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es ce oo rd - a ~ ei Lik ail ce ~- t , ni or THE EVENING WORLD,’ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1912. (tit urwieenst) NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT EDI TED B Y ROBERT EDGREN ' Cleveland Wild With Enthusiasm Over Her First Champion JOHNNY KILBANE SOLE | KILBANE’S HAPPY FAMILY TESREAU IS ONLY eeeaa, SUPPORT OF BLIND DAD w URRA! } PTHER OF e ADO 7 HOTS AT rn “ © within the last two weeks atone t Mied wave of crime 4h idy gentlemen have rushed nto the limelig fa iture for us all the police BY BOZE RAN BULG ' A - oficiales sed and a new crop in- to Suggest that every taxicab driver out and ebot at dawn in consequence Marlin, ‘Tex. F T the end of the frat Week of) or recent oomes A training Manager MeG t AM of whieh ied he G Anybody can mar 1 th ats finds dimeelf in the sane dilemma (hat confronted hin when he left New York, His matn Nor private. BARWYON 40) SERS yject in scouring the coun * told all the nelghbora about Mr recruits this season was to get al ery Outlates dre perience, The result that Harry is @ hero and pitcher, As yet no ons has stood ont, | ahbors on t rv dark, so much do they trong enough to be considered read ' Kasiest thing the world. 1 his salary in a stuas game @nd dup and eb for hia roll. She, New World's Feat Featherweight Cham- pion Lost His Mother When Only Six Years Old and His Grand- mother, Who Died Recently, Reared Him Into Manhood. ow a chan up 1d Cold hits Ww thing, not y for) him anew, and the highway The only bope of! cute the price af a A peg-poster and s torough all the nation or the t nude these wad is big Jom Tesrent, | alacn the villagers the pre and he has not worked enough to see | PP Acie naa ‘ And, beleve me, rumor never diminishes: a story spreads. [ have whether he is yet right for the Grea en in a Line of endeavor for many years where 1 have had to analyze rumors. White Lights He has shown Robin pe eatin: it citigena ty » called me up to tell me that at : son a couple of nice curves and he is feast one pundr von were fort off one of Jack Fleming's scows up th Cow Reasons Why Johnny Kilbane Is SE ee TEA CME IRE RAT TERETE TRGTITGE UTE Ter TCT be al Weeks Wofore McGraw Is Martin Hye schoolmaster fu the County of Mayo, used to Ring's Most Interesting Champion Thoroughly religt baby. Bas hoen supporting his blind father for past nine years. al emtling the same when he 1s among friends as when facing the enemy in the ring. Knows every kid in the neighborhood of his home im Cleveland, and they a1] swear by him. Mis mother died w! he was siz years old and he was raised to manhood by his graudmother, whom he loved like a mother. ‘Word of his grandmother's death kept from him before Rivers fight @t Los Angelés, as his manager knew it would shock iim so that he ‘Wouldn't ave bee: je to win, ‘Was timekeeper on docks before embarking ou pugilistic career. Ie great lover of music and plays violin nicely. Considers corned beef and cabbage the feast of a king, particularly @ featherweight monarch. entitled “"Chree Black Crows.’ which touched off this point to umebody who saw somethiug black told it to somebody else who a crew of It and be fi Gira passed [t along until it Lecame three crows, Ht would A whole dod of crows When the rumorites got through with tt Farrell are both th ESO ene r tw ae nest NP ABOUT AUTOS It would be a good idea to insist on a “character* eat n t afterst elty warm en s. My own expertence has heen t : sing, hard-worked and long-houred chaps. Thets ‘ a t circle and whose records are ' vik urge the compulsory pastor or other position to know wheihe in an iieportant and devoted to his wife and nine months’ old HAT A FINE. BUNCH of bouts | Batdw encounter at. the N talent for other QUMAE tha week ECARD ny Wwilloy was the only thin t . ‘ are ' , ’ 1 the Mik dibb = i First fought at a