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Show Criqui's Comeback Ends as Most Like Efforts Do An attempt by Eugene Criqul to come back in the ring failed dismally when the former featherweight chain- pion of the world lost by a technical knockout in the sixth round to Tiger Humery, one of several claimants of ihe French championship. Criqui's sameness was the only redeeming re-deeming feature of the bout, in which he was outclassed from the start Criqui ivon the world championship in a bout with Johnny Kilhane in New York In June, lOi'l. He won immediate immedi-ate popularity with American fans by offering to fight as soon as possible the best man available In the class. A month later Johnny Dundee took the j title away from him. Two nnd a half years ago Criqui. who had been badly wounded in the war long before his meteoric rise and fall In pugilism, announced an-nounced his retirement from hexing. |