The Archive · 1938

Solly Krieger Badly Beaten by Conn

Middleweight Puzzle Now Even More Puzzling

Pittsburgh, Nov. 28.

Boxing experts who are attempting to solve the riddle existing over the world middleweight championship were given a still more perplexing puzzle tonight when Billy Conn, local fighter, easily defeated Solly Krieger, recognized as world titleholder by the National Boxing Association, in a 12- round non-title bout.

The youthful Pittsburgh middle-ight out fought and outboxed the Brooklyn flash. He received the unanimous decision of the judges and the verdict was lustily cheered. The majority of the score cards kept by boxing writers gove Cohn nine rounds and Krieger three. Both fighters entered the ring over the middleweight limit and thus no title was at stake,—United Press.

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