The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-23
kILsaNE'S CHALLENGE
 TO 40 WOlGAST.
 THE FUNNIEST EVER
By CHARLES F. EYTON

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 By CHARLES F. EYTON
 LOS ANGELES. - Johnny Kilbau, has given the sporting world many q laugh since he acquired the feather weight title but his challenge tc Ad Wolgast is certainly the funniest thing the Cleveland Streak has ever put over.
 Johnny probably has made himself the most unpopular boy that ever held a championship principally through his unwillngness to risk his laurels against man of merit.
 He will box any boy of mediocr, ability six or ten rounds in any kind of weather. but when man of class tries to land him he claims Its too hot" or that the fellow weighs too much"
 Personally. he is little gentle man. q clean living. good hammered youth, and. judging him from this angle. l admire him greatly and be lieve him to he credit to the box ing game,
 A FROST AS A CHAMPION.
 But judging him as worlds cham pion. which is impossible, he is the worst kind of a frost. not because he hasn't the talent, as he is one of the most scientific boxers We have ever had, but he is afraid to take an honest chance, and this fact explains his unpopularity.
 The patrons of boxing demand that a champion. when he is in good health defend his title occasionally and this kilbane refuses to do.
 Johnny makes excuse after excuse until the public has come to think that kilbane obtained his title only by being lucky enough 10 catch At tell out of condition, and at a time when Abe believed he had a tapioca
 The Cleveland lads actions have led most people to believe that they will see Attell growing a long gray beard before he gets a return match
 kiLsANE AFTER WOLGAST.
 Promoter McCarey has kept the wires hot lately trying to get Xii bane to agree 10 meet either Attell or Harry Thomas. but without effect
 Suddenly Kilbane breaks into print with a challenge to Wolgast. Now why does Johnny want to meet g boy out of his class when he refuses to prove that he is the peer of all the 122 pounders.
 IL is because Kilbane realizes that the wonderful little Dutchman is a very sick boy. and that if he could coax him into a match in his present miserable condition he might out point him. under practically the same conditions that he outpointed At tell. and gain a lot of additional cash and glory.
 should Ad win it would not affect Johnny's precious title and he could escape by saying that a lightweight had beaten him Johnny is spelling for a match with some 133pound boy. where he would not have tC risk his championship, he can talk business with either Rivers. Mandot or Ritchie.
 ALL WILL ACCoMMoDAT HIM.
 Any one of these boys would ac commodate the featherweight but Johnny realizes that they are il the best of health, hence his chal lenge reads "Wolgast only"
 recall immediately after the fluke win over Rivers. when Johnny posl lively refused to box Joe again un less the latter made l22 pounds f0I him The Mexican offered all kinds of inducements, but without effect You couldn't pull Kilbane into tho ring with Rivers again with a team of mules
 If Johnny wants to prove his right to call himself champion let him meet Harry Thomas, who is just spelling for a chance with him al the featherweight limit.
 Let Johnny show himself master of the l22-pound field before he tries to break into the class above him.
 WoLGAST HOEING CORN.
 Wolgast is back on the Cadillac ranch hoeing the corn and giving his system the nourishment that onl, fresh air and regular living can give
 I trust the trip and rest will dc him good. for to me he looked { very sick boy when he departed and remembering that Wolgast of old we would hate to see him in tho ring again until he is right" as il certainly is pitiful sight to see tht shell of once great boxer stagger ing about to stave off the inevitable
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