smoker at Cleveland in 1907. | E the V xaaee, [them woutd BO GIE 6YORY Trewin t bite Empire inst Tight Once helped train Jimmy Dunn, now bis manager, for a fight, and ‘ 8 good ¢ WRT ii te bepciemememnati dace AL BEL Ly where « rarcet form was pitted that is how their partnership developed. | ihe s room, If fi ana | deny manne ny of New ifty, dangerous plugger. [covers an immense amount Hin i tisens ssed one fo 4 dy sug went of in a manner ty o ’ rad here was ack Goodman Wid | fad! that the work of State { (Spectal to The Evening World.) The only th mn nuat q v the Stat in the Fatrmoat on Tu of action from the dr the Knockout Brown-M hiv fa re p of}and the gan ty Feo mmission dh berne frul: s as it should be, one to Yttwelf to all manly men. | HWE POLAK ABUTENANTS DINNER at Crescent Team “Now Tied With | A sa ott te grat maith 4 Rusted acoording: to that he will Jus CLEVELAND, Feb. —Johnny Kilbane cannot help having juck, for he is a thoroughly religious boy and devoted to his wife and baby beyond measure, not to mention the manner in which he takes care of and supports his blind father, A young man who is so righteous and dutiful is Waldorf Thursday on his face while bound to be successful in any line of business, especially one of Kilba: fe H ke L Vleut. Hannon eloqu waded ugh the text of “Washington's und to be succe: i . e y one of Kilbane’ ad | Farewell Adéress” The guest had Leen ng his 1 frequently and 1 00d habits. Wanderers for Hockey Lead |: ALP. a , Who haw }this day the Kilbane neighbors teil of cinemtalpaneccanns }minutes af rough, wed hay,” he remarked to Inspector Waddie Hughes, ‘that guy's no good, He t bane family {how little Jonnny used to been physicia for several ng vo! the ‘ad his father 1 Dobby a volced the fores | about wii on Su n through with hie work and ays and holidays the pair w. rable. His devotion to his fi a point yet ] HL seritn “ errit! Kot loose usath | Half-Mooners Easily Deteat iV and | then to Abe fter the ampalan of Tammany Publican balls just brought te a ) |e Was comiIne entire Hockey Clobl Fo piy sorry he didn't . ake defeat jand hundreds of frienda for the ther Hockey Club in) Amateur pack skidding into! & when it came lke the real ring sports ‘clone ‘ foture champton mal tal |» krea pride when whipped was ess Rob is again on the wrong y wr And that same affection and dutiful Championship Series: Clean playing marked the titst period ley the best ! “A noldier of France” was and |e lived anh coninderntion le stil kept wpe) donee ILBANE., HIS WIFE ANDBABY | ie We in the mecont the payers seemed ‘any Ase tle wae ‘Pho [sil rahi In"“battiors grand commotion, ily weil Hike and his dad are frequently seen torether am | te Wrow the finer points of the game tol S Waa iia enemy, ‘Phe people [Yat 4s aa Individual boxer within four He ts a boy of magnetic Per-jarm in arm on the strecte nem woes ' | winds In ait effort to score. Tn this] COLene ra ie ropes he isn't worth a Mp of the Ang ] Puli blooded Irish, but Of yey ie at home. m under his managerial nt ' a and aaa tha « en Crescent | Ol Oat, WIL f A aeible that up to f faw «we uf n ny et My do wanst upot ; jean birth, t tle « fon has) Jo. ‘ i oped the boy gradually, and ajrapldly, adding to ji key Cl Meso, ay ee Vist ui toltime, out he used hie feet instead of hi American birth, 1 cRamoon a SN ey caertied @ Deautiful and ac- onths later he seut him agatnst ayevery bout. Me won d tine perio is time Abe hasn't learned that every |i nds tt was funny to me % could H the typical Mile laughing haze jeouetalsed Metle Tris irl about two | sturdy 1 Tom Mangan. Johnny j eral good boys, includin fi jae «his day and Due han mis| have stood xink on his nut at 8. He wears al amile when|¥ears ag0. She was a Alles McDonell, atives knocking his! Young Saylor, Ciyde f tight? poor little meT saw the) ore Hiv at y | oe Ws ead daughter of a weat side business ‘nat THA MIMO ee Latte, SeRHeS AHTiO [ivessing of Abe and I cold of 1 in these | Moment 1 wished by Just subbing Ris . hey have @ pretty ttle baby girl nf nay, column fi " bess H ¢ le chan littie. y y girl nin ey, rity He! | A i . a eet nature and gene onthe old, ard ‘ qvera husband ana | JOHNNY Beaten by His Nami frmons, theres? Mekte. 