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Show I BUS IKES FIFTY ! THOUSAND DOLLARS Puts Up Ten Thousand Dollars, but Johnson Does Not Cover the Amount. Tribune Special Sporting Serv:ci. NEW YORK. Doc. 5. Tommy Burns writes from Australia, October 9, as follows; "I am writing this on the train, going sixty miles an hour, on my way to fill a theatrical fingagoment four nights for $2500 nnd transportation transporta-tion for throe. This will make a total of a little over $50,000 I havo earned in Australia up to the date of the Johnson John-son fight, and does not include the mov-ing mov-ing pictures or transportation. So you see this is pretty good for a poor 'kid starling out with nothing. "Mcintosh, the promoter, is a fino fellow uud honest. I think he is tho greatest promoter the world has ever known. With purses, pictures and transportation trans-portation it's costing him about $10,500. "Johnson." writes Burns, "will bo hfro about October. 31.' Ho says he is going to stop mo in twelvo rounds of tho twenty rounds. I put up $10,000 and I guess he won't cover it. That's the kind of easy money I like. I won't bet much on tho result, unless I got somo good odds, but, believe me. I'll fight lor my. life to beat this blak tnan and I'm sure I have figured it out so I'll win. It's the ambition of my life to whip Johnson." Iu mentioning the division of the purse. Burns says: "Johuson has a clauso in his articles, club not to let on. but what ho is getting 4.0 per cent of the purse." |