Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-12-07 | Page 9 | Burns Gives Champ Fight all the Way

BURNS GIVES CHIP FIGHT .OE WAY -j Referee Smith Declares the Bout Draw at End of the Twentieth RouiVd. NKW OK I., BANS. I .a,. Dee. 6. Kid Williams of Baltimore, world's bantamweight bantam-weight champion, and FVnnkle. Rums of Jercy City tought twenty rounds to n draw in i heir bait Id for tho title here to iity lit. The fight wnH fast and furious liuoush.uil. Referee I'M. Smith decided iiOiiiu's were evi'ii Kaon tighter weighed 1 1 S pounds ringside. ring-side. Moth put up a game hut tie. Hums foteed i hi' ngutliu; In the Himi half o! tho hinii and lauded hard swings and MifT jabs almost at will up to the nlmh round, when lie seemed to tire and al-loue.i al-loue.i Williams to become tho assri'ssor. Burns hid the advantage in reach and In kst.chi, but In the fourteenth lound the champion started a tlylin; .lab for Hurns's head and hinded ftvfiueruly. In the eighth, Williams lushed Hums to the ropes, but the challenger drove hi in buck with left and right swings to the fare and body and Williams dropped to his knee.. Later in the name round Purns rushed the t'ha mpion around the tin;, landing at win to the f:nv and chest. From that round on to the finish, with exception or' the seventeenth round. V ''dllams appeared to have the better of i he rihtliK. Tne champion seemed stronger nnU fresher when the final gong sounded and the referee uelared a diaw. Hums seemed to exercise better ring generalship and boxed cleverly. But Wil-hsnis Wil-hsnis was strung on the in-tluhtlm;, landing land-ing fretiueiu uppercuts and pounding Hurns's ri. until h's bivlv way ret. Williams Wil-liams won first K.-od In the thirteenth. The challenger seemed to have the bct-y bct-y ler of the first six rounds, the eighth and seventeenth: the tentii, eleventh, smeernh and eighteenth were considered even, and the champion was favorite for t:.? rest. Williams was a 7-to-o favorite In the bet tint:.