Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-04-21 | Page 3 | Kilbane Finds Too Many Husky Men in Heavy Class

Kilbane Finds Too Many Husky Men In Heavy Class The lambasting that Johnny Kilbane Kil-bane received from a rugged Buffalo lightweight known as Rock ' Kansas has apparently caused a change in the plans of the featherweight champion to enter the lightweight class. Kansas Kan-sas made It hot for Kilbane from the first clang of the gong and upset the Clevelander In one of the early rounds. It was this experience that seems to have Impelled Kilbane to refuse to concede nlno pounds to Young Murphy, Mur-phy, a novice of Syracuse, and the resultant re-sultant announcement by Kilbano's manager that the champion will indefinitely in-definitely remain in the featherweight division, as ho does not care to concede con-cede weight to lusty opponents Kilbane, however, is on record with an offer to me'et Welsh In a bout for the lightweight title at 135 pounds, although he now says ho is not anxious anx-ious to go on with the affair. In fact, Kilbane has come to realization real-ization that there are too many troublesome trou-blesome lightweights In the field at the present time Kilbano also had a very unpleasant experience with Rit-chlo Rit-chlo Mitchell, the Milwaukee contender contend-er for the title, and will keep away from the boisterous 135 pounders.