The St. Louis Republic., 1902-09-14
.ABEL'S SHOWING AGAINST
az ATTELL A DISAPPOINTMENT.
Fighter Showed Gameness and Aggressveness but Dis
played Lack of Judgment ThroughoutHad He Rushed Atte
Trying With the Franciscan He Would
fne His Chances Greatly y General GOSSIP.

box with Atten n, let the latter set hi-i-
self for the fraction OF second; and the
result was extremely bad for benny's looks.
And then Yanger changed his tactics ana
the result was apparent Immediately Atteii
had 10 keep husting at such rate thai
ne had no time to set himself His b.o--s
were all delivered fiom the elbow .nd
lacked the slightest force He jsobed fr--
qUently, but IL did no harm. anger vas
tnere, sending his right and left IN with
lorg. sweeping punches. and ii won MN
AtteIl should have had that decision At
the end OF the fifteenth round Up 10 that
time he had scored so much on N2--er
when Benny was trying to box with him
that the lstter's fast nnish in the thirteenth
10 fifteenth rounds should have svalied him
little. But Hancer's fast work told IN the
next few ROUNDS. And had Abel adopted
The same policy OF letting Atteli land. of
taking a punch 10 give a harder one the
fight would have resulted in more even
contest
Just one week from tomorrow night
Young Corbett and Terry McGovern VIII
meet in the ring OF the Southern Athletic
Club al Louisville 10 decide the supremacy
in the feather-weigh1 division No>hing OF
Importance has occurred at either training
camp in the course OF the last week. out
side of the regular routine training and
efforts OF some citizens OF Louisville 10 have
the bout stopped than by any feature con-
nected with the fighters.
As was stated in the columns Of The he
public several weeks ago. any movement
anita gonistic 10 prize night by one cen
munity invariably results in some similar
movement in any community To which IRE
bout is transferred. No opposition materisl-
ized TO the McGovern-Sullivan night a.
Louisville; but had that contest been scne6-
ulsd say. for Cincinnati. and then pre-
vented in that tcily by some action OF the
authorities. II Is certainty that an EFFORT
would have been made to stop il in Louis
Vile.
The reason Tor this Is that the element
opposed TO prize fighting does not wish TO
t,.~
been established by some other city Even
citizens who pay no attention TO hehttng.
but who are not opposed 10 ir as spoit.
do rot relish the idea that their city Is be
ing made use Of as last resort by fight
ers. If these men have been run ont OF one
community, they argue. why should We al
low them to impose themselves on u.s. And
The order is then given for the fighters 10
move on
Largely on account of politics and be-
cause OF severe press criticism OF The Young
COrbett-Broad fight in Denver. the auihori-
ties OF that city decided TO shut down on
boxing The Corbett-Daye Sullivan hEht
was transferred TO this city only to find Il
closad 10 them. To New London the fight
ers betook themselves. to find that opposi-
tion awaited them there: and then they
decided upon Louisville. where the custom
ary objections have been filed
Both men are still said to be in fine trim.
and the runors emansting from Johnny
Corbett and Frank Newhouse. relative TO
the champions lack OF condition. have had
no effect Betting on this bout viii . un-
q
previous championship contest. and it will
probably be a case OF even money and take
| your pick Poolrooms IN New York. where
/ the onlv betting of importance has been
| done on the fight. are holding both men AZ
| to 10. thus getting percentage on either
man.
Austin Rice who defeated Tim Callahan
| here last winter has been matched TO hght
| Sammy Myers Of New York In Baltimore
September % the men being scheduled to
| weigh I2 pounds. Myers is regarded as
promising festherweight in his home city
| and 81 is thought that he VIII put UP a
4 good bout against Austin.
| Myers fought ten-round draw with Joe
! Tipman. the man who knocked out Terry
| McGopern in a stage bout. and also fought
\ a twenty-rourd draw recently with Kid Sui
4 ivan OF Washington.
| Peter Msher's easy defeat of Jim Jeffori
| in Philadelphia last Thursday evening doe
| rot necessarily mean that the Irish cham
1 pion" is returning TO his old-time form. b.
\ 2 long shot Jeffords is not high-cisss ma
ferial by any means. and exactly how n
has managed TO get on bouts with man
| hiEh-class men as he has done In me pas
Is really inexplicable- He and Maher wer
great pair of hesbeens and no mistake.
| The bout deserves mention. however a
| ranking among the shortest battles on rec
ord. No sooner had the men met in IN
center OF the ring than Naher cracked hi
man on the jaw. He went to the nool
staggered up. and went down and out from
another crack. That was what the spects
tors received for the price OF their adnis
inns