Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-23
KILBANE OUTPOINTS ABE
ATTELL FOR THE TITLE
Referee Claims Winner Is Superior Man.
Fight Furious at Times with Youthful
Title-holder Stronger All the Way.

that followed complained hat Kilbane
was holding. Abe ripped in the right to
the stomach, but Johnny came back
with rights and lefts on the jaw. They
clinched frequently, but Johnny almose
invariably got the better of the breaks.
Three clinches in succession came in
the twelfth. They iddied about the
ring TIL Abe led with a right and fell
short. Then Abe put a right on the
jaw lightly. Abe again missed a right
swing for the jaw and they clinched.
The referee cautioned the Cleveland
man.
Abe fell short with a left to the jaw
and they went into q cline IN the thir-
teenth. Attell ducked through the
ropes in trying to dod-e hard right
swing. Kilbane beat tAe champion to
a left facer and then Abe followed Kill
pane and put the right on the wind.
There was much clinchine during the
round.
An AtteII Trick.
johnny opened the 3ixteenth with a
right to the face and then put the left
on the mouth. The referee stopped
the fight for u moment till he wiped
AttelPs shoulders with a towel. He ap-
parently had been creased while in his
corner. Johnny went at his man
~viciously when the referee released the
champion, but Abe covered well and
they clinched.
They fought v~iciously half around the
ring, each landing on the body. Abe
deliberately butted Kilbane on the eye
with his head, cutting a wide cash
over the right optic, from which the
blood streamed. Johnny complained to
the referee, but, getting no redress, he
deliberately butted the champion
around the ring. Kilbane ripped in a
series of hard rights and lefts on the
face.
The blood started afresh from Kill
bane's eye in the seventeenth. The
champion shot at it several times with
his left, but the Cleveland boy was too
clever for him. Kilbane played a tattoo
on the champions face almost at will,
with Abe occasionally reaching the
face with a left. Kilbane danced in
and out, shooting in the left. then the
right, In a clinch Attell used both
hands on the stomach.
Attell reached the mouth light with
the left, then they went into a clinch.
Kilbane reached the mouth with a left
and coming close ripped the right up to
the mouth, and in a clinch which they
fell into Attell complained to the
referee. Kf1bane landed a dozen lefts
to the face without a return. Johnny
put three lefts on the mouth and Jaw
in the nineteenth Kilbane ducked a
hard left swing and they went to a
short clinch. They went into several
clinches, in which each tried for the
body, but We're for the most part
blocked.
The Last Round.
They shook hands in the centre Of
the ring in the last round. Johnny then
stuck his left in Abe's mouth. Abe fol-
lowed his opponent, trying to reach the
wind. and Johnny spoiled his inten-
tions with his left facers and occa-
sionally whipping the right over on the
jaw. Kilbane put the left on the
mouth and then whipped the right on
the jaw, n in the half-clinch that
followed Johnny reached the wind with
a right hook.
The champion reached the mouth
with left and right and they mixed II
f1ercely. Kilbane was entirely too
shifty for the champion. The Cleve-
land boys blows landed with more
effect than the champions.