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IRHi jVi 4 EBRUARY 23 8 1912 Youth Triumphs in Battle for eatherweight Title OUTLAWS HOLD EXPANSION KEY BY GARVEY SHIT EAST WOULD BENEIT BRUISED EYE ONLY MARK Change in A A Roster Affecting ning But Two Rounds do SUH present fittest sur Dunn the championship HALLEY Biz job after boxer 25c each was advancing in the report CENTRAL SCHEDULE ADOPTED BY BOSSES Automobiles Being Played KOKOMO VOLLEY TEAM WINS This was thp announcement ribs had been snowbound and Sale to meet dith Smith finished come Chicago defeated Crane CONNIE MACK ON TEXAS SOIL 18 16 Juarez Entries 95 2) North Penniylvania Street 5 to Cafferata 'Westw best scheme the has ever Southwest Apprentice allowance cause nt 3:30 USE STAR WANT ADS OR RESULTS Southern and and from with the In cheers Shotput 8 Inches: 21 feet 6 seconds 120 yard Mackey reputation clinched butting games in all round Exclusive apenf DU NLA HA TS BURKHARDT'S $300 HATS and was Kil Meridian Ante Co 794484 Meridian HL successful in bringing home the ry match he lias engaged in in ieart received by condition out ite was 'suffering from cerebral hernor such park who introduced by Attell will not improved upon boxing game Kllbane com arm Tn the for season the than willing occupied by their work a period as the American to Memphis of KILBANE WEARS CROWN Park Theatre Clothing Store ISO WEST WASHINGTON ST grease from body Ktl rushed ducked an uppercut and to the jaw Then with a right Attell'g head Head to head the Illinois boy hut the infighting open work was Papke did not Tr' Rubber Co (08 twit Routh IlllnoU St 25c Aato Light and Elec Oa North Meridian St ourth handicap 6 furlongs Vanir 95 Trinh Gentleman 108 Enfield 113 Sebago Hendertoo Motor Sales Company Capitol avenue at Vermont Boston 15 6 5 15 17 14 17 14 Gordon Douglas New' York defeated Bartlett Boston 15 4 15 9 15 6 lncke New York defeated Water bury New York 15 8 3 15 14 18 17 16 TITLE HOLDER ESCAPES COLLAR for ties It fits cl: the negro welterweight pugilist who fell un conscious at the start of the sixth round of hie bout with Joe Motto here Tuesday night died today at a hospital JOHNNY going down imaginary landed right and loft He brought blood from straight left bnn hard lefts to the face A right to At the optic It MARION SALE CO Office Oliver and Drover Bta nated Patsy Kline from the title climb When lie met Attel Thursday he was the most logical featherweight in the world to be sent against the great He brew And this after forty three battles in the ring three years and a half of fight ing Surely progress has been remarkable Champion of America at 22 and the cleverest and fastest boy in the world Johnny was married in the summer of 1911 and has a baby daughter COLORED PUGILIST DIES 'ELAND eb 22 Charlej number probabl live at the roll call tonight Despite it is not likely that fertile in either neither lad doihg any damage After a min ute of this kind of work Kllbane stepped away and then straight left jumped into a )rrUd wnrripri in a clinch but doing no damage Round rank Gotch tn search wrestling chamnionshu) matched to meet Yankee Rogers tn a finish of the honors has the of his that 1 The police announced that Motto will be held pending an investigation terns knot Price OR) TlckM Mte 48 Washington St Car Illinois Phonet: Mala 868: New 868 MUCHMS AM Ore At INDIANAPOLIS SAN RANCISCO Cal eb Sailor Ed Petroskey aspirant for middleweight honors took a terrific drubbing today at the hands of rank Klaus the Pitts burgh claimant of the championship Klaus won the decision with nearly every round to his credit Petroskey with the odds 2 to 1 against him received two punches for every one he landed but the twentieth round found him still ready to exchange blows and he was cheered repeatedly for his game ness Klaus had ail the better of the in fighting and belabored Petroskey ribs ana puffed and bleeding the switch tending a vear at the work! go out to Crystal Beach and Dunn train for fight Dunn THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR RIDAY A ye POSTPONE BASKET BALL GAME PORTLAND Ind eb 22 The basket ball game between Anderson and Portland High School team tentatively arranged to bo played at Hartford City Saturday night tn decide the championship of eastern In diana and to chose the Eighth District rep resentative in a state contest later has been canceled and the game will be played some time after