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Sport Pegshim |jyWestbrook Pegler.(Copyright, 1022, by lulled News)Among other old men who are frisking: about on baseball cleats or ! pawi for business openings in the ring this summer. th» ; Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland. You won’t begin to realize how old this old fellow must he until you’ve had a glimpse of the silver-fox trimming above his ears and the valleys in the cordovan face wrought by the deft tools of time.In years, Kilbane is only 34. hut ihis years don’t tell the age of the man. You gel the angle better by glancing back over his record, re* I plete with the names of long-for-I gotten kids who once were brave : with ambition. Some are dead, some ( perhaps in prison, some have long j since retired and gone to work and [ one has become a substantial boot* legger in a large wj ft rade.His record, in 1908—that’s fifteen years ago—notes a win in 10 rounds over Young Saylor. Remember him? Came from Indiana. Hood fighter but mean tempered and full ofshady tru ks. F ight some good bouts in Australia. Made himself sensational as a lightweight later by his loop-the-loop punch, a long wallop that whacked a man on the hack of the lungs and punched hisbreath out.Then there’s Tommy Kilbane, nokm to John, reminiscent of the years when “skiddoo” was modern; and Hi* Mackey, another name which clanks like the chains of a haunting ghost. Young Ghetto. Monte At tell. Pat sy Brann igan ~ what a (lusty old list that is?Rut here’s an item which makes Kilbane positively juvenile. Joe Me-Ginnity, pitching for Dubuque in the Mississippi Valley league, beat Marshalltown, 1 to o. allowing four hits only. McGinnity i* 52, He pitched and won a world series games for the (iiants in 1905 two years before Kilbane had his first preliminary bout.
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Dubuque Times Journal
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Jun 03, 1923
Page 17
Full Page
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John H.
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