The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-03


Jeffries ever met SquIres cannot even De
Imagined 1t is TO be feared that had
,Ieffries gone to tho expense ana trou-
bl of training for Il hght with inns reI
markable person from Australia he would
have been so humiliatcd that he either
would have hidden himself in sheer NOR
tificatlon or would have committed holnl-
eide. with Squires as a victim.
AS il was. Burns was 1natcheu 10 nghI
SouIrcs. and on July A. 1907. Squlres and
Burns came together,
That great pugllistic Jest never Will be
forgotten so long as tales or tne ring are
fold and retold Burns landed one punch
on "Boshter BILL and tho Australian
importation curled UP. Rarely has fight
been finished so quickly In this country,
His English Foes.
Shortly thereafter Burns left for Eng
land. where he knocked out Gunner Moir
before the National Sporting club in Lon
don, after toying with him for ten rounds
for the pictures. lie knocked out Jack
Palmer In London in four rounds. there
being no pictures to consider. and then
went over to Dublin after Jem Roche,
His fight with Gunner Moir was on De-
cenber .. 1907 and that with Palmer
on February 10, 1905. lie met Jem Roche
in Dublin on March II. and soon put
Roche away withAa Knockout. He sent
"Jewey' Smith over the same route In
Paris and then had time TO pay some
slight attention 10 the persistent Jack
Johnson. who had followed him over to
England in his anxiety to get on fight
with him.
For two years Jack Johnson had been
chasing Burns all over the country and
out OF the country in the effort to have
a try at the title which Burns carried
and for which johnson yearned as he
would have yearned for n watermelon or
a fried chicken. He had become the
good natured black joke of all the sport
tpts szf Nf,.Ny h,,N t-lI
kept hammering away at Burns.
Johnson had started fighting in la01.
when he was % years old Among his
early fights was an affair in which he
ter battle royal contest In which five
other negroes. all Of the same town,
planned to kill Johnson off by massing
on him as soon as the bell changed. and
then with him out OF the way to decide
the affair between themselves.
Johnson dropped three of them as soon
senseless on the mat. while the other two
jumped out of the ring and fled. At
the time he signed with Burns he had
fought sixty-.four battles and had lost
TO Joe ChoynsN and to Joe Jeannette on
foul. He had whipped Jack Jeffries.
brother OF the champion, and had
rounds in Philadelphia In 1907 at time
when Fitzsimmons had lost all his old
steam and force. He had twenty two
inockouts to his credit.
Burns ignored Johnson until Septem-
ber. 1908, when he finally signed arti-
cles TO fight him in Sydney. Australia
Burns still held doggedly. to his uue
and as he had not lost a fight after as
Stunning it. the fight was announced and
regarded n fight for the championship
Such had been the strange wayfaring OF
the heavyweight championship that no
matter what the circumstances may have
been by which Burns had gained his IL
tie there was certainly no way for any
heavyweight to gain rank except by
beating Burns. Burns had lost only three
fights In his entire ring career and not
wthstandng the great difference in the
weights of the two men matched to fight
Burns was the fayorite.