the meeting qf the state high school athletic board which will decide the teams which will play for the honor of repre senting the district The choice Is said to lay between Portland Anderson and Pendle rocked head with a Attell missed twice" and clinch He was tired and The round ended with both Third selling furlongs 95 Hardy 95 Alisa Paige 100 lying D'or Isom Hugh Gray 102 The Visitor 105 Gue Hartridge Bill Anderson Raquette 105 ree Will 107 Droml 108 Gift 109 Sidon 112 WAYNE Ind eb Direc the Central League closed their here this afternoon with i the ollowers of the two be a match between them to settle for good the superiority of one or the other They fought at Canton on New day 1910 Johnny's cleverness was too much for Tommy and he was given the decision This fight was the beginning An expansion of the American Associa tion would be welcome news to the West ern League if only the expansion would shift the American Association East With Minneapolis Kansas City St Paul and Milwaukee in the Western League it could reorganize a paying circuit But Kansas City is the best paying baseball city outside the major leagues and with Indianapolis is major league caliber Min neapolis has done well with a pennant winning team but a question what would happen if Champs should hit the bumps good and hard The two pennant winning feats of the Mil lers 1b all that have kept Minneapolis in the circuit" and time was when expansion and Invasion rumors were thickest that Minneapolis was relegated to the castoffs But Cantillon evidently believes his position in the A A forthe time being Is secure else the Cantillon brothers would not incur the expense of building a new baseball plant In Min neapolis Of course a baseball park could be used in the Western League but that necessity will not arise in the immediate future White Johnny Happy Davis for sneed and friends thought he He scored two Second Round ormick Chicago defeated Mere It depends upon what the will be able to do and at this stage of the game it appear they will do much of anything beyond agitation If the outlaws really start the season and fail It will put a big crimp in American Asso ciation plans If the outlaws are headed off before they open their major leagues will be more to have available territory organized baseball and keep forces Intact for as lone possible by blocking any opposition Thus In 1913 Indianapolis may be in a circuit with Pittsburgh Chicago and perhaps Cleveland and Cincinnati Despite the lorur lumn to Kansas City the association would abandon field for the sake of taking Cleveland or Cincinnati Hoosier champion Bill $2500 Suits Ovtrcoatt $1650 if I of proficiency and furthered by Rather it will be betterment of the that Johnny Kllbane of Cleveland apped out a calendar that went through with only a few unimportant changes and the ort Wayne meeting passed Into his tory The schedule was designed to give the Eastern cities of the league opportunities of seeing the Western clubs early in the season and the directors believe it to be the had ORTY THREE IGHTS IN THREE YEARS GIVE THIS APT SON ERIN LONG GUARDED TITLE DIRECTORY Motor CorotccESMiiEs JI ZBYSZKO IS MATCHED TO MEET YANKEE ROGERS HERE NOTRE DAME Ind eb George Philbrook noted In footbull and in track games at Notre Dame Is training dailv under the direction of Coach Marls for the Centaphalon or all round champion ship games which will be held in Chica go on June 8 There will be ten events and in most of these Philbrook holds rec ords Coach Marls declares that he will send Philbrook to the Olympic Stockholm next summer as the champion of America His records nre as follows: 45 feet inches: discus 136 feet high lump 6 feet broad jump niches 100 yard dash 10 4 5 440 vard run 54 4 5 seconds: high hurdles 16 seconds 220 yard low hurdles 26 seconds The pole vault will give him the most trouble on account of his size As soon as he learns the trick of ha i dling ihe javelin he should prove a good huner irst race selling 1 mile Miss Miller 90 Mycenae irst wasnion 92 striteChess 100 Hiccough Minnellette Rob arley 107 Heart's Relief Lonia Toni ranks Rubinon Cameo PedroGreen Bridge 115 Second selling 7 furlongs 100 Yankee Booh 102 Keep Moving Marl got Harlem Maid 105 Charles Green Jim Alien ream 10 ADrono no 109 Virginia Lindsay 110 Novgorod new the Kil out Abe THE COLLAR that fits the neck band and fits the neck at the same time stick up and scratch