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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 793, 16 April 1910, Page 12

Fireman "Jim" Flynn did not wear the laurels of his victory over. Sam Langford for long. It will be remembered that, on February 9, Flynn astounded the boxing world by decisively'.beating the negro in ten rounds. The- mon met again on St. Patrick's' Day, with disastrous results to the Italian with the Irish pseudonym, for, in .fcho seventh round, he was outed by a severo punch. This left Lnngford's path clear to Bums, the preliminaries of the proposed match between the two great "light-heavies" have.now been completed, and the men aro to come together in Oakland, California, on September 5. Burns is to receive the same sum, ,£SOOO, win, lose or draw, that Mr. H. II Jl'lntosh paid him when ho lost the championship to Jolinsou—an extraordinary fee considering that he had not fought since tlfat unlucky day, and that, at tho time'the contract was signed, the result of his contest with Lang was hanging in the balance. This goes to show that tho mana of Burns still exists in America, and also what "Bill" Lang missed through not winning on Monday last, ,