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Show TOMMY BURNS TO TRY TO COME BACK San Francisco. Jan. 20. Inconsistency, Inconsist-ency, thy name is Tommy Burns When "G. B." Smith downed A. Pel-key Pel-key with a hurtling right bander, T. B. was so sore about it that he offered of-fered to fight Smith himself A day or two later Tommy thought better bet-ter of it, one of the things which influenced him being that at present he bears about as much resemblance in conformation to the Burns who downed 1 Boshter Bill" Squires as Farmer John L. Sullivan does to the "Boston strong bov" of the earlv '80s. Now Tommy is at it again. The lure of the ring Is strong upon him and he is going to try himself out with one "Battling" Brant at Taft on January 26. If the result of the Brant affair warrants it. Tommy will challenge j the world, "Gunboat" Smith prefer- i red, and will bet from $5000 to $10,-000 $10,-000 on himself. Tommy would not dare to talk like that around New York, where there i is a commission which sees to it that the former heroes of the pugilistic pugil-istic profession do not inflict themselves them-selves on the public. But. maybe Tommy is merely having his little joke. Going after a fellow named Brant smacks of a wild goose chase. Pelkey and "Kid" Kenneth, the oil belt hope, are to box at Taft on I January 24, and Burns sends word ! that Pelkey is in better shape than when he met Smith. According to Burns. Pelkey muscles are looser and his hitting ability greater. Kenneth is going right along with his training and does not appear to scent disaster He is buoyed up by what his manager told him. The latter, it seems, gumshoed Into San Francisco and watched the Pelkey-Smith Pelkey-Smith contest. When he returned to the derrick region he whispered to Kenneth, "You can lick the both of them " |