The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-01
ATTELL SHOWS YELLOW;
WEEKS CLAIMS TITLE
Abe is Trying to Side-Step The Fast
YOungster-Weeks Will Fight
Him Any Old Place.

If there Is any sporting man in
the country familiar with the me-
teoric rise in the pugilistic sky of
Freddie Weeks of Cripple Creek who
has not already come to realize that
Abraham Attell, Esq, the so-called
featherweight champion, is actually
afraid to meet Weeks in a bout for
the title or that Weeks is not ready
to meetSany man of his weigh. in the
world without demanding all the
best of it, the two kilograms which
were flashed over the wires recently
ought to convince him of it.
For several months Durand has
been trying to get Attell to meet his
protege in a bout for the champion
ship, not a six or ten round love
match in which Attell could run
around fast enough to keep Weeks
from hurting him much, and the
alleged champion has Travelled about
the country studiously avoiding no.
tice of the challenges hurled at him
and fighting suckers here and there
for a few hundred dollars. AS last
resort the local manager few weeks
ago offered Attell $1,000 win, lose
or draw, just to come to Cripple
Creek and fight Weeks, and the
champion" replied that he wouldn't
fight there as the air is too thin.
In reply to a subsequent telegram
Attell said he would fight Weeks
anywhere except Cripple Creek and
almost on the heels of it came an Of
fer from the Goldfield Athletic club
to match the two in finish fight on
Labor day. Goldfield sports are just
crazy to see Weeks in the ring and
with the purse and side bet that Du-
rand is willing to put up Attell stood
a chance to make anywhere from
$4,000 to $4,000 If not more. For
a week after the offer was wired
him Attell made no reply and now,
as is indicated by the telegram from
Freshman, he has demanded sum
which even the ultra-liberal Goldfield
promoters consider as ridiculOusly
exhorbitant.
If anything more were needed to
prove that Attell is afraid of Weeks
it is at hand. A year ago when
Weeks was unknown Attell told Du-
rand he would come to Cripple Creek
(where the air is now too thin and
stop Weeks in ten rounds for $500.
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ficient now to induce him to even
climb through the ropes with Weeks
Durand has the word of
prominent sporting men on the coast
that Attell has more than once said
that Weeks is too tough for him and
that he wants to get him in six or
ten round bout where he can rely
on his cleverness to keep out of dan
ger.
When a man claiming the title re-
fuses to meet a challenger when as
big a purse as he has ever fought for
is offered he really forfeits his claim
to the title, the case in this instance,
and Durand's claim that Weeks Is
to it will be sustained by a
good majority of sporting men. A
glance over the Cripple Creek boys
record is sufficient, too, to establish
the claim. He has fought exactly
twelve times, the first half dozen
with boys comparatively unknown.
Then he went to Philadelphia and
in six rounds, under clean break
rules with which he was unfamiliar,
demonstrated SO conclusively his SUI
oeriority over Harry Baker, then con-
,idered the leading featherweight
outside of Attell. that Bakers de-
mand for another match was ridi-
,uled. In six rounds again he bested
Grover Hayes and Cripple Creek a
lew weeks ago knocked out Hayes In
.hree rounds although the latter out
weighed him ten pounds. That Hayes
had fought 103 battles and never
ost a decision before adds to the
merit of Weeks victory.