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Excerpt from The Windsor Daily Record October 1900...Tommy Burns puts up a terrific fight but Sam McVea is too big and too strong...Tommy is dropped for a short count in round one...McVea works inside with constant pressure swinging a huge left hand....Burns moves in and out using his left jab to bust up McVea's attack then scoring with double jabs and short hooks...McVea is relentless and pounds away at the Canadian's body especially with that deadly left hook...Knowing he's behind Tommy launches an all-out assault in the seventh round and puts McVea down twice, but McVea comes back in round eight and drops Burns for a count of eight...Tommy puts everything he has into rounds nine and ten, landing hard punches that have McVea on the back foot...Seconds into round 11 McVea crashes a left hook to Burns' jaw and he goes down, but bounces up at '3' looking shaky....At the half way point of the round McVea lands to the body then a thunderous uppercut to the head....Burns drops his hands and takes a wicked right to the head...Burns is down again and referee Francis begins the count...At "nine!" Tommy lurches to his feet and McVea is all over him landing punch after punch as Burns tries to cover...At 1:53 of round eleven the referee jumps in between and stops the fight raising Sam's arm in victory....In the semi windup Edward 'Gunboat' Smith of California gets his revenge against Toronto's Laurie Mackenzie with a kayo inside two rounds, improving his record to 5-1-0 (4)....At Jersey City Oakland Al Brown takes a sloppy decision over Jeff Madden (10)...At the Bridgeport Athletic Club Tony Ross mauls his way to a points win over Midland's Tex O'Rourke...At Wood's Hall in New Jersey Al Kaufman (194) makes short work of Brooklyn's Kid Carter (170), knocking him out in round two...In a preliminary to the McVea-Burns fight, Windsor's Frank Laura (13.0) stops Frank Osborne (13.9) in the fourth of six....At Pretoria, South Afrika, Former champ Jimmy Carr (13.1) and top contender Japie Smit (14.2) box to a draw after ten rounds...At the Cincy Opera House Walter Schulken KO's Jack Stelzner in eight rounds (10)....