The San Francisco call., 1909-03-22
SHOW
NEGRO LACKS
WALLOP
If He Can't Hit Jeff Harder
Than He Hit Burns He'll
Lose His Title :.
By William y. SIatfery

Thousands of men, women and chill
dren crowded the Novelty theater
yesterday afternoon and last evening
to see the moving pictures OF the recent
Burns Johnson fight. Everybody was
Unanimous in declaring that the films
! are the clearest, sharpest and most
realistic ever displayed in this city.
not even barring the famous Britt
Nelson pictures, which. up TO the
present time. We're looked upon as the
perfection of the motion camera
There is one lesson taught by the
| films Johnson viii lose his title as
soon as he goes against Jenrtes, unless
| he shows more punching ability than
the films give him credit for. Nobodv
The The camera amer has never been @ known to
/ lie and no matter what q press agent
might say, the pictures Will always
show what happened. And they do in
this case beyond the question of a
doubt.
JEFF will not have to be the Jeff of
Sid to beat Johnson If the ,, h'n SMOKE 1fdis
of the Jeffries of 1904 can turn this
trick. The big fellow may stop his
worrying right now If he is worrying
at all, for Johnson is an oVerrated
puneher.
BURNS SHOWS GAMENESS
Aceording to the pictures. Jehns,GR5
Q 81
was a minute old. From that time till
the police put an end to the uneven
contest in the fourteenth round. the
mammoth black hammered his dimuni-
tive opponent at will and be it, said
for Burns that he kept coming and
leading and setting the pace through
when the arm of the law interfered.
Now. what would JEFF do with john
son under the same circumstances: eS:
provided of course that Jeff is one-hair
as good as he used to be? If Johnson's
blows failed to make Burns take the
count, what effect would they, have
all around formidable fighter who ever
pulled on a five ounce glove? Any
body VINO ever saw JeH go in his
palmy days can answer this one on
hand.
FIGHT WAS UNEVEN
The Australian fight, while a.spectac-
ular event, was surely a very one sided
affair judging from the moving films.
Canadian land an effective punch on the
huge smoke. He was game and ambf-
tions and trying all the time, but
Johnson had it on him in height
weight. strength. ring generalship and
science. Burns could not have been
more handicapped unless he was shy
leg or an eye. The only thing he had
was the championship title and this
never gets fighter anything when he
cannot use it to block or deliver
punch or as a club over a low brow's 5
head and thereby secure the large END
of the purse.
You can almost see the golden smile
that Jack London so graphically de-
scribed in his widely read story of the
fight. Burns looks like a lightwei ght
alongside the new champion.
The little fellow fought. what the
street urchins would term sucker
fight In other words. he deliberately
played into the hands of his antagon-
ist. He set the pace and Johnson stood
up and received him every time he
rushed. Burns simply plunged into the
Jaws of death as 1t were. for whenever
he came, Johnson was right on the
job to greet him with a right or left
to a vulnerable spot. Burns could not
get 10 johnson on account of the lat
ter's superior reach and cleverneSS-
Johnson did not have to bother about
running after Burns, for the little fell
low willingly came to meet his fate.
SCORED MANY KNOCkDOWNS
Johnson scored two knockdowns in the
first round, one in the fifth. one in the
ninth and two in the 14th and final
round when the police took a hand at
the game. Though Burns was not put
down for the count of 10, there is no
question but that Johnson would have
finished him had the mill progressed
another round or two. Burns began to
grow weak for the first time in the last
round.