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Show KHJBANE TO TAKE I UPWARDS Johnny Having Difficulty in Finding Men of Proper Weight. CLEVELAND, July 11. Johnny Kil-bane, Kil-bane, featherweight champion boxer of the world, Is to enter the ranks of Cleveland's billiard room proprietors. Johnny, in casting about for some business to enter when he retires from the prlzo ring, determined to take up billiards. Ho and his manager, Jimmy Dunn, have leased the billiard and bowling concessions of a market building to be erected at Lake and Detroit avenues. ave-nues. This will be a splendid two-story two-story structure, with the champion's billiard parlors and bowling alleys in tho basement. Johnny is not booked to box Leonard Leon-ard in Philadelphia on July 23. If he gets one for the September holiday it may be his last, "as he is having difficulty diffi-culty in finding men of tho proper weight to meet him. Ho may retire from the ring In tho fall and devote all his time to his billiard business. The now parlors are booked to open December 15. Johnny has a big army of friends in Cleveland, and he is sure to do a big billiard business. |