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Show H RDM Recent Untimely Bout Will Levinsky Ruins Future (o, Jack Dillon. By EINGSIDE. By Tribune Special Sport Servlr, NEW YOKK, Aug. o.-Some never learn; others refusa to beta-This beta-This aphorism or whatever v call it is best applied to the fc-game. fc-game. Many a prospective char has blighted his chances of becour big wage earner in the ring by mL one ill-advised match. The a Jack Dillon is offered for eonside-i-Tor eight long years Dillon i. ; feted about on the rough sea ot r istic adversity. His one aim wl-work wl-work himself into a position to den.: match with the world 'b heavri: champion. Finally he succeeded i:: taining that eminence after eight years. And it took just two weeis: him to be toppled from the apsi pugilistic prominence. One ill-advised match is sufife destroy an entire career for a boie: is to be hoped that Dillon's infer: will not turn out to be as detract: a.s it appears at present. Also it it be hoped that it doesn't take him ft long years to re-establish the pied he enjoyed only a month ago. For eight years Dillon has been e; ' ing all comers. Some of them he ret; once; others he tackled as man; nine times. The latter was the m . Dillon and Battling Levinsky, the : . brew light heavyweight. Prior :: fortnight ago Dillon and Levinsityt met in the ring eight times. Or. t;i . ly every occasion Dillon was rertti the popular winner, or gained the!: of the referee. : Signs Once Again. That should have satisfied P.' Everyone else was satisfied that I- , was Levinsky 's superior. At everyone but Levinsky was satisiie that' score. When Dillon was -matched with Frank Moran, Lent- bantered the Hoosier Bearcat into t; ing with him (Levinsky) for a Sr round bout, to be held two weeks;: the Moran affair. No one gave this match any tit" thought. The Moran-Dillon tilt wit - big match. It meant the eliminate .: Dillon as challenger of Jess IT: 5 it meant the obliteration of U a championship contender. Thiswat match Dillon had spent eight yea-the yea-the ring to secure. . , Dillon won this match it k fashion, outweighed thirty poura; : laboring under a disadvantage oi;- : five inches in stature, Dillon ut more punishment on Big Frank i- t than even the world's champion if- : weight one considered to be tie . that" ever held the title had done -ij ; months before. , , ( , i Dillon should have been elalM this happv outcome, and rested e-J laurels. Before meeting Moral i -I : was not considered seriously as j- l : ponent for Willard, but since 1 : Moran, who staved ten : the champion, Dillon was looked . ; as the next logical opponent ot - ; Jess. : Outpointed by Levinsky. ; Then somebody his engagement with b""D ; skv. As Dillon's word is i t ; went to Baltimore and peniuw , self to be decisively outpo tM . . battler. Flop! went D " (it; : Fortunately for Dillon, the t ' ,, ; the bout was cut from fiee , rounds. If the battle h ad P )s , more rounds Dillon "y. j more severely punished, as ; was in astonishingly good "' ' ; Dillon fought inhere!. Thus it is that an ill " ft : . may cost Dil or , a an : world's heavyweight cha mro ... , manager made the sio . . matching him w.th a .da r , ; even before D; on had o e , Moran. Quite WVi not expect him to do 85 htte- ; did ago nst Moran a ln tlit ; protecting his '"f ,500 o- ; Dillon by having a ?w , - sight. , . .rt-tbtJ i?" Now Dillon must practK . ; way back to tb.t.P , i do well to instruct lus m (. be as industrious m ob B(J!!, . for him in which a . j tie gain. . or mat" J Another iwf& ?, I ing that resulted n P J a ittie ;. ing the earning pof 4 cross . ;, tender was that of , -;. . years the Ghetto s lea k t-was t-was the best drawing card tan and environments- s,j t,lLeach's "Xfc & lack, snapped at an fe'w';Z ij to bote Young fV' weight. Cross went W' jv, H- ,a and was knocked ouM,. K: Leach hasn't fouaM si" y |