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Show Quick Changes Made in Featherweight Section "The king Is dead; long live the king." Never was a saying more applicable than In the case of that division of the ring game known as the featherweight feather-weight section. In the short space of less than eight weeks, short of two days, the boxing world had three featherweight champions, something unparalleled In ring history. Up to about sundown on June 2 this year, Johnny Kllbane was featherweight feather-weight boss, the same as he had been ever since he dethroned Abe Attell at Vernon, Cal., on February 122, 1912. But right then and there he ceased to reign for Eugene Criqid of France, a World war hero, knocked him out in the sixth round. Making good his promise to meet Johnny Dundee before returning to his beloved country, Crlqul had his world's title wrested from him In a New York ring July 2G. |