Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
HANkER AFTER
CHAMPIO IONSHIP
PICAT0 AND BURNS SET GOAL
AT TOP OF HEAP
BOTH FAMOUS FOR THEIR A5IL,
ITY TO PUNCH
Each Expects to Trim His Opponent
Tomorrow Night Long Before the
Ten-Round Limit to Em-
phasize Their Glass
BY JAY DAVIDSON

Two scrappers who acknowledge to a
hankering after championship honors
in two different swat divisions will ex-
hibit their prowess tomorrow night at
McCarey's pavilion. Frank Picato, a
Los Angeles boy who has put many as
piring lightweights in the scrap heap
with his terrific wallop, hopes some day
to be billed as the lightweight cham
pion, and Jack Burns, the latest heavy
weight championship possibility. IS
after all the near-champ in the big
division because he believes he is good
enough to wear the premier honors of
that division with becoming modeSty
and as effectively as any previous de-
fender of title. Picato will tackle the
dangerous old war horse, Charlie
(Kid) Dalton, while Burns will hook
up with an equally dangerous opponent
in Jim Cameron, the lengthy and thin
black walloper with arms as long as
telegraph poles.
Picato has picked out a tough trial
horse in Dalton, who has a heart Of
steel and the courage of lion to back
up his terrific wallopS, but Dalton ad-
mittedly is easy to hit and Picato be-
lieVes that he is the master of any
lightweight whom he can reach with
that whitening punch of his. Dalton
has whipped some good main event
acquired quite a lot of valuable eX-
perience since he fought Frank Car
Sey at Vernon. He now knows the
value of training properly and also has
learned how to train. He also has
learned that there is something else
required in a winner than the Wallop-
the possession of a knowledge of de-
fensive tactics-and he says the fans
will see a different Kid Dalton in ac-
tion than the one they had seen fight
ing previous. to his departure for the
northern fighting tour.
Burns stopped Battling Johnson in
less than two rounds recently at Ba-
kersfield, after whipping Terry Mus
tain and Joe Willis, and believes that
he is in line for the big chair When
he started to make a record in the ring
about six months ago he weighed only
10 pounds. In that period he has
grown so rapidly that he now is fight
ing at 1877 pounds, and he has the frame
to carry half a ton of meat on his
bones. He is a tall, big-boned, over
grown boy, and in all his fights he
has shown a wallop that would kill
mule if it landed squarely. He seems
to be another Al Kaufman, being of
about the same height, weight and
reach, but if all reports are true he
has harder kick than the big native
son near-champ.
Burns will have ample opportunity
to show his ability as a fighter when
he meets Cameron tomorrow night
Cameron is not a fighter of class, but
he meets Cameron tomorrow night
Cameron is not fighter of class, but
he is nearly a foot taller than the aver
age man, has a reach that is marvellous
and a punch that means a sound slum-
ber any time it lands. He is something
of freak, physically, owing to his ex-
treme height and reach, and he usually
is able to hold an opponent so far
away from him when he puts one of
his arms at full length that he forms
naturally and Immediately an effective
defense against attack, even by a clever
boxer No fighter now in the business
could hit Cameron with a billy if Cam
eron should straighten out his long arm
into his opponents face.
Both these bouts should furnish
good scraps. Each is over the ten
round route and brings together a. pair
of good sluggers. While the Picato-
Dalton bout is advertised as the main
event. the Burns Cameron scrap will
be coupled in the betting" with it as
strong rival, at least, for the honors
as the most attractive event.