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Show KILBANE MAKES A BIT IN NSW YORK Johnny Kilbane, the world's champion cham-pion featherweight, who hails from Cleveland, has made a big hit with the fight fans in New York. Recently for the first time Gotham's pugilistic world had a chance to see Johnny's prowess in the ilng when he met Frankle Burns In a 10-round bout. Kilbane just joyed with Burns during the entire battle. Now experts here say he is a wonder. Unlike many other pugilists, he is domestic in his habits and thinks that there are Just two perfect human beings on this earth his wife, Irene, and his daugn-ter, daugn-ter, Mary. And for them he is willing to fight until he has placed them beyond be-yond all possibility of want Then he intends to sidestep Into a new line of business endeavor. "I'm not a fighter because I lovo to scrap," said Kilbane recently, "but because ther9 is plenty of money in it moro than I was able to make when I was throwing switches In a railroad yard' In Cleveland. I'm fighting not for nSjl fnmo or prestige, but for a fortune to J jH give my wlfo and daughter. When 1 H attain this or when I meet a man at " . H my weight that proves ho is my mas- ) H ter I'll retire from tho game. I don't kl care enough for the fighting game to jga jj be a pugilist all my life. I want to tfl bo a business man." ! il Johnny Kilbane, who is matched in iH New York with K. O. Brown, has made 'll a great hit with the fans of the big- " iH White Way. Not that Johnny is dis- M sipating or remaining up until the H wee early hours of the morning. Oh. , H no, for S bells or thereabouts each iH evening find the llttlo Clevelander ? , IH tucked away snugly among tho fcath- , 'H ers. But tho quiet, unassuming man- ' . H ners of the boy and the pleasant way fjl in which he greets all his friends have '1 won for him a warm spot in their 1'jl midst It is almost a certainty that hJM he will be a favorite with the fans cfH when he climbs through tho ropes, al- - Jl though Brown is a New Yorker born V yH and bred. |
