...desperately paging a miracle...

"Johnny Kilbane, the master boxer, featherweight champion of the world, started out to give Eugene Criqui of France a boxing lesson and a few pointers in the art of polished ring repartee. He did neither."

"Criqui ignored his dancing-master tactics, kept boring in and knocked him out in the sixth round of their championship bout..."

"Kilbane, quick of wit and gifted in repartee, had won many fights this way. He had outjabbered Abe Attell in winning the title back in 1912; taunted Johnny Dundee into a retreat when Dundee seemed to have the title won, and tongue-lashed George Knockout Chaney into submission before a single punch was landed.

"But Criqui merely grunted....when Kilbane began chattering, and kept boring in...Kilbane's most penetrating weapon of attack, his barbed tongue was useless. The Frenchman DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT!"

"...this was not the Kilbane of old. It was instead a gray-haired, horribly tired, ring-worn veteran desperately paging a miracle-a miracle that was not within hearing distance."

"The long swinging right-hand "the sucker punch' landed square on the button, and Kilbane went floppin back on his haunches, not out but badly stunned. At six he was on his knees. At eight he tried to rise to his feet. But his trembling legs buckled under him..."

"I saw the punch start," Kilbane told me after the fight. " I saw it at the half-way point. I even saw it land, and yet I couldn't get out of the way"

-Joe Williams, Beloit Daily News. February 6, 1926

Vintage Original Full Ticket

Size: 6 3/4 x 2 5/8 inches

Condition: Excellent. Very mild staining on first stub as pictured. Two areas of staining on the reverse from glue down.

Price : $ 500.00

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