The sun., 1919-10-06
'KILBANE STEADILY{I
SIDESTEPS VALGER
Mystery in Featherweiglt
Champions Attitude
Other Boxing Gossip.

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Beyond DOUBT Johnny h'pahf'
featherweight champion OF America Is
the most peculiar young man engaged
in tho hoxirs ,,dus,ry Tho CLEVELAND
title holder has just declined an excel
lent financial inducement to meet Benny
ya,ser 4, nm .,gh. wound bout at tho
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Sportshhehs Niuo' NeWarh' next Hoh-
day night, and his reason for SO doing
| is a mystery. Valger is n boxer who
scales abo,It taO nounds. iust betweep
| tbe featherweiybt and llehtweiaht
classes. and while he is a clever boxer
| the Frencbmar naver has done aIiy-
thing in the ring calculated TO iinspire
! fear in man 81 Kilbane,s skill yet
| the title holder persistently sidesteps a
match with VaIger and gives the chal-
as 10 tho result - r,oo,ins tSff
In view OF Kilbane's performance
against good men nus attitude toWaro
wager is nekpIlcabie' Ihe CleVeiahoer
mas toyed with better men than wager
anu wIlnout trying 10 win oeclsiVeiy'
| ms never peen IN daIger ior minute
! hecehty the tUie hoiuer maze snow
OF fTahNe Burns ana intended TO spare
me Jerseyman lor anotner pout with
| iat purse put the releree insisted on ac-
|
puncn. ~
| hlipape III l'lo hiooheo OUT ralsS
onhe IN Two ROUNDS, WINE JACKSON IN
| nNe Iouhus anu ueotse Nnaney III tnies
Iounus, E, anu neiu nshiwe,snts hke Me-
So9sa,i, inlcnie Mi'cnen' rreuuie Mehh
anu olhers even. Let ne slaesteps
9ouhsster Wlthout nali the apilty OIL Ine
men the Cieveiander mas beaten. The
only severe setback kiibane has received
naIius vi Leoharu' anu the nentweisnt
| chai'plo,l can put 10 steep pel'er men
'na,i nlipane'
| u may pe ,hat the champion intenus
| 70 Iet n Ihatch win wager uangie De-
| toio tho eSes VI .he pioinoteis III such
| sihe as lneg pio hlgn lot IL: mere
| iole' IL wiz pe III oiuer LOT wager 10
neep IN sooo cohuiIioh anu Wa'ch MS
lpusihstio STEP
'a'ser w. brown AT Armory A. a.
| In view Of tho refusaI NJ the Eo,est
| Citv man 70 box Vaiaer Promoter Wacs
| kay of the Armory A. A OF Newarl,
yesterday engaged Willie Jackson to hoy
| Tommmy Tuohey at NEXT Nonday,s
star card. and this bout, with the ones
Harold Farese and AL Roberts and Char
ley Weinert, should provide excellent
eh.ertalhIneht:
Mackay last hlght aiso signed frankie
brown as an opponent Tor Valger. This
an aaoeo attraction. Valger has be-
gun uaihihs at Stliimans Gymnasium
ne WI, pe Joiieo Today by Benny
heo'la'u' anu .he Two VIII train 10
| se.ner. heoiaru WIZ give wager some
POINTERS Whlch shauld prove valuable
10 MN. lbroWn scored clean knock
aoWh over hiioane recently in Phila-
ueiphia-
/
Benny Leonard recently turned down
generous oner from an Atlantic City
aS hatter OF principle Angered by
WHAT i-eonaru ana ElDsoh say are whole
naie lanrications @ sent OUT by renders
,ialaser .nd benny determined 10 nave
io,nhs 70 40 WIN tne Phlladelphla
slsnt"eIsht as long as the Quakers af-
~ Ialis are peihs hahuieu Dy ms present
nt"nascL; ~ can De imagined now
unoioasH,y 1eonaru is aroused when he
, u.I'u =, uowh SZV'oVU guarantee to
Ileet Iehuler IN an elght round bout.
leonard soon VIII start on a tour
through the sticks. A twenty round
setn oout y, win In marley White IN Denver is
saiu 10 De III the making.
'"r'es May manage Dempsey.
fus'llsuc ians VINO nave their ears
tne GROUND say thst JACK Curley only
| "aitihs LOT tne ecno OF the worlds
Seiies ..1' 70 uIe away pelore ne exploits
meaNyweisht chanpionship match be
'"een JACK Derlpsey and Willie Meehan
wine OF san FRANCISCO who
twice maue IL interesting for Jack in
IOuT TOunu bouts OH the COaSt-OVPr -
Dempsevs f1y carte bIsnc%a mGerStood TO- to have
from California with Meehan's sigma
Lii ,,,, a a,,s,.t @ a.'. ne men propaoiy
in December.
Billy Roche announces that he will
render decisions in 'the bouts that viii
| be staged in the First Field Armorv Hos