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Substitutions: Harvard Canfield for caturan knock for Dorman; Brown Gordon for Smith Burman for Goldberg, Goals Frame Broadbent, Dorman, Rane. referce Smith. Rowdein Time four 32 minute periods...
...Earl of Durham. Lord Derby no doubt contented himself with the bookies, whose odds of 9 to 2 were "not too dusty". The Calcutta Sweepstake (lottery on the Derby), most famed British sweepstake, amounted to about ?70,000 for the first prize and was won by one Captain Burman, a real estate agent at Kenya Colony. The Derby (a race of about 1½ miles) was instituted by the twelfth Earl of Derby in 1780 and has been run regularly ever since, at first on the last Thursday in May or the first Thursday in June, but since...
...Lynch, champion bantamweight boxer of the world, had agreed to risk his title against Joe Burman, Chicagoan. The day before the fight, Lynch reported himself disabled. Asked how that happened, he stated that in stepping from a taxi his feet had become entangled with his pet collie, he had lost his equilibrium, collapsed upon the sidewalk, arisen with a subglenoid dislocation of the shoulder...
Sportdom listened with suspicion to Lynch's tale. Burman scurried to the Boxing Commission, "weighed in" properly, was declared world's bantamweight champion. Promoter Tex Rickard went scouting in Harlem for a substitute for Lynch, returned to Madison Square Garden with a spindly Jew named Abe Goldstein...
Putting his slender arms into rapid motion, Abe Goldstein dizzied and dazzled Joe Burman during eight of twelve rounds, was declared winner and champion, went to bed with kindly feelings toward Joe Lynch...