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Show NEW YORKER AFTER TITLE Los Angeles. April 19 There Is a very determined young Italian-American down at Doyle s gymnasium, who is dally making life more miserable for several able bodied sparring part ners, putting stout punching bags out of commission and putting ever) other oth-er piece of gym equipment to the , most si t enuous tests Id is .lohnny Dundee, the si . i' little N'ew ork featherweight And the continuous rumpus he is stirrinc up at Dovle s is tor a very serious ' purpose He is very much perturbed because bis fellow New Yorkers cannot can-not boast of one In their midst hold- I ing a pugilistic championship. He is ! a crusader and has come out Into the west with the avowed intention of knocking the featherweight, crow n I from the curly headed Champion Johnny Kilbane. whom Dundee is scheduled to meet at McCarey's Vei j non arena, next Saturday Both of the boys are training faith fully for the bout. Kilbane is of the opinion that it will be his last fieht as a featherweight and he does no', intend to have his exit from thai class hurried along by a defeat at the hancis oi his New York rival. Kilbane is having a hard time to keep his weight down to the feather weight limit and he mid his manager Jimmy Dunn, have concluded that ex eesslve weight reducing is sapping his Btrength. Therefore, the derision to lorsake the featherweight honors and go after bigger game Joe Rivers Willie Ritchie and the lightweight crow n maybe. Dundee Is himself having a littlr trouble to keep within the featherweight feather-weight limit, and he sass that If he succeeds lb scoring a win over Kil bane he will get on the trail ot the lightweights Before acquiring any higher honors both bos have a pretty hard task In front of them in next Saturday's bout. They appear to he evenlj I matched, they have boxed two ten-round ten-round draws in New York, in both of which it was generally conceded that I Minder bad a Bhade n ih" champion. These bonis hav given Dundee an nbundance of confidence and he cannot can-not see any po3siblllt of his losing to the Cleveland Irishman Quite a few bets have been placed ! on the bovii with Kilbane a favorite The champion 16 well thought of on the coast, for did he not win his laurels laur-els from none other than our own old master Abe Attellf Dundee has offered to make a side bet with Kilbane on the result and K II-hnne's II-hnne's followers ;ire anxiously waiting wait-ing for him to show what he thinl-s of the chances. I team, hut ihe winning of games is of Blight consideration to h'"1 lf ne Is able to win the game by some spectacular spec-tacular meat piece of work of his own. all Very fine But when it comes to doing some little thing that will help ; term mate turn the victory and get credit for if. ihe 'each has been proved prov-ed to be not there Has a Mean Disposition, Too. This selfish desire to bask In the limelight himself Is not Cobb's only fault He has a disposition that is all against the preservation of the best discipline jii.i OiiO offered to Cobb is largely because of the star's drawing ability as a star. Beyond that he Is of little value to the club Maybe as he completes a few more seasons of play he will steady down a little In various ways and learn that the game of hall, played properly, prop-erly, is like the game of life, depending de-pending largely on personal sacrifices sacri-fices for the good of the family Until Un-til he gets this firmly drilled self-drilled, self-drilled, into his head, and until he can learn to control himself under stress, he cannot be regarded as the perfect outfielder Just at present were it In order to make any Invidious comparisons, we would rate Trls Speaker several notches above the Georgian in the matter of value to his team A perfect per-fect outfielder, which neither Is yet. mmht be worth (16,000 a year. But the Ty Cobb of today no. Navin is right and deserves the backing of Ban fohnson nl the other club own-1 own-1 era of his league, which he has. |
