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Battle Stopped By Police Christmas may be the season of goodwill, but exactly fifty years ago last Christmas two men worked off a personal grudge with a fight that made sporting history. Perhaps it was appropriate that the morning of Boxing Day, 1908, should have been chosen for the encounter, but there were many other things about the contest to make it memorable. The loser, though taking a bad beating, refused to give in. The winner refused to finish off his Opponent, though he could easily have done so. The referee was apparently loath to stop the onesided contest, and eventually the police ordered it to end. To appreciate the real atmosphere it is necessary to go back a little, to the day when Jack Johnson, a powerfully - built Texan negro, fought twenty rounds against Marvin Hart, and tost. Three months later Hart became world heavy - weight champion, but held the title only a few months before surrendering it to Tommy Burns. Burns, a French-Canadian, was actually a light - heavyweight and, in fact, won this title as well soon afterwards. Physically, he was the smallest champion the heavyweight division has ever known at 5 ft. 7 in. But he had an abnormally long reach, which enabled him to hit or keep at bay, men much taller than himself. Johnson was sure he could beat Burns, and quickly challenged for his title. The champion ignored him, but the Negro was persistent and followed him everywhere, repeating his challenge. Stung into some sort of action at last, Burns merely declared that Johnson was a coward and had a yellow streak-- an odd statement for a world champion to nake. The inference is that Burns had either a complex about his comparative smallness or an aversion to fighting a coloured man. Whatever his reasons, he turned down several attractive offers to meet Johnson but eventually fell to the bait of $30,000 to face the Negro at Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, on Boxing Day, 1908. Johnson jumped at the offer of $7,500. The sponsor was a well-known Australian politician, but bis action raised a storm of protests that a man concerned with making laws should be associated with prize-fighting. He handed over the promotion to a hotel-keeper named Hugh C. Mcintosh with the stipulation that his money should be returned if there was any profit, and at last Burns and Johnson came face to face. It was an oppressively hot morning, and most of the crowd of 21,000, who included two women and a large force Of police, had spent the night in the open near the field where th« fight was staged. The contestants were an ill-assorted pair: the champion swarthy, thick-set, scowling; the challenger six inches taller, 21 pounds heavier, yet with much more grace" of movement. The sun glinted on his gold teeth as he smiled at the ringsiders, apparently not caring that Burns was favourite in the heavy betting. There was a sensation with the first blow. Johnson landed am uppercut which lifted Burns off his feet and deposited him on his back. For a few seconds champion and crowd were stupefied as the referee tolled off the count. He had reached eight before Burns was on his feet again, •till dazed. Johnson might have ended the CROSSING STATE OF AIR TRAFFIC - Importance of air traffic to the daMy life of the newest state is this taken-for-granted sign on an airport near Anchorage, in air-minded Alaska. fight then and there, but he allowed his opponent to continue. Early in the second round, however, Burns was down again, this time from a left to the chin. As he fell he ricked his ankle, and when he got up it was obvious that he was in great pain. By the third round Burns had decided that unless he could end the fight quickly, he had lost his title. He tore into Johnson and hit him about the head and ribs, but the Negro only laughed. Burns was clearly outclassed. He could not hurt his challenger and it was obvious that Johnson was deliberately pulling his punches. The next three rounds all followed a similar pattern. Burns would come in, both fists flying, but Johnson would either step out of range or take the blows on his arms and then land a flurry of-punches that left his opponent groggy. Only once was Johnson, obviously toying with his rival, shaken out of his coolness. In the seventh round Burns got through with a hard blow to the stomach. It caused no damage, but the smile left Johnson's face and he moved in relentlessly with a hail of blows. Before long the Canadian had a huge lump over one eye, and the end seemed Johnson changed his tactics then and for the next three rounds amused himself by landing a few blows that made Burns go into clinches. Then, as he pushed his weakening opponent off, he would help him on his way with a quick left and right to head and body. This would bring Burns into a clinch again, for the process to be repeated. By the twelfth Johnson had tired of this little game and resorted to derision. Dropping his guard, he pointed to a spot near his right ribs and said: "Hit me here, Tommy!" Burns promptly did so, but Johnson, grinning broadly, merely turned, pointed to his left ribs, and said: "That's right. Now hit me here!" Again Burns accepted the invitation, and again Johnson justlaughed. The fourteenth had scarcely started when the champion went down once more under a merciless hail of blows. Still he would not quit, and as he gained his feet Johnson came in, determined now to batter his victim into insensibility. That was enough. Only a few blows had landed and Burns was still on his feet when a police officer jumped into the ring to stop the fight. Johnson had been robbed of his knockout, but the referee immediately raised his arm as the new world heavyweight champion. ETERNAL PROMISE - Even as the bleakness of this winter seen* is softened by the dormant buds ef the old tree, with their promise of spring, the Cross in the roadside shrine in West Germany gives promise of Easter and a new religious awakening after the austerity of Lent. Wizard Couldn't Figure Own Pay Figure wizards in the days before electronic calculating machines were even thought of were highly praised for some of their calculations and even today they are quite impressive. A youth named Zerah Colburn, for instance, amazed scientists by taking only four seconds to calculate how many seconds the>-e were in forty-eight years. Another mathematical prodigy who was entertaining a friend casually asked him the date of his birth. This was given. Within seconds the guest was startled by his host stating: "Since you were born 975,715,200 seconds have gone by." It is on record that when George Parker Biddler, who later achieved fame as an engineer, was still at school, he rejected normal arithmetical methods and invented others of his own which enabled him to do fantastically difficult sums with apparent ease. He became widely known as The Calculating Boy. Once a professor Of mathematics asked him how many turns a wheel 5 feet 10 inches in circumference would make in 800,000,000 miles. He gave the correct answer in just under a minute. Equally astonishing was the feat performed by a professor at the old Westminster Aquarium in 1896. One of the audience asked him to calculate in how many different ways the 52 cards in a pack could be dealt. After sitting for 18 minutes with his eyes closed, he gave his answer: 53,644,737,765,488,-792,839,237,440,000 different ways. This amazing array of figures was afterwards checked by an eminent mathematician and found to be correct. 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