your chin the fourth and fifth games Sum David Braden Co TAILORS 451 455 Lemckt Annex Tires Vultanlzln MlketC Rt'rwlf WESTCOTT As the date approaches for of the various squads the American Association managers are not bothering their heads about contraction is a bigger problem for them the con traction of a squad of thirty candidates into a bunch of eighteen or twenty regu lars when the playing season opens In dianapolis is not the only city that is not all Almost every club in the league lacks at least one player Minne apolis needs a first baseman and perhaps a shortstop St Paul will have to have a regular catcher and a 'second baseman (Mike Kelley might talk trade with Jimmy Burke) Milwaukee also needs a catcher and Charley Carr could use a seasoned second baseman at Kansas City Columbus is In need of a short Stop and three infield positions will have a to be filled at Louisville Thus it Is av question whether Derrick will be able to fill Hort's place at first base for To ledo and shortstop may prove a bad hole to plug Thus it is assured that there Will be somewhat of a scramble when the major leagues begin to shake the plum tree for an April joke hammered his face until it wan Petroskev held his own in exchanges at long range shook his man with right crosses uppercuts but never stopped Klaus boring Into a clinch ifth selling 6 furlongs Evelina er rona 90 Moralight 97 Chanticleer 100: Lady Tendl 102 Tim Judge 104 Waner 107: Meddling Hannah 110 Plt a Pat John Griffin II aneuii Hall rank Hogan Mo eb 22 Albert Moulton last season as second baseman Louis team of today released League BOSTON Mass eb The favorites ail came through ihe second round of match play in 1he national racquet championship tournament hero today but Reginald lncke holder of the title had a narrow escape from defeat at the hands of Law rence Waterbury of New York This match was the feature of the play lncke won the first game but Waterbury was vic tor In the second and third lncke then settled to by taking inary ready entered into son will occur on end of the season shortened bv the usually runs ten days into September None of the clubs will play longer than eighteen days at home and there are few stands of that length of time The sectional schedule was never in evidence as it was found impracticable before the makers had gone far with it and it was abandoned by President arson The playing program selected is a sort of composite of several schedules and was drafted by Bobby Quinn of the Akron and Columbus clubs After wrangling over the various drafts submitted for several hours yes terday afternoon It became evident (hat the magnates never would ne ano arrive at an agreement on a program and when Quinn volunteered to take the job over President Carson told him to go to it Locking himself in his room at the Wavne the Akron representative mapped out a calendar that went through Middleweights Miss Vicious Swings for Knockout Jones Quits Defeats Local A Athletes in Two Games The open ort Wayne at Dayton Rapids at Springfield Terreat South Bend Wheeling at Youngstown al Zanesville and Pittsburgh Middleweight Whips Game Sailor Petroskey in Every Round BOXING CLASS TO MEET The boxing class Inaugurated by Physical Director Tomlinson of the A will 7:15 for the second lesson at the first call and this will be Increased to twenty Reginald incke Survives in Close Match at Boston SACRAMENTO Cal eb What ever claimfBilly Papke of Illinois may have had to the middleweight champion ship of the world is now the undisputed property of rank Mantel! of Pawtucket I Mantell so well earned a twenty round decision over Papke this afternoon that even Tom Jones manager was discouraged and announced he would nave notnmg to 10 wttn tne Illinois Mantell did not fight brilliantly re naci me oetier 01 throughout What little done was fatrlv divided have his old ring generalship and time after tune Mantell had him backing away and leaning against the ropes Less thana dozen of vicious swings hit the mark Only two rounds belonged to him In the eighth honors were even and the others were Neither man had sufficient strength behind his blows to land a knockout Kfi Bo2 rBk Hl Cam CUT 5ii Oplttliw Startar attell is bewildered Time and again the bewildered Attell tried In vain to corner the Cleveland man The decision of Referee Eyton was received with cheers and Kllbane was carried from the building on the shoul ders of his