The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-14

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 New York. Sept. 14-Anyone who drrazines q champion Rugihsts life just one long sweet song and his path strsvn wt1h roses by an admiring popSssace may obtain some valuable data on the subject by dropping a post card to T. Kilbane. Esquire. Clevel and Ohio
 Not that a champion is 8, bad job to hold If one is ambitious to get rich oukck Few other professions indeed offer the youth of the country such ha15zorne returns on the amount of capital invested. But the boxer after climbing to the top of his dlVlsion should not allow the notion to PeIc0. O popuiar fiction it is to .be a case Of happy ever after"
 me trouble is too much is 1nVaria- blv asked of the fresh-laid champion Every time a new title holder starts the sports expect him to walk rlgnt up and slam the other fellow on the point or in the slats, and collect the dough If his opponent happens to tap MT. Champion on the beezer once or twice a verdict of guilty IS 1mme- diate5v brought in by the jury of knockers And that's what happened to Johnny.
 for come little time now that the teather-weiEht champion is somewhat of a fighter. We find on looking up the dope that John has snatohed victory from such sterling perform CTS as Joe Rivers ana the renowned Abe At4e9l. Pretty good, eh2 Yet to about J. K. since he stepped ten rounds with Johnny Dundee the other evening we must naturally arrive at fsmon Ln1 ro1g,uf on the puei1.stic tree.
 Failing to tumble for the Gulnea for the count Ki1bane has incurred critics One contends that John is al bum champion; another calls him a q great "stallerS but poor ngnter while others offer the opinion that .ne me never will amount to anything To prove their case they drag from the Yos,nw Corbet1 and Terry McGoyernI and aek the dear old pug to kindly compare the ancient parchments with the printed achievements of the pres ent title holder. Thus they hope toI e-~ta biish Mir Ki1bane's rating as a chanpion which according to their method of figuring is way below par
 Personally I think Kilbane's exhibi- ton in the Dundee mill was nothing to be ashamed of It may be that ne was not trained to his very pest as IL was his first start in months, and a boxer even a champion. is likely to arow rusty through idleness- Another rafnx this Dundee is a very speedy boy. and Kilbane, with the title at stake would be foolish to take un- necessary chances. At that the cham, pion excelled throughout the bout ana outcla seed Dundee at every stage Of the game. .
 Kfihane measures well up to the mark set by title holders of the past. He is equally as clever s Abe Attell ever was or ann no judge. In fact, [ think him better boxer, and narde- hitter when he has occasion to r,1,4 the punch over Ask Joe Rivers about that Johnny may not have the rnurderoue wallop that made Ter " McCovern famous. although in every other way he outclasses men of Terry's type He Is skil1fu1, brainy bower and a real champion of his class or I am greatly wrong In my es- tirnate of the lad. Like Packey Mo FnrIand KiIbane is satisfied to dem onstrate superiority by outpo1ntlng r,roF,a ts1y defend the title successfully for a longer time than a majority of his predecessors
 number of stars are due to ap- pear in Gotham within the next few weeks if everything goes through as Young Jack O. Brien. a great ravorlte' starts with Young Brown again op- posed to him. Brown and O Brlen met about two months ago and the mill proved exceedingly interesting inasrnuch as it a case of 8 fairly clever slusger versus a skilled boxer about such a match that always ap- peaIs to a crowd and this bout will draw packed house
 The following evening, this time at the Garden A. c. Johnny Kilbane boxes Eddie OKeefe. a feather weight whose admirers tout him second Abe Atte1l AS to that part Of IL I ran't agree I saw O'Keefe box John nv Dundee last spring and about the ouIy thing in which he resembles At tell is in contour of profile However, the young man is said to be wonder fully improved since he last appeared in New York For his own sake T 1eue 20 as Kilbane is likely, to be a oit sore as a result of the severe crit Icisrn handed him by the local press s4nd may try to make O'keefe the Srost- Hon stating that lem Driscoll will sail for this country next Saturday. Dris- soil has been negotiating by cable with several New York promoters. and Gib- l uon of the Garden A C.. Is said to be In the lead in the competition for the great little EngIishman's services Gibson plans. if successful. a series of bouts that will engage the services of O'Brien and Johnny Ktlbane provid- cd the latter is willing to concede a l few pounds. The fea tn er- weight limit 1 on the other side of the pond is 126 i pounds as compared with 122 in the | States.
 Driscoll has been telling friends at l home that he plans to take on the | leading American nght-weights # the | feathers will have none of his game i Wolgast ana Mcfarland. he don't care which one First come first served. | says Jern- Bold talk but then this little Britisher is one great boxer. He l admits to B years. but claims to be as l good az ever during his long career. l