Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-12


the event of an accident, which has
never occurred in the local ring. But
the examination of the battlers be-
tween rounds will render impossible
any i'll results of the boxing exhibit
tions and safeguards the club in the
matter of blame for any unforeseen
happenings.
Aurelio Herrera began training yes
terday, doing road work in the morn
ing and light work in the afternoon.
The Herrera camp at Forty-ninth
street and Central avenue has been
furnished and thoroughly equipped
with everything required by the Mex
lean for training work and for the
comfort of himself and crew.
A Chinese cook is another important
addition to the equipment, but the
celestial failed to show up at noon
yesterday, and when Herrera returned
from his run of several miles on the
road he was about ready to eat
COW, unskinned and uncooked.
When he had waited impatiently and
unavailingly for nearly an hour and
no cook showed up, Herrera became
desperate and started In to cook din
ner for himself and crew.
Manager Tommy Jacobs became sus-
picious of the proba bilities of the ex-
pertinent and sneaked off to Levy's,
where he refreshed the innerman with
food and drink not of the experimental
type.
When he returned to the camp in the
afternoon all the crew were affected
with all sorts of stomach ills and
Jacobs investigated. He found half a
ran of biscuits which were as fiat as
pancake and a great deal thinner.
The biscuits were also as hard as
Harveyzed steel and could not be pull
verized with sledge hammer. Her
rera explained that something was
wrong with the baking powders used
The Mexican said that in the early
stages of cooking the biscuits they re-
sembled telegraph poles, so high did
they descend. After short time they
began to close up and shrink and with
in few minutes were SO fiat that he
was forced to turn the pan upside
down to remove them.
This ended all aspirations of Her
rera to become chef and If the Chi
nese cook does not show up today he
will find a vacant stare and explicit
orders when he Is rounded up.
The Herrera camp will be open to
visitors today or tomorrow, when the
fans will be welcome to witness the
workouts of the clever and hard-hit-
ting native son.
Lewis gym yesterday as was expected
and a crowd of fight-hungry fans was
grieveously disappointed.
Work will be resumed this afternoon
however. and the boxing king will co
light work and box several rounds with
Montana Kid and other boxes who at
tend the Lewis school.
Attell takes a run of several miles
every morning and in the afternoon
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gymnasium. Thus far he has done
Slight work. but will get down to the
real hard knocks at once. as the date
of the battle is only a week away
The final days at the training quarters
will be strenuous ones for the little
champion, as he Is noted for the hard
work he does in whipping himself into
condition.
The prospect of a hard battle is be-
fore him and none realize it more than
he. 1t is because of this realization
that he proposes to neglect no item of
Importance in his training.
This battle will be the most impor-
tant of the three, inasmuch as the
claim of Attell upon the worlds cham
pionship is unclouded and undisputed
and he will enter the ring not to win
title, but in defense of one he now
holds.
It will be an exhibition of boxing
such as Los Angeles fans are seldom
permitted to witness. Attell is the
cleverest man in the ring and is ad-
mittedly the king of all glove artists
bar none
Neil is in reality the worlds cham
pion at bantam weights, inasmuch as
he holds the championship of America
and was beaten for the worlds title
by Joe Bowker, who became too heavy
to fight in the bantam class and aban-
doned the title, which by all laws of
the ring reverts to the man who lost it.
The spectacle of two worlds cham
pions battling for worlds champion
ship is a novel one and lends an added
interest to the bout, inasmuch as one
worlds champion is almost assured of
defeat.
Cieverness and hard hitting. with
something doing all time, will be the
spectacle when these little champions
mix it. Neil is the type known as a
clever fighter, while Attell is the oppo-
Site being more of a boxer than
fighter.
However, Attell has the dream tab
let as his record of knockoutS will
show. Every fight he had in his first
year of professional boxing resulted in
knockouts, sixteen youngsters taking
the count in four months.
Neil will come to Los Angeles next
Wednesday and will be in tip-top trim
for the battle of his life. Reports from
his training camp at Frisco give the
information that he is in excellent con-
dition and is more than confident of
winning.