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Friday 15 March 1912
Coliseum, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Packey fought a rematch (avenging the black eye he received in the 1st bout) with New York Kid Burns ( http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer ), not the Wisconsin fighter of the same name.
Walter Eckersall of Chicago Tribune:
Outboxed, outgeneraled, and outhit, "Kid" Burns, the "eye decorator" of New York, went down in ignominious defeat at the hands of Packey McFarland in the eighth round of their scheduled ten round fight.
John Day of Chicago Inter Ocean:
The star bout of the boxing show at Kenosha tonight was not the one between the Chicago lightweight, Packey McFarland, and "Kid" Burns, the boy from New York, but was furnished by what was only billed as the semi-wind-up.
Milwaukee Sentinel wire:
Hopelessly outclassed, Kid Burns of New York was saved from a knockout Friday night when his seconds tossed the sponge in the ring in the eighth round of a scheduled ten round bout with Packey McFarland of Chicago here Friday night.
