Show SAM TRY IN HIS CIS RECENT CONTEST Majority of Sporting Critics in East Believe Black Fighter Could Have Won Over Ketchel Sam Langfords fords next big bl fight will willbe willbe willbe be with Tommy Burns former heavy heavyweight heavyweight I weight champion from whom Jack Johnson tho the title a n year and anda a half ago ngo Billy McCarthy the for former formel mel mar Philadelphia fight tight promoter now located on the Pacific coast returned to Philadelphia this week especially lo to arrange this match snatch and late Inte last night he accomplished his mission Burns and Langford will battle 20 rounds round next Labor day September 5 fiat at the Metropolitan A C of San Francisco Tae Joe Woodman Langfords manager accepted tho the terms yester yesterday day da and last laRt night a cablegram was WM received from Australia notifying Me Mc McCarney Ic Carney of o tho the acceptance of Burns The mon men will fight for a purse of or OOOO of which the tho winner will re receive and expenses McCarney has neon been dickering with the former champion for some time Burns first wanted for his end and then came down He stated In his message mes message message sage last night that he ho would return to the tho United States just JURt as soon as expense money was forwarded He Intends to be in San Francisco In time limo timeto to see sec tho the fight McCarney alao also tried to arrange another an nil another other match between bet Ketchell and anil Langford but after Ketchell had verb alii agreed to accept an offer of 15 16 for another scrap on out the Pacific coast he changed his mind and de declared declared Glared that he ho would not nol at nt present consider n a return match Inasmuch ashe as ns ashe he claims that his superiority over oel Langford In their bout In Philadelphia has been generally conceded Buzzing Over Bout Fight tans fang hero here are aro still buzzing about that scrap Many bets are hung up as ns a result jn m tho the differences of or opinion among tho the newspaper crit critics ics Ice While nearly all nil of the tho NewYork New NewYork NewYork York papers which were represented at tho ringside by b staff correspond correspondents gave tIle the fight to Ketchell on his showing In the last two rounds Lang Langford Langford Langford ford has hns the tile hotter bolter of oC a n roundup of or ortho tho the Quaker critics A consensus of opinion such as IB lit cast on tho the races would hive give him the bout boutIn In Phila Philadelphia dolphin delphia There aro are five 00 big morning papers and throe three afternoon publications that gave gUO opinions on on oil the bout In the opinion of Frank Hough the Old Sport of Ol tho the Inquirer It If was a good fight Otherwise his ne punt did not give a n decision either olther way I so It must be bo regarded as ns a u draw Three papers then called the tho lout bout a Il draw two declared for and three for Langford Following is the way war they the lined up Ledger l 1 Langford Record Telegraph Telo raph Bul Bui J V Icon o 1 I i I I s r Draw Enquirer North American Press But Langford really lost nothing In Inthe Inthe inthe the estimation of shrewd boxing bo crit erR critics critIc ics Ic Almost without exception they declared that he ho would surely win In Ina Ina a R longer fight and while nono none of oC them has gone gono so far tar as to brand tho the fight a l fake they ther are positive gIUe that Them Tham was under a tl pull in tho the last Iset round |