The St. Louis Republic., 1904-12-07
A1TELL'S RELIANCE
IS RAPID FOOTWORK
Abe Will Depend Upon His Agile
Legs to Carry Him Out of
Danger To-Morrow.
FELTz is A HARD HITTER.
Tommv Seems Able 10 DO More
Than Break Even il 1t Comes
to Swapping Punches-Wnll y
Fights Courtney.

What Jack McKenna promises will be
feature of the West End Club entertain
ment tomorrow evening Is a special bout
between ''Birdlcgs'' Collins, the Denver
negro light weight. and E1die Daily. the
fighter from Buffalo, which will be put on
as tho opening event.
The club Is not offering any purse for
this bout. and It is merely private affair
between the men. McKenna Is tho man
who developed both Abe Attell and John
ny Regain He says that he has first
class man In ''Birtllegs'
The go will be the opening contest OF
to-morrow's card. and will be at 100
pounds. Mckenna says that. unless Daily
is smitten with sudden attack Of stage
fright In the meanwhile, his man will sure
ly 30 against him. and that the affair will
be at six rounds and at catch weights
McKenna is now conducting a private
training establishment in the rear of his
place Of business. for tho benefit of Col
lins This training consists merely of ask
Ing all boxers with plenty of time on vheir
hands to come In and Try themselves out
against the negro.
Jack has stated that any man weighing
from lso to 400 pounds is perfectly wei
come to come IN to-day or tomorrow, be-
tween and o'clock, and work him
asserts that. in spite Of the fact Collins
1s to battle Thursday, he will send him
against any men who care to come around
and meet him tomorrow afternoon at tho
time stated.
Abe Attell Will depend upon his foot
work in his bout with Feltz tomorrow
evening. That he can swap punches with
the little fellow from Savannah hardly
seems possible. Feltz Is too hard to hurt
and can land too good a blow himself to
make this seem likely.
Abe has won the majority Of his bat
lIvan. who scored over him, always said
that Attell was no better at boxing than
many fighters who were rated as far lower
than himself, but that he had such OK
set himself like a fash and slam in a
blow while another fighter would be get
ting into position.
e In the ss gs d.ren. rltz he is
Clelland won over Attell through virtue Of
being able to take Abe's blows in the face
and jump steadily in and land himself.
it is the M same % style viii Which has 'a been ADOPT @
ed by Felix
None Of the spectators who witnessed
the teltz-Forbes battle. and who realized
how Tommy was standing the terrific jolts
to the face which Harry was sending home
Will believe that Attell can worry tho
Savannah man seriously. He may be able
to cut Tomnly's face to pieces, but that
appears about the limit OF his DOW ers
Tommy. on the other hand, may be able
to disturb Abe considerably. II he cannot
put Attell away. he can. at least. make
him skip about the ring until he tires him
and then send IN some decisive punches
The bout looks well from the viewpoint Of
conflicting styles.
Check Wall and Billy Courtney are still
at work. and the latter is running an Olive
street car in most prosaic fashion every
day. Tho lighting motorman'' believes
that exercise with the controller helps his
forearnrs and biceps In delivering short
1clts and he intends to work to-day and
tomorrow before going into tho ring