friends want to telephone to he said meaning Mrs Kilbane Attell tired his face and bleed ing left the ring at once As he reached the edge of the platform he said to a friend I had to Aand for It I could not do any Round 1 Both men walked slowly to the center After sparring they clinched and Kllbans got In a hard right to the jaw on the break or the next minute both men stood in the center and not a blow was ex changed Then they clinched Round even Round 2 Each man tried to feel out his opponent Kilbane put a vicious left to the jaw and avoided a left counter Attell did not seem as fast on his feet as Kilbane The Clevelander landed right and loft and avoided returns mouth with a again landed two starting the blood flowing right eye nearly closed was round Round 3 They clinched and plained that Attell bent his next clinch Attell was warned round Round 4 The box 3 clinched and wrestled about the ring Kllbane was landing three blows to one The crowd boohed at Attell for holding in a clinch Round even Round 5 left eye was swollen and nearly closed and Kilbane kept pecking at it Attell continually clinched and held on The spectators yelled to him to fight Kllbane backed off atlH hammering at At sore eye and the round was even 'Round 6 Kllbane twice jabbed bad eye He then rushed but was stopped by a stiff left to the mouth first hard blow Honors even Round 7 Attell forced the fighting He put a left to the jaw and Kllbane backing away retaliated with left and right to the face Kllbane nearly upset the champion with a straight left to the jaw Kllbane backed away and Attell followed putting a good left to the wind Attell bad a shade the better Round 8 Kilbane chased Attell all over the ring but did not land Attell seemed tired His face was swollen while the Cleveland boy bore not a mark In a clinch Attell got chin under his head and suddenly champion Round than the to head the lads fought for the wind round Round 10 Both rushed and Attell got a bad left on the mouth Kilbane then put a right to the ribs Abe was wild In a clinch Kilbane landed four rights In quick succession to the jaw without receiving a return Tne cnampion hissed for holding and round by a big margin Round Atteu landed his left low down clinch on ribs and Attell again held on even Round Philbtook Is Training for All Round Championships Isch reemaR Auto Go HYNES 12 The spectators yelled They clinched and the referee had hard work separating them Kilbane land ed a left on the jaw at the break Attell was wild In hie lead Kilbane ran Into a hard right to the Jaw but countered with left and right to the ribs Round even Round 13 Attell in a clinch put a hard right to the jaw Kilbane pushed Attell nearly through the ropes Kllbane landed a vicious left on the jaw His speed seemed to worry Abe Kilbane landed left and right on the face Bell rang as they were exchanging body punches round Round 14 Kllbane forced the fighting He landed a hard left on the nose and the Cleveland eatherweight Wins Clean Cut Victory Over Vet eran in Twenty Rounds Pole Who Is Near Title Bout With rank Gotch Signs to Grapple at Empire Stanislaus Zbyszko the Polish wrestler who Is a consistent trailer in the path of world been sent the Ohio boy back Kilbane jumped back and staggered the with a terrific left on the jaw round 9 Kilbane seemed much faster champion in the clinches Head Kil THE those close front and still you feel per fectly comfortable No harnessed up feeling WHY PAY MORE WHEN $999 bys tiie Best Suit on Earth Colonist Low ares In March and April Northwest Old Master Quits Ring Badly Hammered by Youngster Win moter Walls when it that Mat Mendoza would not be able time to meet the Schober last night Zbvszko recently Gotch before a high brow Boston audience any time the champion Is willing East and re enter the mat game nas peen bacon lit ev this country since his failure a couple ot years ago to wrest the champion a crown from its present resting place In place of the Mendoza Schober match Young Olson and Aria Coppie were quicklv pressed Into service and the substitutes put up a rattling good go for the large crowd of fans assembled oung Ojsoh won the first fall in 11 minutes and the second in 6 min utes MOTOR COMPAMT lio ut Past New York Cadillac Aotomoblle Co of Tt was not unusual io see him Detroit street punching at men longer after their training encasements al Labor day this Rea Sept 2 and the tail is very