Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-04
ATTELL MEETS
WALSH FRIDAY
FEATHERWEleHTS ROUND INTO
FINE SHAPE
clever Little Boston Boy VIII Try to
Wtest Title and the Mocarey
Belt from the Present
Champion

In three days the followers of the
ring sport in Los Angeles Will have
the opportunity of seeing Abe Attell
meet Jimmy Walsh, the clever little
Boston boy, at Maud Junction arena,
defending his title.
Next Friday night the two little fell
lows will be in the best possible shape
and ready to put up game fight for
the victory More than the feather
weight championship Of the world Is at
stake when the two meet The hand
some and valuable belt given by T. j..
McCarey to Attell when he defeated
frankie Neil last July is also UP as a.
forfeit.
Should Attell be defeated the belt
will go to Walsh, who will have to de-
fend 1t before McCarey's club three
times before it becomes his personal
property IL Attell is the winner, 1t
will make his second time that he has
defended the belt and will have but
one more time to win before the club.
With one determined to keep the
belt and the other with the same deter
mination that he shall win the trophy,
the fight promises to be good one.
Attell is in fine shape and will be
able to set pace that none but. the
best could keep up with, but Walsh
has made up his mind that he will not
only, keep up with the little champion
but 30 him one better this time So
confident are both that they will win,
and both being in such superb shape,
that the devotees to the fight game are
"on the fence" and unable to pick the
prospective winner.
Has Good Record
This will. be the second meeting of
| II. L.. st.~1.k
the contest was so close the first time,
and with Walsh but bantam at that
meeting, the battle this time promises
to be tough fight from the call of
time.
Walsh has defeated the best of the
hantamwejght fighters, frankie Neil
excepted, and has record that is
enough to make any little fighting man
green with envy, while Attell is well
known to have but two men who are
| considered matches for him in the
| featherweight division, Baker and the
youngster whom he fights Friday
night.
Weather conditions have been very
| unsatisfactory the last few days for
| training, but both have been able to
| put themselves in the best of shape for
| the fight. With the weather damp and
| the roads muddy, both have hard
time to get god run in the morning.
| Walsh goes out in the morning bum
| died up in heavy clothes, and after his
work on the road comes in looking like
| q "small boy" who has been making
mud pies on the front steps. After re-
moving his mud-spattered heavy cloth
ing and taking a fast round with the
| bag he gets his rundown and is at
leisure the rest of the morning.
At in the afternoon he is again
rounded up by his trainers, sparring
partners, rubbers and manager, and
made to go through the daily grind of
boxing, skipping the rope and work
with the bag iaNthe gymnasium
Such is the hfe of Walsh at his camp.
But all this is fitting him for what is
expected to be one of the fastest bat
ties that the little Bostonian ever pre-
pared for.
AtteII in Good Shape
While Walsh is coming around into
fine shape, Attell is also doing what his
trainers think best for him. Every day
under the direction of "Molly" Nc
Donald the little champion boxes sew
eral rounds every day with his sparring
partner, Kid Dalton, and turns at the
bag and with the skipping rope.
Abe does not have to train hard,
having been with Tommy Burns at
Long Beach for quite while, working
with Tommy and Jimmy while prepar-
ing for their recent fight.
! Manager McCreary has arranged Two
good preliminaries to precede the main
event. Young Battling Nelson is sched-
uled to go six rounds with Willie Con-
roy, the hoy who lost a decision to Kid
Webster a short while ago. Both are
promising youngsters and should put
up a rafting good preliminary.
Abdul Malgan, the terrible Turk, is
signed to go ten rounds in the second
preliminary with George Brown of San
Francisco. The Turk has always been
popular with Los Angeles boxing en-
thusiasts, while Brown : is no mean
! fighter.
Neither of these is likely to go the
limit and will no doubt be pleasing
with the largesN crowd of spectators
which is almost sure to be at the arena
Friday night.