Show ARE ABE A ATTELL BELIEVES HE WAS ROBBED General Verdict Though Is That Kilbane Is Better Better Bet Bet- ter Boy BY JOHNNY KILBANE IoS ANGELES Fob Feb 23 It was the easiest fight I have over ever had and I am an sure I wo won all nil the I way He tried everything he be knew In the fouling line Une and aM I honestly think he was trying tring to lose on a foul tonI BY ABE ATTELL AnELL I I was robbed pure and simple I r know I did not fight tight my fight but what can you do with a man who will deliberately hold on all aU through the fight He is a a. clever boy I will admit but if it the people of Los LOB Angeles want a a. champion who will run away from the man he in is fighting and hold on for dear life Ute they have ono one BY IL H. M. M WALKER LOS ANGELES Feb Fob 23 Abe Abe At- At toll tell brought to bay at last and forced to extend himself to tho very vety limit of his ability and endurance was doci whipped by tho the young Queens Queens- berry whirlwind Johnny Kilbane yesterday yes yesterday afternoon A championship reign of or eleven elevon L years' years standing was wa exploded when ihen L Referee Charles P. P Eyton at the finish fin ish of or the twentieth round grasped Kilbane by the left loft wrist and hoisted the tho Cleveland boys boy's arm in token of ol victory a a. victory that carried with it ii tJ the e title of or worlds world's pound cham pion before the bi biggest crowd that ever saw a rin ring contest in n southern south ern era California the tho feather weights I staged a a. sensational struggle glo in the I Vernon arena pf f Pacific Athletic club It was 9 a battle battlo of brains as well I as 18 of ot muscle le It was the finer points the scientific edges that stuck ou out from the opening i bell belt Not a knockdown t features featured the bout Truth to tell the hard blows wore few and far b between Kilbane boxed better knew w moro more and actually actual than the marvelous veteran who ba has baa held tho the title for tor eo so many years ears Some Id Idea a. a of or Johnnies Johnnie's great treat superiority may be bc gained from the tho act fact that in on ono one round round- the tho eighth the eighth the Ohioan drove Attell's head back with a a. nasty ast Jab sixteen consecutive con con- e times times- without taking a return 0 of any kind It was as what Is technically known ns as s a a. dIrt dirty bout with most moat of ot the dirt coming from Attell's corner Earl Early In the mill Attell complained and not unjustly that W i was his hla Viands and holdIng tight during the clinches With an Intention of getting even Ven Attell Attell At- At tell heeled Kilbane many times and Md andin In n the seventeenth op opened ned a R. bad cut ov over r Johnnie's Johnnies right eye ee by bv butting him in a 1 deliberate t manner At the start tart of ot this round A Attell had his body covered wIth wUn oil Eyton stopped slopped th the tho contest and cl cleaned Able Were cre th the tho full till twenty rounds to b be dl dissected blow for or blo blow A Attell's friends probably could pick out two rounds in which the champion held himself ev even n nand nand and two moro more in which Attell had the shade Tho The oth other r r sixteen rounds wore were so o decisively ely In favor or that Eyton's Eyton's Eyton's Ey- Ey tons ton's award was easily predicted from all parts of or th vast yut audience nc Four separate and distinct features II II Kilhan's 8 winning winnin battle for tor tho the championship A straight J left jab which ho lie must have havo landed a hundred times on mouth nO rose nose e and yes eyes A left wh which eh ho he fanned to the tho champions champion's chin comins omin out of or t the e clinches A short rl right ht that plowed Its Us way to Aba Abes Abe's face f whenever r Johnnie found lound this arm ann free Last Lut of ot all alt defense No sooner would Johnnies Johnnie's corIng Infuriate Attell Into nto making a rush than would duck step side or clinch and pin Din both Attell's s arms In such a a. way war that tie ne was wu helpless Comins out of th the pavilion two noon noon- lar ar verdicts were rendered One was a sweeping Indictment nt that was but buta a a. a. a shadow of oC his hIli hi former ronner self MIt The oth other r was ItS an enthusiastic babble p proclaiming moro morn clever than thon Attell ever was as Tho The fight by rounds rotund |