The San Francisco call., 1908-05-02

|: The successor OF the old fight trust.
consisting of Jack Gleason, Sam Ber-
ger and Luke Marisch. who have been
the pride of Chairman w. G. Stafford
of the supervisors police committee
because he hoped 10 clear the boxing
atmosphere with their assistance,
stands q. miserably exposed owing to
the. disclosures over the prearranged
fight between Abe Attell and Brook
lyn. Tommy" Sullivan. The confidence
Of Chairman Stafford has been violated,
as he stands for square sport, which
he believes the men of this city are
entitled TO at the hands of the pro-
meters.
=. Details of the betting and all the
unsavory arrangements came to the
surface quickly yesterday and showed
how; far reaching were the calculations
Of the manipulators. The bets were
not declared off with an idea of pro-
tecting the public, but because the men
WHO. had framed up the crooked match
found that some one else had beaten
them to the poolrooRs and had taken
up. all the. Sullivan money offered.
They could not get down their money.
SO they decided no one else should
:proHt by their manipulation of the
match and they had the bets declared
on
ATTELL is THE PET
Another Of the developments of yes
teroay was that it had already been
arranged that AttelI would be pitted
against Joe Cans in June. AtteIl has
been the pet of the new fight trust, as
he has been one OF the principals in
each Of the fights promoted by the men
OF which II is composed. AttelI fought
Nell IN January. Kelly in February,
Battling Nelson in March and Sullivan
In April The Nelson match was the
only one in which the public was given
run for its money and IL would not
have had run that time II Nelson had
listened to Atten
/ The Gans-Attell match was always
an irlpossibility. but with the develop
ments OF the past "a hours Il has been
made doubly so. Atteil will have diff
ficulty in re-estabIishing himself here
with the. men who pay to witness
fights and those who like TO wager on
them. The promoters will also find IT
difficult to provide Cans with three
easy matches. Unholz, who is looked
upon more as a clown in the ring than
ia fighter, will undoubtedly be sacri-
feed to the skill of Cans, but after
that there are no other easy ones
available and the champion Will have
to meet some of the formidable can
didates. for his title. Unholz is already
store for him when he meets the scien-
tifc and hard hitting Cans He is
sorry now that he did not stay in the
class where he figured.
TRY TO REACH ROCHE
! One of the most important develop
ments in. the exposure of the details
Of the Attell- Sullivan affair was
statement made by Billy Roche, who
was originally selected to referee. He
said:
:'The first I knew of, my selection
as referee OF the fight was when I
saw IL in the papers Shortly afterward
I was asked by certain parties inter
ested in the match what 1 would do
II II was put up to me that the match
was crooked. / replied that would
call all. bets of and would declare the
match no contest They told me that
that. would be bad for them and bad
for the game. I said I could not help
that. The next day I learned that I
had been dropped as referee and an
other man substituted. for which L
am very glad I must refuse TO state
who the parties. were who approached
me-"
It also developed yesterday that Sui
I liyan was TO stay seven rounds and
+ then go. out He was making such a
bad showing that he told Attell he
would go out in the fourth round. He
! did not want TO take a genuine knock
+ out punch, hence the ridiculous efforts
! he made TO feign being knocked out
T. In regard to the selection of Roche
as. referee, he was the only man avail
/ able when they went down the list.