The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-21
MADE QUARIER= OE=Mll[l0A
BUT GAMBlEO IT AWAY,
is STORY OF ABE ATTEll
Pugilist Who Has Vanished as
Champion Has Fought Three
Thousand Rounds
IN THE RING $50 TIMES
Young Corbett Made a Plunger
Out of Him, But Book
Wakers Got 1t All
IN THE RING $50 TIMES

Abe Attell will never fight again
II his wife can prevent 1t.
The day after Abe lost the cham
pionship TO Kilbane she came TO fight
headquarters weeping bitterly.
Il can't stand Abe being beaten up
this way" she sobbed. III he loses
the night with Tommy Murphy he
snail never step into the ring again"
Abe lost the Murphy fight, and even
II he doesn't listen to his wife and
quit the ring, 1t will be only a ques-
tion OF a year or SO before the public
viii force him 10 quit
Abe is one OF the most remarkable
OF the presentday fighters. lie was
wonder at the scientific game, a
man-Mho made quarter ola million
III cash, yet who has little OF Il today,
gambler and plunger as well, but In
all else a clean liver He never
smoked or drank.
lie has fought go times-perAap4
more. He has fought more champions
than any other man now in the ring,
and has defended his title every time
l22-pound man could get the offer
OF purse. He has been whipped
just i've times He has fought per
haps 5000 rounds in all. and until the
Murphy fight did not bear a mark
where glove touched him. IL
learned how TO plunge. and-hardsst
OF afi-he has tried 10 learn how 10
quit plunging.
Its been pretty good game" lie
said, retiectively the day before the
Murphy fight. "Of course, I'm kind
of sore when think OF all the money
I've let go away from me-but can
console myself. I'm just as good as
! ever was, and I've had mighty
good time.
Il was born on Washingtons birth.
day. % years ago. said he. and my
mother named me for Abraham Lin
coin.
-Four OF us began together in San
Francisco. There were Jimmie Britt
and Eddie Hanlon and frankie Nei!
and myself We were ell kids togeth-
er, fighting preliminaries about the
same time The others are all done
for now. I'm the only one that's left
in the ring"
He wasn't sounding the long roll,
you know. Merely stating a fac, f.
little later he recollected that his ring
career had netted him something
more than 100000. Not much Of il
left now
II was a good, saving kid until /
met Young Corbett in Denvek He
| taught me TO parley my money.Al6d
never made any bets until caught
up with him. He made a plungcr cut
of me- Well, he sure made a good
one / bet em as high as any one
while il lasted Now I'm through No
more betting for me-
And il was not with the slightest
| evidence of emotion that he told tho
story Of the biggest bet he ever made
on a horse-and he was q skilled pony
chaser. II was at the Empire City
track, and Senator Pat McCarI en-,
leader OF the Brooklyn Democracy,
was still alive. Attell had been fight
ing for months, always with success,
and had neat bank roll.
IT got tip 10 play Prince Armor
he said. Prince Armor. I'll never
forget that name. wasn't going to
do Il. when | saw McCarren go TO It..
I saw him bet $4,000 on Prince Ar
mor-and I thought that II II vas
good enough for him it was good
enough for me. SO | went in $1l O0e
And we we're Just nosed ont OF the
money. On the level. that finish was
Just like this.
eft was frame, all right. ] have
been sure of that. II was all framed
ND for us 10 win. But the horse bat
was 10 have got off In front got $"
far ahead that the boy couldn't drag
him back in time. He tried, all night.
7 could see him yanking at that
horses head But he couldn't SGT
him back. and Prince Armor lost By
a nip. NY $1,000 was gone.
"That made me mad thought Ia
get II back. aud 7 lost $4,000 more III
three days. Then I went to SaratoSS
and made book--and | dropped $4,000
more. When | got away from there !
had my wife's jewels in soak. TEat
WAS enough for me- told her that
I never would play again. Why We
were SO poor that owed for our board
hill between fights. All | made In
three or four years was cleaned mp
hut 7 am wise now. They'll not 90 "
again. am through