Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-23
BURKE DEFEATS
BILLY PAPKE IN
POOR EXHIBITION
Neither Man Does a Thing That
Entities Him to Consideration
as a Champion, but if One In
sists on a Decision the Sailor
Must Get Ii.

Billy Papke. known as the Illinois
~tnunderbolt, and Sailor Burke, the
Brooklyn tar, were scheduled to fight
ten rounds before the members OF the
Twentieth Century A. c. last night,
but the exhibition given by them was
not a fight. The exhibition given by
Papke was not only very bad, but dis
gushing. There was not a single round
that the men did not stall and clinch
and make the affair so distasteful that
before the fight had gone four rounds
the crowd was whistling the Merry
Widow
Burke was a steady contributor to
the doings tina made the crowd sore"
His forte was in holding, and while he
did most of the leading he did so much
holding that he had the crow sea
sick" The mar who really did tic
hghting was Referee Charley White.
who was wet through and through try
ing to separate the men. Repeatedly
he warned both men, and at one stage
threatened to all a halt If the methods
used by both were not dispensed with.
In the final round Charley was so com
pletcly upset by the rough work of
both men that he stood aside and al
! lowed them to go as they pleased. Even
then the alleged fighters failed to get.
busy. and after the bell sounded kept
ON with their work, to the ~displeasure
OF all, until their trainers jumped in.
There were many stories afoat as to
why Papke put up such a miserable
fight. Some declare he did not train
faithfully because he did not think it
was necessary. and others that he was
not feeling well. Whatever the cause
he made a poor showing. and Burke
was entitled to the decision.
Papke was first to enter the ring.
He walked about looking toward the
door for Burke. Burke arrived in due
time and walked over to Papke. ex-
aiming his bandages, After posing
for pictures the fight was on. Burke
waded in and jabhed Papke twice.
After another iab Burke began his
holding tactics. An exchange of body
blows was next, when Burke held and
on the break sent in a left to the
stomach. Papke then sent a right and
left to the face and a left to the wind.
Burke rushed Papke TO a curner and
sent in a right and left at close range.
1t was Burke's round.
The second and third rounds were
Burke's. In both of these rounds tn
men fought so poorly that the crowd
began to get nervous Shouts of Take
them off, were heard and slow waltz
music was hummed for them.
Papke came out in the fourth with
determination. He rushed into a clincll.
and on the break Burke landed a left.
While holding, Papke beat a tattoo on
BurSe's kidneys. After stalling for 4
few seconds, Papke unwound a ter
rife right and followed up with a left
Burke tried his holding and Papke tries
to punch him off, sending W lefts &c
the jaw. Papke had a shade in this
round. The fifth and sixth rounds We're
Burke's. and nothing startling devel-
oped. In the seventh it seemed rs
though there might BIZ something
doing. Papke sent a right and left.
White warned Burke here that if he
continued to hold he would ~disqualify
him. Burke vas bleeding from the
mouth. Papke sent a light left to the
face and there was another clinch.
Burke sent three taps to Papke's face
as he was walking away, to the salts
faction of the GROVE.
The eighth and ninth rounds We're
again marked by continued holdin.,
and Charley White became disguised.
There was no punching done by either
man. and part of the audience Wa
leaving. The tenth came as a rellai
to most all. They mixed at close quar-
ters, both men jabbing away. Papk9
missed a vicious left aimed at the
sailors head and Burke ran to the op
posite corner OF the ring. Papke fol-
lowed and landed a right and lef
Burke was again bleeding from the
mouth and Papke was bleeding from
a cut over the left eye. Burke val
Hoped the body with rights when thu
gong sounded. The fight continued ami
the seconds jumped in.
Bull Anderson and Young eastman.
OF Brooklyn, fought a fast semi-fina j.,
Bull went down in the second for tho
count of nine and also took the limit
in the fifth. He fought gamely, how
ever, and stayed the six rounds. max
ing a Garrison finish. Jimmy Carroll,
of Brooklyn, was pitted against Joa
Shears. of England, in a six-round con-
test. Shears is some boy, and had the
crowd OF edge when he was sending Ia
his left smashes.