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Show KAISER SEEKS TIT' : BATTLE t Rising Bantamweight Is Anxious To Meet Joe Lynch Johnny Kaiser, rising young ban- i tamweight boxer. Is rapidly putting St. Louis on the pugilistic map He is one of the leading contenders for j tho featherweight title now held by ' Joe Lynch. Puglllstlcally, St. Louis has boon on the fritz. While Missouri's metropolis metropo-lis can snub many neighbors with j George Staler for tho American league i hatting champion, Rogers Hornsby for j tho National league swat king, the Saulllns as the national soccer champions. cham-pions. Eddie TIebl as the winner of ! last summer's golf tourney for play- j ers not Identified with clubs, there has never been a stir for.a fistic title until i Johnny Kaiser qualified for the bantamweight ban-tamweight class Kaiser, now at the age of 18. is regarded re-garded as the fanciest piece of padded 1 milt machinery ever developed in St. Louis. Graduating from the amafour lass a year ago, where he swept through tho . lass of simonpures with a knockout punch, be has advanced to th gates .,f Joe Lynch's pedestal. l ighting as an amateur for three years, Kaiser won 03 out of 66 bouts with a knockout punch. And that ! wallop, is what has Impressed the Mound City sharps. Kaiser is built along the same lines s Lyn h, tall, slender and as active I as a cat. His most prominent bouLs have been with Pal Moore. Jack Wolfe, Ashton l'onza, Billy Mascott and Young Mont- real. I p Jinlll several wwks ago Kaiser bad never engaged In j. bout away from his homo arena. However, he ; Is going through the tc.it at present land Is In New- York to prove that he la entitled to a match with Lynch. |