The San Francisco call., 1908-09-08

ing just enough work to keep him in
the limelight, but not taking a chance
that would endanger his precious
feather weight title.
Atte1 started off the fight with the
first lead. a light left to the face. He
danced all around the ring and took
Morans measure carefully shooting in
an occasional left TO keep warmed up.
He varied the monotony with couple
of rights and near the end of the
round landed with both hands to the
body.
Attelrs rights and lefts to the body
gained him an early lead in the second
also. but near the finish Moran used his
left to the head to fair advantage and
showed that he could hit Abe, pro-
vided the latter would mix.
Moran opened the third by bringing
his right over to the jaw, but took
three uppercuts in a clinch in return.
They kept up a rather steady exchange
of rights and lefts during the round,
with Attell having slight lead. At
tell put good left to the face in the
his left and landed a right on the
body. Moran then landed an uppercut,
but Attell easily Offset this lead in the
last minute of fighting.
BEST ROUND OF THE BATTLE
The fifth was very much on the same
order, but there was something stirring
in the sixth, one of the best rounds
OF the battle Moran put in a good
right to the body and repeated after
Attell had missed a couple of swings.
Moran then became very aggressive
and whipped in a couple of rights that
sent Attell backing to the ropes and
dancing away. Moran seemed to be
trying hard to land a haymaker, while
Atten was visibly stalling.
From the sixth to the tenth it was
Moran to a certainty. He set a fast
pace and forced the milling every min
ute. He put in several good rights to
the face and head and some nice,
straight lefts to the jaw and used a
backhanded swing effectively, while all
best he could and let the current of
defeat or victory take its own course.
After that time Attell showed more
signs of life and clearly indicated to
the crowd that he was fighting under
wraps. He did far more effective work
about the twelfth and thirteenth round,
boxing very cleverly and landing the
cleaner blows, whenever any were
landed. He ducked and sidestepped and
gave a nice exhibition, but did not try
to fight, though the crowd kept urging
him on.
AttelI managed to open Moran's right
eye with a clever left swing in the
sixth round and he paid much of his
attention to the injured optic after that
time. However, he landed no more eff
fective blows there and at the finish
Moran's eye was much better than when
it was first injured by the impact of
his opponents glove.
FEW EXCITING RALLIES
From the sixteenth round to the fin
ish the fighting was very much the
same as from the tenth to the fifteenth.
Moran was willing enough, but Attell
would not let him. On couple of
occasions they stood up and slugged
wildly for half minute before the bell
sounded the end of a round, but neither
was much harmed during these rallies
Moran had the better of the twenty
first round and it was expected that he
, would pn ka tho a I,
one in the next two. Attell, however,
easily managed to stop the English
mans rushes in the twenty-second and
had shade the better of the going.
Neither man seemed tired and both
were apparently keeping their best
blows in reserve.
The last round put the damper on
the fight Instead of tearing at one
another the men went into one clinch
after another and kept fiddling away
and trying to land some sort of short
They hung on and rushed one another
all over the ring, though neither tried
l to measure the other.
Several times during the fight Moran
measured Attell with his left and then
sent the right over to the jaw. This
was the most effective punch that he
| had, but it did not seem to carry a
great deal of force. Abe soon became
alert for the blow, but not until it
made him look like a busher couple OF
/ times.
There were two preliminary fights on the card
yesterday. The first was awarded to Brick How
/ ard over Ed Cert after four rounds of all kinds
| of milling. The crowd did not hkes the verdict
of Referee Sol Levison, for Cert fought cleyerIy
and might have received draw at least In
the second encounter Tommy Deakin, Moran $
clever sparring partner. knocked out Ed Cobb
1 in half round. Deakin had all the class and
hammered his will.
TECHNICAL STORY OF FIGHT
ROUND 1.-The men spared with great eau
ton and then mixed it, Atten putting three lefts
TO Moran's body and Moran fighting back rather
wildly. Attell shot vicious right to the body
and followed il with left and right to the law
| After some sparring Attell jabbed a left to the
| face and rushed Moran TO the ropes planting
left and right to the body. Moran drove Attell
/ to the center of the ring and landed a wicked
| left on the body and swung his right TO the
| jaw. In midring rally Moran outfought his