Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-13
ABDUL THE TURK
RUINS NEWS|ES
WHIPS ROY PAGE ON TRY0UT
NIGHT AT PAVILION
Two Draws Result from Six Fair
Fights, Which Are Poorly
Attended-Berry Not
on Deck

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@ Royal won from Austin, four .
@ rounds.
% Rivers beat Morendo, second g
@ round. The sponge.
O. Rose and Arnold, n draw. e
% Harris won from Fitzgerald, Sec g
@ Ond round.
@ walsh and Leahy, n draw.
! % The Turk won from Page, fifth g
o round.
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Fighting was cheap in Los Angeles last
night-cheap at half the price. For some
reason or other the sports did not turn
out to see the tryout card at the pavilion
| in their usual numbers, and when the time
| for the first bout came around the mouse
was most stingily occupied
This was something new for the Pacific
Athletic club, and in order to make 1t
right tickets were peddled out in front
| for any old sum, some of the kids mailing
| them at about a quarter a copy. Inc
result was that the entire front rows were
| filled with the choicest representatives of
the newsboys' brigade, all attired in their
choicest sweaters.
The audience was about right Tor the
lob, too, although the fights themselves
nearly every event one or the other of the
contestants happened to make his regular
pork and beans by peddling papers, and
the result was that the sweater neck por-
ton of the populace made life miserable
for the rest of the audience.
But the funny part of it was that they
didn't pick winner in the whole evening
In the first number on the program Jimmy
Royal hung 1t all over fresh newsie
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from Jake Arnold was a draw and few
cuts, and then Abdul the Abominable
capped the climax by putting out the prize
newsie of the bunch, Roy Page, in the
fifth round of their fight.
There was no Lauder-Berry CO. which
was billed as the main event of the even
ing. Just at the last minute the club
physician decided that Berry had stomach
trouble dhe unkind say it was in his feeD
and could not go on. Kid Dalton bluS-
tered around and offered to take his place,
but there was nothing doing. And the
result was that Dalton swelled around like
a mushroom, but he did not mention the
fact that he crawled out of match with
Berry only short time ago.
Even with the Lauder Berry show on
the shelf the card was a good one, about
the only numbers thereon that ought to
have returned to the cheese factory being
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gerald surprise party and the first part of
the Walsh-Leahy jam. All the rest of the
way it was very much to the good.
Abdul Hit of Evening
Abdul the Turk was there like duck in
improved form to fight the last number on
the program, and when he appeared in the
ring the Accountable one was greeted with
hearty cheers by all but the sweater
adorners.
But at that the Turk-Page fight was
good for two things-the quieting of the
newsboy brigade and the personal rep
resentative of the sultan who waved a
Turkish towel in Adults corner. In fact
this head second was the real hit of the
evening, and until Abdul began to warm
up and get his man on the run the entire
audience watched his corner instead of
the fight.
Adults head second was adorned with
a hair lip In the shape of a handsome
black mustache, and every time the Turk
me even close to landing a punch the
main guy would talk with his hands and
speak inward instructions through tightly
clenched teeth But after about four
rounds the handsome one got hep to the
fact that he was the show and quit using
his hands as dictionary.
The Turk put his man to the bad in
the fifth round-in fact he was so much
to the queer that Tommy WALSH caught
him in his arms and chased Abdul to his
corner. At the opening of the mill the
sweater necks crowded around and &C.
cupied seats in Adults corner, and the
Abominable one was thinking seriously of
sending out for suit of armor to save
himself from being anarchisted.
But he didn't need it, and was we'll able
to take care of himself in the ring In
the first round all that showed was the
Abominables fancy footwork, with many
improvements over the bunch he sprung
here on last appearance.
In the second Page began to loosen up
a bit and slap the Turk all over the ring,
and the head second pulled out several
pounds of bristles from the handsome lip
Iadornment. In the third Abdul happened
to hit Page and the second became so
excited that he walloped Kid Dalton, first
assistant head in the stats.
4 ..e head second threw regular spasm
of mirth in the fourth, and the news
boys quieted down t. almost nothing. 1t
was case of Abdul all the way, and he
covered his man every minute of the
three allotted to the spasm.
1t was curtains for Page in the end
Abdul had his number without looking in
the book, and when it came time he got
the connection without even calling CEN
trail. He swung one over shortly after
the act opened and Page went to the mat.
On the next attempt both fell to the
floor, but when he got up the Turk let
loose with the one that counted Page
was webbing like a snake when Tommy
Walsh thought Abdul had done enough
to cash his bets and stopped the slaughter
Leahy Mixes Things
Tommy Leahy of Roquefort and Jack
Walsh of Limburger made up the other
tenrounder on the card, and for the most
part their work was all to the rough. To
begin with Leahy, who will never in his
life have chance to win a fight unless
he mixes it,, held off and let Walsh who
was fairly good, punch away at him with
out sneaking in a return.
In the third round Walsh put on his
fighting face and landed a real punch,
cutting Tommy's eye. Along toward the
seventh both men got busy and when the
end came Tommy Walsh called it draw.
From the outside 1t looked to be Walsh
mot the referee) by several blocks.
The first four-rounder of the evening
developed into a real fight, with Jimmy
Royal and Jimmy Austin as participants.
For the first two rounds the low broWs