The Washington times., 1906-07-01
Sports Take More Interest
in Featherweight Go on
July 4.
ATTELL Is MADE FAV0RITE
Betting 10 to He'll Win-NeiI Has
Wallop Like GanS-BurnS
and Schreck.
By CHIP.

tie fellows.
Abe AttelI. featherweight champion.
and frankie Nell. king of the bantam
weights. are carded to furnish on July
4. before the Pacific Athletic Club. Los
Angeles. what is expected to be the
f1ercost, most stubbornly waged battle
that has occurred between men Of their
weight for a long. long time. Uron the
result hinges the featherweight cham
pionship. as well as the ownership Of
sold belt, presented by the club.
This is the contest that fight fans In
general. and those out on the coast in
particular. have been eagerly anticIpat-
ing for some time. The question of su-
periority between these two great ring
sters has been a bone Of contention be-
tween their respective partisans ever
since their first meeting. some three
years ago, which resulted in a draw.
because, so young Neil asserted. Abey
ran so fast he couldn't catch him.
Even Battle Expected.
At that time. however. both men were
in the half-baked stage of pugilistic de-
VeloDment. whereas. Wednesday nights
battle viii be between two Of the most
finished ringsters that ever crawled
through the ropes. Neither Atteu nor
Neil, probably. will ever be in finer con-
didon or reach n higher stage OF cIev-
erness than they at present possess, and
one Of the most evenly contested battles
in the history Of the ring should result
Although Attell has been installed
favori-e at 10 to by the Slope sports.
who are presumably familiar with both
men. il is hard to see where the little
Hebrew has any shade, The weight I'D
pounds ringside will be about right for
each contestant. Nell having dIled out
some in the past year. while the figure IS
very close TO AttelTs best fighting
pouRdage. AttelIs cleverness, of course
is the deciding factor. apparently, in the
betting. but Neil's undoubted superiority
In the punching department seems to
Offset that advantage. with possibly
something 70 spare. The little ban
tam is pretty clever himself. and IT is
known that most OF his training has
been devoted toward the acquirenent OF
speed. so that he may be expected to
keep his friend from the Ghetto rea-
sonably busy most Of the time
Neil's Great Punch.
Neil has probably the hardest nuncb
ever possessed by a fighter Of his
weight Also. he has the faculty of
delivering II from any angle. and of
concentrating all his strength into a
blow that barely travels six inches. but
which carries knockout drops with II
He generally bores in. gets TO close
quarters. and. at the first favora BILE on
portunity, sends over that terrific
WalioD. sometimes to the jaw. but more
oIten the stomach. And he rarely has
TO repeat the dose.
NeiPs last hard fight was with ..TVfgbt
ing Dick Hyland. something over ..
year ago, when that youngster was inst
breaking into the professional ranks
Hyland entered the ring close to III.
lightweight limit. while frankie scaled
about 116 pounds The e,-ay,oa 80
stuck for fifteen rounds. but finally enc
cumbed His subsequent successffIl
career shows what good man youne
Nell whipped on that occasion yi,,in7
away a ton OF weight besides.
Weigh the Same.
This will be the first occasion for a
long time that AttelI has met a man ar
anywhere near his own weight He
cleaned up the other featherweights so
easily that he has been forced TO go ou-
OF his class In order TO do any business
at all. and so far he has, by virtue OF !
ms phenomenal speed and cleverness. as |
well as by thorough KNOWLEDGE Of ring
gen9traIship; zen erals m easily held his own with |
the best OF the 122-l33-pOund division. An |
opponent of Neifs size will therefore
be something Of n novelty TO AtteII.
II may be recalled. however. how JOA /
Walcott. after cleaning up everything
IN The welterweight bunch mingled !
with the mlddleweights. and even fbe |
heaVies. with considerable success !
intense surprise and disgust. bareIy, /
managed TO make Il a draw with TIA
- lighter man. Attell may experience
something or the feeling with Nell
Burns to Meet Schreck.
After considerable jockeying. Tommy /
Burns and Mike Schreck have finally
Deen matched and will meet at Seattle
on July & and settle the question as
10 which is nearest the championshiD
title which latter honor Mr.. Burns has
claimed ever since he put Marvin Har.
out of the limclieht Several IiDl<ind
critics have said that Burns was merely
near-champion. but thsy will, of
course, modify their view Il little if he
whips Mr. SchrSCk and this is inst yvI,,+
the buriN Canadian saws he iC iuct dy-
ing to get an opportunity to accomplish.
No better, more evenly-rnatched -nafr
apparently. could be brought togetber'
The men are OF the same build short
heavily set ard extremely speedv
Burns probably is the cleverer 81 tTe
two and somewhat the peer Of NIil[e
in fOotwOrk. The German however bss [
a style peculiarly his own that has pIIz1
zled good many supposedly highly
scienced boxers, and he carries a rnighty
wallop in either nit The fight ought |
TO stsrt pUgilIstic matters booming in
M 7
should-a high-class exhibition of tbe
game in all its branches.
Kelly Finished Mahoney.
Hugo Kelly. after three attempts. at
last settled the hash of his ancient
enemy, Young Mahoney. of Milwaukee.
at Indianapolis last Monday night
Kelly did the trick in the third round.
showing high order of speed and hit
ting power from the start. and a num-
Der of HoOSiers who witnessed the fight |
were so impressed with his showing
that they are Offering Jack O'Brien s. |
that amount 10 go as a side bet
Kelly, II will be remembered holds
the only decision ever obtained over |
o Brien by white man. Five thousand
dollars Is pretty good bunch of money.
the way things are going in the fistic ]
world al present, and IL seems as though
Jack could afford TO accept the offer.