
D in was concerned. II was plain thi
4 the Burns party were puzzled-dow
e in their hearts they seemed to fe