Show Long layoff Alone Is Blamed 5 S For Failure of the Champion Br lb y JACK Retired Undefeated Lightweight Champion for tor the United Press re NEW YORK TORK June 4 When When John L. L Sullivan lost lot the heavyweight championship championship cham cham- they said it wa was the case of ot the pitcher who had gone to the well too often When Jg Johnny IJ Kilbane I lost the featherweight featherweight feath feath- a er t championship Saturday to the Frenchman Eugene Criqui I think It was the case cue of the pitcher not going often enough t to the well Kilbane la is old and all aU that but he would have been able to retain hi his title if he be had fought enough to 1 up on his game It is 19 much easier to forget boxing th thin than n it Is III to learn It All AU the work in inthe the world will do no good In a gymn slum IU It I only In n actual tu fI t that thata a boxer xe can keep up his tuning ann ana judgment and distance looks like a fighter righter good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough to hold hi his hie own with any of ot t the American featherweights featherweight He Is goIng goIng go- go Ing log to tp fight tight Johnny within sixty days daa and he ought to beat Dundee because be- be causo cause Johnny showed In his fight last Ian week with Jack Bernstein that he doesn't like the weight Tom rom and Charley Chancy Stoneham Stoneham Stone- Stone ham who put on the card Saturday took on a worse beating than Kilbane Stoneham who owns the Giants and a string of ot horses said it cost him to learn about the he fight business Kilbane Eli Kil- bane Is said ald to have received got and the receipts receipt were about Tho The cost of ot the show ha has to be paid out nut of the pockets of the promoter It Jt was stated slated that there were 25 at th the tight fight but It looked looke-d like 15 would have been a better guess Kilbane has haa never been a good ard Sard In New York The fans didn't know enough about Criqui and the promoters char charged ed tOt too much It was the first time I In New York rork that fans failed to be suckers sucker |