Show f CHANEY 18 IS PICKED TO DEFEAT T KilBANE Cleveland Cleveand Feather Weight i Assured of Chance Chante to f Meet Champion WILL BE FO FOR TITLE Darcy Engaged for Three Fights in America White Welsh Gossip 06 I ILL LL a new world worlds A J featherweight champion cham cham- j J pion emerge from the d ti c-ti affair r at a arms between be be- tween Johnny KII- KII Ki- Ki bane present holder Ey A of the title tite and George Chancy Chaney the hardest slugging pound boy that has been developed In the American prize ring nince the days daya of Terrible Terry McGovern With the announcement that negotiations practically are concluded for fora a twelve-round twelve encounter between the champion and his challenger interest inter inter- est eat has been revived in this historic division of pugilism and speculation now is rife concerning the probable outcome of the battle There probably has been never a feather weight contest arranged in this country that has excited such a diversity diversity diversity diver diver- sity of opinion The Chaney Chancy followers and they are legion can see In prospect prospect pros prospect a certain victory for their favorite favorite favorite favor favor- ite and the more zealous ones even go goto goto goto to the extreme of predicting a knockout knock out victory for the heavy handed Baltimore Bal Irishman The supporters of Kilbane on the theother theother other hand contend that his speed ring generalship and marvelous skill arc aro arcI I equipment sufficient to successfully carry him through twelve rounds of battling no matter mater how relentlessly heis he heis heis is attacked When he won the championship from Attell some four years back hack Kilbane was waa wasat wasat at the height of his physical prowess and andIns Ins Ills superiority over boys of his class was cass beyond qU question ston Since that time Kilbane Ki Nil Kil bane has been put to n a real test but once That was in a twenty-round twenty bout with Johnny Dundee and the Scotch held the title tte holder even in twenty rounds As a rule Kilbane has been partial to toI I short distance battles battes He has been uniformly uniformly uni uni- successful but it must be admitted admitted admit admit- I ted te even by his most mos biased admirers that the champion within the past year has given evidence of declining powers Kilbane is going on his liis twenty-eighth twenty year and aDd it is natural that he should shoud begin begin begin be be- gin to slow up Chaney Chancy is five years rears the junior of the champion and is now in inexactly inexactly exactly the same position so far as hIs hla physical strength is concerned that Kilbane KI Nil Kil bane was when he won the championship The title tte holder and his challenger are arc arelo areto to lo be royally paid for their theft their services Kilbane Nil Kil Ki- Ki bane will wi receive while Chaney Chancy will wi draw clown down This Is the grea greatest great great- t- t I est cst guarantee ever paid for a feather featherweight featherweight weight title tte battle bate There ought to be ba I some real fighting displayed for or that amount of money Every once In a while there bobs Into the public prints a story stor to the effect that Les Lea Darcy middle weight sensation of Australia is about to start on an extended visit to the United States and attached to the tale Is the name of ot some nonentity who seeks to pose In the role of American representative of the antip antip- odean If I all al these managers of Darcy were gathered together the they would form orm quite an army It I Is one way o of gathering a measure of publicity and having the spotlight of fame thrust for a moment on you ou r However there is a stat statement ment concerning concerning concern concern- concer- concer ing Darcy's prospective invasion that came caine out of the Twin Cities Cites the other day and it seems teems to bear blar the earmarks of authenticity The Tile story is to the effect ef of- e- e feet that Harry Sherman head of the group of Twin City boxing promoters has haa hat definitely closed negotiations with wih Darc Darcy for a series of matches In this country Sherman has made a barrel of coin out of the tile moving picture game and Is now trying a little flyer fyer as a boxing promoter According to the story Sherman has lias offered of of- feied Darcy a substantial guarantee exact ex cx- act amount unknown for the American rights to his services during a six months' months stay In which Darcy has agreed to take tale part In no less than five battles battes Three of these matches snatches will wl be staged In the Twin Cities next fall fal Jack Dillon Dion and nd Mike Gibbons are two of the prospective prospective pros pros- opponents of the antipodean and the third will wi be selected later or as aa soon as word is II received that Darcy has actually actually ac ac- ac- ac set sail sai for tor this country It is known that Darcy Dacy has been contemplating con a trip to this thio country for some time He would have been here I several months ago but t just about u the I j rt oco time ho he decided to come a military order ordes' r went Into effect In Australia which pr prOhibited prO prO- all aU able bodied men of military age from leaving that country Recently Recent Recent- ly by however Darcy applied for a short leave of absence which it Is said said he has now been granted A wealthy Australian Austra Austra- han lian lan who wants to see Darcy earn undisputed undisputed undisputed right to the title tite of worlds world's middle middleweight middleweight middleweight weight champion is said to have given a acasio R cash casio bond to the authorities that Darcy will wi return after six months and this fact tact has Ims influenced the tIle mitry military officials to grant the leave of absence Darcy will who receive a warm welcome in this country and If I his fighting prowess is really realy as j wonderful as It i has been heralded then his presence will wi stimulate wide interest in the tile boxing game If it I lie he cornea conIes and is victorious he will wi not find Ind his welcome welcome welcome wel wel- I come chilled one whit by his success S S S SNow Now that Freddie Welsh has silenced his lois carping critics in New York CI City by hv giving their native son idol Benny lionny Leonard Leonard Leon Leon- ard ail a thorough ten-round ten trimming the interest of boxing followers r everywhere where Continued on page 4 4 CHANEY IS PICKED I. I Continued from page 3 3 will wilt center in the approaching twenty twenty- round decision worlds world's light weight championship match between en Welsh and Charley White which Is 15 scheduled for Denver Colo Cob early In September All details to this contest have been definitely definite definite- ly closed and it does not seem likely that hour eleventh-hour complications will develop develon to Interfere with the affair In his victory over Leonard Welsh again conclusively demonstrated that his equal as a light weight does not exist In the present title seekers SmartIng SmartIng Smart Smart- Ing log under the sting sUng of adverse criticism for his indifferent work wont In a previous contest with Leonard and for his sorry showing showing- against Ever Hammer Hammer- Welsh faithfully conditioned himself for the re return return re- re turn encounter with Leonard and the reS result l was VIP apparent 1 In ln the masterly style with h which he slapped and cuffed the highly touted Gotham boxer Into sl sion alon 1 J It had nad been the general impression that Welsh was all through as an a high class fi fighter but those who have been forecasting his early downfall have been forced to reverse their Judgment From the way he Is boxing now Welsh seems capable of keeping a strangle hold on his worlds world's s championship Indefinitely Has White anything like an equal chance to win the title from Welsh elsh If It you put this question up to the careful ring students of ot New York Chicago or Milwaukee the echoes will reverberate with a II thundering no Boxing fans in the three cities named have seen both the title UtI holder and f his challenger when they were under a a. full head of steam and with their heaviest guns guna unlimbered and not one In a thousand thousand thou thou- sand will be bo willing to admit that White Is in the same class with the champion There is only one factor In Whites White's favor he h h carries a knockout wallop In his left lefthand hand But his chances of landing It on Welsh are as all remote as a newspaper newspaperman's newspaperman's newspaperman's mans man's chance of making a a. million Several Several Sev Sev- eral times In ten round battles Welsh has made White look like a raw novice |