1 Joi glad Ave pulled down a wood fat] fai gin yrominy ste am, amUsIne Feed paree i SS KRine He h 48 proud of wife and baby. J Walsh, Gussie Wilson purses for the slathering that Johnny jo law Wer ihce aposity, and ts noted in his home nr mpion Johnny Kilpane ts proud of sake, Tommy. lw. savers bist Kilbane, the Pride of Achill Island, |Uney oe Now York in ae sateen borhood for his love for the COMPAAY | hig tnteresting little fainily, | Dunn decame mi hustastic than! He was then mat Jhanded to him wh {OOK AWRY eT en th ant Coeetva hee Mane i vt children. 1 en known to PAY} Johnay ts a yor pnerrny ps ever and he matehol Johnny with three | Abe Attell tor ight title from him in Loa Ane] oy sro ctinck and hie black hoe marbles for hi P testes, and @ great lover of musi boys durinis Hhe! sas City, and he afternoon, If Abe Is i pry ia bieok, tan and ; the little ©: tuys the vi n h bout decisty and enterta! friends at hie home in tia way. he is 9 good littia entertaine: i, He sometimes in $5.00) or so he wilt] White stable go ave ‘ nea into some bual- | Clean up ev waa that \ « ving for the| Pal We a that wil give hin a « Se wit pomnlaenne” = | a ding up a ban 3 BASKETBALL TOURNEY [Derencs GF BI NES. ce quod tn, Ley | AORIOE ee ent | Agat, but againat his 1 and present | deets ring jartne my Wil six-round bout at Lorain, ¢ Y o that Paree and vie hi M the netghborh Kilbane’s Mother Died When He ¢. Sitce then for|feated Brannigan, and} Albanes Young oy onda to what he calls a “xood old any ardiat the decision. He} Patsy K and F ; th " wi. py aa OC) was matched with Jack V of Chi- | be seen the « al a s bust a bank with ft. And he should} |, ayererey i Was Only Six Years Old. mi ie Ibo carne e Prato cago at Windaor, Ont., in the following |the Cleveland gladiet OF SCHOOL BOYS IS lknow tt by this time, ae riley A et 19, Biase ob the } . = ie *,; month, and secured a dra making aj he ts no ac ' yardinent _ Lé be i ye arnt Young s mother way tithe feast he places before his guests 14) gent snowing. Ilia speed at Mine i et at bd Ae ae. y in the NEAR ITS WIND UP.| Axsxiors ReADER—No, the Jounny [newspapers as referees, two of three to the prettiest a la on the wert of {fit for a king, And oJhnny is a witty | Ganadians, story Tommy Kil-|in th WalEht rk first fe a Curran you sp of ts not living In| De Conclusive. One paper gives a de- the Cuyahoga River, i is 4 sad [@d, too, and he appreciates a guod at " ane ful as any ot them nthe face off, Five The v G@inoole. Aerie League| Paris, He ts in Coney Istand, He was cision, the other two a draw, How is it? uicaiy. Wie was ually bright 8 keenly that he t# every ready r 1 fl aes fa dista ve i —- tie only man ’ +} ns veneer pwn thera when the [wo newspapers out of three having little woman and tional disposi- out of hin way to : aurnamen sven come « 1 miles an hour the | , b wind was blow ‘ cided It Was a draw the bet {s off Lon, "As a_reault-of these character- Kilbane Cleveland’s First Cham- Att relll, | U ] ik Oth Ch We t jy 4 close Today's. sour of ames gune day, and Re was ey hangin am | aeeariing to the terme # Rte. latent man very pops tht Part me t (Z nike er ampions, en sURL/LOiAhe GRE thes aeTMRNta An HRT. i ear le PASO ITER WAL | OF PEST are Pena rel aay of the city where sie Mved ua 5 y been ot Bey a acs ar eS anh a ga ae _ Down to Defeat Using Foul Tactics ii 270) ire ee) Satie a eer b LIVE ONES are] the decision In 0 perce and other, ! more yemark likeable personality id the boxer that got of the three papers use he split even In the other six left town for! won bec nhood by his grand have & good word for bin WURRA WURRA: rau to anes are down for dec balmicr skies. Judge Dinnean is at] two. Fut that ought to be particularly } ine late Mite t Kitbane, o than thie ittle Cl al ner Peery man 1? 