Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — KILBANE BEATS ATTELL [ARTICLE]

KILBANE BEATS ATTELL

Featherweight Championship Passes to Cleveland Pugilist. Los Angeles, Feb. 23. —Johnny Kilbane, of Cleveland, defeated Abe Attell, featherweight champion, in a twenty-round battle at Vernon, a suburb of Los Angeles, for the featherweight title. Kilbane won his victory In easy fashion and it was seen early in the battle that he was the victor. Attell put up a pretty good showing in the first seven round®, but thereafter he was out of the running and Kilbane with his cleverness and shifty movement® defeated him without question.