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Show TOMMY BURNS TO BE A PROMOTER BV W V NAUGHTON San Francisco, April Kight pro-I motors be warned' Tommy Burns is about lo enter the field as a maker of matches and if his plans thrive Ca! gary will become the hub of the box- j ing universe. Nor does Tommy intend to emulate the timid, tentative wights who. In order io protect themselves, begin nr now line of business in "a small way Tommy Is ambitious and self-reliant at the outset. He has announced thai he intends pulling off three world's championships In different classes this summer and any one cognizant of the trials and tribulations that attach at-tach to conducting pugilistic enterprises enter-prises knows that there Is nothing small about that. The weight divisions in which Tommy Tom-my aims to develop blue-ribbon men are the welter, middle and heavyweight heavy-weight According to the entries so far the various competitions will be notably "free for all." Here and thi re appears the name of f man who lies made a bit of a mark In the fight-Ing fight-Ing same, but, taken by and larc, Tommy's championship candidate ros ter rends lik- a newspaper list of applicants ap-plicants for marriage licenses. In the heavyweight department Tommy is pinning great faith to Ar thur Pelkey, who. he thinks, with Intelligent In-telligent treatment, can be fashioned into a world s champion Burns boxed box-ed Pelkey recently and found much in him lo admire. Right hero is where Burns has the bulge on the average promoter. If he has doubts as to a white hope's ability he can fight the gentleman and find out all about it. In a recent i86Ue of the Sydney Referee Ref-eree there appears the startling caption cap-tion Sam Langfqrd a White Man.'' ( The story beneath Is a short one' and it does not take the reader long to disabuse his mind of any suspicion that Langfoid is claiming to be a member of the Taut anion race. It seems that during the voyage of the steamer Wyreema from Sydney lo Brisbane a stowaway was discovered Having no money, the unfortunate man was doomed to confinement un til an opportunity should occur for handing him over to the shore author ilies, when Langford came to the rescue res-cue Sam paid the price of a second-class second-class passage for the man a matter ..I S or . nd immediately endeared himself to (hose on board A fellow passenger wrote the Referee Ref-eree about it He said Sam's act of charity was performed so quietly and unostentatiously withou "putting it to music.'" as tho Australians say that the Wyreemfl travelers with one accord proclaimed Langford a " white man." |