The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-21

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is apparently at his best just now AT Los
| Angeles on Friday night he knocked
! Harry Baker, OF California out in the
! eighth round, after u sensational fight.
| in which Attell was easily the master
| from the first sound OF the gong. Attell
had trained hard for this affair. and
! showed magnificent science. He was as
| fast as chain lightning, used every tactic
! known to pugilsm, and punched his
plucky opponent all over the ring. Baker
| was actually Knocked out twice At the
end Of the seventh round Attel put him
to the floor near the ropes with heavy
smash on the jaw. While James j. JEFF
, fries, the referee, was counting off the
seconds, the bell indicating that the round
had ended, rang.
AS ten seconds had not been counted
Jeffries decided that no knockout had
been scored and Baker. In bad shape
was dragged to his corner. He came up
for the eighth round partially revived
and proceeded to cover his face with
his arms. Attell went at him in n cool
businessike manner, and finally caught
! him on the point Of the jaw again with a
hard swing, which put the California
boy practically out. his seconds throwing
up the sponge. 1t was a fight. not box
ing match. froEl the outset. Baker, real
fZing that he could not Outlook the cham
pion, went after him with heavy swings
and jots. which were cleverly blocked or
avoided in the early stages of the battle
There was plenty of cl!nching and free
hand punching. together with hitting after
breakaways, but through it all Atteli
proved that he was Bakers superior in
every way.
Furthermore. Attell demonstrated the
fact that he had an even more effective
punch than when he lowered the colors
OF Jimmy Walsh, of Boston, not long ago.
He fought so well that majority of the
5000 spectators went away convinced that
1t would be a long time before the feath-
crweight title changed hands. AS side
issue, Jack Cox, the much-talked-of Aus
tralian wonder" who came to this coun-
try recently heralded as another E'itzsm-
mons, made his initial bow and proved
to be real lemon. He stacked up
against an ordinary second-rater named
Brown, who lost no time In making Cox
look like a monkey spii
Probably $4,000 changed hands on the
result of the .Attell- Baker fight, as the lat
ter had a strong following. 1t was Ba-
ker's third professional fight. He beat
frankie Neil In the first and lost a TWEEN
ty-round mill on a decision to Attell in
the second. 1t was the latter contest that
made Baker feel that he had a chance
to beat the featherweight champion in
another mill. but 1t, turned out that Baker
probably caught Attel out of his best
physical trim In the previous encounter,
Attell announced after the fight that he
would meet any man in the world at 100
pounds rlngside which means that several
challengers who have been insisting on
other weight terms will have to submit
to the champions dictation il they really
want to tackle him.
With the fight promoters at Goldheld,
Rhyolite and Tonopnh gradually becoming
wise to the fact that there Is no money
to be made in Offering big purses for poor
attractions. another set of fight fans To-
Gated at Reno, New, have bobbed up
with an alleged $4,000 offer for fight
between Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and
Al Kaufman, the California heavyweight,
O l3ricn beat Kaufman last year in FRS
co. so that another meeting would not
create much excitement. The Reno offer
consequently looks MS If somebody was
trying to make gift of real money to
O'Brcn, who, for that matter, may have
nsfinger In tho pie himself otBrten likes
soft marks and Kaufman is as soft as
any OF them. II Tommy Burns should
put over a finishing punch on OlBrien's
Jaw, however, 1t would be a long time
before the Philadelphia boxer could in
ducc anybody, even the Reno people, to
offer $4,000 for him to meet a third
rater. a4 a- is2e
In case, none Of the Nevada fighting
clubs makes an offer for the proposed
contest between Tommy Murphy ana
Young Corhett, Murphys manager said
yesterday that 1.-The Harlem boy would
agree to fight Corbett in private to fin
isf for 5000 a side, Murphy's manager
insisted that he knew of a place where
such o mill, could be pulled off without
interference, and that he only wanted,