The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-28
ENGLISH BANTAM
 IN GREAT FIGHT WITH YOUNG BURNS
Briton Had Advantage in Height and Reach-Jersey Lad Had Bulldog Grit and Made Great Rally Toward Finish
Especial from United Press.)

New York. Jan. 2S-Earning a draw in his 10 round battle with Digger Stanley. the English bantam cham pion, Frankie Burns. the Jersey City lad, is today on the high road to achieve his ambition of the bantam championship. BurnS friends d1dn know just how good he was until they saw him stand oil Stanley: give as much as he received and in rugged fighting qualities show more than the Briton In science. Stanley had a clear edge on the Jerseyite but at that he didn't show as much class as ad- vance notices said he possessed. AS for being a phantom boxer stanley isn't in Jem Driscoll's class. The fight was pretty rough mauling all the way and the big crowd at the National Sporting Club applauded at the way Burns bored in on Stanley. Both the audience and the newspaper critics were divided in their verdicts with the result that the affair was generally put down as draw.
 It was an aggressive, slam-bang af- fair interspersed with fast. clever box ing. From the first round to the last there was not a dull or slow minute during the entire fight.
 lit was give and take, with the hon. ors rushing back and forth with the lightning like rapidity of 8 shuttle in a. machine. First Stanley wound gain an advantage. then Burns would make a rally and even up the score. So they fought the ten rounds. the for tunes of each hanging on a punch.
 It was an international battle with the championship in the balance. Both made weight at IF pounds. Stanley. tall and slender. built on two stilt- like legs. had the advantage in height over Burns. His arms. thin and frail looking. but as strong as knotted pine clubs. were at least two inches longer in the reach than those of Burns.
 Burns started with wild swing, which he missed. in the first round Stanley used pump-handle chop and hit Frankie on the jaw lightly: Then he shot over strong right to the face, at which Frankie countered in strong style to Digger's face. Stanley jump ed in and swung a hard right. which missed Then he rushed to close quar- ters and planted two hard lefts to FranlSie's head and a right to the short ribs. It was Stanaey's round.
 Stanley. very confident. ripped over his left with lightninglike force to Frankie's face in the second session. Then with a rush he fairly hurled a short right hook with force to In quick succession he fairly smoth- cred Burns with left and right srnashes to the jaw. Burns got in short hook to the jaw. but Stanley showed that it had not hurt him to any extent by ripping in a terrific left swing to the jaw that staggered the Jerseyite. This round was hot one and full of action from the tap Of the gong to the finish.
 BURNS TURNS TABLES.
 Burns turned the tables on Digger in the third round and robbed the English lad of much of his speed and confidence with a pile-driving left swing that caught Stanley flush on the jaw. It dazed Stanley. and as he twisted around from the blow he caught hold of Frankie's neck to keep on his feet. For a few seconds Dig ger was in Queer street. Burns rushed his adversary. but could not plant another blow in the same spot. He played for the ribs later and in one. two order connected his punches. Just as the bell rang Burns ripped over a hard left to Digger's face. It was Burns round.
 Stanley after his minutes rest came back strong in the fourth round. He hit Burns three times in the face and passed over two hard full-arm jolts to the stomach. The Englishman was very rough and used his elbow freely on Burns and tried to wrestle him to the floor in the clinches.
 After Burns had found Stanley's face