Show I r TO FIGHT BURNS Has Sheep Eyes in Direction I of Tommy for fora a Chance SAM LANGFORD OVERRATED Friends Declare That He Could Beat Burns and Ketchel BY JEFF THOMPSON IPSO New cw York Au Aug l 10 ketch l I Is Isca ca casting sheep e eyes cs at nt Tommy rommy Burns and when that able ablo and efficient young Oung Franco Canadian American knight of ot tho the mitt reaches homo home the cowboy pugilist may havo have a word to tosa sa say to him In regard to tho the cham cham- Th The conquering all Stanley Stanle 5 Is growing and will hard hardly b be able abo to tomake tomake make tho time weight middle-weight limit for tor many fights after niter his go with o oIn In Los Angeles on Labor day 1 a Ketchel and Joe Thomas play a return engagement in Frisco co Tuesday night On the dope tho the cowboy should win tho the battle battlo the tho limit Letters tram front tho the coast say that Joe Joo Gans Is liable to spring a surprise sur cur prise when ho meets moots Battling Nelson September 0 9 The famous negro I Iam Iam am told is getting back a 3 good deal dea of ot his old vigor visor Is training traInIng- hard and andis is confident of ot regaining his lost laurels This may all nil be bo so but training trainIng train train- in Ing camp stories cannot alwa always s 's bo be accepted at nt full faco face value Gans Gana ma may como conio back and beat bent Nelson but tho the odds arc oro against It The Tho friends of ot Sam Langford are aN beginning to make mako as ns much of ot a a. nuisance of ot themselves as the tho boosters boosters boost boost- ers ore of ot that other eminent off color pugilist Jack Johnson Every time Langford puts out a n. second or third third- rate ate white man the howl goes coos up that hat Langford is tho the greatest scrapper that hat ever over happened and the only reason eason Jeffries Burns Ketchel and dont don't fight him is that they thuy are re afraid to death of ot him Hero la s how one of ot these devotees wrote Toto recently If It they thc nut a million dollars in g gold ld outside outsIder of r tho tIm ring and said crud to Sam Langford Langord Her Heri Sam all Jl that money is yours ours If IC you youcan youcan ou can cnn beat these men tonight how long longdo do you ou think It would take Sam to lick Ketchel and Burns one after the other No Xo man living JIvIng could whip Ketchel e and amI Burns the same samo night Langford Langord might whip though this is by no means sure He couldn't whip either of or tho the others Langford Langord Is a good clever fighter with a a. hard punch Ho Is to m my mind as ns good na as Johnson perhaps a 3 little b btU better tt r. r Both oth o of these men to be anxious to to tomcat cat UP ipa a. a faw few white champions a n as a a. ort rt bf of r n ap cup cup- Why h do they not get to together th- th gether and fight It out One Ono of ot them would then be a CI ren real champion He lie would have the right to call himself colored weight heavy champion of oC the tho world until Joo Joe Jeannotte Jack Blackburn or some other husky black took It away from him A good press ent agent and manager Is Iso o of far nr moro more importance than a a. good fighter In the tho land of ol the padded mitt Witness the case caso o of Rudy Ho was heralded as ItS a man eater and did put up a n pretty good fight tIght or two with sIth the second-raters second on tho coast Ho Hoot got ot a draw with Battling Nelson Just how Is js ono of ot tho those e things no fellow cHow can find out as m my friend Lord Dun Dun- dreary remarks He Ho camo came East with the announcement that nothing short of or Joe Joo Gans would satisfy his appo- appo tite Becoming hungry however ho he modified his Ideas was soundly whipped shipped by a couple of ot second raters and ani Is IR now In tho the preliminary class and yet ret with tho the aid of or his press agent ent Rudy Ruh has cleaned up something hike which with Dutch frugality ho now has In his meteoric passage through the tho prize ring lasting less than a year Pretty good for a n. youngster youngster young youns- ster whoso whose solo sole capital II Is a 0 hard face faco a hard fist fiRt a good press n agent ent and anda a soft public Leach Cross who ho was matched to fl fight ht Tommy Murphy Murph six Ix rounds at atthe atthe atthe the Navarro Navarre A. A C. C tag stag at nt Ulmer Park on September 1 I now refuses cs to make nn any weight for Murphy and it looks as If It the match will fall faU through Cro Cross's B brother says that l. l Loach ach would only fight Murphy at catch wl weights As Johnn Johnny Oliver er demands that Cross weigh In at pounds at the tho rIngside ring ringside side this will vilL probably kill the match Some shrewd observer hn has offered the Ue HUh suggestion estion that tho the United States navy will probably furnish tho the future pugilistic cha champions Why h not net Here are arc somo como scores of thousands of or strong trong healthy young oun fellows who have havo hato to go o through a rf rigid rl physical cal examination before th tIle thoy can call don cion the blue Jacket and spring bottom trous trous- ers enl Thoy They are nrc compelled d to tn lead a n. clean healthy active life which tends to develop brawn and amid supple stipple muscles and they aro are encouraged to fight No No- 0 whore are arc conditions more favorable for tho the development do of class high pu pugilistic lIstie ability That pu of or ortho tho Ito first Int class should como come from the tho navy would ScoOt eom Inevitable Therefore this news Item Hem front from Vallejo Calif all Js of or Interest to fight followers and promoters Battling Robinson of tho the cruiser California won tho the championship championship cham chant of M tho the nav navy na r b by knocking out Arthur Holmes of ruf the tho cruiser r Marland l Mar Marj- land in tho the fifth round The fight was a n. hard ono me m and arid both men wore severely punished hod Robinson Robin Robin- son fon put mes out with a right swing to the jaw Tho The fight wa was sed by 2500 men and officers on board the tho tholar Maryland lar land but hut there thero were no ci civilians cl- cl present |