Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-26
FERGUSON WORKS
TO IMPROVE WIND
His Bellows Getting All Right Now
and His Last Fear
VanisheS
TALKS OF KNOCKOUT VICTORY
Burns Also Going Some at Venice
and Expects Little Trou-
BILE with Sandy
TALKS OF KNOCKOUT VICTORY

Sandy Ferguson is rapidly overcoming any
Reject in his bellows that may exist and
unless he told of It himself one would not
know that he ever had had any trouble with
his breathing apparatus after seeing him so
through his daily routine Of hard work at
Doyle's club, Sandy took an eight-mile run
on the road yesterday and returned IN hne
spirits and apparently in good wind. lie
says that his bellows have improved greatly
in the last week and that he now experiences
little or no trouble from this source. For
q time he was bit fearful that he would
have some difficulty in putting his breathing
machinery back in good trim, but now he mas
no fear whatever on this score.
He piled on the hard lcks yesterday after
moon in another period of real strenuous work
and showed up remarkably speedy ana cIevel %
for big man. After the usual gymnasium ~
workout he went into the ring and DoNeu
several furious rounds with McLain ana
ARTHUR Collins. These boxing workouts are
more like the real thing than any put on by
sother fighters in training recently He does
lnot spare his sparring partners and they do
not have any mercy on him In all he put
in a little more than an hour in the after
moon workout and seemed to be improving
steadily and getting into condition at salts
factory rate. Sandy is well pleased with his
progress and says hat will have plenty OF
time in the ten-round limit in which to stow
AWAY the Salinas boy. He fully expects to
stop Burns and counts upon making himself
a good drawing card with Sam Langford, who
will take on the winner at twenty-five rounds.
Burns is not so foolish as TO figure on any
easy money in this scrap, but he has abso-
Iutely no fears regarding the result. with
youth, strength and life that has been
free Of dissipation. he feels that he will be
in better condition to stand up under fire
than will Ferguson. Burns figures that Sandy
will find his wind a bit short when 1t comes
to following a hot pace even for ten rounds.
and the Salinas boy has knockout punch
IN either hand and knows how to get 1t over
he thinks he will stop the big Bostonian
without any great difficulty.
Burns is working hard and Systematically
every day in his Venice training quarters and
will be fit and ready for a bruising match
when the gong sounds for him to start. He
still is lacking proper sparring assistance but
Willie Richie is giving him some good work
outs in this lire, and he will get along
whether he has any additions to his staff or
not Doc Jeffrey is looking after his training
and says that Jack will be right the night
he goes after Ferguson.
Moran resumed training yesterday and
boxed several rounds with two amateurs, who
were pressed into service to help out while
Jeff Perry is off duty. He boxed seven
rounds altogether and seems to he getting
along nicely Conley is grinding away at
steady clip at Vernon and is going to be fit
and ready for almost anything when he
tackles Moran. The bantam champ is not
worried as to the result and believes in
himself so strongly that he is willing to take
a chance with some of his own money that
he will whip the Britisher.