The Detroit times., 1910-02-03
/ KILBANE FAILS
TO IMPRESS THE
LOCAL GANG
Much Touted Clevelander Lacks
That Essential Of Glass, a Wig
orous and Effective Plan
of Attack.
He and Jack White, Of Chicago Tin
Canned Through Eight Rounds
and Got the Money
~ PAUL HALE eRusKE.

So that was the much -touted johnny
Kilbane over whom Cleveland has
been raving for the last couple oil sen
CONS! on. very Well, Let them COZ"
tinue 20 applaud HIM II they care Nv.
They can have a monopoly on '' 80 i''
as Detroit and Windsor are coa'tI .'''-
JOHNNY has given as one 'Aat.l.''.
of his Interpretation oi ihc mann a..
and we have -ullicienci. iaAii~ I''
granted that last nights samp-e "d>
fair I'm rrati0A-ho hims e- Is q"
blame n ~ wasut--we viii SET Johnny
down hereafter MS 22 pounds or there
abouts. Of limburcor cheese
JOHNNY tin-canned for eight weary
rounds in the Windsor ateher last
evening and succeeded IN csc alh :
punishment throughout. This seemed
I'm fact his main purpose N existing
And az that he had nothing ON JACK
White. Of Chicago. who was Just as
clever in ovading Johnny as was the
Clevelander in Keeping out oi the Way
OF the Chicago mans advances. Meth
er came within a mile OF opening up
and endeavoring 10 do any real box
ing. To Whites credit be II said how
rver. that he came nearer q suggestion
of aggressiveuess than did the moro
highly-touted Kilbane, The crowd yell
ed for White AZ the close. but no con.
test and all bets of would be the only
way TO properly decide a little exhibit
ton of the character produced.
Essentials Of Class.
A good boxer must be able 10 fulfil
three requisites 10 come anywhere
near claim to being first class. He
must be able 20 protect himself. He
must be able 10 occasionally penetrate
the defense Of his opponent with some
weight and snap to his leads and he
must be able 70 20 the route without
firing. In The. second requisite Xii
barle is sadly lacking He tin-canned
through The eight rounds, backing,
feinting and acknowledging. With
offense cut out as Johnny did. there is
not a third-ciass feather in the locality
who could not have done the same. As
for. Johnnys being in line for a battle
with Abe Attell for the title, forget
It! No chance,
And the pity of II all is the fact that
more than a thousand Detroiters. at
tracted by the touting received by the
Clevelander and the prestige which
followed his bloodless victory over
Tommy Kilbane, had packed the hall
with the impression that something
worth seeing was about 70 come OF.
AS far as the comparison between
Johnny and Tommy goes, Il must be
admitted that Tommy carries some
fight and can punch a weighty blow
with the top Of his dome OF thought,
n he can't hit much with his hands.
Tommy would have mixed things with
either Of last nights boxers and made
something OF a battle Of it. But Johnny
and White were a bad match as II
turned out.
Scientific. But Oh My!
The rounds were substantially alike
with the possible exception of the
sixth in which not a single lead was
attempted by either man. There was
nothing doing from start to finish and
neither boy landed or even started
what looked like a sincere punch.
In the semi-windup Johnny Prender
CAST outpointed Reddy Shores and the
Fair put up a lively six-rOund go. 1t
replaced the scheduled combat be
tween Gerhard and Herman. out OF
which the latter had backed. Az IL
usual at such times the PTendergas--
Shores team was ready to go on at
short notice. Prendergast seems 70
have improved a lot of late.
The cUrtain-ralser was a scream. as
usual, two big dubs named Labaff AMI
Smith going four rounds, featured by
Wild lawmakers. Labaff had a shad-
the better Of IL