Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-03-05
THROWING THE HOP
INTO FIGHTERS
AND RESULTS
II Is Wrong 10 Send a DOped
Horse to the Post and It is
Just As Wrong to Send
DOped Man Into Ring.


So. Louis. AiNfah 5.~Tho cIahn hy
Abe Aliali % lhe New York boxing
commisaion thAl ne had been giyeh
an oVer0aan % Wcaine Just before hib
recent boat With 'Nnockout Brown
directs attentlpn % D practice which
should be etopp1d,a practice lhat is
an too common asnong atblosca about
20 enter into competition and Of
which the public IS not aware, says
Harry 3. sharpe. official referee OF
the 81 Louis Athletic club boxing
shows. The athlete who must resort
TO q drug OF any kind, either 20 deaden
pain or 90 stinuiate increased acfiv-
lty, II not physically 90 TO enter q
contest and shoald not DO permitted
20 do 90.
Atteli complained Of a0ra hand,
the result OF an Injury sustained some
time ago. Cocaine vas Injected into
his thumb. and he afterward declar-
ed this SO affected him that he was
unable 10 make a good showing in the
contest I10 had boen accused OF
'siaiiing,r and this waA his defense.
Hut the commission refused to believe
it, and banlshed him FOR six months.
Had Atseli been given an overdose.
II is not az all probable he would have
been able 10 box ten rounds. because
he would have suffered total collapse
before shat time u Is q character
istic OF tins drug that while small
dose stimulates, an overdose woakens
the heart action in q very short time,
makes breathing dHicult, and Is fol-
lowed by general collapse.
There n little cause Of doubt. how
ever that the drur was used. but not
ln the quantity cihimed by Atteli.
when used hypodmnically 10 deaden
pain or sense OF feeling, cecaine
causes q profound anasthesla through
our a small space, bat this Is only
temporarily and when used for the
purpose OF stimulation the effect 81
single hypodermlc injection lasts
only for about nfteen or twenty mia
utes. and this Is followed by depres-
sion.
The drugs usually rcsorled 10 by
athletes to spur them on are alcohol,
ammonia, strychnine, dlgltalis, nitro
giycerin. and cocaine. The latter IA
particularly dangerous and harmful,
because there Is danger of contracting
the habit
II is recognized wrong TO send q
''doped" horse 20 the post. and Il u
just as wrong 20 send "doped"
boxer into the ring During the days
% the West End club in this city
drugs were resortcd 10 In n number
OF instances, and an each occasion re-
suited In unusual excitement and
some things happened that specta-
tors could not understand.
on one occasion the spectators
were electrified BY a sudden and Won
degful rally made by Benny Yanger.
the ''rlpton siasher," when he fought
Abe Atten. This aght took place on
April rs. 1902. The late George 81
Ter was referee, and an agreement
had been made that n he could MOI
render a decision AZ the end OF fifteen
rounds the bout was 70 continue for
lanothor i've. AZ the end Of the ~.
teen rehnds Siicr ordered that tho
bout be continued Yanger was slow.
Ing M. and something had TO b
done 70 keep him going. a physician
IN the audience. and who was there
FOR the purpose, II occasion required
was called 20 the ringside and az the
beginning Of the eighteenth round IN
ijectod n tnirtleth 81 a grain OF strycn.
MIA sulphate into rangers arm.
/. The drug began TO do rs work an'
In the nineteenth round the little ital
j ian was ishtlng like n Inadman. III
} frenzled rnsbes and disregard Of dan
! ser 10 himself brought alarm 20 an
Attell corner. aud Jack McKenn'
manager OF the latter who evidentl'
suspectod something wrong called q
Attell TO fail to the floor.
The latter obeycd but could not 20
cape some OF the punishment deal
out by Yanger. Soon the fury Of IN
drug had partly spent Itself, and yam
ger began 20 relax but 70 ferociuu
had been his sudden attack that th
. police interferrod. and stopped ~
, bout 10 save Atlcil from what the.
thought would have been q knockout
3 and sllcr gave the decision 70 Yangef
I. However, after the bout Yange
was IN serious condition rs the re-
: suit Of punishment sustained and a.
drug Administered. and was unable q
{ leave for his home In chieago mt
the evening OF the following day.