considerably action as the league Mantell Victor Over Billy Papke Athletic Manager With Twerity SIx White Elephants at Santorie SAN ANTONIO Tex ob "22 San Anto nio welcomed Manager Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Americans and twenty six of his recruits to Texas today After the ar rival of ihe Philadelphia team hundreds of Sun Antonio Lans gathered In a hotel where Mack and his men were in a scheduled program of welcom ing addresses j' led for the Each appeared to slow Attell landed right on jaw In a Kllbane landed several hard blows Honors Western Clubs Might Help Western League of growth Whittaker He achieved a cleverness but his ran a wav ton knockouts that year but these feats did not dispel the Impression that he was a looKing giass ORTY THREE IGHTS AND CHAMP There was considerable rivalry be tween him and Tommy Kilbane another local boy of the same name but no rela tion i nev nai a readv toueht times twice to a draw and the majority of rlie points to Johnny In the final go Both boys line! been performing outside ana his profession a hard lilt ter gan to talk of Klaus Bores Into an Easy Victory BY COPELAND If the major league baseball squad? not hurry up and pitch their training camps and open direct lines of communi cation with the fans will expand until the bubble bursts expansion is all there Is on tap The Western League is the only minor league that is not very well satisfied with the readjustment of baseball and that league persists in cutting into the ex pansion pie but certainly the American Association has nothing to fear from that quarter our of the Western League clubs lost money last year and one club was carried through the season bj league At one time the chib was in hard lines that 'everything at the was attached and the constables didn't know the customs of baseball attached the shoes which lheir personal property The Western League balked at the reclassification of the'leagues and held out against It until the last of course there was a reason But the league was not in a class with the American Association and organized baseball men recognized that fact Sait Overcoat ailure to Go Through Season Would Put Crimp in American Association Plans ling the Clevelander about the ring Jt was round with Attell apparently tired Round 15 Attell showed a burst of his old time speed by getting out of a bad hole but an Instant later Kilbane put two lefts to the sore eye As they clinched a spec tator oiled to Attell that his face was greasy coming out of me I'm a smilingly retorted the champion As they broke Kllbane rocked head with a left and then landed his right on the ribs round Round 16 Kilbane rushed and began a tattoo on the face Referee Eyton hero dragged at his corner rubbed the bane again landed left he reached Kllbane rained blow after blow on body As they clinched Attell butted Kil bane over the eye making it bleed profusely The spectators jumped to their feet and began hissing both Attell and Referee Eyton round Round 17 Both men rushed and fought furiously Attell complained of holding but was himself warned not to use fils head again In a clinch Johnny got In three blows to one from his opponent Abe seemed to realize that he must make a strong finish and rushed but was met every time with straight lefts Kllbane clearly out boxed the champion At close quarters Kll bane nearly lifted the champion from his feet with a right to the stomach round Round 18 It wm clinch and break with LOS ANGELES Cat eb A pugillBilc champion was made In Vernon arena today when Johnny bane of Cleveland decisively fought outgamed and outpunched Attell in a twenty round contest and at the close was awarded the featherweight title by Referee Charles Eyton Nearly ten thousand persons saw" the fight Eully 5000 others were turned away at the gates it was the greatest crowd that ever viewed a prize fight in Los Angeles The receipts amounted to approximately $25000 The men fought for a purse of $10000 of which Attell was to receive $6500 win lose or draw and Kllbane $3500 Besides they agreed to divide evenly 50 per cent of the moving picture privilege BOASTED SPEED MISSING Attell was clearly outfought His boasted speed and wonderful cleverness were not in evidence Kllbane made him look like a novice in nearly every round Only In one round the seventh did At tell have a lead and that was not by any means as decisive as that of Kilbane lii the remaining