The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1909, Page 6

\ i ARTETA NLUE NIETO) [ Stories TOLD E ant [aap ox) o) | ones wo = SPOR THE TS aN “EXPER Ts | STORY, VIEWS AP” DRISCOLL BEATS CHAWIPION ATTELL IN GREAT BATTLE H Little Welshman Ou'points and Out- slugs American Fighter in a Ma- ————__ jority of Rounds and Gains Right to the Decision. Jem Driscoll beat Abe Attell in a hot ten-round fight at the Na-, As soon as the affair was over Jem jumped blithely in Westchester, tional fast ni into his togs and whirled off t ight. BY ROBERT EDGREN, a charity barn dance where he boxed four rounds more and danced until the sun rose. Driscoll was rounding out the evening Abie was doctoring a swollen eye and having his nose restored to its usual symmetry, It was a tropical scrap while it lasted. There were moments when Curiously enough, it was in these It’s safe to say that in all of his ex- He has slugged with was a real fight. for a walloping finish. he found Driscoll hardest to hit. perience Abie never met such a disappointment. Contrary to all dope, it Attell tried furri desperately While ies that tough customers and come out with flying colors, and he has made clever men look foolish. man who actually beat him in speed and skill. Attell always looked dangerous. one expected him to land some time, and to land so hard that they'd have Driscoll Punches whizzed through the alr and did no more than graze the ghost-like boxer In front of him. fine figure of a fightin cool, always deliberate, he looked 4 the great finish fighter who was continually dancing In and out and hitting or blocking or duck: to carry Nghtning spee that, when Driscol! tore in and slugged. This was usually after he stung. In to escape by 80 swiftly that the eye cov dd, a S WIth) Abie jabbed Driscoll hard the nose. il N ii here were times, at) Back came Driscoll with fire in his Until Near Daylight, and t “came epee ee eae The Sop Abie hooked hard and missed, | A < oll is making his trip home to- had been | Pop! Back came a hard left flush on Then Goes to Boat. ANG cE dice axsyeet they were s0| Abie's chin, Back flopped Abie's head han Asylum. He hasn't. mlesed. this | ou cleverness nearly a match that they often fought im exactly the same style, ternately with blows just alike. in speed and a truly marvellous ability | hair's Driscoll held an advantage, Driscoll’s Early Advantage. This was shown In the first ‘Both cold as ice, unemotional, watch- t But this time he found him Every; hard that it tn jabs. 1 Yet pis best) spoautitul! Beautiful ropes during Was 4 beautiful. No Always | Attell ng man. re than coll, | of Gotham, and chug landed Jem 1d hardly nS? ma 8 rest. more exquisite expe n of the fine arts of boxing had ever been served up, before the gourmands The fourth round began with a rush. Driscoll's right. | If up against a) —— wiv anue wat nar | GHOGE Crowd Cheers nied bad for Abe. 'Twas Beautiful Fighting. urmured | Referee Charlie White to me cver the | the minute’: It was i landing al-| Able's head flopped harder. He wobbled It was/a Mitte on his underpinning and gave! PEM DRISCOLL took In the barn|jaat Tienes the re geeh, at the Ash: ground, Like a terrier after a rat, Dris.| J) dance’ of St. Raymond's Church, | companied by a host of admire ckness that | coll was on him with stinging Jabs and | up In West Chester, after his great| ed the aeamer St. Paul. When the bi blows that pelted against the cham. | fight with Attell. He couldn't get up| Su? jPyjini Gut at 10 o'clock Drleco G m pion's ribs. Attell clinched and|there soon enough. He had promised] "I'll be back tn ame’ | wrestled. White forced them apart,|to box an exhibition with Eddle John- (a Ee gave him a eusine heer ‘ round. | Angry, chagrined, Attell tore into his|son before the dancers, and, as he sald The boujuets that adorned Jem Dris: Little Welshman Makes Merry BY VINCENT TREANOR, T SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ABE oh TA TA THE FIRST ROUND DRISCOLL SLIPPED AWAY FROM A SAVAGE HOOR $6 CLEVERLY THAT ATTELL Ww, rnees AS HURLED TO Hts As Driscoll Sails Away On Steamer St. Paul ——~> —- stale from this continuous work. to say that Attell is the best | “How does compare with Cross | and Marto?’ U asked, oO ROURKE P benefit performance in six years,, and says he wouldn't for $10,0%, THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1909 HE LOST HIS Lo New Yorkers Like the Boxing ?---Just Look Over This List That boxing is popular in New York was shown last night, when In ring- Ty Tee 4TH atten, Gev ONE LiKe THis AND FELT VERY Dizay s FLEETING IMPRESSION, OF CHARLIE HARVEY @ DRISCO MANAGUR. = COL S {harder punchin |be unfair to both boys. | UP TO DATE, NEWSY AND WELL WRITTEN Oon! THIS WAS Japez WHite i HS LUNNON RAGS, HONS ON THE FIGHT Remarkable Diversity of Views Shown by Well Known Boxing Patrons Who Saw Last Night's Bout ATTELL ScoRED HARD INTHE 7TH RouND, ——. ° @ bout like that of Inst night, Age Nothing to tt, Jem jralked in and rh he wasn't just right ] wherein the principals go the limit SIMMS JOTINSOS. Charley Harvey's at a fast clip, there 1s always @/ manager—Driscoll won all the way after e first round, When he hadn't warmed jdifference of opinion as to the winner Never, however, since boxing club life ae | He ‘ety ty ott became £0 popular in New York has r ef, there been such a diversity of views as WOOD=I would call the ses to the outcome. The majority thought raw SAVRGHIGEY. HiSTHyen Driscoll, but there hundreds of PAH EEL Eee eeariesy ther§ who said Attell or a draw, The BSON yt conservative said a draw, Here are ht 1 is ny some of the remarks on the su vin areata picked up around the ring after the nolt CHARUEA IAI bout a : | JACK M'GUIGAN, the Philadelphia ay five referee: If the bout had ended in t raven eighth round I don’t think there would | Y* ink Attell |be any questioning Attell’s right to the “QM son aN Driscoll won, Ate decision. In the last two rounds Dris- was bad coll kind of evened it up while Attell ap- Toe peared to be loafing. : ! : HHNNY OLIVER-1 think Attell N y ke A C ee Sacra praccinadtatoueltworroundl| LV CU Ot Ale .£as the fifth being his best, but the re and Snap at Hockey With Wanderers were Attell’s on aggressiveness , the actor—I think It Anything else would NAT GOODWL was a good draw. 6 gymnasium fs altu enemy, hot for revenge. The momen-| he wanted to have dance or tw eroom on the St. Paul, | PRNON. oseelderita thatutueraleresnittian ners the little fighter: trom Car. || sde seats were seen such well-known and representative men as James RJ BOB VERNON-Abe put up @ great In the presence of ono of the largest s sailed this. morning, were || Keene, Davy Johnson, Senator Pat McCarrn, Senator Timothy D, Sullivan, J, bout, but I think Driscoll shaded him. (gatherings of bockey enthusiasts ever ° 5 Mshman was booked to sail for home! to more numersus than thoae Drlecoll : 4 4 Driscoll Wei hed One Pound on the St. Paul at 1) o'clock this morne| Coes on eater ta han, those Driscoll | Bob Vernon, George Considine, Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall; lat wine bath made Driscoll go some seen in the St. Nicholas Rink, the New g | Ing, he didn’t have any more sleep than! fore sailing Dan Cohalan, J. Sergeant Cram, Phil Dwyer, Tom Cogan, the big criminal J. in the t nth. a York A. C. hockey team jast night des W | 3 ‘ |the law allows { Of course, there was a galaxy of fight-) | lawyer of Cincinnati; Henry Snedeker, ex-City Paymaster; Borough President JOB BOWKER, the English fighter—feated the Wanderers by a score of § ore an orids ampion The first thing Delgcoll wanted after [on board to with the ue memraes | John F. Ahearn, ex-Chief Bill Devery, Dick Croker jr. Schuyler Parsons, gem won in pency a eeyion LU abes ie) goalesto drerie gee Navan cane 10 7 sty ; >, e 2 ol 0 o nd the “Win 7 Driscoll 4 1 to the skin bef A h cates, || ‘he fight, when he reached the gym| Save - 1] the fight of his Ife