Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-10 | Page 9 | Feather Champ Concedes 15 Pounds to Ge Bout with Light Weight King

FEATHER CHAMP CONCEDES 15 POUNDS TO GET BOUT WITH LIGHTWEIGHT LIGHT WEIGHT KING Can Johnny Kilbane feather featherweight featherweight featherweight weight champion give away from twelve to fifteen pounds and hold his own with a clever fighter That's the problem Johnny has to solve when he meets Fred Welsh light weight champion in New York soon is stirred over the proposed bout bont which Welsh has agreed to after months of ot bickering over weight and which became possible only when Jim Jim- mie Inie Dunn Kilbane's manager made the light weight every conces concession ion asked for Articles will be le signed as soon as a promoter can be he found to to finance the bout Kilbane has agreed to let Welsh weigh in ill at pounds at 3 o'clock the day of the bout H He had held out out for i pounds pounds' ringside The weight question suggests that Kilbane has fought at the greatest range of weights of any champion during the last decade Kilbane made pounds ringside fer Kid Williams bantam champ permitting permitting permit- permit ting tins Williams to come in at 18 pounds two pounds over bantam limit He made ringside for Chaney in their championship bout last summer He fought Joe Mandot at pounds ringside an and is pern permitting Welsh t to come in at a weight which is likely to tobe tobe tobo be bo or ringside Kilbane will wilt not weigh more than 15 pounds for Welsh Otherwise there is not much difference difference difference dif dif- ference in their size Welsh is about an inch the taller and has a half inch on the feather champ in reach Kilbane's recent second record is perhaps the most impressive He ended ende all disputes concerning his right to the feather weight championship by a a. three three round round knockout over George Chaney Chancy Labor Labog day and has disposed dispoSe of other claimants in easy style He Helias He has lias stepped over the ten and twelve- twelve round route with several light and has never steven been in difficulty Since winning his title Welsh elsh has had newspaper decisions gal galore re given him in bouts with such fighters as as Charley Chancy White Young Johnny John ny Griffiths and Benny Leonard He has bas gained decisions over several lesser lesBer lights and has fought only One ti title e match a a. twenty-round twenty affair i J I J M N Nt j. j t N l I V i 1 I J RJ S 1 e. e 5 5 5 5 5 S 1 4 S s 5 Diagram shows relative sizes of two fighters black outline indicating how Welsh is b bigger than Kill Kilbane ane White at Colorado Springs which he hewon hewon hewon won with but little credit to himself In style Kilbane and Welsh are much alike Kilbane is faster on l his s feet and his record of ot knockouts ts indi indi- indicates indicates cates he hits h harder against men in his own class