The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
BURNS-LANGF0RD MILL.
Warm Things Promised For Fioht
Fans Whom These Two Hesvies
Meet In Ring.

Tommy Burns and Sam Langford are
at last to fight. The muss VIII occur
in California on Sept o. Billy McCar-
ney landed the match for the Metropo-
lis club. Burns is 10 receive a bonus
Of 5000 for cabling his acceptance from
Australia. The winner Of the forty-fve
round bout will get $40. 600. while the
loser must be content with $4,000.
Hugh Mcintosh Of Australia has tried
10 lure LangfOrd across the Pacific with
an offer OF a $4,000 certainty 20 box
Burns in Sydney IN June, but Wood
man is not in love with the scheme
For one thing he does not want to miss
the Jeffres-Johnson fight Anyhow, he
sent reply that If Mcintosh offered a
substantial purse with the customary
winners and losers end Langford
would consider the proposition.
When they get together II will be an
: event that will rank second in impOr-
tance only TO the JefIries-Johnson
/ fight
What could Burns do TO offset Lang
ford's uppercuts? fight fan asked the
other day Well, Tommy has at least
one good punch even II IT may not
. quite balance the scales. Whoever
I saw Burns and O'Brien in their first
4 fight in Los Angeles VIII remember the
/ right cross counter with which Burns
caught O'Brien in the fifth round. II
/ was es well timed a punch as ever a
/ rlngsider gazed upon, and II was only
( O'Brien's extreme thickness in the line
OF ducking and lodging that kept him
/ out Of harn's way for the remainder
Of the round and enabled him TO con-
! tinue fighting on q more defensive
! basis
Burns defeated Squires with the same
/ kind OF a punch. He seesawed till the
/ Australian came within striking dis
\ tance. timed his man to a dot and
/ brought him 10 the floor with a crack
/ that sounded like pistol shot II took
/ three more Of the same kind TO settle
/ Squires completely.
Burns is one OF the best timers
among modern ringmen, and II his
right cross and LangfOrd's uppercut
started at the same instant It would
be a toss up which would annex the
long end OF the purse.
But Is Burns as dangerous a man as
formerly? There IS grave doubt about
II. His go In Australia with johnson
was a heartbreaking one for Burns,
and he took q terrible beating. 1t has
been shown over and over again that
| punishment slows a man up more than
the passage Of years. Burns laid of
fifteen months after his experience with
Johnson and then took on Bill Lang. a
rising young Australian heavyweight.
On a prior occasion Burns defeated
Lang in six rounds, but this last time
the bout went the full twenty. and
there was much dissatisfaction when
the referee decided in Burns favor
Burns, they say. did very well for
about ten rounds and then loafed.
A day later news came that Lang
had broken his hand in the ninth
round, and this further discounted
Burns victory. Now. half the broken
hands We hear about when fights are
over are merely injuries Of more or less
trivial nature, but. assuming that Lang
injured his hand sufficiently 10 prevent
him having free use Of il. II looks as
though the fates we've kind TO Tommy
Burns, the argument being. Of course
that II both his hands had remained
intact Lang would have defeated the
Canadian.