Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-06
WALSH EXPECTS
THE VICTORY
HAS SUFFERED BUT TWO RING
DEFEATS
Expected to Give Good Account Of
Himself in Battle with Abe Attell
Friday Night for Feather
weight Championship


evening when he steps into the ring
at Maud Junction pavilion.
MOLLY" Mcdonald has put Abe in
the very best of shape, while Keevln
has Walsh up to the top notch No
more work will be done by either of
the men who are now ready for the
battle. Today and tomorrow will be
dull days at the camps. as both are
to spend the hours resting, with the
exception of a little run on the road
in the morning.
The men signed under straight
! Queensbury rules, to protect them
selves at all times. AS Walsh is
mixer he will probably be after the
little champion at all times, using his
cleverness in connection with his
fighting ability to win him the title.
Walsh is a down east" boy. born in
Newton. Mass. and educated in the
schools at Boston. He started in the
amateur class and fought his way to
the top. He won the amateur bantam
weight title when 16 years of age from
Willie Schumacher in Boston and later
started in as a professional.
Digger" Stanley, the crack English
bantam weight, first won from the
American, but later Jimmy fought
fifteen rounds to draw and still later
when the two fought in Chelsea Walsh
was given the decision at the end of
fifteen rounds.
This and the decision that Abe At
tell holds over him are his only two
defeats and having wiped out one now
will try with all that is in him to
cross out the other mark, evening the
old score.
There is Just one man in the feather
bantam weight class that Walsh has
never met. This is frankie Neil, the
popular San Francisco boy, who has
recently lost two decisions between
the local ropes They have been.
there was some difficulty that kept
the little fellows from coming to-
gether.
Attell started his career before San
Francisco spectators. His rise has been
slow from the beginning. Every man
of prominence in the featherweight
and bantam class has gone down to
defeat before him.
At the end of two years of hard
fighting he won the title which he now
holds from one of the greatest feather
weights that ever lived, George Dixon.
Attell first fought Dixon at Cripple
Creek, where he secured draw with
him. This was twenty-round contest
which took place October 20, 1901.
Eight days later he fought Dixon in
St. Louis and won the featherwe1ght
honors from the negro.
Since that time he has showed so
much class that there was no man
who could defeat him at his weight.
Kid Herman, the light weight who is
going to fight Joe Cans for the title in
Tonopah on the first of the year, has
suffered defeat at the hands of Attell.
Abe fought Walsh before the Chelsea
club of Massachusetts last year and
got the decision. The contest was
close and now it will be seen whether
Walsh is really able of winning from
Attell
1t has not been decided who is to act
as third man in the ring Friday night,
but Tommy Burns will in all probabil-
ity be selected to referee. Keevin,'
manager for Walsh, did not at first
like the idea of Burns going into the
ring, arguing that a fighter did not
make a good referee, as rule. He
also put forth that Burns and Attell
had trained in the same camp and had
worked together, Attell seconding him
in his fight with Jack O'Brien.
1t is known that Burns is square,
and that his intimacy with Attell
would have nothing to do with his Civ
ing Abe the better of the decision
should the fight go the limit.
"If the club selects Tommy Burns to
referee the fight I will not say any
thing about the decision, as all l want
is square zeal, Salu heeNlH ldsI
night when asked about the referee
question.
"I am sure that the directors of the
club. will pick a man who will give
O. Just decision, and If they choose
Burns / will let the matter drop. But
If Burns should be the third man |
will insist on but one thing. | do not
want the referee to break the men.
He will have perfect right to dis
quo Iifu aithar for holding or clinChinP
but for a heavy man like Burns to
shove the men apart is not good for
such little fellows. That will be the
only request that I ask of the man
who is to take the third part.
This does not apply entirely to
Burns, for I should ask the same thing
of any other man. Jimmy has never
had any trouble of this kind and do
not want to start it now. This and a
square deal is all that ask"
'I don't care who referees, said
Walsh BURNS or anyone else will suit
me, but then you see 1 don't count,
/ it's up to Keevin. He is the boss"
, Burns is satisfactory to the Attell
people and as McCarey also thinks
! that he will make a good man as
/ referee he will doubtless be the man
appointed.
| Two opening events, in the form of
! six and one ten-round preliminary,
have been arranged and from all re-
ports should be exciting in the ex-
| treme Young Battling Nelson is
scheduled to go ten rounds with Willie
| Conroy, and as both are mixers there
ought to be knockout before the last
bell is rung. The Terrible Turk and
George Brown will furnish the other
one. They are signed to go ten rounds,
and there should be an end to the af-
fair before the contest has gone half