Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
TWO CHAMPIONS
BOX THIS WEEK
ATTELL AND NEIL BATTLE
FRIDAY NIGHT
Native Sons Meet to Decide Feather.
weight Honors-Winner to Re-
ceive Belt and Get Match With
Bowker or McGovern
by JAY DAVIDSON

BY JAY DAVIDSON
The event Of the week in sporting
circles will be the battle between Abe
Attell, featherweight champion Of the
world, and frankie Neil, bantam cham
pion of the world for the featherweight
title, which occurs Friday night at
the Maud Junction pavilion and marks
the beginning of the fistic carnival ar
ranged by Manager Tom McCarey for
the edification of the fight fans dur
ing the next thirty days
| Possibly no battle that could be ar
ranged would be any more attractive.
The spectacle of two worlds cham
pions battling for a worlds title is a
new and novel one and has never oc-
Cured before in the history of the
| ring.
Seldom it is that fight fans any
where are privileged to witness a con-
| test between battters OF the profIlin-
ence, cleverness and generalship of
| these two little champions and 1t Is not
often that a worlds championship af-
| fair is pulled off before a Los Angeles
| audience.
The difference of the boys in their
styles of boxing lends a greater un-
certainty to the result than would
otherwise obtain Attell is the clever
est boxer in the business and wins the
ma iority of his battles by outpointing
the other fellow, but he has a we'll
developed punch and ability to make an
opening for it, which makes him the
most dangerous man at his weight in
the world.
Abe is a marvel a footwork and as
fast as lightning while in action. He
is enabled thereby to avoid punishment
where others less clever would be beat
en- half to death.
Through his cleverness he is also
able to keep the other fellow away
when they mix it and in the mix-ups
he will land so fast that a picture ma
chine is worked overtime to keep faith
full records of the progress of the
battle.
Neil Is Fighter
Neil is a born fighter, game TO the
core and able to take punishment and
make return. He is always after the
other fellow, forcing the fighting and
never on the defensive.
Few little fellows can punch with
Neil and when he lands squarely it is
time to pay off. In his fight with
Harry Tenny in Frisco few weeks ago
Neil demonstrated that instead of go
ing back because of long idleness and
rest from ring engagements he had i'm
proved immensely and is now going at
a wonderful clip which bodies no good
for his opponents.
Because he is game, clever to fault
and possesses the sleep lotion he will
rate along rather evenly with the
champion in the odds before their
match.
Not because he is a native son. but
because he is a dependable type of the
battler at every stage of the game
and has brought home the long end
of the purse nearly every time he has
boxed, he will be popular with the
speculatively inclined and it is assured
that his hackers will get run for
their money.
Despite that less than three weeks
will intervene between the Attell-Neil
and Fiesta week attractions, the popu-
larity of the former is not diminished
in the least and the least that is ex-
pected in point of attendance is the
inevitable IS r. o. sign.
Winner Gets Match
The little fellows will not only box
for the long end of the fighters share
of the door receipts and the champion
ship and the championship belt dona-
ted by Marager McCarey, but will
strive for thi right to meet either Joe
Bowker or Terry McGovern in June.
Manager McCarey has under consid-
Grafton the proposition to match the
winner with one of the two, and as
Bowker wants to come to America and
try for the featherweight title 1T is
possible that he will be the one who
will be matched with the winner of
Friday nights scrap.
Terry McGovern is also anxious to
break into the coast game and 1T is
asserted that he can make the weight
for feather scraps. IF the terrible one
continues in this state of mind and
Bowker falls down on the match it
is probable that Terry will be secured.
McCarey has no card for the June
date and realizes the drawing power
of championship affairs, which induces
him to consider this proposition in
serious light
Neil has always contended that he
was the master of Bowker and could
defeat him in America, and as the
little native son is one of the gamest
kids in the ring and bars no one who
can make his weight, it is certain that
he will be agreeable to either match
if he wins from Attell.
Attell, likewise, asserts that he is the
best man at his weight in the world
and he has proved it upon numerous
occasions. He has been considering
a match with Bowker to occur in Lon
don the latter week in May. but if
Bowker can be induced to visit Amer
lea and scrap the mill will be staged
before the Los Angeles club.
Both Are Ready
AtteIl has trained faithfully and
hard since arriving in Los Angeles
and as he has never been troubled in
making weight, he has given all at
tention to getting into condition for
the fight of his life and has succeeded