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Show JOIIII KILBIE ! PEEKED SI SCRIBES' 1 I Featherweight Champ Says J He Has. Been Treated I Unjustly by Writers j Johnny Kilbane featherweight chain-1 pion of the world, riaes to remark1 that he never breaks Into print only; when he has something to tell tho fans and on this occasion he wants to tell ( tho mitt followers that the bunk spread about him being too heavy forf tho 122-pound class has been offered I an unsuspecting public for the purpose j of injuring his reputation. Johnny; maintains that he can still negotiate! the stipulated poundage at which he took the crown from Abe Attcll. and that all aspiring feathers had better' be prepared to meet that condition if! .hey desire a chance at the. headgear' that has made the Clevclander hide-1 pendently wealthy. The rumors that Kilbane was outgrowing out-growing his class were originated af-J ter his recent fight with-Benny Valgeivi the French lad. At that time Kilbane! forced Calgcr to do 124 pounds, -while j ; the champion came in at 12G. '"I am sick and tired of hearing these stories about my weight." said the champion. "Some of the eastern critics crit-ics say I never train and that 1 spend all my lime riding around in my automobile. auto-mobile. They charge the training stuff is growing tiresome to me as it was supposed to have dJne with some of tho champions of yesterday, but such is not the case. "I wonder what some of those soreheads sore-heads would do if they tried to follow my program for a single day? I am up every morning before 7 o'clock. 1 never miss a long walk and a brisk run for a short distance, with at least one hour daily in the gym. I never think about my weighu I would like to wager I can get down to 122 in less than a week and bo ready to fighL" Kilbane admitted he was .probably: foolish to dignify the attacks with a denial, but he said his purpose was simply to satisfy his friends'whom he believed might occasionally be called upon to argue in his defense during various va-rious fanning bees which are an inseparable in-separable part of the Nov York mitt clan. Kilbane, as a matter of fact, may not follow as vigorous a course df training train-ing as some champions, but it must also be remembered that he rarely scales above 133, even when he lives j 11 life of case for sveral woks. 00 |