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Show BECKETT EASY, BURNS BELIEVESj Ex-heavyweight Champ Will Meet England's Best in London. July 16 (By international New Service.) LONDON, .lulv fi Tommy Burns, of Canada, c -hea v w elpht boxing champion ff the world. s to meet Joe Beckett, the Champion Ot (ireal Britain, Brit-ain, al the Royal Albert Hall, Julv 1 fi At his training quarters, Jack Straw's Cnsrle, Elompstead Heath, recently re-cently Burns gave a I raining demonstration demon-stration before a company of boxing critics. His display was particularly Impressive speed .md force being per-fectl per-fectl matched In his work with the punching ball and In the sparring rihg. There is no doubt that tlv o-champion o-champion will give Beckett a hard contest. To the compans Burn- said "Fm glad you are here to see for yourselves that I am not n bloated has been.' If when I arrived In Kng-Innd Kng-Innd I was a little too solid you vill note that It has nielled somewhat. I have heen very Interested in what one or two writers have had to say about me and m .itl.-tnp! to cine back, and 1 am going to try and show how illogical illogi-cal some of these opinions are. I ICPR.ESS1 - CONFIDENCE "I have no Illusions ahoul lh ail-vantage ail-vantage of youth over nge. and I am not deluding myself now . If I did not believe that I was able to beat Beck - I en I would honestly never have made the match. "1 went to Beckett's training quarters quar-ters soon after I landed, and 1 concluded con-cluded then that I could beat him, Later 1 saw him fight Smith and Wells. What I saw there confirmed my opinion, though Beckett fought better against Wells than on any occasion oc-casion on Which 1 have seen him. 1 realize that he is young, strong and a real fighter, but boxing Is something more than brute strength and bulldog tactics. Boxing at us heat Is a matter of brains and the expenditure of as little energy as possible for the biggest big-gest results. Many boxers beat Ihem-selves. Ihem-selves. many more than you would Imagine- e en the front rank ones. "I fancy I have enough en erg) to co the full distance with Beckett, but you m.i be sure that il will not bo thy fault ir it goes twenty rounds. I I may gel the worst of the early rounds; I hit. DS beaten; but Beckett Is golnc to be a very lucky man if he lasts ten rounds. ( Whin o (.l "If I were, thirty years of age and had dissipated some critics would still accept me on ihe score of my youth, but remember many a BUCCesSJCul boxer at thirty is an old man In ihc matter of organic fitness. If I were thirty and still able to go In the ling looking slim and pinched 1 would be accepted, but because 1 am thirty -nine and physically fit and capable as the average good living boxer I- at thirty, some writers snort. If 1 beat Beckett what will be said? " Beckett Is the champion of ;reat Britain. Is there a better man In England Eng-land " If 1 win give me credit for beating the heal man you have, and then help me all you can to unearth I the man I am trying to find - a British Brit-ish heavyweight champion "f the I world." |