Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-25
ATTELL DEFEATS
MORAN FOR ONCE
Clearly 0utboxeS English Rival
in Their Ten-Round Bout
at Maud Junction
SCRAP WAS FAST AN DFURI0US
Britisher Loses No Prestige with
Fans by His Great, Though
Losing, Showing
SCRAP WAS FAST AN DFURI0US
BY JAY DAVIDSON


Longer routes may bring about fur
ther dispute regarding the relative
merits of Abe Attel and Owen Moran
as boxers, but the featherweight cham
pion last night clearly proved that he
is the master of the Briton over the
ten-round route, as he outhoXed his
English rival at every round, though
not by any great margin, and wound
up at the final gong with a margin so
distinct and indisputable that there
scarcely was any difference in opinion
among those who sat at ringside and
watched them in their marvellous
exhibition of boxing skill 1t was
the prettiest and fastest boxing bout
ever staged in a local ring and kept
the fans in a state Of excited interest
throughout.
Both entered the ring perfectly
trained for this fourth test of their
knowledge of the Queensbery art and
neither lost any valuable time in fid-
ding around before getting down to
real hard pan. They were at it right
from the first jump and kept it up,
like stake horses contesting for
derby prize, every minute they were in
the ring. The old feud that probably
never will be settled by them, grow
ing out of their other tough battles at
longer distances, bobbed up in every
round, when they would intersperse
blows with vindictives and occasional
ly make faces at each other. When the
gong sounded for the end Of the final
round, Moran turned about and made
a sassy face at Abe and twtted him
in confidence that at last he had
whipped the featherweight champion.
Straight lefts were used with light
ming like rapidity throughout the bout,
with AttelI counting about three to one
with these light taps. He started the
first round with one and ended with
another. Moran toed the scratch and
never backed up an inch throughout
the bout, but he also found Attel al
ways within reach, even if he could
not quite connect at all times.
They steamed up considerably in the
second round and began to do some
effective slugging, although mostly
confining their efforts to jabs in the
face and hooks to the head, OF when
there We're an innumerable amount.
The old feud showed up for the first
time in the second when Abe began
to talk to owen and the latter to heel
Abe with his glove in clinches.
The third round started off like real
business with both boys swinging
rights to body. Moran hooked his left
to the head in the breakaway and Abe
poked a right to the body and made
Moran miss a stiff swing for the head.
Abe blocked several leads for the jaw
and was caught with a wild right to
the ribs, as Moran missed the lead and
swung clear around, but Attell offset
it with a right and left to the head
with jarring force
The fourth round was faster than
the preceding one and both boys did
some effective clouting with letts TO
the face and head, while Attell used
a right uppercut with good effect two
or three times as Moran rushed IN
with right swings. When the gong
ended the round the boys were stlll
ouarreling and were inclined to over
look the bell.
Abe got onto his stride with a ven
geance in the fifth and put over sew
eral wallops to head and ribs without
return, often making Moran swing
wildly and miss A few left jabs to
the face soon had the first ciaret Oh
the bout flowing from Moran's nose,
and this seemed to further anger him,
as he charged Abe like a mad bull and
nut a stiff left to the face and hard
right to the ribs. Abe hooked a hard
right to the jaw, the most eHectlVe
blow of the bout, ard followed it up
with a right uppercut and left hook
to the jaw, showing at top speed ana
with his best punch in TINS round.
Moran opened the sixth with nara
right to the ribs and another stiff left
to the face, Abe missing a right swing,
hut put a left hook to the jaw Let's
to the face and rights to the ribs flew
so fast throughout this round that a
moving picture machine would nave
been put on the bum trying to keep
tab on them.
Moran rushed at AtteT at the start
of the seventh and swung his left to
the wind, clnching at once. Abe
hooked his left to the jaw rather light
" three times and stopped Moran's
rush with a right uppercut that landed
squarely in the mush and Strengthened
UP Moran. Then they began their
swinging tactics once more both show
ing some pretty hooks and Well-timed
swings that landed with good effect.
Abe uppercut Moran with his right as
the gong rang and again they were
slow to cut it out.
The eighth round was the sloWest of
the bout, and neither boxer did much
in the line of damaging punches. The
ninth started with a renewal of rush
ing tactics by Moran, and Abe upper
cut with his left as he sidestepped
vicious right swing for the head. Moran
came close and pOked straight left
to the face and switched to the head
in quick succession, Abe swinging to
the wind and swapping rights to the
head The final round opened with
cross to the jaw and a left to the wind,
Both landed hard lefts to the jaw and
began swinging again, most of the
leads being prettily blocked by each.
Abe caught Owen backing out of a
clinch, and swung right and left to
the jaw, but while these blows carried
steam behind them, the little Britisher
was not seemingly affected by them
and rushed in with hard left to the
head as the gong ended the bout
Moran turned and jeered at Abe like
a school boy and both dashed for
newspaper row to find out who had
won, without result.
CHICO OUTPOINTS AUSTIN
The first preliminary bout was sched- |
Med as a six-round affair between Paul
Sikora and Jeff O'Connell, but Sikora
failed to pass the required physical eX-
animation by the club physicians and !
was not allowed to go on with the bout |
frankie Sullivan passed the eXami- |
nation and was substituted at the last |
moment. but the number was moved |
down the line and Jimmy Austin and |