7 jom ¢ end 7 red th ey could “lick xe ponition'| tot Morinen, Oammuastoner Billy waene| nravided for in the wale ee ea ie ee ile: mes erie Haters Who have met him tn the ring! StOry Of Frisco F Fighter's Early |... i." rs re ‘ ton the nay to Herma, With Arce] 1 idd on, i ackle the tarpon Abe Attell vs ! Middleton, ey i tack! A offers to play B pool ed | bors declare. Grandmother Kilbane CHAhE nae , ; F rs Pegs o have t tC Parnandine ar Gn, “Botmeey y ers to i 3 pool oieht oF | fairly doted on her "ttle Jo fa wh n here ‘ fe months otter his Arat Start. His Ring Career and | : five att ji the |po’? Veenon 1s packing up for a run to| Re count. If Jose, Then they play } the called bin, Sne Was always OP- he nad never met a finer Ntvle gentle | ‘ nice , v" “ aA an At 1 eht, | Parte-and what do you think Hod has Thee Hay anh é re Senin Fee. posed to his embarking in the pugilistle man in or out of the ring than Jonnny| How He Always Fought Un- |» pattion, ‘Thea owas A t. “Phe Nowaboys’ 1 1 Eastern | Aid digpoxo of [14 Mnd-—another “White Hope.” Thin] they play four er ether a Kame, but Jounny liked the excitement /Kilbane, It is for these reasons that jteil in action was o ° toby t a ng rather easily at the Forty. | tine the em ot 4 Negri ree. | mitoses the fifth, y Dut a ne Hane ayy i ri ies pe ae ad ‘ : ; <i tinacious Bob to no les ce th n ‘ to begin with, and he had his few bouts t! le people of Clevsland, ora ema der Suspicion. \derful sights ever seen in th 4 No [town of Vichy, tn on the ground that unknown to rs andmother, i Te 1d CHEV OanMTA Yee OES oheeehiog words do not v a of shores OOPS Te matd to be a nt youngster of enor-| sary to make the four balls to his Later on, money same or the neu and to state that his fellow townspeople —- pectacie, ‘To be rectntert va 4 ee bcd an ee mous strensth and agility who can} opponent's eight. | bg Bae A or hora told her of Johnn carte oxing h o Kee Manual von. The} nox Uke sixty. Thera are also famed| B J. W. MADDE: ; ure proud of him puta ft mildly, Nothin voxing had to be seen —w i Be easly contest phe Deodme sedan ta A ad ae heee diteet ihe renuit BE ATTELISS sun has set but fo j boxtne Piles yay - 1 fp waest gaines of be be: Laprings over there and maybe Bob needalA js no gentleman eee teas be tee ing [of the Gattle was announced n the A many years his name 1 Vattack the @napping svallons ahd n hia ola Com At and 1d Harris ini led a few reste rightly in the annals of the ring. | ghostellke reureat “ead no ‘. ¥. court at] P. 3 up to the time she d a | anes Hlmane seo) a inte the Hae se He postponed his retire et pty r Re come of a and Brasinug Hall at the] ‘Sonnny was in Los Angeles when [the La Salle Chib’s smoker one night| oq many to become known. to, hisorr | oot’ V ae anytisinie an a broken ¢ ? tone, te 1, in| - [in the winter of 147 he was @ fratl look- orgy 3 por write Kil, Able inaisted that fichting the i 7 se ter rooetron by ise ine, smiling youth, “He Was on for a [Qe ® fighter who after holding a ithe pais miles that Would descr sro Wwe soot attolda’ anacarent , waning tne| ff “Dee-lighted” Says three-round bout with a rugged West years left the ring P anyone | the cleverness tha an but lttie! anand. He got a drow , ; son waning the agor, Jimmy Duns. In fact, the i . Paday K 4 rest it fron 1 attention nya Is being aa Side boy named Paday Kilbane. appeared wree from Able possessed, but ull in vata , nthe fe strate x alenrO Cane eS mire aay af Johnny looked anything uta fighter on| will say he was the « HER AL AM SH un | Way started up the ladder by leaps and | ttned to Candidates for The S h Hf 3X t arooked out im che sixteenth {at oceasion, But