The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-30
ABE ATTELL IN MONTGOMERY Featherweight Champion
 in City,
 - TO FIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS Talks Interestingly of His Fistic Career. Had Herd Time Breaking late the Game, But Game strong
 From the Very
 start.

Abe AttelI, the pugflist, feather weight champion of the world, stopped over in Montgomry last night to look up few friends while on his way to
 New Orleans, where he goes for a few rounds with . chap who fancies himself a bit.
 The little fighter is in the very pink of condition. his skin; although oark s big and quiet. are as clear as baby s Broad and well proportioned, he looks as fit for his business as man could well be. But he says he had world of trouble in getting in the game. all because of a woman. and the woman was his mother. 3 .
 q was knocked out down and out" the little scrapper says, many time before I ever saw boxing glove, but the odds were against me. l weighed them from twenty to sixty pounds and my opponent was my mother every time NI got in Q scrap with one ot the boys In San Francisco, where was horn. mother would put 1t to me good and proper. She hated rowjyism, as she called it, and tried to make me feel the same way, but 1t wasn't any use belt. but 1t taught me to stand pun ishment in a way that has stood me m ~.T had no idea of going into the game at first. although dearly loved to see a scrap. and many is the boyish fisticuff have been in. and this pro nensity for accelerated hstic motion at last sent me into exile. Mother sent me to Los Angeles, to my uncle and had me put to work. when I was four teen in the hope of getting me away from rows I stayed with my uncle a year and a half and then one day hs wrote to mother telling her I was quiet little fellow and he had gotten
 ;'Home I was sent and on the way up from the~rail%ay station met q boy with whom had strapped many times. He had grown since last saw him and the memory of trouncing I had giv- en him seemed to have fingered with him. He made for me on sight and dropping my grip we got busy Atterr
 '"The other chaps heard of 1t and as there was a new boy on our street who had been lordlng 1t over the bunch. the gang picked me to go after him. They fixed up an old store house. and actual. Iy advertised. There was my name and that of the other boy plastered all over town. Mother saw the posters an dtold me it wasn't to be. begged 1 pleaded, cajoled, even told her she could have my share of the baby purse | put it was oil to no end for a while | Then I went to her the morning be- l fore the fight and told her frankly thH' i my honor was at stake, that If failed | to come up to the scratch, would b, branded a coward. That lid the busI, ness she told me to go ahead, bu :. she hoped deep down in her heart h' would knock me and all thought o lighting again out of existence.
 "She did not mean that part of it ! for she met me at the gate when
 Game home after the scrap with three 1 fourths of the gate money. She woulG not touch & cent of 1t. but she smiled | when I%said had put the chap ti sleep in four rounds. That was m, I first professional light. Since then have met J35 others, and lost three o
 them all three to lightweights whv
 were out of my class.
 Whats that, where did get m, name? l was born twenty-five year l ago on February e2. 1t was a nationa
 holiday and the people at home seen
 to have gotten their dates mixed fo
 thex named me Abraham Lincoln At
 tell"
 The fighter says he has no Idea o
 leaving the ring, and probably dis
 tinguishes himself In the statement
 by being the first man who has bee in>the business ten years who ever sal
 such a thing. He says he likes if an
 as long as he can clean up S35,0O0
 wear. like he did in 1908. it is goo
 enough for him.
 Atteil is on the way to New orlean