Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-25
NEEDS
A REFEREE LIKE
CHARLEY EYTON
Bv Left Hook.

~ Oeen hOWllng ABOUT poor REL
erees. Their yelps have done
little good. however. as no real top
notch official has been unearthed
Out in Los Angeles they have a
referee that yours truly would like
to see here In our city. His name
is Charley Eyton. and in the recent
Knockout Brown Bud Anderson
bout he displayed the fact that he
has both courage and judgment. a
necessary and rare combination in
q referee.
Anderson had knocked Brown
down two or three times in the
early stages Of this mill In the
last round, however Bud was all
but knocked cold When the final
bell rang he was hanging on the
ropes completely. though not OFF,
cially. out Eyton declared It a
draw.
II takes a good deal of nerve to
pick UP the hand OF an unconscious
man and declare that he has made
as good as the other man, unless il
happens the referee is betting on
the unconscious man, Even then
II takes some gall.
Many man has won a fight and
been utterly limp at the finish only
to see the referee decide on draw
because the crowd was yelling for
the stronger fighter
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and
Stanley Ketchel fought at one Of
the numerous New York clubs a
few years ago. For nine rounds
O'Brien gave the assassin" the
beating OF his young career In
two rounds he had him wabbing
In the ninth Ketchel knocked him
down. He got up and went down
again. and when the gong ended
the fight he was lying unconscious
with his head In a sawdust box.
But he had not been counted out.
II ever a man won a fight O'Brien
did that one, but every expert In
New York declared Ketchel the
winner. Nobody had the courage
20 give O'Brien his due because he
had been unlucky enough to stop
wild punch with his chin six sec
onds before the end of the fight.
The O'Brien- Ketchel fight was
theoretically a boxing contest As
such O'Brien won IT by about nine
and fve-s sixth rounds. to a lucky
punch. The experts decided It on
the ground that it was prize fight.
and / should say they were right.
WHAT do you think about Abe
Attell as the Grand Old
Man" of the ring?
Year after year he goes along
getting licked and retiring and
coming back to bust some promis-
ing young man on the beezer and
make a bid for a place as first
division fighter again. Attell has
been AL in" more than any other
fighter that ever slipped on glove.
but he is the hardest man to make
stay in that pugilism has ever seen.
II is about ten years ago that ex-
perts shook their heads over the
passing of a wonderful boxer" At
tell was engaging in some alleged
fights around st. Louis at that time.
and he couldn't fight enough to he
runner-up in a kindergarten tour
nament Brooklyn Tommy Sulli-
van put him away with a punch in
the stomach in four rounds, and an
awful mutt named Jack Mcclellan,
of Pittsburg, beat him to death in
fifteen rounds The charitable thing
TO do. apparently, was to get up
benefit for him and make ready to
pick him up by the silver handles
He had lost his speed and he
couldn't take punch. Men who
had seen him in his eighteen-round
night with Benny Yanger-one of
the best eighteen rounds ever
pulled off since punching a man
in the mug was discovered to be
scientific sport-shook their heads
regretfully and said IL was a shame
TO see good little man go back so
fast.
Since that time Attell has beat
en- every man within eight or ten
pounds of his weight Since then
he became the undisputed king Of
the real featherweights and held
the honor for years Also, he beat
in limited round contests nearly all
OF the lightweights who amounted
TO anything.
This lasted until he was so
thoughtless as 10 get mixed up with
Jem Driscoll in a ten round fight.
The wonderful English boxer made
show Of him. Then he met a
year or two later Mat Wells, a
lightweight as clever and faster
than himself. This was again con-
sidered TO be the finish Of Attell.
and TO make the finish more pro-
nounced a St Louis boy, Ollie
Kirk. beat him up.
Attelrs answer TO all this was to
knock Kirk out in three rounds the
other night, and all of the dope
goes overheard. He may be all in
again, but personally will stay off
him. He has this coming back
habit too strongly developed It
isn't safe to copper bets on him.
PLAYERS ARRIVE.
COLUMBUS, GA. March 25.-Joe Jacl
NJ