Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-19
ABE ATTELL LET
X. 0. BROWN
BEAT HIM
In Disappointing Bout
Featherweight Champ
Stalls Openly.
IN ONE ROUND ABE JUST
ALLOWED RIVAL TO SLUG
From a stan Correspondent

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-F1ght fans
We're treated to a surprise not to their
liking 1t the National Sporting Club
last night when Abe Attell, feather
weight champion. and Knockout
Brown. protege of Dan Morgan and a
lightweight whom 10 n but himself
and his manager ever think will be a
champion. put up a bout % of ten
rounds.
There vas a. surprise, for California
Abe again "bunked" the public by re-
fusing to give the best that was in
him and s~talling for ten full rounds.
The fight was of such a character that
the fans We're thoroughly Disguised
and vowed never again would they
go to see the featherweight fight when
he went out of his class.
Whatever ono the bout brought
so to Brown.
There were many present who
thought the champion was out of con
dition and could not do his best. but
be this as 1t may, Attell, when an old
man. will be able to fight better than
he did last night. We do not wish to
say that the mode of procedure had
been understood by the men before
they entered the ring, but we are per
fectly safe in saying that neither man
was afraid of the other. There was
an atmosphere enyeloping the affair
that made the spectators feel uncom-
Portable. Dan Morgan did not seem
to care 10 say SO much as usual and
looked real happy, where. on other oc-
c%asions, he had an expression on his
face of anxiety. There is no gainsay-
ing the fact that the affair was
punk" and those poor unfortunates
who had to dig down and pay five
and seven" are entitled to a "holler"
at Attell's antics.
AttelI Works Once In Awhile.
There We're times during the fight
that Attell had TO do a little work.
Then 1T was that he showed what he
could do. AT these stages *. o.
looked like a novice in his first race
afraid to maxi a move lest he should
run into one of the fast-Hying fists
from the shifty champion.
The Eight is over, but the public will
remember 1t for a long time. Brown
won, but let us hope he keeps this
fight out of his record book. for every
time We look at a mention of ii we
Will be compelled TO browse in memo
ries that will be bad mental food.
The Work.
The way Brown started things in the
first made 1t look as though the fight
was really to be good. He started at
Atten hammer and tongs and the audi
ence sat back expecting a good bat
tie. OF course the round was Browns.
In the second session Attell began his
jabbing tactics and made the x. o.
lad look like a selling-plater. Brown
was foolish and lodging, and the round
ended in the champions favor. In the
fourth round Attell sat on the ropes
while Brown sent in right and left.
This was the start of the stall"
Again in the fifth session did Attell
do work that was creditable. He
had Brown guessing with his might
ing, and although the blows would not
have hurt a newborn babe the fans
relished 1t.
In the sixth round Brown tried hard
to land. He was holding with one hand
n landed on Attell's face with the
other. Abe got in close and pushed his
head under Browns chin. *. O"
swung any old way and rained several
rights and lefts ON the jaw and body.
Abe did not seem to mind it and kept
on chewing gum. 1t was Browns round.
In the seventh Brown made believe
he was going to eat up the champion.
With his eve bleeding he seemed TO be
a bit angered. He ducked a left swing
of AttelIs and sent q left TO the body,
Brown then hit a left and a right to
the jaw and the two mixed II a BIT,
with Brown getting the best of II.
In the eighth Attell seemed to wake
up, but not enough to entitle him to an
advantage of the round. Brown, mean
ing well, was the aggressor. He sent
his right and landed on the stomach,
Abe looked at him and said don't do
that; it hurts" OF course the fans
smiled for they we're Just as wise az
the man who thought he was the
wisest. While the round vas better
than some Of the others, Brown was
entitled 10 a shade.
Number nine was Attell's, and in the
tenth, Just to show Brown, M not the
audience, we believe. that he was the
master, Attell assisted Brown out of
the ring by s~idestepping a left swing.
Brown had Attell backing and sud
denly whipped out a left which had
some force behind It. Att-ll stepped
aside and Brown went out of the ring
! into the lap Of spectators IN the o