Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
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several boys who are really entitled to
a chance at the title
Labor day Kilbane will go twelve
rounds with Alive Miller. another Ohio
show is to be conducted by Matt Hin
KEEL and the indications are that it will
be witnessed by large crowd. Mil
Ter will have to be very strong to
beat, or even get draw with Kill
bane, over the short route, for that is
where Johnny shines. While Miller is
reported as very good youngster and
strong, still he never has shown the
class to defeat veteran star at the
game like the champion, and it is a
pretty safe bet that Johnny will grab
OFF another of the no-decesion bouts by
having the newspaper decision to his
credit.
Following this match Kilbane intends
taking on some of the heavier boys; in
fact, he plans a busy campaign and
wants to tackle some good boy for a
twenty-round battle. At this writing
1t looks as though George CLANCY will
be the one to get the chance in a cham
pionship match.
Johnny Dundee, the great little Ital-
ian lightweight, will not have the soft
snap that some of his friends have in
timated to him he will have .vhen he
youngster who has been coming along
at a good gait the past year, at the
Milwaukee Auditorium, August 80.
There is no use trying to discuss the
him to be one of the hest lightweights
in the business today. The uncertain
part of the match is the Mitchell end.
This boy has advanced from a bantam
weight to a lightweight within the past
twenty months. He has developed a
punch the past six months and Mr..
Dundee will not have a weakling in
front of him on the Goth. To beat Dun
dee would mean that Mitchell is in the
same class as Freddy Welsh and Char
lie White for both Welsh and White
figure Dundee as one of the contenders
for the crown.
Jack Dillon. the Indianapolis middle
conditions may be around the country.
Jack has been fighting on an average
of every two weeks right along. He
is matched now to meet fellow
named Yankee Gilbert at Lima, Ohio,
Labor day and it is a good bet that
Jack will add one more popular de-
cision to his credit. It seems too bad
that a boxer with the ability of Dillon
should never get into the real cham
pionship matches. There is no reason
with Clabby. McGoorty and Gibbons
over the marathon route, for he Of
fered to put up a forfeit to make the
middleweight limit and also to battle
IL
fought all classes from middleweight
up to igh,heavy and heavyweight, and
seldom has he taken the short end of
the decision.
Fritz Holland, the California middle
weight, who has been in Australia for
the past two years and who announced
his retirement several months ago,
seems to be unable to get away from
the glare of the ring lights. After be-
ip,<r 1.A far Iv, Of 3, nj,
dleweights. Fritz decided he had
enough. but it did not take much to
induce him to try again. Recently he
arranged match with Albert, Lloyd, a
likely young middleweight of Aus
tralia. and the match was booked at
Snowy Bakers Stadium in Sydney.
Lloyd proved himself a strong fellow,
but he lacked the scientific points of
the game and after going nine rounds.
Fritz put up the K. o. and it was dark
ness for Albert. Holland is running a
physical culture school. in Sydney and
in that way manages to keep himself
in pretty good condition all the while.
He is OF the baldheaded type of fighter
and is well thought of in Australia al
though he was never considered above
the ordinary. in California.
The American boxers who are over in
Australia with Jack Kearns of San
Francisco are doing very well, al
though they have been up against
harder game than some of them ex-
pected. The middleweights in the
Antfpodes are a better class than they
have had for some time and the Yam
KEGS are not finding the picking easy
Billy Murray found Mick King NIGH
ty clever and shifty fellow to box.
Manager Kearns writes me as follows
in regard to the doings Of the boys
there. So
"All the boys are feeling fine and
seem to like it over here. Watson was
the first to start and he beat Billy
Yates in nine. rounds. He is now
matched with Herb Mccoy for the
lightweight championship Of Australia
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