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Show SPORT GOSSIP 1 Tonmr Dixon, feather weight champion cham-pion of the south, will meet Jack White of Chicago at Dayton, O., on October 4 fof twenty rounda. William A. Pierce, who died a few davs ago at Charleston, Mass., was at different time manager for many pugilists. pu-gilists. Mr. Pierce was born in Boston, and at various times managed Jack Johnson. Joe Walcott. George Dixon, Marvin Hart and Jimmie Gardner. Freddie Welch is just itching for a light to keep in shape for hie Thanksgiving Thanks-giving match with Wolgaat, but he has been unable to find an opponent on the coast and will go to New York in search of a practice bout. Rillv Papke was unwise or unfortunate unfortu-nate in making such a miserable showing show-ing against Sailor Burke, as New York is going to be the frying pan of pugilism pugil-ism this winter, owing to the new boxing box-ing law. He does not deserve another chance. When the New Orleana Athletic club opens the middle weight elimination series this fall everv contender for the late Stanley Ketcbel's crown is rare to be entered. Some of the stars who have entered are Eddie McGoorty, Bob Moha, Jack Dillon. Billy Papke, Frank Klaus. Cyclone Thompson, Hugo Kelly and Jimmy Gardner. The Topeka club, which ' ' Dick " . Cooler formerly owned and managed, is said to be losing money in the Western West-ern league and will join the Western association, which is to be organized with Wichita, Oklahoma Citv. Hutchinson, Hutchin-son, Enid, Topeka. Joplin. Kansas City. Kan., and Springfield, Webb City, Muskogee Mus-kogee or Scdalia. Frankie Con lev. who gave Patsy Kline such a drubbing for fourteen rounds at Vernon last Saturday, will rest in the mountains a while and will later fight the winner of Monday's battle between Johnnr Kilbane and Joe Rivers, the Mexican feather weight. It ia probable that Conley and the survivor of the Labor day bout will meet September 23. And here 'a oar old friend Rudolph (Boer) Vnholx again, thia time talking wrestling. He predicts that Hacken-schmidt Hacken-schmidt will defeat Gotcb next Monday Mon-day at Chicago.' Rudv was one t of Hack 's aeconds in the former meeting with Ootch. Unholx ears that the Rus- aian was not in the best condition then and was about "all in" physically, and yet the Iowan could not pin his shoulders down. Now, he says, the foreigner for-eigner is in excellent trim. Ping Bodie is considered about the easiest mark for the jokers in the big leagues. The other dav the white aox were plaving an exhibition game at Gnshenfl Ind. - Just before the battle started several spectators broke onto the field with a request for Bodie, the great fence buster. Bodie appeared and blushed furiously as thev handed him a huge "diamond." Bodie was too embarrassed em-barrassed to thank them, but drove out three hits and ran bases like fire that day. Members of the white aox tried to buy the stone from Ping after the game. But the fence buster gallantly protested that it was a gift and no money could buy it. As a train speeding speed-ing them homeward passed over a bridge that night, Rolli Zeider snatched it off Bodie 'a shirt bosom and threw it out the window. Bodie came near fainting faint-ing with amazement. Then he was going go-ing to lick his teammate. He was greeted with shouts of laughter when Duffv told him it was all a put up job and "the 200 stone in reality was worth about 10 centa. , H. W. Walker, sport writer for the Los Angeles Examiner, dopes it out that Abe Attell will practically be forced to give ear to the winner of the mates, between Fraakie C ley aad, the victor-in the Kilbane-Rivers fight. He says. "The three feathers represent repre-sent aa many different and distinct styles of ring warfare. Rivera is the polished, up-to-the-minute battler. The Mexican is a clever boxer and a heavy slugger combined. Conley ia a mauler a hoy who combines the stamina of : Battling Nelson and the rough, aggres-. sive methods of Jim Flynn. Johnnie Kilbane ia the wasp that stings and ' flies away. Aside from Attell and Welsh, there is no more clever boxer , In the game than the Cleveland climber. The only bar between Kilbane and popularity is the fact that Johnnie boxes entirely too much on the defen-1 sive to suit the critical coast patrons. On form, Rivera figures a 10 to 8 favor- ! ite over Kilbane in the Labor day event. Joe won a twenty-round decf j sion over Kilbane on May 6 last. 1 Johnny claima to have improved since that date, but it ia only reasonable to suppose that the Mexican also has ad- ! vanced in his knowledge of the game. ' i ' i |