New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-08
K|LDANE COMES To TOWN
FeatherWeight Champion Ready
for His Bout with Burns.
LEACH CROSS HOLDS OFF
Refuses to Clinch Bout with Al
Wolgast Under the Condi.
tions Imposed.

| Apparently ready to step into the rns
at moments notice, Johnny KiibS ne tina
| featherweight champion Of the word, who
will meet frankie Burns of Jersey City.
in a ten-round bout before the St Nlcho.
| las A. c. next Tuesday, arrived in this
city yesterday The champion was accom-
panied by his wife. little daughter and
manager, Jimmy Dunn. lie went II oncs
| TO his training quarters at Rye Beach.
| where he did a little work Tha. over, ha
| returned to the city and visited tia various
newspaper offices and few OF his friends.
! Unless signs fail, Kibane's ncy. oppo.
nent will be Knockout" Brown. Eddie
and Jesse Mcmahon, managers Of the st.
Nicholas A. c., have offered the champion
fattering guarantee TO meet Brown at
l2s pounds, rlngside. Kilbane has accepted
the offer. and as the irrepressible Daniel
Morgan has long declared that the one
thing he desired was to have Brown face
the Cleveland lad at 128 pounds in the ring,
the chances seem bright for a meeting.
.
Leach Cross and his manager, sam Walt
ZACH, have so far refused to cllnch the pro-
posed bout with Ad Wolgast in Madison
C'iAdlb Odi'tll Dll may SO III reply 10 " Ols
CASTS telegram 70 tho Garden A. Q. that
he would accept $1,000 guarantee, wal-
ZACH said yesterday that he had decided "a
let the matter rest, inasmucn as Wolgass
had asked for straight Queensberry rules.
lie said that unless WOlgast would agree
to box under the State Athletic Commis-
sion's clean break rule there would be no
further negotiations until the lightweight
champion came East after his foTr-round
bout with Willie Richie in San Franz
cisco next Saturday.
Johnny COulOn, the self-styled jantam-
weight champion Of the world ana recog-
nlzed champion Of America, will face an
opponent. whom many believe worthy OF
hts steel, when he crosses gloves with
Young" solzberg, the Brooklyn boy, In
ten rounds before the Royale Athletic Club
tonight. Coulon arrived in this city yes
terday and reported that he was in splen-
did condition and well under the weight
rs pounds. ringside.
Solzberg said yesterday: "Many boys
become frightened when they face cham-
pion, but not me. CoulOn Will nayo 70 box
every inch of the way, and # he wins 70
will be because he is the better man."
The Brooklyn boy will not be without
friends In the last few months he has
beaten, among others. Johnny DAILY. the
East Side Irishman. and "Kid' williams,
Of Baltimore.
There will he four ten-round bouts al
the New Star Athletic Club tonight.
Young" Hickey, from the East Side, wilt
face Battling" Bill Hurley. the Pascal,
Thunderbolt." in the main bout. At the
Sharkey a. c. Billy Galy, the Australian
lightweight, will clash with Richie Ryan.
a promising boy
Ray Bronson, Of Indianapolis. who coyly
admits that he Il the welterweight chams
pion Of the world, and who has written long
letters defining his reasons for the admls.
sion. evidently thinks he is I'm position -
dictate Time and again Bronson has called
attention 70 the fact that Jack Goodman.
the New York wclterweight, was AFRAID N
meet him., and that he would box Goodman
under any conditions. Gil Boag, manager
of the Madison Athletic Club, was the man
10 prick the Bronson bubble. Boag wired
Ray an offer TO box Goodman before tbs
Madison Athletic Club at the welterweigh.
limit OF AZ pounds I'm the ring, but Br0h-
son Immediately held out for l2 at o clocs
or no battle.
Jack Dennlrg, whose championship as|
piratons were rudely shattered by M!Ss
Gibbons some months ago, will meet Marcel
Morcau. the French "ketchell," IN a twen-
tv-round ,tttle before the Cirque de Paris
on May H. Dcnning defeated Moreau IN
A ten-round bout at the Paramount Athlsa1
club OF The Bronx on January /.
If Luther Mccarthy comes 70 New YORK
Palzer will be the first man to challenge
him." said Tom O'Rourke, manager OF PaI-
Ter. last night. 1T is too bad that Me-
Carthy stole the thunder which really re-
longed to Al. for We felt right along tnas
the first hard hitter who met Morris wouId
win, It's all I'm the game, though ana va
will take il out on Mccarthy
The bout between Knockout Brown ana
Young" ShuSro is OF. The olao mana
gers were forced to guarantee Brown %
much that they could offer ShuGro onp
pittancc. Fifty dollars was the limit oe
their generosity, which so overcame sha-
GRO that he almost tainted.