Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-04
KILBANE TANGLES
WITH R. MITCHELL
Featherweight Champion Will
Give Ten Pounds to Light
weight Opponent.
KAY0 BROWN SEEKS FIGHT
BY RINGSIDE.

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terest this week centers in the ten
round clash between Johnny kilbaner
cock O the walk in the featherweight
division, and Richie Mitchell, the sem
sational Milwaukee lightweight,
scheduled for Cleveland Thursday,
| Originally the bout was to have been
held January 80, but Mitchell injured
his hand in training and obtained a
postponement of week.
Mitchell already holds two popular
verdiets over Kilbane, earned at Gin
cinnat and Milwaukee. kilbane, in
conserving to weight OF l33 pounds
at 4 O'Clock, is giving Mitchell about
ten pounds the best OF it, and this
fact alone stamps him as truly as
game a boy as ever stepped out of
his class in order to fight, Johnny
has done it before and got away with
it in bouts with Joe Mandot and
Benny Leonard, but he may ind
Mitchell a much tougher proposition,
In their previous encounter at Mil
waukee Mitchell was up against an
unknown proposition, and for six
rounds he was exceedingly careful,
Johnny Dundee had bested him few
weeks before and he didn't know Just
how fast to travel against man with
Kilbane's two-hsted reputation.
Had Klbane Bleeding
| By the seventh round he had gained
confidence, however, and he cut loose
with his left. Kilbane was bleeding
from the nose, mouth and one eye at
the finish. The Cincinnati match viz
tually was a repetition of the first go,
Mitchell in those days was light
enough to do 1870 pounds at ) O'Clock,
and in the coming fight he will have
a greater advantage.
So it bodes i'll for kilbane, speed
and two fists notwithstanding, in his
efforts to get revenge for those two
trimmings.
Kilbane sees visions OF a fifteen
round decision affair with Welsh for
the lightweight title if he can hurdle
Mitchell this time. 1t promises to be
one grand picnic.
Mitchell, unless he yields to the lure
of the movies, will have two more
fights of consequence within the next
few weeks. One is a twenty-round
affair with Joe Rivers at New Or
leans on February 10 and the other is
bout with Benny Leonard in New
York. But the movies may win. The
film promoters want Richie to do the
hero act in couple of thrillers. But
if he accepts they insist that he do
not fight for. three months after the
Kilbane go.
Kayo Seeks Trouble.
Now that George (Knockou)
Brown, the demon Greek, has
squashed Bob Moha again, he is look
ing for further trouble, and he is eye
ing Billy Miske and Battling Levin
sky. The battler trimmed Brown last
summer, and the Greek is hankering
for revenge. The same goes for
Miske, who hung it on to Brown in
ten-round affair after Brown had
made things more than interesting
for the St. Paul battler during the
first half.
This Brown is one of the toughest
birds | ever tackled said Miske on
the eve of the Brown oha go at
Racine the other night. "He had me
beat for the first five rounds, then |
caught him flush on the jaw with my
right. 1t was one of the big disap-
} pontnents of my life when he didn't
go down. He staggered around lit
tie and was dazed, so that evened
: up things and led from then on"
Back OF it all, however, turks the
possibility that Brown will be given
!, crack at Les Darcy. Tommy Walsh
is willing to give the Australian
$500 if he will take on the Greek al
! Racine.
That amount may look small in
comparison to all the big offers which
Darcy is reported to have received to
meet this or that man. But at thai
it is more than Darcy ever got Out
of a single go in all his life before.
1t is said on pretty fair and reliabls
authority that Darcys biggest collee,
ton heretofore was rs per cent of a
$4,000 house That would be about
$3.50, and it was in the first fight
| he had with Brown that Darcy re-
, ceived it. Having beaten Brown
twice back home, Darcy may consent
: to take him on here at Walsh's price
; 1t also should be remembered thai
back in the Antipodes Darcy was
l compelled to travel twenty rounds tc
/, referees decision to get his dough
Here he is asked to go only half tina
distance.
f Still, they learn high finance in Z
J hurry when they hit these shores, anc
l perhaps Darcy has been stung witt
!, the bug, too,
Welsh White Again.
Q Havana may be the scene of thu
: fifth encounter between Charlie Whit,
, and Freddie Welsh. Those two bird.
E have met four times for total o
i fifty rounds and the Lightweight
crown still rests firmly upon tn,
: Briton's head White, however, be
z lieves that if the distance is EXTENDED
: to twenty-five rounds he may be abl,
{ to seize it. That seems to be abou
d as much of a marathon as Welsl
= cares for, although White is trying t.
!, get him to consent to making it
finish affair.
e Welsh recently announced he woult
: retire on July 7, the third anniversar,
: of the date on which he wrested tn,
S scepter from Willie Richie. In tn,
n meantime he says he will enter on