A BOXING CONTEST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 4 September 1908, Page 5

A BOXING CONTEST.

FOR THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP.

BURNS BEATS LANG'.

l-fttKUS ASHOOIAiIOW., MELBOURNE. (September 3. Burns defeated Lang m the sixth round for the .world's championship. There was a large attendance. Before the fight commenced Squires challenged the winner. The first round was Uneventful, but in the second Lang met Burns straight on the chin, and sent the champion 'down for nine seconds, and the round ~«nded in favor of Lang. *if At the end of the? tnird round Lang \ looked tired, Burns keeping his oppo!v\nent constantly on the move. The fourth round held 1 a lot of trouble for Lang. He was sent down twice in succession, and then he caught the champion one heavy jolt with his right. Burns' in-fighting was' too much

for the Victorian.

In the fifth round, Lang received a

series of quick left-hand jabs, and then Burns dropped him for five seconds, j and shortly after floored him for eight seconds. Out of a quick exchange, Burns Blipped, and was down for a couple of seconds, but found Lang's chin with a heavy right, and his oppo-

nent was pjrone for four seconds when \j>fche round closed. ' "j In the sixth round, Burns had Lang dancing . round the ririg. He cornered him, and planted a series of left jabs on his face and body. Twice in succession Burns dropped him, the first tuqe for eight seconds, and the second for nine seconds, the latter punch sending Lang through the 'ropes. Burns was ''kidding" Lang, letting hiiri land him on the face. Finally, the champion rushed his man across the ring, feinted with his left, and sent a heavy right i across which landed on the jaw, and knocked Lang clean out, when the round had ten seconds to go. When Lang was taken to his corner he was cut and bleeding. He was thoroughly exhausted in the sixth Ground: He got' up feebly. After a j second knock-down Burns dropped his hands and let Lang hit him on the face several times. Then the champion tapped Lang sharply on the point and ended the fight. MELBOURNE^ September' 4. It was discovered after the fight that one of Lang's ribs Was broken. Burns, . referring to- his knock-down during the fight, said this was the first time he had been knocked down since he became champion of the world. He intends to do no more work for two , months, and goes to the mountains to .rest. '