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;' a THE EVENING STANDARD. OGDEN, UTAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1913 . II SCOOP MAY NEVER LIVE TO SEE HIS SHADOW j Scoop. "To mowcow 5 i A Ijj S orfAl ! GrVl-rX - jWMA TVKL, p (feT M AOUr J -- ' I I OGDEN STANDARD SPORTING PAGE I BANTAMS AFTER BELT Four Youngsters Think Champion Johnny Would Be Soft Picking Chicago, Feb 1 There are four sprightly bantamweights who have their eyB turned in the direction of Logan Suqare theee days Each of them thinks he will be the next cham plon of the class If he Is lucky enough to be the first one to gel Johnny Cou lon Into a distance contest. The lads we refer to are Kid Williams, the Baltimore sensation, Eddie Campl, the Idol of Los Angeles; Pranks Burns, the New Jersoy veteran and Charlie Ledoux, tut. champion of France. Because Coulon did not show any too well in his battle v. ith Burns nt New Orleans last year, and In hiB clash with Williams in New York re cently, this quartette has hecome con vlnced that the champion, though only 23 years old, Is getting ancient as a fighter and that he will be soft pick ing for the first rough boy that gets him They all positively believe ih-it John Is "In" and arc having a mad m ramble to get at him Williams, in Cnlcago the other day. unloosened a tirade of abuse on the bald head of Johnny through his talkative mana He Fi Sammy Harris The Kid claims he Showed Johnny up completely in tholr New York fray and asserts thV he can trim him over any route There Is not question but that Williams is if I isineerr- in this statement 11c feel I he Is Coulon's master I Down In New Orleans. Thom.i Dl I agnosia" Walsh who mnaages Frank- ie Burns, keeps shooting out pres6 I stuff to the effect that Burns was robbed outright when Coulon got the verdict over him last February, ami that the champion is openly dodging a return match, though he promised to s: i v .. 1-rauk one inside of six niont hs Campi Soeking Match. (ampl. who baa beaten every fast bantam In California, lone has sought a match with the champion Getting desperate In his quest of that oppor tuuity. ho has ar.eil in tir;)n It out with WIlllf.mB for a cra k ai ih'- kins in These boys will go over m. 20 round course before Tom McCarej club at Vernon on February 11 Cn questionably the winner will be entit led to talk business with the Cham plon when the latter gets ready to de lend his honors. Ledoux Sending Challenge. I.edoux, through hi6 American rep resentative Is hurling a steady Btream of challenges at Coulon and Is eager to come over from France any i amp!, who has beaten every fast good Bhow of getting the first i b ini e at that, because Coulon no doubt fig ures the international aspect ol BUCb a battle would greatly swell the gat receipts. In the. meantime Coulin is restlnq and recuperating from a sort of phy sical breakdown. He was up in the Wisconsin woods a long time last summer and had pork for his meals three times a day He blames the pork diet for his present condition. Johnny Gets a Scare. But Johnny is coming along, all right. He lookB much better than he did when he went east to fight Williams. John got a scare that night ' and does not propose to fight again unless he 16 capable of doing himself Justice And he is confident he will be ready by March to take on a cou- pie of oas ones and then meet his moil dangerous challengers. In talking ot the Williams fight in Go! i Coulon said yesterday I h ie BO an iul sick boy that night barely weighing over 109 The Kid was in gratrahape and strong as a bear. He pulled that old stuff of Jerking me around when we shook bands and acted as If he were the Champion instead of me. After wp got Btarted 1 found thai I wasn't there with all my usual strength Bui I boxed with him and took no chances and all the fair critics at the ring side admitted I had the shade Williams Not So Much A few nights later I saw him figh' Billy PltSSlmmoni. Billy used to be a sparring partner He Is a good l.,,er. bu! ion old to ben i n roupn youngster Weil, he made Willlama look small for five roundB and then blew up Williams Is not so much He will be nice and easy for me the noxt time. "Ab for Frankle Burns, I have beat en him three times, but am willing to nhe him another chance whenever we ran et the money Burns can't mike the weight very easily and ev rj time we talk about I fight he wants to tilt the limit, and there Is nothing doing along that line Ready to Meet Ledoux. "H Campl bents Williams I may Jump west and box him inside of a fi months, and I.edoux can hae my gamo any evening I saw him box in York. too. and am not afraid of anything he has "It's Ju6t a case of me knowing ton murh for the young fellows right now. 01 course, a good machine always wears out some day, but I'm nowhere near that stage yet. My system is run down a bit. and the champion will be O. K Inside of a few weeks. I can feel myself getting stronger day by day. H Left to right. Ray Valdwell, Russell Ford JL and George McConnell. These three twirlers -.:,t. M are practically unbeatable when working to (3fj J their best form, and under the careful handling (SfoSf i-tS - I of Manager Frank Chance, New York fans are 'jggfy confident, these stars of the Yankee pitching lLw I j staff will eventually be ranked with the best H pitchers in the American League. nJX KILBANE TO FIGHT HIS WAY BACK INTO GAMES OF N. Y. FANS I Johnny Kilbane will defend his title of feath erweight champion against Young Dnscoll in Brooklyn on Tuesday night in an effort to re gain the favor of the New York fighting pub lic that he lost by his wretched showing against Johnny Dundee in his last appearance before a New York crowd in a New York club. TO DEFEND THE TITLE l (Champion Feather weight Kilbane Anx-I ious to Make Good Tuesday New York. Feb 1 Johnny Kil bane, world's champion New- Yor.; fight tans that he is deserving of that title Kilbane fights Young Drlapoll. a rugged little local lad, next Tuesday night, at the Irving A. C Brooklyn, and a big delegation of Broad wa en thusiaatfl. will make the trip ac.rosj the Brooklyn bridge 10 jive Johnny i one more chance to prove that he is j not a burlesque bearor of the laurel bo ablv defended by Abe Attel for more than a decade Kilbane, at the present time, is looked upon by New York fight ex perts as a very disappointing cham Plon This impression was caused by Kllbane's lust appearance In Ne.v York, several months ago. when he was lucky to survive ten rounds of . buffeting at the hands of Iohnn Dun dee, the fastest of the local crop of! featherweights, whom many believe: Is more entitled to the championship title than this same Kilbane Anxlout to Make Good. Johnny is more than anxious tc make good In his fight Tuesday night ! 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