Deseret Evening News | 1908-12-18 | Page 11 | When T. Burns Met a Good One

WHEN T BURNS MET A ONE Mr J W II T Douglas were n professional Instead ot an amateur and then suppose he wore to Tommy Burns lor the worlds championship what would happen then aUs u London writer According to a great many crit critics ics Who have Keen tho work of Mr Douglas In the fow months Burns would bo a very busy boy and would to po some to hang on to tho title Won the middleweight boxing competitions In tho Olympic Rames fighting at pounds and more than that he haw captured also the heavy amateur championship of boating men tn whom he was Bv ing 40 to 50 pounds in And that all olther Douglas has already fought Tommy Burns tho favored folks who saw light that Tommy had all ho could do to keep on his loot and carry tho blows that J II T wan Bonding his way The encounter took al a sport inn club In London called the Thieves Kitchen Burns had ocen taken a n Then some ono that Burns should box a few exhibition rounds with Doug Douglas las who also happened tu be present o Tommy hart never heard of Douglas am he fell for the without a cavil When the punchiest opened Tom Tommy my started out to show tha thieves of his clev cleverness erness He know that Douglas in inthe the hardest hitter known In England during tho past M years When Tommy begun bring Douglas just hit him Tho hr landed nearly put Burns out of and Tommy stiffened up for a nat 11 e With the fancy cut out who saw tho fight SID that when tin three rounds Hums had received the worst ho ever got While Douglas vast almost d DoUBlaS Is nf tho best In England and Is well In other branches of 4