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Show II 5S R He Says Burns Is a Third-Rate E Fighter, and Could Stop 11 Him With Left, jlj s fy . FIGHTS LEMONS AND I ) f ;-. GETS AWAY CLEAN I J . Qrocker Js Backing Irishman. 1 1.1 " ntij-Ie Knows Something M About Fighters. "y ' . - t Tribune Special Sporting Service. j :::N,EW YOT?K, March 11. Tom Shark- , J eyJs sending sonic suggestions on prizo ' I fighting to bis friends in Ireland that may provo ol' vast benefit to Jem JRochc in his coming fight wiih Tommy . '-iti Bum's for the championship. 'juj In Sharkey's opinion Lhc only way kj'3- for liocho to beat Burns is to contiu- II'. J ually pound him with loft .ias and av F f j! strong left hook. Iu this way, he says, ifp a. good fighter can keep Bums' off and ilp! finally laid him. 4iI bavo watched the pictures of the ' , tj light between Burns and Gunner Moir . gj very carefully.-' 7 says Sharkey, "and I .V l don 't see where Burns comes in to beat hi nv good man. Without taking ami , credit away from him, I regard Burns A ; as a third-vate fighter compared with our well-known heavyweights. Li p -'"'Anybody could have beaten Tdoir IfM the way he "went after Bums. Ho uey- II ' er did try to uso his loffc hand, and evi- 01 j' dcntlv had little knowledge of the art wiR of fighting. When vou catch oue of lijjj those fellows liko Bums, who keep ir boring in, the onlv way to handle them 111 is with left jabs and left hooks. I bo- Mm lieve T could have beaten Burns by If-ffl using tho left hand alone. '"I have never seen Roche fight, and II know nothing about him, but T have II studied Bums. If Roche is any kind IpLl' of a good fighter he should stand an jffjfi excellent chance. TJis friends, though, iff , should train him in rho use of his loft. m- It will tako a left to beat Burns, and b'I'I if it ,sue pvoperly nothing else will i'Wii For Old Time's Sa&e. I ''For the sake of the old country I h1L ' would like to see Roche hold Burns i nff. off. Of course. I do not wish to eoc W the heavyweight championship leavo 'ilri?- America, but nobody over seriously rj?& looked upon Burns at a real chain- . j; It. pion. He gets on with a lot of lemons $MV and gets away with it clean. f$ "You've got to give it to Burns, MJi'iji though, for being game as wall as Hjr'jijj shrewd. lie has taken those fellows Ijlujj, in one at a time, and has always held npr them safe. He knows something about u lighting, but if he ever expects to be (j a" real champion he must learn a whole ' "When a man liko Richard Croker (ff is willing to back Jem Roche there J.: 'fi mlist bo something in him. Mr. Croker 'T;; was never regarded as a sucker, and I -I he isn't. ITe knows something about J fghters, too. That makes me think I , , that Roche must have something or 1- ; there wouldn't bo so much moncv to k pack him. It is very difficult in fact, I J impossible for me to offer an opinion , r as to the outcome of the fight, as I . ! I only know ono of the fighters. Anoth- - er thing you must take into considera- ; t tion is that if Burns didn't know ; something about the ability of Roche '" he would not have agreed to fight him. i ' That Burns is a foxy fellow. He does I i cot. go into matches blindfolded." |