Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-09
BY JAY DAVIDSON

Two bouts of more than ordinary inn
portance are scheduled for decision to-
night at McCarey'S club at Maud juno
tion, when Frank Picato and Kid Dali
ton, lightweights, and Jack Burns and
Jim Cameron, heavyweights, will fur
nish the main arguments over the ten
round route. Four preliminaries at four
rounds each will precede the big show,
and the management announces that
the first bout will be called promptly
at o'clock, instead Of S:15 o'clock, as
heretofore.
Picato will endeaVor to emphasize his
claims as a lightweight championship
contender in the bout with Kid Dalton
tonight, while the spaghetti champion
will use just as energetic endeavors tO
prove that he is not in the prelim divi-
sion any longer. Picato has had limited
opportunity to prove his class, and
while he has been bowling for a chance
at those who are in the near-champion-
ship division he never has been able to
get a match that would permit him to
prove his claims or disprove them.
Possessed of a kick that would stop
Bat Nelson if it could be landed and
cleverness enough to protect himself
from the average lightweight, he has
confidently entered into every scrap OF
his career with the intention of win
ming it by the knockout route. In most
instances he has succeeded, but he has
not been matched with scrapperS VINO
could give him a good workout or
give much of an indication as to his
class. He accepted the match with
Dalton because the spaghetti kid has
been farther up the line and has fought
some boys of fair class. If he stops
Dalton tonight, as he confidently pre-
diets he will do, he will insist upon
being matched with boys higher up
and endeaVOr to work himself up the
ladder until he can get a chance to
prove his class and show whether he is
of championship caliber or not.
Dalton has been plugging away in the
pork-and-be class here for several
years, being almost invincible in that
division, but recently he went north and
took on some main event boys and
whipped them decisively. With this eX-
perience and the demonstration that he
has the sleep wallop, he hopes to get
up in the dignified class himself by ad-
ministering a decisive and severe drub
bing to the original knockout kid. If
either wins by the one-punch route he
will promote himself.
Nearly as much interest attaches to
the Burns Cameron bout as is mani
tested in the PicatO-DaltOn scrap, be-
cause Burns is a newcomer in the
heavyweight division and has shown
sufficient class to entitle him to con-
sideration as a near championship con-
a few months, but has beaten Terry
Mustain anG knocked out Battling
Johnson in less than two rounds, show
ing punch that is the marvel of all
who have seen it in action and proving
himself to be possessed of some class.
He will meet a tough customer in
Cameron, and if he succeeds in getting
in beyond those marvelOusly long arms
and put in the punch that will put
Cameron away he will earn the right
to talk business to the near-championS
in America.
Burns is built along the same lines OF
Al Kaufman and has a stiffer punch,
if all reports are to be believed. Ee
hits like a mule a-kicking and never
has tackled an opponent who could
give him much worry. He is young
and green at the business, but has
handled himself so we'll in the ring that
his friends are predicting that he will
be ready to give Jack Johnson a beat
ing in another year.
The preliminaries tonight will be an
improved card of four-round bouts, as
compared with the prelim show at the
last fight. Those fans who witnessed
the four-round boys in action last week
will not care much whether the semi
windup and main events are any good,
as the boys in the prelims showed so
well that they made a good show by
themselves. The most likely boys who
appeared last week in these short bouts
have been matched with scrappers in
their class, and the four scraps should
furnish plenty of fun and excitement
while they last.
Fans need have no worry as to
weather conditions, as Manager Nc
Carey says he viii have sawdust or
sand walks laid from the car lines to
the entrances to the pavilion in the
event that there is any mud. AS he
always has shown this consideration for
his patrons there is no need for worry
regarding the probability of losing a
10-cent shine en- route to the scraps.
The first bout will be called at o'clock,
instead of S:15 o'clock, as heretofore, in
order to permit all to get away by Ii
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