Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-21
WILL SPORTS co
TO SEE F|GHT2
D0UBTERS' CLUB HAS LARGE
MEMBERSHIP
AttelI-Solomon Mill, While of Un'
doubted Class, May Not Draw
Full House-Fighters
Hard at Work

Able Attell and Bennie Solomon hook
up before Tom McCarey's club next Fri
day night. and right now the sports of
Los Angeles are asking each other one
little question: Are you going?"
Previous to one busy evening almost
two weeks ago nine out of every ten
fans who were presented with this query
wouldn't have hesitated the wink of an
eyelash before they answered in the af-
firmative. But the Doubters' club has
increased its membership since then, and
those grand old sports who never missed
a chance to help the good cause along
by donating a little money to the Pacific
Athletic club.
enough fans on hand when the men
square off to pay for the advertising,
at least. For some reason or other Sol
ONION has lot of friends in this mans
town. and many of them don't care a
rap before what club he is appearing,
just so they can see him in action.
And then Able Attell isn't without a
bunch of loyal boosters, himself The
little champion never fails to put up the
cleverest exhibition that any man in the
ring is capable of, and it has never come
to pass that those who paid to see Attell
in action did not get their mazuma' s
worth-in cleverness, at least. He always
puts plenty of rapid work into the mill,
and as rule the other man has to move
so fast in protecting himself that he
cannot loaf, if he wants to.
Fighters nara LUCK
The class of the mill calls for a big
house, and were the men to appear before
club which had not been touched by
the i'll fame attached to the late frame
up and double-cross affair, every seat
In the pavilion would doubtless be oc-
cupied. Suckers are born every minute,
all right, but they don't all come to Los
Angeles, and there may be few empty
chairs when Attell and Solomon toe the
mark.
Tho mon themselves are working awav
at their training stunts as though they
were to fight for 2 nurse several times
the size of the 100000 one offered by
McCarey for Burns and O'Brien and from
the looks of things they will surely earn
the money. Attell is putting in his licks
out at the Oakwood inn, while Solomon
has taken up his abode at the Heidel-
Because he must get down to weight
which is several pounds below what he
naturally tips the beam at. Solomon is
The weight required. 122 pounds is some
what of a strain for the Kid, but he
is confident that he will be there to save
the weight money when the appointed
time comes.
Solomon's trainer insists that drawing
himself to such a feather point will not
bother his man in the least. nor will
it detract in any way, from his natural
is hard to tell, for Bennie looks like
an emaciated Cuban, even when fighting
at 125 pounds.
AtteII Takes 1t Easy
Attell. with no surplus meat to take
off, is busying himself with conditioning
his wind and getting ready for slam
bang battle. Abe employs Kid Dalton
and Leonard Lauder in daily bouts, and
the way he rushes the husky pork and
beaners around leads one to suspect that
Atten will fight Solomon as he did
Frankie Neil last Fourth of July.
If this proves to be the case solomon,
unless he is weakened by loss of weight
will have a chance to whip in his famous
left AS a rule he would have hard
| time finding Attell at all, but If the
little champ thinks he can mix 1t with
| the local boy and get away with the
| long end of things the Kid may manage
to connect with a jaw that has escaped
being touched by some of the best fight
ers in the country. "
Manager McCarey is evidently waiting
to see how the fans will turn out since
the earthquake" for he has not yet
positively announced any battle to b, be
carded after the Attell-Solomon mill.
AS a rule "Unce Tom now why don
YOU all claim relationship. as you used
| tor is there with the big match long
| before the one in actual sight has been
run off. but this time he is bashful about
making his plans known. If things &c
right a bunch of preliminary boys will
| probably be worked out in six and ten
round bouts, and then McCarey will get
busy on the plans he had laid before the
| upheaval.