last | Larry Waterbury, Civil Service Commissioner Polk, Freddie Gebhardt, Milton Wey ey WHITE, the referee—tIt ne throughout, and the “Winged Foot’ riscoll atripped to the akin hefore he stepped on the meme ee een nn eee ae was (UAH Godespeed, and then, too, the | Rarker, Fred Housman, the banker; Senator William Tully, Allen Ryan, son | was one of the classiest bouts I have seven had po trouble in cuming ut The beam wan aet at 125 pounds, It did not waver, Attell atepped rey MEETS Raa ublquitous vaudeville agent was there, Pot Thomas F. Ryan; Charles Dillingham, Sam H. Harris, Charley | officiated at for vears. Who won? Why, victor ae y captdring this game the 1 nN int 1 aft the be had puffing on it before heyhad his tights!but Jem sailed away serenely, stoutly vy in't ‘ou if I kne: Ne York A. C. team practically ee ee eee Tent arsed ied Landed eoeinedti | Carte was. unmarked) cand) ania) he/asciaring sim alnehtingimany! Thalnie| «Rectory ithe. reataurent oman} Frank Farrell, Gena Wood, Mark Klaw, 1 wouldnt tel CIGAR Ge was pretty {cinches the Amateur League hockey failed to move ‘SS Movetireiay eis gta Citta) TEE é Fiacot’e| wasn't hurt ‘at any time throughout /POpArtor” | Abe Erlanger, Tammany Hall Leaders Jim Hagan, Eugene McGuire, {| close, but 1 think Attell won, He did ail champlonship title manager declined to show 4 Biahman realed, bat ae} the pout, “I will say, however, that| nothing but the kindest. teelings for |p Charley Culkin, Johnny Coggey and Ross Williams; Nat Gooodwin, Harry [the of OrME a sTEREON— Ruantcoaite they could not have heen much more than a pound difference at G] { way stung by Attell quite often, but] America (em expects shoriy. to te. | Stevens, James B, Regan, of the Knickerbocker Hotel; Ike Bloom, of Chicago; || ,,BAT uli Hriacoll did little. or no | GOOD CARD TO-NIGKT ofclock, it in doubtful If Driscoll had more than a pound in his favor} never. really hurt.” (rn Kanu ra merce narmelt esas sd eu) |isackavvelan Ton Cont gan vee Cesnids Blank piceesy Cherlsyatnatiey i Vetty “Teele Attell hid to do it all His! AT LONG ACRE CLUB, when they entered the ring, ! Talking of the {i Py PUT: In the TF Siegel, Ji . Wakely, William Hepner, Martin Beck, of the Orph Th schen were the harder, too. ‘alkin he fight, Driscoll con- nicest manner, Every one has made it | S/°kel. Jimmy ba 1 Y eC Pagumn Theatre jt 2 Driscol | {11611 nleseen ator merandn tisemincn tala tit; Meyer W. Livingston, Little Tim Sullivan, Billy. Cowan, Maxey LLY Attell! won? isco | — --— nued: , {0 and then, toc i Mey Ls 8 5 yd Mey ou can't prove it by me. Tam ful while sitting in their corners and, tary weakness was gone. He jabbed. “I think I won handily, though, but 1 letic clubs on thi Blumenthal, Eddie Burke, Johnny Considine, Harry Von Tilzer, Vincent | fot so rood as that, to plok a winner; To-night will be a gala one for the Mhenicoming together at the tl He chipped Driscoll's chin with a welle @idn't do myself justice, * 1 are the fret in the world, and It was | peyan, Jule Von Tilzer, Johnny Murphy, brother of Charley; Vie ‘McGulre, | from thore too, babies.) | | 1 Jaq)membera of the Long Acre Athletio there was nothing to choose meant right. Driscoll whipped his right that that I didn’t put up my b did audience of fovers of sparring who ,J Billy Glbson, Jack McGuigan, of Philadelphta, and hundreds of others. (eee A vam about nite Ie. [Club, West Twenty-ninth street. The them at the start. For a m to Able's car, and agaln Able was The weight handicapped me. I really SAY th Attell last night. 1c ARE iy HARVEY, Driscoll's man-|Tanagement has arranged an all-eter sparred cautiously, eacn looking for an) Wabbling, Three times Driscoll fabbed Went Into the ring too light, and this ‘ miberiOtg ctor terres so -_— — ed oY wuleh the best boys of thelr opening and finding a blank wall of then shot the right over to Abe's left me a bit weakened. I had to go a ren doy J am going home to! . e ! Venusrl "Phere wl be four nin round defense, ‘Then Driscoll missed a tight Abe wabbled some more, A left Pound i ida half lighter than my nor. | take part Bahenentstocathesere Side | 1g ts on t e reat if. FIGHTS TO-NIGHT contests and a tling Jab and landed a second one on Abe's that nearly made him swallow his cud | Mal Welght to save the forfeit, Ordi- | that I shall return to America.’ | igh BCE ‘rankle Fay and Buy, Sparling wi 1 da left, and again r im made bh y. Letts | Marily, with about three weeks of trains | Among th ) visited the ship to | six rounds at 1 pou Landers chin, Attell missed a left, and again am rn Zi Letty ing to take off the weight, 1 think 1 | wish Tiriseoll hon vosage were: Charlle |] At the National A. C., of Brook: J) will take on Bll whitey, Youns Ur they sparred. Abe landed in the stom- t ae iW could would have no trouble, but with only | Harvey, Jimmie Johnson, Gene McCulre, | a gC as een ly 0 n OULOC yn, stag, Jim Stewart, the Brooklyn J Ying Will go sgatnat (| ch and Driscoll countered on the ‘ ¢ Attell be- | about five days of we and this com- | Billy on. Willy Heckler, scores of rT | Youn, ago will ‘ap wallops ang $ and Jem !K right on top of the Cross fight, | members of the National and Fairmount 1 In the second round, when, Attell heavywelght, will meet Jack Rowen 1 Jack Hays, mouth. They both landed Feit wanble | Nathout a let-up, it was too much. In| Athletic Cluts a of lesser | fow hard amaynes with hi lett into esl the Quaker City heavyweight, for }| ———.-__ taps. Attell punched Dr! penne Pane other words, [ think I was a trifle ith | aPT looked like the old Horton law y Von Tilzer, Who occupled a box || six rounds, In the semi-final Fred- Sullivan Failed to Appear, sommes, ana Gu) aa and Attell lp call See days at the National A. C. stag last ot meme oh th die Dipples will clash with Grift (Special to The Bvenkeg World.) again, They were still that th wed wehiegy “ ht, soll and Abe hat wil im fight." | Jones for six round | NEW ORLEANS, La., = A at the wd cheered him. It I) night, where Jem Driscoll and Ab Driscoll ‘sent Abe's head ‘back | of’ the laa) out. But now Able th nad Pa evchathoiad in Wing Gira! ' ite! Attell battled ten of the classiest rounds mith, two. atte sabe, (hn Harry kept quiet |] At the Long Acre A. C, stag, Man- J] chy of Beet ete oe i Englishman's meas alfa Driscoll Jabbed ever seen at any show In this city. ager Mike Newman has an excellent |) Zant scheduled 1o-ni4 a ritn garry, Lae minute he fainted and followed until ti aibiee Joe Dunn held the watch on the men, |, Tem ribet continually yelled at atteit |] card of bouts, four of which will be Jott.” "Suiiftan's poten is roomy | th his back the i 4 ¢ firat rou E ‘ , cl ch Lew! 1Bag Driscoll: with’ his ba t rtled Owen Moran be- _ Said After. t Joe Humphreys dkt -the announcing, | beige he torsn't AB | for tour rounds and two for alx peta nel is with some focal 4 ropes. Then with a sud E | " stereed the preliminary {hen drove in a peac: 0 Jem's At New Orleans, Freddie Welsh, ' ' hind me, and Owen doesn't like Jem. | Johnny White refereed the p NATY | body, and Jem returned the compliment with I the English lightweight, will meet he booked his left Pe he likes Able less | = ich to hit hi | bouts, Charley White judge@ the star| two beauty left Jabs in rapid. accession Shes Ene eA EDS ss try very much t ft him on the head, PI to “y, ” ) colt's chin with every s ne the end of the fourth round , yi, because I knew he would do that clever | bout and Tom O'Rourke was chief sec- | de SOUS. pene or F Wea side AC | Shi Uthe body be with Driscoll tearing away, and Attell zs heme to bis qucking stunt. 