| Show C GS I lf j 7 FIGHT D DOPE OPE J A By HardyK Hardy K Downing KILBANE featherweight champion has consented to toI tolay I L J lay of off cutting coupons coupons- long enough to meet Danny Frush in ina a round cn round bout for the featherweight title in Cleveland 0 or on on August 15 and will wilU add another snug little fortune to his i already inflated bankroll I From a technical standpoint it can hardly be called caned a champion champion- bip match as Kilbane is reported to have made Frush chamPion I agree to tomake tomake tomake make pounds for the match while he lie has the thc privilege of coming coining in iii at catch weight which means that he will probably be several pounds over oyer that weight and anti consequently a lightweight 5 However if Frush should be he able to bowl the champion oer o or r even e get a decision he lie will undoubtedly claim the title and will willbe willbe willbe be accepted by the fans as the kingpin of the All of which shows the need of a new champion in that division for or although Kilbane has been and probably still is a great little I li battler and a credit to the game he lie has undoubtedly outgrown the I f featherweights and it will take a mighty good legitimate feather I to lo give him almost ten pounds and beat him Frush is pretty much ch of an unknown nationally but undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- I a mighty good boy and may prove a dark horse His llis i principal claim to recognition is the fact that he lie beat the best I I feathers in England after which he lie waded through the best short on the Pacific coast and later beat Andy Chancy Chaney and Artie Root Chancy attempted to relieve Kilbane of his crown a couple of years ears ago but was unsuccessful The Thc bout will be he staged in Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land Kilbane's home town and will undoubtedly draw a tremendous House fouse as fiS the champion is a popular and highly respected citizen while hile Frush has made Baltimore his abode since he lie came to this I country from England where he lie was born i t r EX RICKARD Is 13 evidently trying to get the of the boxing fans fansin T in regard to a return match between Jess Willard and nd Jack Dempsey as the reports will not down that negotiations are on for such a match I and and if the public responds to the feelers that aro are being sent out it would not be surprising to see sea them matched However I do not think the public wilt will respond to such an extent that Rickard will deem deom it advisable I to ta stage dage it I There is no possible excuse for such a II match until touch such time as Willard his at least got down to training in earnest and should then be compelled to take on several of the tho best men in the country and if he acquits himself creditably tho the match might bo be taken seriously If Willard can beat Bill Brennan and a couple more of the tho big fellows he will then have earned the right to ask for a return m match with tho the champion but until that time he is not even entitled to consideration for tho the simple reason that ho made mado a pitiable showing against Dempsey when ho lost the title Unless he can show how by actions in the ring th that t there was v something wrong with him at that time he should stay on his ranch and maintain the respect of the sport loving world instead of coming out to take another beating for tho the sake of the money in it 1 r S I 1 AUNG Virgil Sparks of Pocatello was the one bright spot on the tl I Lagoon program last ast Friday night and was awarded a well t earned decision over Eddie Kelly of Ogden Although beaten the Ogden boy was far from disgraced and ancI never nover stopped trying Sparks deserves all the more cr credit dit for his work because he is I I just a youngster in years with less than a years year's ring experience and md having no living parents is using the money he lie makes in the boxing game to defray his expenses through school r r lie Hc is a rugged and willing youngster with a good stiff punch in either hand and with another years year's experience is apt to make interesting for any of the lightweights in this neck of the I. I e e r PUG MEYERS also of Pocatello was a visitor here hero last week and andL L- L efforts are being made by Promoter C. C E. E of Pocatello to to have him meet Al AI Young of Ogden in a twelve-round twelve bout on Labor day p Ir Meyers is is a promising youngster and has maintained a clean record ll hil two years of boxing recently having added quite a feather to his cap by getting a decision over Abie Able IK p The Tho only stumbling block in n the way of a Young Meyers-Young bout is tho the weight igHt question Meyers insists on pounds ringside whilo while tho the to ID far ha has not consented to do better than t ft 0 e e efA 1 fA A DIE BIB 1 the local lightweight made his debut in int uI t x Portland Ore last week when he lie met Y Young Sam Langford coast colored boy bor in the and was awarded a draw f F Langford is rated as one of the toughest lightweights along the jIo coast and shows that the local boys bos arc are capable of taking care of themselves a 0 If EORGE SOLLIS tho the local fe featherweight who loft here herc with his hia manager manager manger man man- GEORGE G ager ger Steve Senhouse somo some timo time ago only t to return without taking on ona a match has again gono gone to the Northwest less leas his manager in in search ct of bouts Whether he has any in In view or not he ho did not state before leaving having However ho he will undoubtedly get got a chance to show his wares if he heU U willing to take on some somo o of the lesser lessor lights before demanding a main vent or trying to dictate the financial terms L 4 Boxers of Sollis Sollis' caliber will do well to remember that while they may H lb well established in their home homo town in a strange town a thousand miles mules j iway way it is a different proposition and the fans and promoters are rc entitled to tola la shown before booking thorn thom as main |
