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JOHNNY MIIE GLEHEfi FIGHTEfl:HE IS SAJ3 TO BE REINCARNATION OF YOUNG GRIFFO.IS FAST AS LIGHTNINGHi Fights on the Same Style as Jim Corbett—The Youth is Not Popular in Cleveland, His Home Town.Johnny Kilbane.By Tip Wright.Cleveland, Ohio., February 20.— JiKflbane left the ring nis hair hadn't {! been mussed.’' ■'* * *That's what they,said about.Johnny ■ Kilbane after twelve rounds with Jack: White, one of the toughest j featherweights.The average fan doesn’t like. tho XII banc type. - He is too fast and clever. Ho doesn't try for knockouts,, being content with decisions. He has had thirty-nine fights, losing one—to iAbe Attell, with Lee Shea, the Kansas jCity referee, on the job. The -newspapers declared it a draw.J- Kiibane is of a new school, as Jim | Corbett was. He has challenged Attell * for the crown and when xhe boss feather returns to the game he is expected to accommodate.Ivilbar.e has met the best- He drew three times with Jack White of Chicago, got a decision. Tn twelve rounds the last time out.' He has beaten Patsy Bracningan, Tom Kjlbane, / Biz JrTackey, Happy Davis, Bobby Tickle,A1 Delruont and others of .less note.Kilbane, looks like the next featherweight champion. He is popular in Philadelphia and Boston, yet good as he is he.camt get dates-in his .home town.r No one seems to know why, but the-; chances. are Clevelanders like tho knock down and drag. iOuL sort, not hoys-, who know.-what to do with.their hands.-when' the chance offers. In ray opinion, Kilbane comes nearer being The reincarnation of the real Griffo than any man,in the ring. Tils footwork,! feinting,.;; blocking; * and punching’ is a treat.'.-Re feinted .Attell into leading, and heat him;', to . the punch as he cbes with every hoy hemeets. ’ \Just keep an eye on this boy and see how far he goes with that championship thing.
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Logansport Weekly Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 21, 1911
Page 8
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