Word: featherweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wherefore ringdom was baffled and confused last week when Johnny Dundee, world's champion featherweight, voluntarily surrendered his title to the N. Y. State Athletic Commission, high parliament of fistiania. There have been only two precedents for Dundee's action: Jack McAuliffe, lightweight, retired in 1893; Jimmy Barry, flyweight...
Dundee gave as his reason for abdicating, the fact that there are no challenging featherweights on hand considerable enough to make it worth while wearing himself down to 126 pounds thereby risking his good health. He has fought for 14 years as a featherweight, but advancing age has brought flesh upon him. He won the title from Eugene Criqui in July, 1923, a month after Criqui had thrashed Johnny Kilbane, onetime champion. By no means "through," Dundee's present ambition is to fight Benny Leonard for the world's light-weight title...
When Danny Frush, English featherweight, met Eugene Criqui, ex-featherweight world's champion at Paris, the latter had a famed right, but it served him in a most "un-famed...
...eighth, jabs became good honest punches and one from Frush caught "Gene" Criqui, his face already bloody and his eyes staring, on the jaw and he was counted out. After the fight, Danny Frush announced that he would sail to the U. S. and contest the world's featherweight championship with the present holder of the title, Johnny Dundee, who introduced him to astronomy in the ninth round of a fight which took place in 1922. The vanquished said, when interviewed at "his modest Montmartre mansion": "I am through. . . . No more fighting for me. . . . Gene Criqui...
...France (French) : The Countess Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten (nee Millicent Rogers) and her father, Colonel H. H. Rogers; Charles Ledoux, champion featherweight boxer of Europe...