Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-16
ATTELL WORKS
INCREASINGLY
is RAPIDLY GETTING DOWN TO
CONDITION
Speaks Confidently Of His Speed and
CleVerness, Which He Expects
to Hold the Title
for Him
BY JAY DAVIDSON

fighter who is imprisoned in his train
ing quarters at hard labor in trying to
get into condition. to climb the ladder
Of pugilistic fame or defend his position
at the top Of the heap
With only five days in which to work
and realizing that every little bit really
does help, Abe Attell made no let-up in
his daily routine yesterday and Went
| through light exercise and work which
was necessary to keep him in training
condition.
The little champion is brimful of con-
fdence in his ability to beat frankie
Neil and thereby clinch his claim upon
the title of featherweight Champion but
he is nevertheless sparing no pains or
overlooking any bets when it comes to
putting in hard lcks in the process of
whipping himself into tiptop condition.
Abes head has not been turned by
the flattering stories of his own clever
ness and he is entirely too foxy to be
guilty of undertaking an opponent of
the caliber of frankie Neil. HE Is
the hardest little fellow in my division
and 1 know it," is the way he puts it.
Attell is one of those panstaiting and
careful battlers who never get out OF
condition, and as he has been filling
many boxing engagements in the east
in the last six months, he was not stale
| by any means when he arrived in Los
Angeles.
Yet, he is a champion and every time
he dons the gloves in a ring contest he
| is up against the proposition of having
to defend that title, and he cannot
afford to neglect condition when he
meets any battler. especially one of the
recognized ability of frankie Neil.
Ready to Fight
Although he could go into the ring
| %
his laurels with the confidence that he
would win, he has worked increasingly
since arriving on the coast and will
continue to work until Thursday after
noon, when he will knock off and rest
twenty four hours before entering the
ring.
Those who have witnessed his work.
outs marvel at his speed and readily
understand why he has beaten such
topnotchers as Herrera, Kid Herman,
Johnny Reagan and others, and those
who have been deceived into the bellef
that he has no punch have been given
startling awakening in the last week.
Attell will be favorite in the betting,
but this is not discounting the fact that
Neil has more than a fighting chance
to win and thereby relieve Abe of fur
ther trouble and annoyance at defend
ing a worlds championship.
IfeDOrtS 11Onl fIlSCO dlC LlIdb ANS''
was never better in his life and he is
said to be frantic for the hour of bat
tie, when he expects to punch his
way to another championship and set
tie the little rivalry that has always
existed between the two native sons.
This battle will be remarkable in
more ways than one. Aside from the
fact that it will present the spectacle
of two worlds champions hammering
fN,.
be strictly California show with ma
tive Sons on the top rung fighting toI
stay there and regardless of who shall
win California will yet hold the worlds
featherweight championship.
Charlie Eyton will be the third man
in the ring and with all the prelimin-
ary questions now settled and out of
consideration there is no chance for
haggling and delays and the size of the
audience will only be limited to the
accommodations of the pavilion.
Nate Lewis, manager of Kid Herman,
who posted $1,000 as forfeit to bind a
match with Joe Cans for the Ghetto
champion, has pulled down the money
after leaving it up for more than a
month and receiving no response from
the dusky champion. Lewis says Cans
wants none of Herman's game, but in
Cans wants a match bad enough tol
say so he will be accommodated Lewis
voices the sentiment of thousands of
fans when he says that no one really
knows what Herman is really capable
of doirg in the fighting line and also
predicts that the day is not far dis
tant when the little Ghetto champ
will be at the top of the lightweight
heap.
Every fan in the world will heave a
sigh after reading the latest edict from
the FitzsimmonS' camp, which is to
the effect that he is not a has-been yet
and will take on any heavyweight ex-
cept Jeffries Poor old Bob says he is
in earnest in his desires for another
beating at the hands of O'Brien, but if
the lawyer-pugilist Will not accommo-
date him he will take on Burns or any
of them just to demonstrate that he is
yet in the game.
Mike Twin Sullivan and Rube Smith
will box twenty rounds at welter-
weights at Pueblo, Colo, Wednesday
night. Mike Twin has invented a
white championship claim and tells the
Colorado sports that be proposes TO
defend his title against all comers.
Johnny Corbett, who is managing
Smith, says that if his fighter beats
Mike Twin he will send him hot-footing
for Joe Cans and will never rest un-
til he gets him into a 24-foot ring.
Pugilistic Pointers
Mike Donovan, the Brooklyn welter,
who has fought some of the best men
in his division and never suffered a
knockout, is out with a challenge to
Joe Cans for a scrap in the welter
division. Several welters throughout
the country have evidently recovered
from the fright occasioned by the easy
manner in which Cans disposed of Mike
Twin on two recent occasions and sew
eral challenges have been hurled at the
Baltimore marvel. These challenges
may be recalled IL Cans knocks out
Joe Walcott next month, as he is ex-
pected to do.
Alex Greggains, who is managing
Dick Hyland and directing his training
for the battle with Young Corbett at
Salt Lake city, says that he has Il
hunch that Dick is the boy who is
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