The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-09-18
W. w. NAUGHTON WRITES
OF ATTELL-MORAN DRAW

/ his leafing spells were of longer dura.
tion. Moran pushed him half way
through the ropes in the fourteenth and
kept striking at him over the top rope
until Welsh went to Attell' Is relief.
Although, as already stated, Attell
generally had the better of the grand
stand rally toward the flag end of each
round, there was one round in which
the Englishman out.b boxed the Califor.
nian. This was the sixteenth, and the
best punch placed by Moran was full
right swing on the point of the chin.
Sin the seventeenth round Moran
was reeling in one mix,up, and in the
eighteenth Attell started earlier and
fought later than he did in any of the
other threeminute spells of fighting He
did good execution at the holy with
a left underswing and had Moran bend.
ing down to avoid the punishment.
Moran was as persistent as ever,
but Attell took things easy in most of
the rounds after the twentieth. He cut
loose at a good fast clip in the twenty.
second, however. Moran started the
trouble and Abbey kept his two gloves
inside Moran IS forearms and hammered
iaway at the stomach, Moran meanwhile
using both hands on the sides of the
head Attell IS head was rocking, but it
Twas of his own volition, and the only
Furnishing blows on tap just then were
those that Moran took in the midritf.
"When they stood forth for thel
twenty-third round Attell was as fresh
looking, and alert as at the beginning.
He was snappy-eyed, and barring a
few red scrapes around the left side,
where Moran had dubbed him in the
clinches, there was nothing to show
+ that he had been through twenty-five
rounds of fairly fast milling.
"Abe evidently thought that little
remained but TO have the award made
in his favor, for after throwing left
underswing into Moran's stomach he
stood away and said, No draw today,
Owen
"'I've Won Mile. Said owen.
90 Certainly not; I've won a mile,
said Moran, and then they went at
each other. Attell was as cool as ever
and he did not make an ungainly mo-
tion, while Moran foundered consider
ably. Moran was the aggressor right
up to the very finish, fact which in
, fluenced Referee Welsh in declaring the
affair a draw
/, "Moran said after the contest that
he had broken his right hand in the
t second round and that he would like
v nothing better than to sign up with
5 Attell for a forty-fve-round bout. II
$ may be that the injury complained OF
{ was responsible for the lack of ginger
in the Englishman punches, but be
5 tween Moran's Ineffective hitting and
1 Attell's Partially for 'stalling
0 through nearly two-thirds of every
|. round the contest could hardly be call
p ed an interesting one. Compared with
s the first bout between the men it wai
s a tame affair.
ga big crowd gathered at Corbett Is
on Ellis street, at 1920 a. m. to watcl
the weighing of the : featherweigh
: champions Each man was below thu
: notch called for by the articles-;name
: ly 122 pounds, and according to pri
. vate tests made before the officia
= weighing each of the contestant
: weighed exactly 1915 pounds.
= "There was pressure of Nora
! money after the weighing, but the odd
: did not alter. The opening price il
the morning was 10 to Q, with Attel
favorite and at the ringside commits
a sioners were moving around looking TO
: the Attell end.
"Moran put in an appearance at thu
. arena early, and he appeared to be il
) better condition and in better spirit
than he was just prior to his last af
fair with Attell. Charley Harvey ant
!. Tiv Kreling took the little Britishe
for an automobile ride before bringing
;. him to the arena, and as showing HOY
8 uneopcerned he was, they told how h
d laid back in his seat and slept Will
v they were speeding along the drive
h ways wandering the beach.
g > Attell took things easy after weigh
ing in. He went to his home in tn
h city and rested for a couple of hours
o Then he rode to the arena in an auto
d mobile, reaching his dressing-room a
70 1880 p. M.
is "shortlv after o'clock the areni
n filed rapidly, and by quarter to
IS the gathering was an extremely larg
a one.
10 "Owen Moran's sparring partner
n Tom Deakin. figured in the second con
,e test, and it looked as though his asso
I citation with Moran benefited him. H
d hadifor his opponent Ed Kohl, and Koh
lasted only half round. Deaki
A. timed him with right crosses and 500
& had him in such a bad way that Ref
d cree Sol Ieyinson stopped the bout.