The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-07
Corbett's Daily Letter
 On Great Sport Topics
SAMUELS
By JAMES J. CORBETT

i, had come solely as workman. But l the advent of Driscoll had been in-I | fluenced by Daley. He was out tol | secure revenge on Kilrain-and ne | hoped that Driscoll was to be the mel dium. Driscoll, although unknown tol l Kilrain, had acquired considerable rep l utation as a prizefighter, and although, 1 he had figured in a dozen bouts uf | more up to that time had never beea whipped. A few days after DriscoI took up work at the shop, he made it his busi- ness-at Daley's instructions-to at tempt to pick a quarrel with Kilrain. The big, good -natured country boy paid no attention to him al first, but from day to day Driscoll became more taunting and more abusive. The in evitable happened. Kilrain flared up and battle was on.
 It was a rough-and- tumble fight with no quarter given-and none ask ed. The men stood toe-to-toe slugging away without mercy. Kilrain, fight ing cooly and calmly, fenced off the blows of his giant antagonist, and gradually wore down Driscoll with a
 series of sledge hammer wallops A
 series of attacks upon Driscolrs stom-
 ach finally shortened" the giant tr
 Kilrains size, and then Jake hurled
 through a succession of blows to the jaw which sent the huge Driscoll tn the mat unconscious--20 minutes after
 the fight began.
 Undscouraged by the failure ot Driscoll, Daley still seeking revenge, imported another fighter whose name was Dan Dwyer. Dwyer was there
 only two days before he succeeded in forcing Kilraiu into fight. The bat tie was long and bloody. Dwyer put up even better showing than had the huge Driscoll. But the result was the same. Kilrain beat his foe almost to unconsciousness and then when it seemed that few more punches might work serious injury to Dwyer, the shop audience jumped in and stopped fur ther hoStilities
 Some weeks later Daley. maddened because two of his tools" had been whipped by Kilrain, secured the dis trict for another battler. He secured him in the person of Dennis Roach. But Daley did not get Roach job. He simply went among Kilrain's friends and told them that Roach was the man that Kilrain was afraid to | meet. Jake's friends at once retorted that there wasn't man alive that Kilrain wouldn't tackle.
 Daley replied that he had money to bet that Kilrain wouldn't fight Roach. l The friends of Jake quickly accepted 1 ito the delight of Daley. He figured | that those boys would go to Kilrain and that when they told Jake they har bet that he would fight Roach tha. Jake, to save the bets of his friends. wouldn't back out
 And that is just what happened. Although Kilrain had no desire ts fight Roach. there was nothing lett nr h tro l I,,%. &@ k,y, Daley was in high glee. He had los. his bets that Kilrain wouldn't fight, but he expected to clean up with wa gers on Roach against Kilrain. The match was arranged for week l later and considerable money was bet on the outcome.
 On the night before the fight was t' take place Kilrain was taken sick and | doctor had to be called. The physi- elan ordered Jake to remain indoors I Tor week and not to indulge in any violent exercising. But Kilrain, fee.- l ing that if he failed to go through l with the match. that he would be term. I ed a coward, ignored the advice and reported for battle at the appointed | time.
 l Roach was a battler of the hurri. cane type and right at the outset at- l tempted to rush Kilrain off his feet. l Undoubtedly he had been tipped off, ! that Kilrain was sick and in no shape 1 to stand up under an aggressive at | tack. Roach aimed his volleys at KN- | rains stomach and succeeded in land- | ing three times in succession in the l first round-and with fearful force.
 But Kilrain-game to the core--refus- ed to quit.
 l With the beginning of the second 1 round Kilrain caught Roach with a 1 swinging right-hander and closed one l of his eyes From that time on the tide of battle swept along in Kilrain's l favor and in few more rounds he had
 | so beaten Roach that his friends rush.
 ed into the improvised ring and stop
 l ped the contest
 | That ended Kilrain's fight career 1 in the mill and Daley was "cured" 1 CTo be continued)