Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-24
FERGUSON SHOWS
UP IMPRESSIVELY
Biq Bostonian Hammers Sparring
Partners All Over Arcadia
Training Ring
SAYS HE WILL STOP BURNS
Moran and ConIey Grinding Away
Every Day-PhiI Brock Here
with Money
SAYS He WILL STOP BURNS
BY JAY DAVIDSON


cellent impression on the fans who
have visited him since he began to
work in earnest for his 25-round scrap
May 81, and if the big Bostonian keeps
off the primrose until after the fight
the fans will see one of the fastest
and prettiest heavyweight scraps ever
put on in local ring. Sandy has been
training at Arcadia, which is bit too
far removed from the city for the fans
to do much visiting, so he has decided
to move in to Jack Doyles Southside
club, where he will finish up his train
ing.
Sandy has engaged Arthur Collins
and Chris Johnson as sparring part
ners and as these fellows are willing
to mix it with him he is getting lot
of good work every afternoon. He
tears into them like he would if they
were opponents in the ring and the
way he slams them around and puts
them into dreamland indicates that he
is going to make the fur fly when he
hops into the ring with Jack Burns.
Sandy says that if he does not stop
Burns in five rounds he will be dis
gusted with himself, and the way he
is going about his training shows that
long enough to become acclimated and
has been doing light work for long
time, so that he now is in fine con-
dition for starting the heavy stunts.
Ferguson is one of the top notch
heavyweights in the ring today when
he takes care of himself and trains
properly. 1t always has been a fail
ing with him not to train right and to
gaze too longingly upon the bright
lights. He has cut out all that sort
of stuff and for the last two or three
weeks has been staying close to home
all the time and working right. He
will be in condition to put up one of
his old-t time battles May 81, and that
it will be a hummer goes without say
ing.
BURNS TRAINS AT VENICE
Jack Burns has established himself
in training quarters at Venice, using
the gymnasium where Lew Powell
trained for his fight with George Mem
sic He will begin work this morning
by taking a long road run and will go
through the regular routine of gym
nasium stunts, including boxing, this
afternoon and every afternoon in fu-
ture until a day or two before the
fight. He has more than a week in
which to round into condition. and as
he had trained right up to a fine point
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ga that did not come off he will not
require any great amount of hard
work.
This should be a dandy fight to
watch. Burns is taller than Ferguson
and is not many pounds lighter He
is one of the stiffest punchers in the
business and has been winning regu-
larly of late. He has much at stake,
as he has wanted to get on with Lang
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scrap in order to get the match with
the Boston terror. Sandy also wants
that match with Langford and will put
IN his best 1icks to win it. Joe Wood
man is authority for the statement
that Ferguson can whip most any
fighter in the world when he trains
right, and Joe is about the best judge
of fighting material in the country.
PHIL BROCK COMES BACK
Phil Brock, the slugging little light
weight from Cleveland, who made such
hit here a couple of years ago by de-
feating George Memsic and other good
ones, has returned to Los Angeles after
a long absence and is looking for trou-
BILE and plenty of 1t. Phil seems to be
in fine health and condition, and says
he is ready to go into training at once
and whip any Of them, Wolgast or
Powell preferred.
Since he left here Phil has whipped
such good boys as Fighting Dick Hy-
land, Dave Deshler, Leonard Lauder,
Jack Redmond and Tommy DeVln. He
also knocked out Yonug Britt, the Bal
timore phenom. Jack Redmond is
matched with Ad Wolgast at Milwau-
kee for a ten-rOund nO-decisiOn fight
within a fortnight. Phil is willing to
take on Morrie Bloom or AL Rogers if
the fans want to see whether he has
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left here, but wants it stipulated that
after he trims these scrappers he is to
get a whack at Powell, Wolgast or
some of the other good drawing cards.
Phil has $500 that he will bet that he
can whip Rogers, Bloom, Kid Dalton
or any of them, and will give Wolgast
a dignifed side bet If desired.
owen Moran, the English lightweight
who Is to fight frankie Conley In
scheduled ten-round bout June 7, got
himself in bad Sunday night at Venice
when he tried to play the tough guy
and make an impression with the prom
enaders on the big cement walk He
filled up on something that had bad
effect upon him, and then went to
the Ship hotel, where he smashed a
glass to pieces on the table by way of
attracting attention. He escaped seri-
Gus injury in there because the walters
and Ward McFadden knew him. But
with Jeff Perry, his trainer, he started
to take in the sights along the cement
walk leading up the beach to Ocean
Park, and after several vain efforts he
ran into what was coming to him. A
party Of five men and their wives were
sitting on benches, quietly enjoying the
balmy breezes, when the Britisher and
his trainer showed up, looking for trou-
BILE. He applied vile epithets to one Of
the men and women in the crowd, and
before he could realize what was going
on he was a most likely candidate for
the hospital. There was no Abe Attell
draw decision to the bout, as both him
self and trainer were promptly sobered
up by the men in the crowd.
Despite this fracas, Moran recovered
sufficiently yesterday to take his road
run and workout in the afternoon with
Al Baldwin, Jeff Perry and Charlie
Boesen, doing a nice turn in the after
noon gymnasium work Moran has not
made any friends here by his system Of
bug juice training methods, and if he
relies on it to pull him through in his
ten-round stunt with Conley he is apt