Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-19
MATCH DOES
NOT APPEAL
SPORTS THINK TWIN TOO GOOD
FOR FARMER
Mccarey Not Accused of Much Fore
sight in Signing Men, as Farmer
Has Shown but Little
Recently

Mike Twin Sullivan and Kid Farmer
who are slated as the next attraction al
Uncle Toms cabin, lost no time in get.
ting busy on their training stunts. With
camps already picked out, road work an6
other features which will fill in the time
between now and Thanksgiving eve are
on the cards, and busy sessions can be
expected.
So far Mike has been able to pick ur
but one assistant. Dan Sullivan, fel'
low Bostonian, who came down from
Frisco with him. will help the toupee'
less wonder in his workouts. and unit
some additions are made from the loca
Riley colony the two Sullivans will go II
alone.
Sullivan is not worrying about his abil-
ity to trim Farmer, and in that opinion
he is upheld by most of the sports. TIC
some of them the match looks like fool
ish piece of work on the part of Manager
McCarey, and they cannot figure out
what the usually astute promoter meant
when he hooked Farmer up with the
clever Twin.
Mike is one of the best men in his
division, and when it comes to figuring
out the championship he has about as
much right to the laurels as Ketchell,
Thomas, Melody or any of the rest of
them. His defeat at the hands of Joe
Cans doesn't mean such lot, for in all
probability the other welters would get
about the same dose were they to mingle
with the lightweight champion.
To find where Farmer has done any
thing warranting support against Sulli-
van one has to go back in the dope book
a long ways. The KIDS performances
were good when he was practically a
lightweight. but since his long rest and
complete idleness so far as fighting is
concerned he has had small chance to
show anything.
Showed Gameness Only
Farmers battle against the Turk was a
nice exhibition of gameness, but it stops
right there While the janitor of the
harem outweighed him several pounds,
the Chicago lad had nothing to fear. for
Abdul is about the clumsiest bunch of
meat ever thrown into the ring. Farmer
was commended because of his ability to
stay away from those swings which are
meant WELL but which seldom know where
they're going. but the critical sports did
not see where it took such an unusual
amount of cleverness to perform the feat.
Taken all around, the Farmer-Sullivan
match looks like a cinch for the lighter
member of the Twin trust. Sully can
take care of these wild boys as fast as
they come, and if it rests with the clev-
erneSS possessed by the comDatantS ne
has it on Farmer so many ways they
can't be counted.
Just how McCarey happened to fall for
the match is hard to determine, unless
Able Attell is dragged into 1t. Ever since
he brought Farmer out here from Chica-
go Abe has been clamoring for match
for his man, and in all probability was
able to talk McCarey into something
which his better judgment should have
killed in the beginning.
Lyn Troutman, who helped train Fred
die Weeks when the latter was trying to
put on little condition to meet Abe Attell,
is handling Kid Bell, the negro boy who
appeared in the ring at the last Maud
Junction show. Troutman says Bell will
take on any of them at 124 pounds, ano
that he has a century note to bet that the
Kid can whip Kid Tex, who trimmed Joe
Smith recently.
According to Troutman his man has
been in twenty battles, and has been de-
feated but three times He won fourteen
fights by the knockout route. and has
never been slipped a sleep producer him
self Lyn will try to corner Tex with
winner take all proposition and bet
for the hundred bucks.