- Whatever Tommy Burns may or may not have done, he has just now made himself the most talked of fighter in the world. The Englishmen haven't taken to the little American one bit. When Tom bumped their champion into the rosin dust he brought down a bit of their English pride with that finishing punch. Now the English papers are roasting Burns for prolonging the agony with an idea of showing in moving pictures just how sadly lacking is the British fighter in ability and to help bulge his pocketbook. They accuse Tommy of going into the ring and fighting for the moving pictures alone after he had looked the "squash" over. Tommy wasn't to be caught off his guard. He didn't bet a cent on himself, they claim, until he came back to his corner after the first round. Then Burns told his manager, Neall, that the Gunner was a dub and to bet the limit. Every time that the Gunner took on a saucy glare at Burns the latter would poke him on the nose and then work over to where Neall was picketed and tell him to bet. The more the Gunner tried the more Burns yelled, for his handy man to get down the coin. He was so busy signaling him in the fifth that the Gunner managed to catch him off guard and brought his right with a whack over on the American's classic nose. It bled, and Tommy immediately turned the bruised proboscis into focus of the moving picture machine. "Just think of the commercial nerve of that fellow," said the Englishman. "He wants all America and whoever else sees the pictures to think that it was a savage session that he had." Another time, in the third round they claim that Burns pelted the Gunner in the "pit" so hard that 'the tattooed man took to the tulips with no chance to arise, once his courage deserted him. They say that Burns turned pale at the thought of spoiling the money value of the flitting views of his handiwork and that he actually breathed a good, whole-souled sigh of relief when the poor, old Gunner spread his legs under himself and struck a jaunty English fighting pose again. Then Burns waited until the tenth round was all but over before he took it upon himself to chip the goggle-eyed gunnerman on the chin. "Just to win these ten bets and to give the films as much of a spin as possible," prints one paper. Tommy, how could you?—Moving Picture World synopsis
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