1 didn't want him to| ond and adviser for Attell, a were resting after the third | (enty rounds At the Hew Give a. meant that for —a punch! with his puffed ‘and hie) wabbiy wife Hundred Mand pravarnateamtha twa Tile entlieenl = nariey White bent over the At Philadelphia, all-star card of ‘that would show the up ) the worse for hy atter the fight. body and whanged flan tinsidane id ec aulatamsths red venison tose 7 an, aan One of the beat T ever | AboUts._* 1 the worse fo bey bar ange jere a good 180 A tex ° 2 ir ne his r He wasn't « nen 1 and establish for all time his a ae ve more times than the crowd s | came In and boarded | z {Have as lendid 22 Caliber ROL ast FUbOr OF IY, Attell’s Ey i \ <i i i x hiat up to the sixth ‘| ’ follow it, there. force of th from his feet knees on th: eupled an ins That one stantly wha had met his first round by In the seco ing lefts without Jabbed when Att coll came landed a Attell coul: even round AS soon cut out head ba shook the heels. rushed an end le ing away of jabs pushed |r int a toget the blow and very sp tant fall a Attell Plays ‘or Stomach, nd ‘ 1 block Toward tie « dently un that he has his oth end fol) piston-| amp on block cg half wane et his right hand Attell’s eye ra it A Attell’s padded fist through the alr straight to the And although only second had passed Driscoll had whizzed mark Attell Busy in ea... Nearly Closed, jooked and ec 1 Ww Seventh J aro t dhs head xey saya, “wunk’ at dle seo pushe but to the m ing at first nds. | by good hard punching. e each other a hearty sald Thank “1 hope the you,” replied as with glov nereas T landed on him with my closed | Mk for the bout at the Attell scoll had to dres of the snas His best ro th, but o him al! the wa admitted th p asked } took all the me the iit i & home the champion: | 6%, 10, I agreed with tke Bioom just 6 Kot i hard left « read and when back and Jimmy e i 4 Up again give Driacuil some advise 1 the ring and did not want hear tt Attell and Driscoll weighed In at 6 iscoll, who t When : n the © ' CD btesslh Moen Atel Wine Bath for Driscoll f 1 t wanting te 0 ep Driscoll’s Abe Wants Finish see n't mean to f Take your acqusintance 3 cessfu: f an says t : the n tee C : ting ready Johnny ‘ oe Corbett” were inifoduced ? ; H Corbeit «ot & wonderful ova ‘ A roves that he is still @ great ; 1 } the local fight fans { wht $ for Eng anch rooters was ! 1 » rounds ather weight aps, Abi flere near Attell’s ‘ Driscoll would let Moran would shout ed it golag! You han! fy a ‘steatent be a diferent ies it mou and caret followed tw rounds, Driscoll landed matter entirely, Records May Fail in the 71st Regiment Games What will perhaps be one of the most {nteresting sets of games this season will be held ty-first Regiment armory, An excellent ‘ard has been arranged, Including a relay race in whieh all the regiments In his clty and Brooklyn will take part. The one mile bicycle race should cre- ate special interest on account of the fact that Van trial rode which was year. There be speclal one-quarter and 1,000 yard races, and a number of events ‘loged to the regiment. > WALSH STOPS MANGO. Sddle Walsh, the promising east side Nghtweight, knocked out Willle Mango, the west side fighter, In the third of the mai bout of ten rounds at the stag of the Olymple A. C, of Harlem last night. Mango was substituted for Harry Stone, who fafled to put in an appear Walsh outclassed Mango from the start, getting home many a hard wallop on Mango's body and on his jaw. In the third round Walsh dropped Mary » got up daged, Walsh then dropped him again, this time he staying down for good. pub aS De Oro Beats Lauterbach, shed D, Lauterbach ¢.in Doyle's Bi ay Forty-second . This a oon he will meet Al ‘Brock. the only man who beaten him the at he will play ie this evening at the Seven-' Hunting Rifle for Eyery Boy Who Will Write to Me, this if a regular 22 caliber hunting rifle. It is not a toy hut a real rifle, shooting lony ‘Pulliam Sate in Hands ot Friends at Cincinnati. | —_—— | or short cartridges. It has a patent shell ejector and isin SCINNATI, Feb, 29.—President every way a dandy gun. Just Harry L. 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Owing to pressure of fight news the chapter of Battling story scheduled for use to-day had to be abandoned. It wif appear in ew, ih