rounds Attell brought the wrath of the big crowd upon his head by foul tactics Time and again he held arms in a clinch and once in the eighth he grabbed left arm with both hands and tried to bend it back In the third he the Cleveland boy while in a clinch and In nearly every succeeding round his work called forth hisses from the spectators In the seventh when after rushing Into a clinch to avoid tattoo of his face and body Attell butted the Clevelander with Ills head opening a big gash over Kilane's left eye from which blood spurted profusely At the beginning of the sixteenth round Referee Eyton stopped the fight grabbed a towel and thoroughly Wiped oft body It was seen to be covered with some greasy substance Attell protested but the referee paid no attention to him work was a revelation even to his friends Entering the ring with the odds 2 to 1 against him he never fal tered for an instant He fought fast and showed clever work both with his hands and feet A straight left jab to nose or sore left eye was his favorite blow He would send this In and then like a flash cross with his right to the other side of head and jump back out ot way Attell seemed wild throughout the flght but this was due as much to footwork as to any other cause Season Opens April 24 and Closes Labor Day 132 Games MOULTON TO MEMPHIS ST LOUIS who fcnlshed for St Leaguil was tne ORT tors ot meeting adopting of a schedule of 132 games with the opening games scheduled for April 24 and closing on Labor day Ing dates are: Grand Haute Akron Erie at Canton Memorial day dates are: Zanesville at ort Wayne Wheeling at South Bend Youngstown at Dayton Erie at Spring field Akron at Terre Haute and Can ton at Grand Rapids or July 4: Terre Haute at Dayton South Bend at Springfield Canton at Grand Rapids Zanesville at ort Wayne Akron at Wheeling and Erie at Youngstown Labor day: ort Wayne at Akron Grand Rapids at Zanesville South Bend at Erie Terre Haute at Canton Dayton at Wheeling and Springfield at Youngs town ONE TRADE RECORDED Tiie only trade staged at tne meeting was the swap of Doyle by Akron for Bil liard ol Terre Haute he opening is a few days earlier than is the custom in the Central League and this is one departure from the usual cus tom and it was fixed at the request of some of the directors who have book ings with the major league clubs for the first ten days April These owners wanted ponse of carrying their tnev Round 19 Both were wary Kilbane lead ing first' He then backed into his own cor ner and when Attell rushed he dodged a right and sent a slinging left to riba The spectators now were yelling wildly for Kilbane Attell jumped to a clinch and was pushed half way across the ring Ab they broke Kilbane landed his left on the head and the champion looked more worried They clinched and Referee Eyton in trying to break them got left Astron his jaw round Round 20 As they came to the center Kll bane sent in a left that rocked head? They clinched Kilbane landed hard left and rights and jumped back out of a clinch i Attell dashed in but was wild Kilbane nearly upset Attell with a hard left to th face Ho put another right to the head and they clinched head to head exchanging vicious blows Kilbane sent a hard right to head The champion plainly was They were in a clinch as tho gong sounded Referee Eyton pulled them apart and declared Kllbane the winner WRESTLERS ARE READY The first five men to represent the local A tn a wrestling tournament will journey io Bloomington tomorrow afternoon to meet the exponents of the game at In diana University This will be the first con test for the local team Those who will represent the A are Warweg In the special division Webb in the lightweight division Sterling In the welterweight 3ul grove In the middleweight and Johnson In the heavyweight division They will meet morrow at tne i a a re has been booked with Indiana for March 14 i Accessorlit Americas ApiMllch APPERSON Both Phonei? 