The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-07
JOHNNY COULON LOST
 $18,OOO IN s MONTHS
(By s. Andrewsl

Milwaukee, Wis. July 7.-Johnny Coulon, the bantamweight champion, has had his share of hard luck the past year. The little fellow was in a position early last fall to clean up a snug fortune during the winter sea son, but owing to illness he was obliged to take six months' lay-on and lose at least six matches worth not more than $3,0OO each, which makes nice total gone to waste. It was not lack of courage that made the little fellow lose the coin and
 matches, for he is game to the core when it comes to fighting. Just at a time when the money, that is the big money, appeared on the horizon again Johnny once more meets with hard luck. He took tue match with Frankie Burns at Kenosha- Wis. -e0 try himself out for d Championship battle with Kid Williams on the coast, and though he was not just satisfied with his condition and showing he had made up his mind to go through with the Williams match. On top of this Johnny is hiked off to the hos- pita1 in Chicago and notified by the doctor to keep quiet for two weeks at least, so that the match for July 2sth is impossible. Johnny now asks for a postponement until Labor Day when he says he will be ready to meet the Baltimore boy and fight for the title. Williams has a right to demand a match of Coulon, but 1t is most .un- fortunate for the champion that he has been up against so much illness. However, if Johnny cannot go through with match this fall for the title. then he should permit Kid williams to at least defend the same untlI such tinne that he can meet the Kid in a championship match and settle the question.
 There is a young featherweigat down east who must be a pretty nifty boy with the gloves His name is Joe Goldberg and he halls from 7fIt oches- ter, N. Y. The other night he knock ed out Kid Julian. the Syracuse featherweight, in four rounds. Now any lad that can turn a trick of that kind must be pretty near the top class, for Julian is pretty clever and husky featherweight himself. having defeated many good boys of late. in- cluding a knockout of Joe Coster, who was considered of championship caIi- bre not long ago. The Goldberg boy is not an accident, for he has been
 fighting all the good boys around New York state and has been showing im- proved form right along, his final vic tory being over Julian. His .rf1a1faEer Jack Carey, thinks he is ripe for all the stars of the 122 pound class and says he will soon be ready for a clash W1Ln' the. CuaInQlOns hlADauaa Julian was after the same goal but 70 will require considerable come bach for the Syracuse lad to get into thu running again.
 Kid Graves, the former MilwauRea lightweight, who has developed into d welterweight the past year, writef that he would like to have a, correcg ton made regarding his alleged hgt1 with Tommy Dixon in Nebraska Ou can say for me-" writes the Kid, f-thaa have not been away from the east for the past eight months and tfze Kid Graves who fought out there must bG some featherweight, as Dixon is als0 a 122 pound boy. The report, how ever, is entirely wrong and does ma no good, but some harm. hava whipped the best of the eastern vveI- terweights and I am now open td fight any one in the country, including Ray Bronson, for the championship I intend to visit the middle west thg coming season and will then endeavoE to have it out with the best veltera for the tlt1e.''
 With Tommy Burns and Arthur PeIkey, the heavyweight. doing a vaudeville act around the country, the interest among the big fellows will once more attract attention. Tommy will no doubt head for the east and steer his new champion up against the heavies in New r ork town.