The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-24

tp.r y~a.u aGo WMa nothing more than q
p1.ns ordin1nFy, wtllanG hsaVyweaGht Who
mes ~ eonoru tor any money that mighe
m,AeerlAhn> ten round draw with
ySs@nnetss wound zap tbs ieoe oAmpaign.
tnS men meeting In Portland. No.
Peter feliH. Who WIS knookod out by
Sonnnon IN u round At Sydney. ". 3. W.
IN February. 1907. WIS ot little account
In the following July the Ancisnt Fitn-
aAnhmonn. who had been plAnohod into sub
nA~Aion by PhilAdslphiA jack o'Brisn on
1900. ooas, tEe y.A-s before. went up egAlnss
We Knocked out In q couple of ro,HndA.
ret this achievement didn't convince the
conseryative critics that johnson was .
urst class heavyweight. On the con-
HATy Johnson wAs termed a -four hllAhor'
.or picking out the frockled CornishmAn
TOT an easy mark.
There was no general comment when
SSnnson stopped Ons Mid Cutler. pupil
~ Sonn Il. sullivan, In about three wal
~. nut there a. storm OF severe
GinclSm when the bag negro allowed
SAilor Burke, a middle~ eight. % stay ak
rounds with him in what MAS apparently
oareiAced fraud in the city of Bridge
port. johnson knocked Purke down q
do1en umes while sure thing men ran
around ohertng , 70 I that the Sailor
Solld he on his feet at the end Of the
axth round. IL was just a money grab
0lng fram~uP. in which johnson As q
ready participator.
These alleged battles occurred In 1907
before johnson wound up that campaign
~ knocking out Jim Flynn at Colrna in
sieLen rounds. just a year later Lang
lord put lynn 10 sleep In a punch. Then
johnson began the pursuit Of Burns.
which ended in Australia nth the hght
that has compelled Jsnries % come back
TO the priEe ring
You can take . look at Blrns's short
ana ~
that IL want much OF a stunt t"r johnson
70 heat him. Burns. six inchs~ shorter
and nc least forty pounds lighter. was
knock ed down with n right hAnt upper
cut Delivered by johnson in the second
round. That blow won the hght though
johnson, unwilling or unable IN drive
home q knockout wallop. allowed Burns
% worry along until the fourteenth
round, when the police interfered.
Burma was nothing more than a middle
weight or q very hight heavyweight when
he began to fight about ten years ago.
He couldn't have known much about the
game whom Mike Schreck beat him in q
ten round bout in 1901. Five years ago
Burma fought q twenty round draw with
Jack Twin Sullivan and got . twenty
he got verdict over Sullivan in a similar
bout and knocked Barry out in the TWEEN
tteth round 81 = second encounter, He
Also bored two draws with Hugo Heily.
one Of ten and the other Of twenty rounds.
and finally received the referees verdict
after outpointing the numbering Marvin
Hart for twenty rounds. On the strength
OF that victory Burns proclaimed himself
heavyweight champion. a. Jefrles, with
nobody left to be- whipped. had handed
over the title to Hart.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien went
twenty rounds TO draw with Burns In
November. 1904. and in the following May
Burns. double crossing and exposing
O'HrIen's fakes. beat him over the same
route. II took Burns fifteen rounds to
stop Flynn. Then Tommy decided to
meet soft snaps e xclnsively so Bill Sauir-s.
Gunner Moir. Jack Palmer Jem Roche.
Jewey Smith and other pugilistic lemons
fell before him.
Johnson, therefore, didn't whip a real
champion heavyweight when Burns was
saved by the sydney police an assertion
that the negro will not attempt to deny.
IL IN true that he toyed with Al Kaufman.
the California giant. in a ten round bout
Last September. but O'BTien knocked out
Kaufman in 1913. The defeat Of ketchel |
by the negro should never have
been recordcd for the match was a freak
and the result 81 foolish judgment
ketchel had the courage Ia tackle John !
aon. though FIVE inches shorter and nearly !
ffty pounds lighter He also had the |
nerve 70 force the fight and IN the twelfth |
round he scored a knockdown when one !
Of the champions head. But the next
instant a. johnson jumped up and kstchel
tore in wide open 20 land another srnaeh |
the black man unlocked the same terrific
right that had stopped McNey. The blow
landed flush on kstcheis Jaw. knocked |
him cold and broke "a several hack teeth.
Going over these battles. therefore ,
rinGsters are not inclined 20 admit that
Johnsons victims were great puGilists |
In fact they are reasonably sure they |
were not. But there's something about |
his muscular. cool headed. cold blooded |
black man that has caused the belief that |
Jedries 10 going 90 have the fRht Of his |
life. Possibly this u due 70 the fact that |
it's a question just now whether Jefries |
will be the great pugilist Of six years ago |
Dr. not IL he has lost that wonderful |
'orm johnson will quickly take ADVANTAGE |
Il il thought. but IL Jed IL the real thing |
he ooloTed man NAV see many stars and |
oomsts even though the sun burns brightly |