The San Francisco call., 1910-03-14
BEN SELIG TAKES
CHARGE OF ATTELL
Ketchel Refuses to Come to This City
To Fight Langford in July.
By WILLIAM ]. SLATTERY

Like many another of the old war
horses who retired forever" Benny
Selig is back in the game again. The
former manager of Joe Cans last night
took charge of the affairs of Abe Attell,
the American feather weight champion,
and he hopes to match the willy little
Hebrew with live one before the
summer Selig has been given full
power to make all AttelPs matches, and
he has taken hold of Abe with the dis
tinct understanding that he must fight
from now on and pass up his stalling
tactics.
L believe that l can make Attell fight
as he is capable of lighting" said Selig
last night Now, l am only taking a
chance. If Abe falls back. into his old
habit of stalling around and pulling, as
he has been doing in the past, I will
drop him after the first fight. believe
that Abe is one of the greatest little
fighters who ever drew on a glove, but
he will have to show me- have been
corresponding with him for several
weeks and he knows very well under
what conditions l viii agree to handle
him"
AttelI is now in New York, but he
will start for the coast just as soon as
Selisy can get a match for him. In the
meantime Benny will get right on the
lob. He will go after Wolgast, welsh,
Moran. Driscon or any of them who can
make a weight suitable for Attell Out
of this bunch Selig figures to land sat
least one or two good matches Tor ms
latest protege, either in this city or IN
Los Angeles.
If any of them can handle the shlIty
Abraham. Selig is the man. lie is
classed with the best managers that
the game has ever known and he STANDS
well with the prominent sporting men
all over the United States. He has long
been a great admirer of Attel, put ne
never liked his tactics. Ape mas oeeh
after Benny to take hold OF him ever
since Cans was beaten
Selig gained fame as the manager OF
the black boy when he was the ola
master" and the king of all the light
weights. He arranged Cans affalrs IN
the three Nelson fights, which netted
+be negro more money than any OF the
other battles he ever took part in Sellg
won lot of money when Cans got that
C,oldfield decision over the Duraole
Dane
Atten probably realizes that ne
must get hack to San Francisco In or
So 70 get hold of some of the big
money. For the last few months ne
has been hghting around the pusn
towns for anything that they onered
him his stalling ways put him in bad
viii, the fans of this city, but Win
Selfg at his back he figures to regain
his lost prestige.
Coffroth is very anxious to put AIleH
and lem DriscoIl, the British cham
nion. on here during May il possible, or
nerhaps in August, when he Will dedi-
cate his new pavilion at Twelfth ana
Market streets. Abe and the Brltoh
surely would furnish great hsuc
card. provided. of course, that the rams
felt certain that Attell made UP MS
mind to fight
As everybody expected Stanley
KetcheI will not fight Sam Langford
in this CITY next July. He wired Jim
Griffin TO this effect last night, eX-
plaining that he had other dates on
and that he could not possibly make
the trip at that particular time. Grif-
fin was not very much disappointed at
that for he feared for the worst.
u will look around for another
one" said Jim last night. Il have set
nv heart on pulling off a big show in
this city two days before Jeffries and
Johnson climb into that ring and ] am
going to go through with it, Ketchel
is not the only card in the ring and l
guess that / can get along with an
other one just as well as with him.
All is in readiness for the big benefit
boxing show to be given by the asso-
ciated San Francisco promoters at the