Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-21
ATTELL IS IN BAD.
FeatherWeight Champion Ac-
,cused of Taking With Brown.
COMMISSION MAY ACT
Said to Have Pulled to Several
Fighters Before New York
Clubs.
special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 20.-What action
will the state athletic commission take
against the fake fight between Abe At
tell and Knockout Brown, held at the
National Sporting Club Thursday night?
That was the question asked by hun
dreds In uptown circles where affairs
pugilistic are discussed
1t will take weeks for the aroma OF
that cheese bout to evaporate. and
be<ore the air has cleared of Its stencil
II = sincerely hoped by the sport-loving
p,rhI, Y that Mr.. Abraham Attell will have
beer Nntenced to the full extent of the
hox,nr law. which provides that when q
hoxer or Wages In a fake fight he shall be
nenaIized six months for the first Of
fen.e and Sae second he shall be totally
disqualified from further participation
in any boxing match
There Is III, Ne question in the minds
Of those who v Witnessed the "fzzIe" that
attell was guilt 80 iah n,., a ana now ,ne
question arises, what VIII the coHuiAis-
sion do about it?
To restrain Attel from boxing in New
York state for six months would be Ike
na nghw would TO S be- m0 saf
for the ed Ans b Moq bunk sm to
the unsuspecting public, ana return, with
smile up his sleeve, r, 1dy to gather
fresh fortune.
Deserves Full Pc oaity.
The extreme penalty " Snld be the
proper dose for this willy version VINO
has been fooling the public Snost since
the time he entered the ri. W t"eise
years ago in San Francisco l. Us career
in the ring Is likened with that OF sam
Langford. the s.o9an Of the PAL peins
Save EN- up" .
Atten mas found the graft so ga Wy all
over the country that he has been saw
ing them up for years until the Noeh
diminished TO almost nothing, then the
seatherweight champion of the world vas
forced to meet iightwefghts, and Vls
wonderful ability as boxer enabled m vi
10 save EN- up IN that class also.
,Atteils excuses have been many after
beng roasted for taking part in shady
boxing bouts. When pulling TO feather /,
weights, sickness In the ring, injured
hands and foul blows were in order. and
when up against lightweishts his favor
lite excuse after fiukey looking go
would be that the other fellow was big /
and rough and had too much weight on
him.
His excuses have been played off the
boards and the New York ngnt-going
public are clearly Disguised With his |
crude work as shown Thursday night,
when he was Kissed out of the ring.
Let the DOAlns COMMISSION go 10 tne DAT
now and weed out those ever taking |
boxers. better example than Mr.. AT.
tell. and a stronger case. would be hard
to duplicate for the commission 10 en-
force the boxing laws
Attells battle with Matty Baldwin at |
the Grand Union Club in 1905 Patsy |
Kline at the Whirlwind Club the follow |
Ing year and Harry Stone at Saratoga !
are still fresh in the memories of those |
who saw Able In his famous pulling
act. These are about the first matches
Attell engaged in around the east before
he started on a long campaign In and
around New York.
The bout with Baldwin was about the
worst Attell ever engaged In around here. |
with the exception of the ten-act tragedy
Of Thursday night. 1t was only six
round affair and Attell held the crowd
up for an hour demanding his money be- |
fore he ventured into the ring.
Demanded Cash First.
One scribe. in speaking Of the bout. |
said In part: 1T was midnight before the |
men shook hands. owing to the boxers
demanding their cash before starting. 1t
almost caused a panic Abe and Matty
held the managers up until it had been
doled out, and If either was conscience
stricken after the fiasco he had the salts
faction of knowing that he had gather
ed before the fray. And the public, poor
old fool that he is. could go and take
and jump at himself.
1t is known fact that the KEne-Attell
bout at the Whirlwind Club was a DELHI
crate frame" and that Attell had prom
isec TO let Patsy stay" He did. and the
iarrc gathering left the hall thoroughly
disgusted Attell has boxed Kline at least
three times since then, his last bout with
him at the National Sporting Club show
ing what AtteN could really do to the
Newark boy If he only half tried. In that
20 Kline made a monkey of. but he
went the limit.
Few days after Attell was asked by a
friend why he did not knock Kline out
after he had him going on three dinerent
occasions. Abe laughed and, holding up
his hands said: DO you think want to
put these the BUM?
In the Harry Stone fight at Saratoga
Attell did not let himself out until the
over the ring. 1t was said around the
sporting resorts that Abe had placed his
money at the racetrack that day, betting
that Stone would stay the limit.
Pulled to Coster.
Joe coster was allowed to win over At
tell In a ten-round bout in Brooklyn not
long ago. in which bout Attell laid back
and let Joe do all the heavy work. In his
last fight In New York Frankie Nell was
allowed to stay ten rounds with Attell at
the Long Acre Club. Neil was badly
beaten, at that and II was probably only
for sympathetic reasons that he was not
knocked out.
These are only a few cases that are at
hand where Atteu has ''bunked'' the pub
lic and IL some day Abe feels that his
COINCIDENCE bothers him he could quit the
ring and write book about his doings
In the roped arena that would be quite
interesting. And what seller il would
be! And for a title he might use Barnums
old saying: There is one born every min
ute"
Again, what Will the commission do
about IL?
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