The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25

iAo'ahLy iiiieu up "llu eAClleu 1dNS and he was carried out on the shoulders of the crowd.
 kiLsANE's RISE WAS RAPID CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 22.-Twc years ago Johnny Kilbane, the new featherweight champion, scarcely was known outside of Cleveland He had been contestant in minor bouts since 1905, but it was not un til the fighting game opened in several northern Ohio towns in the winter of 19O9-10 that he really be gan to attract attention
 First kilbane met and conquered the best boys of this vicinity Then importations were made from the East and West When Tom Mo ! Carey, in 1910, promulgated his eli imitation contest at Los Angeles by which was to be decided who of the native featherweights should have the right to meet Abe Attell, fol the championship, he was the logi cal entrant.
 Kilbane decisiveH defeated Joe ! Rivers, Patsy Kline and Frankie ! Conley, his closest rivals, thus earn ing the fight to meet Attell in tho ! battle for the championship Johnny Kilbane was born ant reared in Cleveland He will bt 23 years old on April IS. He is married and has a baby daughter His habits are of the best He is i the support of his blind father.
 SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. 22.- | Whatever claim Billy Papke of Hi nois may have had to the middle weight championship of the world is now the undisputed property o Frank Mantell of Pawtuckett, R. Mantell so well earned a twenty round decision over Papke here this afternoon that even Tom Jones Papke's manager, was discouraged and announced that he would have nothing more to do with the III inois boy.
 Mantell did not fight brilliantly but he had the better of the fight ing throughout. What little open work was done was fairly we'll di vided between the two. Papke had trained hard for the fight, but he did not have his oldtime eye nol ring generalship, and time and again Mantell had him backing away and l leaning against the ropes.
 Less than dozen of Papke's vic. | ious swings hit the mark. Only two rounds belonged to him; in the eighth the honors were even and the others were Mantell's. Neither men had sufficient strength behind his blows to do any damage.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 23-Mike Gibbons of St Paul knocked out Willie Lewis of New York In the second round of sceduled ten-round bout here tonight. It was the St. Paul vel. terweight's second defeat of Lewis within two months.
 The knockout blow was right to the chin administered when Lewis was wabbling from previous punish ment.
 Gibbons in the first round sent four rights and four lefts to Lewis head, staggering him. Lewis fought wildly, but his opponent ducked and blocked the blows. Lewis then landed two good rights to Gibbons face, but a right to the jaw in re- turn dropped him to the mat for the count of nine Just as he rose the bell rang.
 Lewis came up weak in the second and Gibbons let go a tornado of rights and lefts staggering the New Yorker with short left and with a right to the chin decided the battle. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24.-The inability of Abe Attell to come back" has aroused the sympathy of James J. Jeffries, who sent the fol- lowing dispatch yesterday to Pro- moter James Coffroth relative to the Attell-"Harlem" Tommy Murphy bout here on March g:
 Jim: Don't call off Attell fight. Give him a chance to redeem him. self. Worst he should have got was draw, as he chased Kilbane all over the ring. Do this for me. Abe is still champion here, old pal"
 The message came from Los An geles. Attell sent a similar plea, adding that he would arrive here Monday
 Coffroth says he has no intention of calling off the match.