he displaye! natural gateimas-cateh-can #tal ties Le Gaamtion! (Whe Na bovund ny of r | Pp Ty {speed with hands ana fect. He landed! o¢ the ring. Ma que pens : separiaing ; rowed, but it wan uot, shown © (dlowe and got away in a surprising mar [ofthe rine. Many sheer off Ate's : Ree GhOIMER TITER IN 1008 aoe tee t ii ae ‘ a any g fall well that the effect of (ner for a green youth, The dove alt| ie clev ease this quest now 1 AFTER BEATING BROAD. My waiterkins per- : xnowink we would have been dis- (Knew him and liked hin, and their & love, | w has solved +} Atte clalmenniha feat F aire i nse She #04 2 |plause on that nis further di t we when h at ! : Ales formeth prodigies” ¥ ND Bee HAA Ii Ho determined to le champion who ; ns ; ; : if a ea » be a ner, as A fow hours after Johnny had lait the) Ae Serer mined tf gi ey he champion was nea f ave ¢ Sa chavs cantaved tay Ree et vas gently hroken to him | that th me Jimmy eel CA A gunte f nie 1 bt A ats are a t 1a veiw . site al te of ‘Tis because the Gin by te wife, Johny broke down and | reputation as a welght boxar, ; ome 1 . te away h , | thote about arrived in Cleveland ard went tnto trains rf noticeable in ig ' ta balding tre ‘ : ee ee fhe had heard the contents | ine near Vermillion for & inatch w yt " ty with KO. B Attel'« carr to the tourn in the Bottle with the the ¢ Pht 3 hy nis and ng in an effo i ‘ vip . the Stan 5 a of the ¢elegram before Ketting Into tne ee aoe word 10 amy ones ‘ Ha cutted, tes | ATTELL WASA SCRAPPER IN HIS | : . a ewoiand ' Red Label inspireth re Ly Be Sed relative ten, (boarded a sub Irban troliey car and wi one polat Kil . KID DAYS te ant f the B ® f' A derly, and on learning of her demise down to Dunn's training quarters and| regeree tat A A through a pile of F . ton, Tt sta \ him fe hmartied his Drevarations to make a told Jimmy, that he would ike to Melp| and atternoted to vend i Ue a , A ; \ t ero abren hin train, He explained that he did not : Ay younke ean Gren wy at Wap aahiae lames hasty art for 5. | want aay pay, but would be very weil | U9# ely throug ‘| 4 . 1 su Johnny Has Supported His |picasea ie 1 ould permit him ta} and in one of the ! 1 ‘ MARA leone: Ba this thrilling tale in colors w training quarters doing | mionpel tie oe | . ' ‘ PEP uly is Father for Nine Years, ping about the gymna | rubved Attet's AM isto Ce wiih ; ; The Kilbanes were @ poor farnily, ana | eur ‘ j hal re Los Auk . ‘ Bane : SiR bt BURNETT. C when Johnny's father became Dann liked the boy's appearance and) or groan nto ma * * ' issue rele tae i 1 (@) & 2S a a eaara’anns it GAvaivad Uc told him to get off his coat and go to Sonante aa ee A aselalle actisinng tak Li git devolved up! wor, Jimmy had no one to box with ‘ : F Mttent | q ‘ on on a ¥ child, to assume thos nim that das, so he told Johnny to put; OU ex ; j 1 . took 1 ' ‘ en, ut family burden, which he did 1 little! oo he gloves and workout with him, | have ever Va rin at] © sca ' i aes Be anata ee ek Ait Jimmy get a rapid pace and landed on| the last, hing “ 1 t “i 1 anve tn « ir Petia tcatentern ene ie First Distilled in 1770 r jo be! ve would) Jonnny y, but yirse made no tha i ut To resiine ast ave graduated, in onde Pnort | attempt him, Kilbar h ; seee’ and ls father, Hevcblaiued’s| Maamne, a man, ant rrleed : xpi no ae The f \ A y . . Sir Robert B a Imekeeper on land) Dunn by te courageous: her in| Rat in the nature of Attoli | anit stout doing, | nun. Samier ey ie : all ple ir Robert Burnett @& Company cand Pittsburgh ore docks, a a few! which he fought back. Jimmy dectded | sould wiews ay wit t bd t long j ‘ 612-634 W 34th St, New York years managed to keep f and hia ‘at on tthe boy had the right ma. & whipping: oe Was ma able f Aah ie Watrsa.” (hata M Ms q@ricken parent comfortably, And to terial for @ high clase boac: and be spite all the short b any Pianos o pounwslers Hew anh TIRCd., ohh Ase eat