The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22

attend to for some tim" to come His manager. George Weden. has made the following matches for him:
 Next Friday at Piusneld. Mass. Atten will box Tommy Hook ten rounds. The following Tuesday he will meet Patsy Kline for six rounds al Pittsburg On the 29th Attell and One Round Hogan bax ten rounds al ,he Madison Athletic club. On January Ii Abe will meet Jack White. of Chicago. in ten-round battle al New Orleans. This will be for the featherN eight champion. ship al % pounds riueside
 It was on January Ii. 1891. at New Orleans that Fltzsimmons de. feated Jack Dempsey for Champion ship of the world in thirteen rounds
 Attell. however. doesn't attach any importance to the date. He can't see how Jack White is going to take anything away from him. At tell will then go to Los Angeles where he is scheduled to meet John ny kilbane in a twenty.round bat 'le. in which the championship will again be al stake. For this battle Attell is 10 receive $65oo and two roHnd-trip tickets. This is quite d neat sum for little Abe.
 Tom McCarey, the Los Angeles promoter. has hung up a $1o.ooo purse for the battle. out of which Attell is guaranteed $6.50o and Xiii bane $3,50o Kibane accepted tbe terms for the reason. so he says. that he expected to annex the cham pionship along with the money. Kil- bane might do il. of course. but If he does he will have to step faster than ever before. for Abe is probably better now than he has ever been ill his entire ring career
 T. might not he out of place ro again refer to that date. t was on Washington's birthday. February % 1910, that Wolgaet took the cham pionship away from Bat Nelson at Point Richmond. Cal.
 When Attclrs attention was called t7 the incident he grinned. and in1i. mated that the California date would probably turn out in the same way that the New Orleans one with Jack White would.
 T don't go much on these hoodoo numbers and dates" said Abe. Days and dates have always been the same to me"
 While il is conceded cn all sides that the Athletics will win the American pennant and possibly the worlds championship again next fall il is we'll 10 remember the fate of the Chicago Cubs and going still further back into the misty past. that of the Boston Red Sox. each of whom had prospects just as bright as those of the Athletics today
 Back in 1904 the Red Sox had won their second championship and accomplished the feat so easily that 1t did not look possible for any thing else in the league to even come close 10 them. But the grand old team that Jimmy Collins had ar the Hub simply went to pieces and finished fifth, los points behind the Athletics, who had been in fifth DO. sition the previous year.
 In Boston's case. however, il was case of the in and outfield dis. lntegrating. The pitchers held up fairly well, but the players behind the hurlers failed to deliver the goods most of them being veterans who had seen their best days.
 Humbed the Detroit Team.
 A more recent example is that of the Cubs. After winning the National league pennant in 1906. 'O7 and 'OS, and the worlds champion ship the last two years. it did net look as if there was anything in the country that could beat the grand machine built up by Frank Chance. In the post-season series of 1908 they made the Detroit Tigers look like amateurs and the Detroit team was some club at that. Brown. Reulbach, Overall, Pfiester and Fras- CT composed a wonderful pitching staff. kling was conceded to be the best catcher in the land, while the infield was touted as the brain- fest ever assembled.
 Then came the explosion. King refused to play in 1909 and the Cubs lost the pennant to Pittsburg They came back in 1910 and won out, but the erstwhile grand pitch ing staff was grand no longer It wabbled throughout the National league race but the run-getting ability of the men behind King Cole pulled them through They met the Athletics and were hum bled.
 Good Pitchers Have Faded.
 Today sees only the remnant of that great team of 1908 left. Over all has quit the game discouraged