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Show ATTELL DEFEATS FRAHKIE BURNS iNEW YORK, March 31. Abe Attell. featherweight champion, outclabsed Frankle Burns, bantamweight, of Jersey Jer-sey City, at the National Sporting club tonight". Attell ,'took the risk o' mak-, mak-, ing US pounds at rlnssldo which ho did for the first time since he became champion of his class. Although Burns was the aggressor, the champion, with his ring generalship, general-ship, outpointed him, notwithstanding that his left arm was almost useless by lefts which Burns delivered on his elbows and shoulders In the fourth and sixth rounds It was an Injury to this arm which had kept Attell from the ring the last 1 few weeks and nfter Burns' blows he fought almost all of the remaining rounds with his right. In the ninth round he sent Burns to the floor with a right swing for the count of nine and with exactly the same blow he turned the trick again in the final round. |