The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
LITTLE DOING
AMONG BOXERS
Van Loan Discusses Fight Sit
uation as 1t Stacks Up
at Present.
WEEKS-ATTELL NEXT GO
CRIPPLE CREEK MAN TO BE
GIVEN CHANCE.
sL c. {. VAN LOAN,

Joe Cans has gone back. back back to
Baltimore: George Memsic is loahng.
looking wise and talking 1873 pounds at
O'clock; Tommy Burns Is handing out
line of talk about being willing and ready
to fight Johnson. provided they show him
SIS, 900 as an inducement; Bill Squires IS
in the discard; Jack Twin Sullivan Is Of
fering TO fight Tommy Burns for ham
sandwich. cut sixty and forty; Gunner
NOR is waiting for Tommy Burns to cross
the pond and the only sign of a splash In
any one of the championship pools looms
up in the Attell- Weeks fight, slated for
Los Angeles.
Freddy Weeks is the Cripple Creek dy-
namiter who recently broke into the Hall
of Fame. by scoring three knockouts I'm
one night. The Colorado sports over
looked the fact that the men he whipped
were fourth-rate pork and beaners and
Immediately ioosed a howl of joy, pro
claiming the discovery of an embryo
champion.
Saying Things About Abe.
Ever since then Freddy Weeks. through
his manager Durand. has been hot on
Attelrs trail There was nothing too bit
ter for this manager to say about At
tell and his principal statement was
to the effect that Attell knew that
Weeks was tough boy and was afraid
The Jew won't fight Weeks" cried
the Colorado contingent. "Attell knows
that boy can beat him and he won't
fight"
Now, in Justice TO Atten, it may be
said that he is not afraid OF anything
that walks and carries 1913 pounds. let
alone 10 A few nights ago Abe was
in Chicago on a Los Angeles wire, try
ing to arrange a twenty-round battle
with Memsic at 1873 pounds ringside. AT
ter Abe stated his case this message
was sent him:
What are you trying to do? This is
tough fellow and don't overlook that
fact Stick to your class and you'll
wear diamonds"
Click. click. went the wire and Aba'S
answer came back pat:
Il m trying to make a match where
think / can win one This fellow can't
beat me at 135 pounds. Get him signed
Now. If AtteIl was anxious to hook
up with Memsic. after seeing him in
several of his fights. It does not seem
probable that he would run away from
any legitimate 122-pound fighter
The men are to meet I'm Los Angeles
on the 18th of this month. weighing in
at 122 ringsIde.
Taking the Weeks-Carsey fight as
line on Weeks ability. he should nc
easy for Attel. Abe made Carsey iumr
out of the ring the second time H.
fought him Weeks. with all his whirl-
wind style. did not accomplish this Wiie1
he met Carsey later in Colorado
Jack Twin Wants Bunk Champ.
der Of the Bean City. has not given up
hope of drawing Tommy Burns into q
fight The Boston spendthrift Is now iu
Los Angeles. figuring with McCarey ON
battle with Burns
Il beat him the last time he fought
me- said Sullivan. and what kind Of
a heavyweight champion can he call
hlInsen II he sidesteps a chance TO wine
out that decision against him? / know
that he had nothing on me then
knocked him down in the last round OF
mat highland you bet l can do il again
II he Is so sure that he can beat me let
MN make the match. l will agree to give
MN the long end of the purse lust to
get him into the ring"
Jack Twin is a thrifty souI This is +to
1irst time he ever made a statement like
TINS In his life Both the Sullfysns are
out for the coin and they usually insist
on private agreement BY which the
money is TO be split even This in itself
Is enough TO turn a great majority Of fbs
sports against them, for both the Twins
nave a bad habit of going twenty rounds
10 decision, usually taking the sar,a
Iney 40 not believe in inflicting much
carnage and believe still less in having
any damage done to them. They are the
ShfeWdest, oillest, toughest pair of bsId
headed birds in the ring TODAY and NrbjIs
there are few knockouts in either of Their
ffecoIus, they are hard and inconvenient
fighters TO beat Jack Twin saws tbst
Bill Squires can hit
lie popped me one over the eve that
was peach" said Jack Twin. a cot q
bit careless with him. thinking 7 conIS
outslug him, and see what he gave ma
calling attention to a new scar beIouI ny a.
brow. For a few seconds he had me
gong, but came back at him with ovar
hand lefts to the jaw and soon had bir,
sroggy again. If he had landed half fbe
Wild swings he turned loose at me he
would have knocked me out of the ring