The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-06-24
CHAMPIONS, EX-CHAMPIONS
AND WOULD-BES IN THE RING
tFrom wodnesday,s AavorlIser.l

With the grace and agility of fancy
dancer and deftness of hand like a.
prestidigitator, Tommy Burns landed
doublets and triplets to body and face
with one hand at rush and was all
over the ring while Lang damned them
in right and left, swung and uppercut
with vengeance and from the looks
of both of them, dripping with perspira.
tion, the two pugilists knocked of a
pound between them in their six-round
go in the Aloha Park ring last night.
1t was after nine O'Clock when they
got started and, from the benign ex'
preston on Burns face, some thought
it would be tame.
When Tommy first came into the
ring he appeared bored. He was fat
and seemed languid, iolling about as
he would on the ship The crowd
warmed up to him, however, when he
played with Tim Herman, from the
cruiser Cleveland, who lowered foot
over his head and showed muscle and
Drawn that, with speed, might make
good fighting material. Tommy just
mawled him all over like a big dog
would a pup.
They boxed two rounds and Burns
just intimated what he could do in a
real fight. To Herman, his bruisers
were something like bullets. He could
hear them sing and feel them sting,
but it was like being surrounded in
ambush, for he couldn't tell from
whence they came. Tommy would push
down his guard and with the same hand
tap him twice on the face and once
on the ribs and then gave him a punch
in the jaw to warm him up. The big
sailor landed when Burns let him but
he seemed TO be afraid he might hurt
Burns.
Lang's appearance in the ring next
caused something of shudder. He
looked big and brawny and had a
fierceness of expression on his face that
would win half the battle against a
good many men. w. Il. Corbett, Of
the party, who acted as announcer, first
introduced Hugh Mcintosh to the audi.
ence. Mcintosh made few introduc.
tory remarks and then presented Bill
Lang, the champion heavyweight of
Australia, and Tommy Burns, the
British champion.
Lang seemed to want to go to it,
when the bout began, while Burns was
uncOncerned. Lang swung to the jaw
first and landed. Then Burns livened
up and danced right and left, jumping
in and hopping back again. He landed
quick iab to the face, left swing
to the jaw and body blow in the first
round. Lang started the second round
with rush and landed couple of good
punches on Tommy Is face. Burns came
back, swinging right and left to the
jaw and rushed Bill to the ropes. They
clinched and Mcintosh, who refereed
had to pry them apart. Lang then
rushed Tommy and they roughed it
, They were fighting in the clinch. Tom
my swung from under to the face and
got in a few jabs, while Bill uppercut
twice in the breakaway.
In the third round they fought most
ly in the clinch and Mcintosh had q
hard time to pry them apart several
times. They were getting quite in
earnest and the referee seemed to be
soothing hem with few kind words
: Lang landed couple of hard swings
to the jaw in this round. He uppercut
Tommy and sent in two solid punches
to the face, while Burns did a good
deal of quick iabbing in the clinch and
uppercut Lang twice in the break.
Each succeeding round they ihcreas
ed their speed and got to doing mort
business. In the fourth they went right
into clinch. Then Burns sent il
a hard blow to the face and followed
it up with a vicious left swing to the
body. Lang came back with a lef
swing to the jaw, got in punch II
t the jaw and put straight one intt
Tommy's face that knocked his heaC
back with jolt. At this juncture
with each ones right arm locked il
, the others, they both swung their lief
0 repeatedly landing hard on the jaw ant
neck.
The fifth opened fast and furious
both swinging right and left to tn,
+ face, Burns left nit catching Bill oil
: the side of the head. Immediately af
ter he landed a heavy body blow, twt
lefts to the face and uppercut, whicl
a nailed Lang on the chin. Bill went
v little wild in this round Twice III
!. swung hard with his left; Tommy duck
ed and the big fellow laid right owe
Burn s back. Both were putting prett,
\ hard at the end of the fifth and th
= moisture flowed freely.
In the sixth and last round Tomm,
got little playful, swinging his init
in an I'll-dare.you sort of a way an
Lang caught him with an uppereut +
7, the face Then they mixed IL to tn
finish and shook hands, both smiling.
Burns showed great eleverness an,
Q lightning speed, while Lang was th
t heavier hitter of the two, seeming
h little inclined to get mad at times
e Burns had way of locking arms Will
standing apart and then, quick as
|, fash, releasing his left and striking
0 for the jaw. Lang, however, was gen
a orally there and blocked a good man,
of Tommy's clever tricks.