Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-21
BETTING ODDS
SWITCH AGAIN
ATTELL AND WELSH AT EVENS
ONCE MORE
FREDDIE CHANGES PRICE BY
SHOWING HIS MONEY
Boys Rank So Evenly In Public Mind
That Every Big Wager or Offer Of
One Causes Big Scare
Among Layers

Abe Attell no longer rules as favorite
for his scrap with Freddie Welsh on
Thanksgiving eve. Hearing that he
was a despised outsider in the gambo-
Herring. the little Englishman laid off
training for the time being yesterday
afternoon and beat 1t to town, clutch
ing a roll of bills which figured up to
half a thousand dollars when 1t was
unfolded.
Look here, Baron" said Freddie as
he entered tbs Jeffries Athletic club
offices This 10 to stuff is too soft,
and 1 think I'll cop a little Of 1t. Tell
me where they have any Attell coin at
those fiures and I'll go and grab It."
With q couple of friends Welsh be-
gan tour of investigation, but after
a hard afternoons work he was unable
to place his money. When he took the
rubber off his bank roll the English
lad was told that nothing but even
money was forthcoming. so he tucked
the wad back in his jeans and toted 1t
back to the beach.
Freddie was rather disheartened be-
cause he was unable to place his money,
and departed for his training camp in
gloomy spirits. 81 have been hoping
all the time that Attell would be q
pronounced favorite for so far my
best efforts in the ring have been when
the other man had the call over me
with the public. Just look at my
fights here. Brock was a to l shot
over me, and l did not have enough
friends in the betting fraternity to
buy a hot bun. Yet all the fans can
remember how 1 won gallOping.
"Another example is my draw with
Mcfarland. All the wise ones refused
to give me a look-in, and while the
betting on general results was to /
against me, the handicappers went still
further and put up even money that
I would not stick fifteen rounds. And
now current report is that Atttell is a
10 to 5 shot over me. Wei, l hope
it is true, but l cannot discover that
such is the case with my own money
The day off which Welsh gave him
self apparently was we'll earned, for the
kings favorite son has been working
like a Trojan to get in shape. His
weight was just fraction over 132
pounds in the afternoon, and according
to Freddie himself, this is just what
he wants. "a man never wants to be
down to low weight too soon," he said,
land I always have found 1t a good
plan to leave the last pound or two
until drying out time, then no strength
is wasted, and you also have chance
to pick up flesh while waiting for the
gong to tap"
AIJ6l1 Is Tic OUG VIII 10 AAOhlAA6 oOO0t
the way the scales are acting. II
would like to be In Welsh's boots and
have to reduce instead of trying to
build up the featherweight champ
walled. Here I am down to 122 pounds.
when 1 would like to be nearer twen-
ty-eight. If I don't get next to some
kind of a meat producer in a couple of
days I guess Welsh will be scrapping
a skeleton-but one that will whip him,
at that"
Both Attell and Welsh will put on ex-
ira cards Sunday, and while neither
will slow up in his work until Monday
OF Tuesday, the real stunts of the en-
tire season will come tomorrow. In
the south side camp Walter Fisher and
Monte Attell will be available help for
the champion to toy with, and at Ven
Ace Welsh will work with Jack Red
mond and Young Kid Mccoy, his reg
ular sparring partner.
According to Baron Long, the adj
vance sale of seats for Wednesday
night exceeds anything of the kind the
Jeffries club has yet experienced.
Strange to say, the higher priced seats
are going fast, and as yet the demand
for the back rows in the reserved Sec
lions is slow. This is taken as an in
dication that the classy card is appre-
ciated and that the fans have at last
come to a realization of what the JEFF
fries club is giving them for their
money.