Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-29
FRANKIE NEIL AND
ABE ATTELL MATCHED
MCAREY GETS ANOTHER BIG BATTLE
Native Sons Agree to Box Twenty Rounds in Los
Angeles April 20 for the Featherweight
Championship of World-Negotiati
Closed With Principals Yesterday
BY Jay Davidson

Manager Tom McCarey of the Pacific
Athletic club is a revengeful cuss and
is making championship matches for
his club on the wholesale plan for the
principal reason that he wants an eX-
cuse to laugh at the fight trust.
His latest match was made yester-
day when he closed negotiations with
Abe Attell and frankie Neil for a
twenty-round- battle in Los Angeles
about April 20, for the featherweight
championship of the world, and in ad-
dition to the financial offerings made
by McCarey he proposes to hang up
belt embematic of the featherweight
championship of the world to be given
to the winner of this battle.
This match has been hanging fire for
several days and was only closed last
night when McCarey wired Attell that
his propositions were acceptable and
that he had wired tickets.
Attell promises to leave New York
Immediately and come direct to Los
Angeles to begin training for the bat
tie and should arrive not later than
Tuesday or Wednesday. Neil will also
be in Los Angeles within a week and
will establish training quarters here.
Within a week, therefore, Los Angeles
fans will be entertained with sights of
a sextet of the greatest little fighters
in the world, with Battling Nelson,
Jimmy Britt, Aurelio Herrera, Kid Her
man, Abe Attell and frankie Neil as
the principals in the three biggest
pueiiistic shows possible to be ar
ranged by any fight promoter any
where.
By closing the AttellNeil match,
McCarey has completed his chain of en-
tertainments which will begin April ~
and end May 12. In this time the fans
will see the featherweight champion
of the world and the bantam champion
of the United States meet in chain-
pionship struggle; Battling Nelson
claimant of the lightweight champion
shin of the world will meet his most
dangerous foe, Aurelio Herrera; Jimmy
Britt, who knocked out Terry Nc
Govern, featherweght champion of the
world, will meet Kid Herman.
Negotiations Closed
Ever since he closed the matches
with Jimmy Britt and Kid Herman FOR
the early week show during flesta
week and with Battling Nelson ana
Aurelio Herrera for the week end per-
formance of the same week, Manager
McCarey has been scouting the pugllls-
tic woods for a battle to be pulled OH
in the interim. and last week he opened
negotiations with frankie Neil and ABE
Attell for a featherWeight champion
ship battle next month
Neil promptly accepted McCarey
offer and the fight manager went aiter
Attell. After considerable hagging
over terms they agreed last evening ana
McCarey wired both principals that the
match was on and sent Attell tickets TO
Los Angeles.
Neil wired back his 80. K" and will
come to Los Angeles at once and sign
the articles of agreement and post his
weight and appearance forfetts. At
tell accented the conditions and
notified McCarey that his telegram
would be accepted as the tentative
articles of agreement until he arrived,
when he would sign up and post MS
forfeits.
The conditions accepted by the boys
are that they shall go twenty rounds
Anril 20. at featherweights and shall
report in Los Angeles at once. They
will also post forfeits for making
weight and for their appearance In the
ring. They will fight on a percentage
basis, the winner taking sixty per cent
of the fighters share and the loser be-
ing content with forty per cent
Inasmuch as both have recently
boxed they are in good condition and
will not require any great amount OF
training TO get lDlO tlplOp SHAPE l'i
this battle, although the keen rivalry
that has always existed between them
will spur them on to sparing no pains
or trouble in getting into the best
condition possible for going at their
best form.
Both Are Champions
Neil and Attell are champions in their
respective divisions, Neil being undis-
nuted champion in the bantamWelght
class in the United States and Attell
being undisputed champion of the world
in the featherweight division.
Neil was once a claimant upon the
worlds bantamweight championship,
but was beaten in England by Joe Bow
ker, bantam champion of Britain, and
now regns as bantam champion of the
United States. However. since BoWker
has become too heavy for the bantam
division, Neil is claiming the worlds
championship and on his recent show
ing is probably king of that division.
In all his fights he has been lucky
enough to avoid a knockout and has
lost but four battles. Eddie Hanlon
twice defeated him; Harry Forbes got