The Alaska citizen., 1913-09-01
1. latest Outside Sporting Dope

Never since there were boxers have there been three finer little fellows in the ring than Johnny Coul. on, Johnny klbaue and Willie Ritch. lie.
 Never since there were boxers have there been three more unpopu- lar champions than Johnny Coulon. Johnny kilhane and Willie Ritchie.
 The only thing that could happen 10 them now to complete the pie ture would be for them all to turn baseball umpire
 The ease of Johnny Coulon is a special one. different from the oth. CT two. A very sick boy. he refuses either to defend his title CT to give l t up. Every challange brings from him q vail that his tum tum hurts i him and he is going on long hunt. ing trip. This has gradually turned ] | popular little fighter into very i unpopular one COulon is disliked because he has practically tied up the entire bantamweight division and i blighted the hopes of every boy in it. The sporting world seems to feel q just resentment against Coulon i for having dived down d hole and having dragged the hole in after him.
 IL IS not easy to say just why Xii banc and Ritchie are unpopular. The attitude of the sporting public toward kilbane is this-they know he got the worst Of the decision with Dundee and they are all glad he did
 The same would have been true of Ritchie.
 The cause of the public grouch against these fine little fellows seems to be that Ritche and kilbane are both in" the boxing world, but net of boxing.
 They are too obviously there for money to suit the tastes of the sport ing fans, In a rather cool and in- different way Kilbane makes this plain. His attitude toward the sport ing public strikes one as being some what like contempt. He cares noth ing for lighting and very little for fight fans
 He feels about as much of the hot glow of battle as a turtle. It is believed that kilbane has courage of the very highest type. In a scrap out at picnic. merely for the fun of the thing. kilbane could probably fight like tiend. But in the ring, he can't get over the idea that he has placed $50.000 worth of capital n a perilous position. kilbane is timid fnly because capital is timid and Johnny is a capitalist
 Although it may sound paradoxi- cal, kilbane is one of the most brill Iant boxers that ever lived, and he never should have gone into the ring. It is a life he does not belong in. He doesn't know how to act there. He isn't in sympathy with boxing and boxers. He hasn't made a great deal of money; but he is smart boy and he will be able to in vest what he has in some business where he will probably shine.
 II is not likely he will be in the ring very long. His passing into busi- ness life will end one of the most peculiar careers in boxing annals in box.
 Ritchie is the reverse English of a b king idol because the boxing pub lie resents his luck. Every man who has worked hard all his life and has saved by self-denial, has secret and savage hatred for every one who has made an easy killing.
 Billie Nolan added to this feeling by giving the impression that he didn't consider Willie any world beater but thought it safer to swoop up all the money they possibly could in the stage business before giving anyone chance at the title.
 Rtch'e is very likely to live down 1 his unp epularity. He will leave the stage very soon and Nolan says he will fight anybody who can show l the coin He is likely 10 put up fight that will surprise everybody.
 Fight fans seem to forget the pluck and courage with which he faced Ad Wolgast, and the fortitudc with which he took one of the most savage beatings imaginable until the lucky blow at the end.
 Ritehie speaks of that fight in way that appeals to anyone.
 Tt was a terrible experience" he said. Anyone who steps into a ring with Ad Wolgast has a terrible experience ahead of him. don't think anyone-even Wolgast-can say I showed the white feather, but vii. never have to take another such beat ng as long as l live"
 Says a correspondent in the Seat tie Sun:
 You might not guess it. but Chief"
 Meyers, star catcher of those ire