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Iliac Indiana BO4 Capitol Ave AjuIa laetorr 747 7M Eaet Waah St wOie cone motor car comrant RSIS Capltoljtvenue at Vermoat EU HTVilftBAKERy di 80(18 Pena St landers CLEVELAND eb Johnny Kilbane Irish as a 22 year old boy with sparkling blue eyes ready wit whose every action is peppery effervescent Indicative of a lightning brain and panther body is the successor of Abe Attell as the featherweight cham pion of America A boy better equipped for this estimable honor would be hard to find With him as leader the scientific standard Dixon suffer to the Now after working his way to the goal of all pugilistic persons has gained it by beat ing the wonderful Hebrew' champion yoii want to know something about this new jewel of the gloves He will Interest you gentle reader It is not necessary that you be an enthusiast on boxing The boy has a personality and as such he will afford a pleasant character study Kilbane was born in Cleveland in April 1889 Hls fatherwas Irish his mother was Irish and all hls relatives were de scendants of the tribal chieftains of the Emerald Isle who ruled before the ad vent of Cromwell And Johnny himself Is Irish you would never have to look twice to acquaint yourself with the fact He has no brogue but you can tell his ancestors had There is something about him perhaps it's Ills hashing eyes and a general air of activity which he control that suggests shamrocks in lull bloom the bogs the turf the clay pipes and the black tea lie is a typical Irish youth of today but still he would have fitted snugly Into the customs of gen erations agone IS TOUGH KID AT 13 YEARS When he was vountr that is nr 14 he was tough wdkl as an Irish kid who is forced to shoulder the burdens of the world thus early in life generally is Johnny has a father who had the mis fortune to go blind and the present champion was hustled through the pH 1' mary grades so he could beput to work and support the family His lack of edu cation doubtless lost to the country a brilliant man or with the proper schooling he would have risen to heights uryona moae onerea ny nstiana io be come a champion fighter It is essential that a man have attributes to a higher quality than a hundred other men Evo lution is applied to boxing the same as io mecncine or iaw umy tne vlve and hold the ramparts He was a switch tender on railroad when Jimmy Newcastle lightweight came land five years ago He weighed nineiy pounds stripped which was mostly ski'n and bones But he was a spirited kid chock full of animal spirit and it take more than two words to get him fighting He liked to hang around the of an evening and listen to the fight talk and he then had visions of mmseir tn tne ring fighting cries of the crowd in his ears for him Quitting putting in chance to see Jlmmv was a real live fighter at that time and Johnny of course idolized him Dunn and he became great friends and Dunn gave him a few lessons in boxing That settled his destiny He decided then and there he wanted to be a scrapper find he beseeclied Dunn to take him and be come hls manager He fought Ills first battle Dec 2 1907 in Cleveland It was three round af fair and he won He kept on Matches came regularly for him for six months and he was victor in most of them Then hard times came and neither he nor Dunn could get a tight They had a tough struggle to obtain three squares a day All the time Johnny was study ing boxing often on an empty stomach He was an apt pupil and quick to learn 112 Sixth selling 1 mile Mamar Rake 102J Eckert Ed Withers 105 New Capi tol Maible Girl 107 Ben Uncaa igent 108 Walton 112 Zulu 114 KILBANE of rise After that he battled the best feather weights in the East He won in the ma jority of cases but scored but one knock out As a result he was looked upon as a boxer without a punch Critics ad mitted was fast crafty and all but that was the best they could say about him inally after a yean and a half of point victories he went to California and knocked Joe Rivers helpless In six teen rounds He effectively demonstrated li? possessed a settling blow That fight wc 4 the stepping stone to the champion ship After that he defeated rankie Conlev and Charlev White of Chicago three Prior to the Rivers combat he had eliml DESKS All sizes and shapes Prices to suit all Navin A Baker 107 Maryland Street 4 a A 7 7 Stores 2 Wide Brim ar The of Now This shows the particular lie vin on shape 1 most in favor now Rather low crown broad brim nar row band Besides this showing more than fifty other new i shapes so your indi Ck vidual tastes can be i gratified Levinson i Two Dollar Levinson Hat Shop I Gloves 37 Pennsylvania St 115 $150 Market and Illinois Sts and $200 41 Illinois St i Jf i to the i I a Plrce Arrow 425 North Meridian DnAllilaa 'Premier Motor Car Co a BIHIBI tory 2212(5 Shelby Street Baalai premier sales co riBIIUBl (12 818 Delaware St.