The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-10
|EORGE S|lER'S
fl FIGHT GOSSIP
FduN Weeks Championship
Aspirations Decisively
Quashed by Attell.
)G0 KELLY BACK IN RING
|ERYTHING READY FOR HER.
MAN-M'FARLAND CONTEST.
Loo KELLY BACK IN RING
aY GEORGE sILER.

feddie Weeks championship aspira-
5 were decisively quashed by Abe At
at Los Angeles. Those who had new
zen Freddie put up his props knew he
going against a buZzsaw. but his Colo
b friends could see nothing but VIC
and that by the knockout route, for
champion, There is no doubt Fred
showed extra strong hitting abilities
some of his battles and also in his
ping quarters. but slamming out easy
ks and bursting punching bags DO
win championships.
be. Coloradans thought when Attel
q to shylock their boy out of a few
ces OF flesh by demanding he weigh
With his fighting togs that the little
did not fancy Weeks game and they
. AN ado about IL. OF course it added
rest to the contest, but now that IL Is
the impression Is abroad that At
demand was made for advertising
poses Those who were led to believe
the champion feared Freddie at 122
nd5 stripped should bear IN mind that
repeatedly has signified his win
hess TO fight the best lightweights in
country at 12S pounds. And he did
bar Joe Cans either, ridiculous
igh It might seem He has been com
ed TO give weight. and plenty of it, to
sier fighters than Weeks.
fcorcing to accounts the only chance
ddie ever had of beating the cham
was before time was called for the
al rckdd, after which he did not have
ko6<1n. Reports of the battle. if such
an be termed, say Attel had his op-
ant going In the first round and could
finished him In that session had he
ID 20. Presumably he thought that
Id have been too sudden an ending
a championship affair, SO he dallied
Freddie until the fourth round, in
en Weeks seconds, seeing they were
ping foriorn hope. humanely tossed
ne sponge In token Of defeat.
'7e X X X
q Isturn Of Hugo Kelly from Italy
enifven matters In the middle weight
ION and prospects appear good for a
npfonship fight in that class Kelly,
reasons best known TO himself. claims
niddle-weight championship title, but
more entitled to IL than are others
e same class and that despite the fact
one of the best. If not the best. in
That, however, is not much to boast
3 good niddle-weights are as scarce
irst-ciaSs 122-pounders.
best middles before the public at
ent with Tommy Ryan retired, are
y. Billy Papke. Joe Thomas, Young
iicli anu JACK L VIII SULLIVAN, WHO
claims he can make the weight Tony
phi. although defeated by Kelly, also
ititled to hearing.
X 4 \
ssterners are IN the dark as 10 the
ing qualifications OF Pat O'Keefe,
English middleweight champion whom
Papl1e is to meet at Philadelphia. He
rot come to this country with flour
4 trumpets as did Bill Squires. so he
be better than the general run OF
gners. According to reports he is
on rangy lines, but is clever and a
hitter. Papke's forte is TO tear in
wahop away with both hands, so I'M
the English-Irishman can stand a bit
Dughing he is apt to go under. His
emates. Johnny Summers and Owen
H. are good little men, but they are
his sponsors
Lying by the manner in which
lng'' Donohue is wading through the
I'm light-weights George Memsic, the
champion. will meet a worthy oppo-
at Los Angeles on November 26. The
rner long has been touted as the COM
champion and the chance to climb to
op is now before him. In Memsic he
stack up against one of the best
weights now in harness-one who is
clever. game, and the owner Of
h that will put any one il connects
out OF the running.
l-~ * * X
brything In connection with the Pack
mcfarland Kid Herman match,
d is to be decided at Davenport on
mbsS q. is in apple pie order. Her
XNorking like a Trojan to condition
Elf for the contest and is being heav-
acked TO win Packey will not start
brk until about two weeks before the
ample time, he says, to get fit. The
IS the best we have had in this
OF the woods for a number of moons.