The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-24
BURNS OFF FOR
THE ANT|PODES
Former Champion Seeks to
Teach Jack Lester a
Business Lesson

San Francisco. Cal, Oct. 24.-Tom.
my Burns has deserted the necktie
business at Calgary for the time being
and Is crossing the Pacific ocean to
impress upon white Hope" Jack
Lester that a contract between q
manager and a fighter doesn't end the
instant the fighter wishes.
There was no brass band on the
vancouver dock playing Tommy away
when he sailed for Australia. on the
steamer Makura' a few days ago.
Neither did Tommy cable any one in
sydney that he was making the trip.
He wants to surprise Lester and at
The same time bring confusion to
some OF the Australian sports under
whose advice Lester is acting.
1t was Burns who sent Lester to
Australia early in the year.. He Sc
cured match with Bill Lang for the
Cleelum novice and Lester. who lost
the bout. was annoyed because Burns
did not adhere I .his promise Of maxi
Ing the trip to Sydney to coach and
train Lester. Lester fought Lang a
second time and won. Then he de-
termined to shift for himself. He sent
Wor dto Burns that he had cancelled
he contract entered into in this
country, and Burns lost no time in ar
ranging for the journey across the
ocean.
Very few knew that Tommy was
my evidently decided that it wouldn't
DO to be too %secretive about his mis-
sion. After he boarded the steamer
he sent q letter ashore to the sporting
editor Of the Seattle Times, and this.
IN part, is what he wrote:
II suppose you have learned that
Lester is trying to get away from
me. He thinks he will get away with
the coin. but 1 am going to fool him.
When ne signed the contract with me
IN Seattle he was only 10 years old.
He now thinks the contract is no
good, but he does not know that I
was made guardian over him by his
parents. So you see what a chance
he has to break this contract with
me.
II go. a cattle from my old friend
Bill corbett, the famous sporting
writer OF Australia, telling me that
Lester %repudiated his contract with
me. Then ! cabled my solicitor there
to attach everything Lester had.
Will Give Him Lesson.
Il really don't need the non J.
will get out Of Lester. but I just want
to give him a lesson in square deal
Ing. Every cent L get out Of him I
am going to send to his parents in
Michigan. as he has never written
them a letter or sem them a cent
since he left America. They are poor
folks. and a little money will come
in handy for them around Christ
mas :tne:: J. sen his folks 800 out
OF my W pocket a week before last.
when I took hold Of Lester in Sc
attic l had to square up about $500
worth of debts for htr, sr. und Gle.
elum and II cos. ne $500 to send him
to Australia. Now he is trying to give
me the double cross. l did not want
match Lester with McVey, for the
negro is too clever for him. 1 spent
about 800 in cablegrams trying to
stall off this match, but Mcintosh put
1t over any way, and the result is that
Lester looks worse than ever over
there as a fighter"
Unless Tommy's lawyer managed
attach Testers share of the money
accruing from the fight with McVey
before Jack got hold Of it. the chanc-
are there will be nothing to wran-
gle over by the time Burns reaches
Sydney.
Lester showed himself to be a high
roller a very short time after he ar
rived in Australia. While training for
his first contest with Lang he drew
much money daily that Burns rep
in Sydney complained of
drain on the funds at his disposal.
On being cabled to in this connection,
Burns sent word to limit Testers
allowance. and that was where Jack
first began to show symptoms of dis
AS Lester was thought at that time I
to be a rising young heavyweight, 1t
wasn't hard for him to locate fellows
who were quite willing to make him
cash advances and at the same time
to tender him a little fatherly advice
to the ~advisability Of cutting loose
from Burns.
Now that Mr.. Jack has received a
drubbing. at the hands Of
Sam McVey. 1t is likely that Burns
will find the Cle-elum heavyweight a
very tractable young man. But Tom
my will find very little money in all