BOXING
CRIQUI or FRUSH?
Which of these two pugilists will qualify to meet Johnny Dundee?

EUGENE CRIQUI
Born in Paris on August 15, 1893; weight 57 kilos. Boxing since 1910. This record only includes fights that the world featherweight champion has fought since 1917.

WINGSPAN, 175
neck:0 39..
CHEST (REST):092
BICEPS
EXTENSIONS 29
FOLDED 032
BELT 071
Thigh: 047 5.*
CALF: 0 33
HEIGHT: 168

DANNY FRUSH
Born in London in 1899. Weight 57 kilos. Boxing since 1917.

WINGSPAN: 1 67.
Neck 0 40
BICEPS
EXTENSIONS 30
FOLDED 032
CHEST (REST): 096
BELT: 0 73
Thigh: 0 50
CALF: 036

Establishing a prognosis is always a tricky thing. Very often those which appear to be the best established, which are supported by reasoning which appears a priori irrefutable, are those which the results come to demolish by playing prognosticators.

“May the best man win” should be the conclusion of all comments on the possibilities of victory, of this or that opponent. This would avoid many disappointments and would not compromise the reputation of the fallible prognosticator, who could not be blamed for having "F... the finger in the eye..." which sometimes happens.

However, for Criqui-Danny Frush, only one prediction, in our opinion, is necessary: ​​that of the victory of our representative. As we saw Criqui in training, he must win and win by knockout. Criqui has to do in front of Frush as well as Johnny Kilbane, who manages to beat the Englishman by knockout. in the 7th round, while Criqui obtained the same result on Kilbane in the 6th round. Yes, but, you might say, Criqui knocked out Kilbane a year ago, when his left hand was free of any strain and he was in perfect physical condition.
That's absolutely correct. I attended Criqui's training in America before his match with Kilbane, and there I saw a vision of a magnificent athlete, with tremendous possibilities. His fists, gloved with ten ounces, came flying at the jaws of his coaches, Poutet and Mario, and, his work finished, Criqui told me all his confidence: “I will beat Kilbane!... I will be world champion... » And he was…

I wanted to see Criqui again in training for his match with Frush... I found him in the countryside, far from the noise of Paris, preparing with the same desire to win as there in the suburbs of New -York... And I saw this left hand, painfully injured eight months ago, leave as dazzling, precise and powerful as before the accident... I saw the coaches again accusing the ex's blows -world champion... In short, I found Criqui in such brilliant form as he was a year ago, the day before his match for the featherweight world title. And that's why I predict Criqui's victory by k.-0. A. Dethès.

THE PROGRAM AND ITS SPORTS ASPECT

A Criqui fight is always an important event, but a Criqui meeting with an opponent such as Danny Frush, takes on a character of solemnity which deserves that we devote to this event all the importance to which it is entitled. Criqui, the great boxer, the champion, the one who, last summer, following one of the most resounding fights that a Frenchman has fought in America, beat Johnny Kilbane, the one, finally, who held the world title of featherweight, will make his comeback. Its back to school! But it is rather a resurrection. After the match that we remember, a sad fight where with a broken hand, he had to fight a courageous opponent for 15 rounds, Criqui had to come down from the ring, bruised and demoralized, having lost forever, it seemed, or at least for a long time, the use of the most terrible of his fists.

Today, time, the great healer, has done its work and achieved what practitioners and men of science often cannot achieve. Criqui has regained the use of his fists, much better, is now confident in their solidity that He has experienced this for two months and he wants to continue on June 1 against Danny Frush, the series of successes which earned him the reputation which he currently enjoys. For three weeks we have been saying it and even recounting what his first training gallops were, Criqui prepared for combat, in the open air, in the middle of the woods, in the oxygen. Around him and while his manager Eudeline meticulously regulated and monitored the champion's work, elite trainers strived to bring the champion's condition to its maximum. Among them, Ascensio, Routis, Artakoff, Marin and Poutet. Fast and powerful men, scientists or fighters, who put all their good will and all their physical resources at the service of the champion.

Criqui's meeting against Danny Frush is not one that could be described as a "trial run" for a return to school. Quite the contrary. It is a hard, painful match, with an opponent whose power and resistance were tested and who met at the age of twenty-two, Johnny Kilbane, then world champion, and Johnny Dundee. Man's past therefore responds to his value. His reputation is worldwide and there is no one in the name of Johnn Dundee who does not remember performances of global significance and the memory of a famous career. Both men seem to possess roughly the same qualities. They are the same size, their weight is identical, their record is marvelous, as we have said, they have fought with the most famous pugilists in the world at their weight. Criqui winner! It is the possibility for him to continue his rise towards the highest destinies of his profession and the march with a lot of additional experience towards the world championship.

Danny Frush, winner, it is also the possibility for him to attack Johnny Dundee again, and in these conditions we can almost say that the meeting the day after tomorrow constitutes a sort of semi-final of the World Championship featherweights.

For us, French sportsmen, we will have one more emotion, that of seeing a champion on whom we no longer dared to count courageously remaking lost ground, so that in his mind and in ours the worst memories will soon no longer exist. .