Word: featherweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Johnny Kilbane, featherweight boxing champion: "Newspapers put this lyric in my mouth: ' I have no fear,' says John Kilbane, ' Of any Eugene Criqui; ' Why, bless my honest Irish soul, 'I'll make his voice sound squiki...
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion of the world, announced his retirement from the ring after two fights for which he is now under contract. Kilbane has held the featherweight title for twelve years. He will climb into the ring with Eugene Criqui, Frenchman, at the Polo Grounds, New York, on June 2. If he climbs out again undefeated, he will take on Johnny Dundee, and then hang up his gloves forever...
Eugene Criqui, French featherweight and champion of Europe, will train at Manhasset, L. I., for his impending battle with Johnny Kilbane. He has leased the house where Georges Carpentier conditioned himself to fight Dempsey...
...Paul, champions of the West, in a post-season series, three games in four. Since the Granites of Toronto, amateur champions of Canada, did not fulfill their obligations in international competition with the B. A. A., the Boston team were officially declared the amateur champions of America. Eugene Criqui, featherweight boxing champion of Europe, arrived on the Paris to enter training for a fifteen-round fight with Johnny Kilbane, world's champion, scheduled for the Polo Grounds June...
...Pounds Featherweight...