The New York herald., 1922-03-24
KILBANE ACCEPTS
WIRELESS PURSES
Champion at Sea Consents to
Fight Pepper Martin and
Charley Beecher.
ny CHARLES r. MATHIsoN.

II Johnny Knbane meets all the
featherweights ne promised TO previous
10 and after sailing on the Aquitania
he win be the busiest title holder In
| the history OF the class. Jimmy Kelly,
the eminent spaghetti purveyor, VINO
| also holds the managerial reins over
Pepper Martin, waited till the Aqui-
tania was well out to sea and then
wirelessed the Clevelander that the
Rink Sporting Club offered him $4,000
to meet Martin in n fifteen round bout
here. Kelly specified that Kilbane must
be In possession of his title when he
returns. otherwise the $4,000 would not
be forthcoming.
Kilbane wirelessed back that he would
| be delighted to meet Martin. provided
the Peppery youngster defeated Babe
Herman in the meantime. Both Her.
man and Martin We're at the pier the
day that Kilbane sailed and shook him
warmly by the hand in the presence of
a cameraman.
Jimmy Kelly when asked where the
Rink Sporting Club would get the s50,-
COO. maintained a dignified and naughty
silence Hardly had the Kelly-Kilbane
wireless waves subsided when there
was another aerial commotion due to a
message from Phil Bernstein demand
ing to know if Kilbane intended to keep
his promise to meet Charley Beecher on
his return TO this dear America. With
out the slightest hesitation Kilbane
sent his reply hurtllng through the
ether: "Will box Beecher in States
when ] get back"
1t is understood that Danny Frush,
Andy CLANCY and several other feathers
will pursue kilbane across the pond
and endeavor to force him into fight
on European SOIL Meantime Eugene
Criqui. champion of France. awaits
the arrival of Kilbane in order to make
match.
Jimmy Kelly, after getting Kilbane's
wireless. proceeded to open negotiations
for match between Pepper Martin and
Babe Herman to take place at the Rink
Sporting Club March 81. Kelly offered
TO guarantee Herman $1,000, and on
that basis the match. which looks to
| be good one, will likely be staged in
| the Garden in May.
Mel Coogan, the clever Brooklyn light
weight, who boxes Jimmy Hanlon at the
Rink S. c. tomorrow night. rises to re-
mark that Johnny Dundee has no right
to the junior lightweight title. as he
| (Coogan) has two popular decisions
over the italian. A popular decision is
an excellent thing to enter on a boxers
stationery but a bushel of popular
awards would not win a title. If Coogan
covets Dundee's title he will be compelled
to defeat the champion TO decision by
/ judges or a referee.
1 Gordon Munce of the Pastime a. c..
| who holds the rational amateur heavy
weight boxing title and who was unable
/ TO get any amateurs to meet him in the
lo tul. Il
and therefore won by default, appears
TO h. in the same predicament rs Jack
Dempsey In the professional ranks. As
| soon as AIunce, who is a giant and wields
! heavy fist, sends in his entry TO q
/ tourney MI the ether entrants withdraw.
However. the ofYicials OF the Pastime a.
G.. finally discovered a heroic chap named
Henry Lehr, a protege of Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien. who Is willing TO get into
the ring with Munce. The meeting will
take place tonight at the Common,
wealth Sporting Club. Lchr stands five
feet eleven inches tall and weighs 205
pounds. Philadelphia Jack OBrien de-
cares that Lehr is very clever, and how
could he be otherwise in view OF the
fact that the youngster has been trained
by O'Brien for ten months
Midget Smith reports that he injured
his left hand during his bout with Joe
Burman In the Garden last Monday
night. In this dilemma he cannot keer
his engagement to box johnny Gray al
the Broadway Exhibition Association
Brooklyn, next Monday night Joe
Lynch has been substituted. which will
keep Gray very busy.
How Smith hurt his left hand is q
mystery, for he did not land many blows
on Burman with that paw. He did clout
Burman hard and often with the right