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Show GADS MAY Fill If IE PACKAGE Memsic Is Looked Upon as the Coming Champ ton Lightweight. Light-weight. Tribune Special Sporting Service. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Aug. 3. When I Tom McCarey pulled himself "together and hung up a $10,000 purse for a twenty-round twenty-round fight between .loe Gaim and .Jimmy Bums, tho sports of the orange belt who have not tasted of a real classy go for some time, began to sit up and take notice, no-tice, and before tho announcement was an hour old. evory regular alpng the RIalto was talking abcut It. Jimmy Burns, who has been spending most of his time at one of the beaches, blew inlo McCaroy's office last week and make a remark to the effect that the sooner the local promoter pro-moter hooked him with sonic one the bettor bet-tor he would, be pleased, and added that .lotenhus Gnus whs the preferred parly. While at tho fir.st glance this match mav seam a bit one-sided, for the Information Infor-mation of those who have not had the opportunity op-portunity of observing the Burns lad ui action. let It be known that he Is the most promising one In the lightweight class today. Not alone does he, carry the most promising stuff with him, but lie v'!in show "some speed'" In any department depart-ment of the game. So well did Harry Gllmorc. the Eautern nianagor of Packev McFarland, think of him that he refused to let his boy go un with Burns. Somen hat different from the rest of the high-class mic artists, who contract tho color-line habit the minute they graduate grad-uate from the pork-and-benns class, that Is, providing the colored gentleman be a tough one, Jimmy says that this color-, lino bunk Is an awful laugh to him. Referring Re-ferring to Cans, ho says that he -would flgi't him as quickly as he would a white man.) Jimmy Burns will make the col-oretbfhamplon col-oretbfhamplon extend himself to a greater extent than any boy In tho lightweight division today. Not only does he carry a wallop in either hand tlat will do the trick, but he has acquirod' the ring generalship gen-eralship that has carried hint to the top. Thefaet that he heat Charley Is'eaiy decisively de-cisively on two occasions and presented Cyclone Thompson with the worst beating beat-ing of his career, shown that tho boy carries the necessary class to make the champion take notice of him. That cither Brltt or Battling Nelson would be meat for him Is n belief that the Southern snorts will back for the limit. If Gans fights this boy with tho Idea that he Is going to pick up a little easy money, ' the greatest surprise of ills fighting carets:- will be i.llppnd to him. |