Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-28
P00LER and BURNS
GO TWO FAST BOUTS
BEFORE MANY SPORTS
Thursday Evening at City Hall
under Management of Charles
Hopkins-Boys Both Clever
and Fast and Give One of the
Cleanest of Exhibitions

Before q good sized crowd Of sports
Thursday evening at City hall and under
the management Of Charles w. Hopkins
Of this city, Young Pooler OF Bangor and
Dummy Burns of Brooklyn. N. T., two
of the cleverest aspirants to the light
weight title in this section. went two six
round bouts at a pace that warmed tho
blood Of all who saw them. 1t was a.
fight from the beginning of the flrst round
all the way through, and seldom has
fight been seen in City hall which was
so emphasized by clever blocking and
ducking.
Burns was the aggressor throughout the
IL rounds Of the two bouts and carried
the fight to Pooler constantly, while the
latter was content to keep away from
the Brooklyn youngster and land q blow
whenever the opportunity offered-arad
they were many. Burns was bent on In
fighting but Pooler would have none OF
it. Could a decision have been given. It
Is probable that It would have been given
Pooler on points, for he surely landed the
most blows. There was not q slow mo-,
ment during the fight. and Kid shea, who
acted as referee. had but very little TO
do in the way Of separating the boys In
clinches.
The fight started well, the boys hitting
freely in the first round and at its close
honors were about even. Burns had the
! better Of the second round and Pooler Of
the third and fourth. Honors were even
again in the fifth, but in the sixth Bcrns
| had the advantage. In this round Pooler
received a blow below the belt that So
disabled him that the round had to be
halted until he could recover. and whom
| fighting was resumed 1t was evident that
he was still in distress.
| In the second bout the boys came back
I fresh and the fighting was resumed at the
same pace at which It started in tho first
bout. Both boys mixed It freely ana as
the round closed Burns caught Pooler
| with a hot one on the Jaw. In the Sec
ond round Pooler evened up matters and
caught Burns with several blows on the
head and face The other four rounds
were Pooler's by a good margin and In
the fifth he sent a number OF blows to
Burns face in rapid succession. The
boys were in good condition. however.
when the bout ended and apparently able
to continue indefinitely.
A semi-final had been arranged In .
six-round bout between Spin MCGUIRE 81
Augusta and Young Jack O'Brien Of Ban
gor, but the latter did not show up. An
other disappointment was the non-ap-
pearance Of RUSSIA" Collins of Gardiner
! and George Gilbert Of Augusta, and the
Jess Willard Of Sand Hill was greatly
grieved, for he had planned to add Col
Inns scalp to the many which already
hang at r $ belt. So 1t came to pass that
the only other event beside the main
bout was a 60 between Young Lambert
and Young Dow Of Augusta. This was
scheduled for six rounds, but the frst
round was yet young when Dow collided
with Lambert's mitt about 10 times In
three and one-half seconds, and then the
gong rang for the next sacrifice. It II
said that Lambert had nearly completed
dressing himself before Dow had stopped
seeing rainbows.