Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-28
THE PUGlLISTS
THE PEN THAT
 BEATS THE SWORD
Bat Masterson Thows Ink Like a Fire Fxtinguisher Sprays a
 Blaze.

Talk about your hammer swing
 ing just listen to this from the pen
 of Bat" Masterson about the Mo-
 Govern and Robson fight:
 In pulling off the six-round bout Tuesday evening, between Terry
 McGovern and Spike Robson, the
 Barnyard club in East Twenty
 fourth street, handed the New York fight fans, or rather the New York fight suckers, about the rankest fake ever seen in New York prize ring.
 That the whole miserable fiasco was a deliberate frame-up on the part of all concerned cannot be doubted for moment. That Terry McGovern can no longer fight was made plainly evident in his contest with young Loughrey at Philadel- phia short time ago. The show ing with Loughrey should have pre- vented his friends from allowing him to again appear in the ring as a principal in contest. Either the pugilistic promoters are suffering acute brainstorm or they are an un- mitigated gang of grafters for dish ing up the McGovern-Robson fiasco.
 "It is hardly probable that they will plead guilty to being crazy. They will therefore, have to accept the odium of being grafters. That Terry performed as well as he could is probably true. But that. Robson boxed exactly in accordance with the instructions he had receiv- ed no one who has ever seen him In action in the ring can doubt for moment. The whole thing savers of a cold-blooded pre-arranged fake and should be the means of putting every one connected with it, includ- ing the livery stable in which 1t was perpetrated, out of the boxing game for all time"
 Harry Pollok, who is managing Charlie Griffin. the Australian feath- erweight champion, is evidently hav- ing some trouble watching his pro- tege with Abe Attell, whom he came to this country especially to meet. Pollak has this to say in a letter:
 Abe Attell, the featherweight champion of America, is recognized as one of the cleverest little men that ever stepped into ring, pugilistically speaking. And now he seems to be trying to hang up a record outside of the ropes in the countering and side stepping line.
 NrfV hA ct utv hn hn has tossed his gauntlet at the feet of almost every chamois pusher in the business from Jim Jeffries down to Packy Mcfarland. And right there MT Able calls halt on the challeng- ing business. Cunning Abe. Every one of these men are out of his class. A defeat from any one of them would not hurt the Attell championship 1 laurels. He went out of his class, would be his excuse.
 "Attell wants to give pounds, tons, of weight away to any one in the | world except featherweights. When | l legitimate feather shows up who is sntitled to the chance of having a try Or MT Abe's crown, this same boy V NhO dhbo lO pdttlE IiC "Oi Ad Slh6lC landed, suddenly develops into a who has Shylock look ng like a Carnegie.
 Owen Moran carried Attell such ast clip for twenty-five sizzling ses- ions that Abe has ever since struck dangerous explosive sign on Moran. And now when Charlie Griffin, who ecently knocked out the man (Bow- Ier) who beat Moran, puts in an ap- Attell, who has been chal- enging Joe Cans morning, noon and light, is once again very particu- ar whom he fights. He says Griffin would not be drawing card.
 Griffin is the featherweight cham 'ion of Australia, knocked Bowker ut in eight rounds a few weeks ago D London and was giving the much outed Driscoll the fight of his life vhen he lost on foul in the fifteenth ound. Certainly looks as if he should e allowed to fight this wonderful be
 Maybe Attell's manager. aIr iohn, who is in town, might be in- uced to talk business if he could get
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