Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-25
FERGUSON SHOWS
IMPROVING MIND
Riq BoStonian 0verComeS Weak
ness of His Bellows by
Hard Road Work
DOING CONSISTENT TRAINING
Burns Handicapped by Lack OF
Sparring PartnerS-Moran
Takes Day Off
DOING CONSISTENT TRAINING

Sandy Ferguson moved out to Doyle's
Southside club at Vernon yesterday
and worked through the most strenu-
Gus day of his training period. He
says that his only trouble now Is with
his wind and if his appearance after
his long road run yesterday morning
is any true indication, this will not
bother him much from now on. He
took a, long run on the road in the
morning and sprinted the final two
miles on the return trip, pulling up
fresh and strong and seemingly unat-
fected by any poor bellows arrange
ment.
In the afternoon Sandy showed that
he is far from being a lazy hand IN
the training camp by doing an I'M
nense amount of work with the gym
nasium apparatus and winding up
long session of work with eight eXcit-
ing rounds of boxing-hghting would
be a better word. Arthur Collins was
given his daily beating over four
round route and Young McLaln,
225-pounder, with some aspirations IN
the heavyweight championship line,
was almost discouraged after four ses-
sions with Sandy. McLain tried to
show up the big Bostonian and ran into
an unusually big job.
Burns continued his daily routine at
Venice, but a lack of sparring part
ners forced him to cut out all but hVe
rounds of boxing, Willie Ritchle,
light welterweight in the Doc jerry
string, working with him and hopes TO
have at least one good sparring part
ner on the job by this afternoon.
owen Moran laid off from work yes
terday, explaining that he does not
want to go at too rapid pace until
farther into the training period. He
will resume operations this afternoon
and will put on the full routine OF
stunts. including his boxing bouts with
AL Baldwin, Jeff Perry and Charles
Boesen. Conley is not doing any loaf
ing in his quarters at the Southside
club. He realizes that he is taking
a big handicap at the weights and pro
poses to put himself into perfect con-
dition, so that he will be able to fight
fast and. effectively all the way. He
believes he can trim the Britlsher and
will bet that way, so he also VIII work
that way. Kid Cleveland and Hobo
Dougherty gave him several rounds of
boxing workouts yesterday, following
the road run and gymnasium stunts.
Conley will be as fit as fiddle when
he enters the ring, beyond all question
Jim Cameron is back in light train
ing again in the hope that he will get
q match soon with Jim Barry or some
OIl6r SOOQ IIdlI WIZ Will NC a DOtNCi
drawing card than those whom he has
defeated recently. Cameron has ceased
to be a joke and has compelled recog-
milton by his consistent work in the
ring. Winning eleven in twelve lights
covering his entire ring career, is not
a bad record, and Cameron has done
all this He also is showing such rapid
innproven ent in his work that he now
is entitled to be classed as among the
fairly clever big fighters. When he
fought Allen last Saturday he was
trained properly for the first time in
his career and he showed enough of
the thing called cleverness to cause the
fans. who had seen him aWkwardly
swing through other fights, to take
notice Cameron would be a good card
now if sent against some fighter who
is clever enough to make the negro ex-
tend himself and show whether he
really is a fighter Of class or not.
Willie Mac, one of the best light
weights on the coast. and Jim Konkel
who is in the Doc. Jeffry string, were
matched yesterday by Secretary Han
cock for the fourth bout on the pre-
liminary card for the FergusOn-Burns
scrap next Tuesday night. They will
make 1877 pounds and McCarey is count
ing upon them furnishing an entertain
ing scrap. This bout completes the
card for Tuesday night, which will in
clude four preliminary affairs as en-
thusers for the main event. The whole
card looks good and should attract a
big house which it undoubtedly will do.