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Show I 11 TOMMY BURNS HAS H 1 LOST HIS FRIENDS V- -3 H s ji From the position of a domineering ' M ' fight promoter, offering the fighters' H JB -whatever he was pleased to hand out, H Tommy Bums has been forced to K" I adopt the role of a pleading promoter H fi 'who is now bidding for bouts. B i Ever since Burns came out with the H ) 31 announcement that he would crown 1 fH Dick Hyland lightweight champion of I the Dominion, the Calgary boxing Impresario Im-presario has been panned right and left, not only by the coast papers, but also by every sporting writer on tno f I continent. Burns overstepped the 11m- Kf 1 it on that occasion and now he Is be- H; I ing made to pay for his hoggishness. K I Fighting Dick Hyland, under bis new B I manager, A. H. E. Beckett of Calgary, H 1' has turned down the offers Burns B M made for a fight with Bayle, and with Hf Edmonton bidding high for the bout, Ki jj Burns is likely to liave a lot of trou- flH '! ble getting the star lightweights to- B' I J gether. Hyland's new manager hap- V 'H pens to be sporting editor of the News- H M Telegram of Calgary, and Tommy can- . not knock his rival through the daily H 'A 1 press, W Promoter McDonald of Edmonton is B 1 handing out rather juicy inducements B'j ' and with Kid Scaler as a prospect he j j.l expects to pull down good houses. |