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Show 1 SPORT DOPE j On May 28 Frederick Welsh, the well known youth who holds the lightweight title, is going once more to place it in jeopardy when he meets Benny Leonard. The Gibson entry has been pointing himself for the clash for the past 'month; he has boen doing do-ing his preliminary work by knocking knock-ing out three boxers, including Eddie Shannon, Kid Thomas and others. It's a great way in which to test one's self, but remember the elusive Freddie will manage to slip and sidestep many of the wallops which Benny landed so successfully on the opposing boxers in Philho. However, it should prove a whirlwind of a battlo and those who get the opportunity to answer the roll call by being present will bo well paid, even though they must suffer being elbowed on their way out and having a couple of ribs staved in by fans who are in a hurry to get out of the building build-ing and catch their car back to town. Young McGovern, who was the latest lat-est candidate to have his name listed among the wounded and slain in the record book of George Chanoy, has a manager who at least is human and uses brains to handle his battler. In their recent bout Mi.Govern was so far gone in the fourth he could barely keep his feet. Then Chaney jabbed him to the Jaw and down he went. No sooner had McGovern hit the ground than the towel went in the air. Manager Mana-ger Kelly in the McGovern angle figured fig-ured McGovern had no chance at all to win and wished to avoid seeing him suffer further punishment with nothing noth-ing to gain. We look for a great revival in the wrestling game. America is beginning to produce a bunch of good successors to Gotch and before long wo will have men able to cope with the foreigners of massive bulk who have had matters their own way for some time. Interest will be as good as ever when we get another great American representative, representa-tive, and Earl Caddock looks as if he might be the man on whose shoulders the mantle of Gotch might fall. What a fine race for batting honors the leading quartet in the American league Sisler, Speaker, Cobb and Mc-. Iflnes are having. All of these follows fol-lows are using the bludgeon with deadly dead-ly effect and making life a burden for opposing pitchers. Unless some no-hit no-hit twlrler stops them they will send their batting averages up like the mercury mer-cury rises In the thermometer on a hot day In Kansas City. Of course, they'll all have their slumps as well as their periods of clouting. Just at this time most of them are enjoying the clouting era and they had better pile up as much percentage as possible. pos-sible. Freddie Welsh as a rule Is not given to making use of the alibi for a poor showing, but he has broken his silence in this direction of late and claims the poor showing he made against Johnny Kilbane recently was due to -an injury in-jury to his hand received tho day previous. pre-vious. Aa we say, Welsh has not previously pre-viously sought excuses for his showing against an opponent, bo we may take some stock In the claims ho makes this time. However, nothing should be taken from Kilbane, aB his showing was one of exceptional merit on the occasion referred to. Welsh in shape, however, can make a far better showing show-ing than he did against the Cleveland-er Cleveland-er and we'd like to see them try it all over again. Over tho ten-round route, for this would be better for tho champion cham-pion lightweight, as it's a well known fact that the further Kilbane goes the better he gets and for that reason Freddie's chances would be best in ten frames. |