Word: featherweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conspicuous among the contestants are C. S. Forsythe '26, last year's bantam and featherweight champion, H. J. Freedman 1M., last year's lightweight champion, and G. E. W. Davis 2G.B., last year's welterweight champion, each of whom will defend his title...
...Featherweight Johnny Dundee...
...Featherweight Criqui (France...
Johnny Dundee succeeded where a German bullet failed. He pounded the jaw of Eugene Criqui so viciously that he hammered the Frenchman out of the world's featherweight championship. Criqui received a rifle bullet in the chin during the War but returned to the ring and won the featherweight title from Johnny Kilbane. Although thoroughly outclassed by Dundee, knocked down four times, thrice for the count of nine, his courage kept him on his feet. The championship went to Dundee by decision...
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion of the world, who was introduced to his opponent for June 2, Eugene Criqui, French: " This is the first time I ever met you, Mr. Criqui, and it does me honor to shake your hand. I want you to know that I respect you both as a fighter of the ring and as a soldier who has done much for his country. You have done wonderful things, Mr, Criqui, and when we meet in the ring it is my honest desire that the best man take the honors...