Omaha daily bee., 1912-05-12
ABE GIVES UP BELOVED GAME
Taken in Tow with UNDERSTANDING
he Must Quit Poker.
HAS HOPE OF COMING BACK
Johnny KiIbane Has Promised Him
Return Match, and Ex-Cham-
pfon Would Like to Get
Crack at Others.
By W. w. NAuGHToN.

BY W. W. NAUGHION.
SAN FRANCISCO. May il.-Abe Attell.
deposed feafherweight champion. is now
located among the whispering red woods
on Billy Nolan's mountain ranch in Lake
county. Abe left the city carrying a
lstiff upper lip and with the never
again pennsnt flying at the forepeak.
He intends to spend several months on
the Nolan estate and saturate himself
Thoroughly with whatever brand OF ozone
they advertise up there. He is to eat
ranch fare. follow the pillow and retire
ito rest with the birds, or rather at a
corresponding hour.
Above all. he is not TO touch cards.
or at least not in games where yellow
lchip represents an outlay Of so and
whites are redeemable at 81 apiece. This
Is one OF the clauses In the contract
which binds Atteli and Nolan.
Cnder ordinary circumstances, IL might
have been hard for Nolan to induce Abe
TO reiinquish his beloved poker. but they
say there were reasons why the err
champion was quite satisfied TO have a
paragraph forhiddlng dallianee with
strnights and flushes inserted in his
newest agreement. Here they are:
AtteIl has done little else but play
poker since he lost TO Tommy Murphy.
It's way he has of forgetting the jibe,
and sneers Of this cruel world. Some
fellows drown their sorrows in the flow
ing bowl. Attell buys stack and duh
care vanishes.
HAD Phenomenal Luck.
Aba had phenomenal luck II may
sound like fairy tale. but II the yotaries
..of the circular tables are to be believed,
lthe one-tims featherweight king won
eo0os In a couple Of weeks. Then Dame
Fortune began 10 feel a. though she had
done enough for Abbey. The cards ran
against him and some r.coo slipped away
like sand through the fingers.
just about that time Nolan came along.
He unfoided mis- scheme for rejuvenation
land remarked that poker was the first
thing he would insist on being tabooed.
ABE was all ready TO fall In with Nolan's
Views. The scheme enabled Atteii to hang
lon TO over sD.ooo OF some ones else's
money and absolved him from a sus-
lpicion OF ''cold feet" He could not play
ANY more because his new manager had
made him renounce the pastime.
And 80 they went to the range country.
And II. as has been said. good resolutions
ara sometimes converted into paving
stones. Abe's output will be ample 10
build an espianade from here 10 Santa
Cruz
Nolan thinks that few months OF
simple life viii enable Attell to regain
his championship and bowl over an as.
sortment Of lightwelghts- and feather
weights on the side. Abe Is OF the same
May Of thinking. But such lie the lncredul-
ity Of human nature that bets are being
made Abe will be seen around his old
hsunts In the city before two weeks 60 by.
When Attall is himself again he intends
TO 20 after Tommy Murphy. lie ls afraid
his new stock OF fighting ginger may
not be lasting. and he wants to fall upon
the Harlem boy while he Is feeling supple
and tigerish. He has a score TO wipe out
with both Murphy and Manager Buckley,
and he intends to Kill two birds with one
stone.
Johnny kiihane Can Wait.
Johnnie Kilbane can walt. Abe has no
complaint TO make against Kilbane. apart
from the chagrin he feels at losing his
championship. Besides Kllbane has prom
Used him return match and the second
meeting win come all In good time.
Abe 10 sore against Champion wolgast
for some reason and would like TO In
velsie him Into bout. The fact that Ad
has repealed all Abe's advances has not
Improved things.
He doesn't forget the beating ! gave
him az Los Angeles back In 1905" said
Abe. ''wolrast and Jones tremblo
Whenever my name is mentioned"
They say when Jones heard this he
waved real sarcastic"
swell. well. what changes there have
been since 1905" ne murmured. Then
Atteii was champion and a world
beAtar. He was at the top Of tho tree
and wcigsst was a scrapper Of the hobo
stamp. unknown and unhonored. Now
Woigast's fame Is worldwide. His rep
utstion is made and his name Is on
eseryonc's lips. while Atteli is as much
ofa hasbeen as q last years tan shoe"
This was said after Abe had left town.
III bet when he heard II he took a couple
OF extra pulls al the ozone and resolved
20 stay with Nolan's reform schedule
harder than ever.
The sports hereabouts will watch with
Interest for results Of the Nolan-Attsn
deal There are numbers who believe
that all that allied Abe in his recent
matches was late hours and violation OF
the rules Of training. Those who hold
such views believe that Nolan, who is
q shrevd conditioner, will bring Atteli
hack into the fighting fold in such shape
that tho little Hebrew will regain his
Aost iaurels.
There are others who think that AttelI
has shot his bolt They say be has lost
snis speed. his punch and his confidence
end that he Is past patching up.
There are others again-cynics OF
rourss-who think that the lure Of the
clubrooms VIII prove too strong for Abe
r-thaf the quiet OF the hill life win rem
der him restless and gloomy. and that he
'sfii break camp some fine afternoon
when Nolan is absorbed In farm prob
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