The evening world. Newspaper, August 3, 1912, Page 6

—=-—~ 4 imei tne ETI At tr penn @eoking with the punches, MURPHY ATTELL MEETS AGAIN MURPHY SHOULD REPEAT Ketchel the Only Man Trick in 20-Round Bout at San Francisco. | and It Will Be Remarkable If Abe Turns | Copyright, 101, try to “come back.” Abe fs to fight twenty rounds, barring a knock-| out, with Tommy Murphy. ¢@ go in for twenty-round fights with decisions, instead of the compara- tively easy ten-round affairs with no decisions at all. ack into the long-distance game was fatal. feat for Abe, and loss of his featherweight championship title, Be spite of Abe's subsequent howls, here isn't the slight doubt in the ‘world that Kilbane whipped Abe in Lae Angeles. Kilbane outspeeded, outboxed end outfought and outlasted Abe, Desperately intent upon doing some- thing spectacular, Attell went to San Francisco and met Tommy Murphy, the Ughtweigtt, a few weeks lator, Murphy's manager claiins that Abe coment” in that fight Murphy to “lie down.” Abe mover did any such thing, Waatever the facts are—and I leave yeu to do your own guensing—Attell @tarted that Aight in a manner enti etrange to him. He stood and allowed Murphy to wallop at his jaw, simply Usually Abe Peteses to let Murphy land. Uewally he outboxes Murphy a mile or two. After a few rounds of this, Tommy taking advantege of every opening and them in with’ a vim, Attell suddenly seemed to awaken to a realiza- tien of the fact that he was being Up, Perhaps he had expected Murphy to drop for the ten count, cording to the supposed agreement, Per- haps (a ching that Abe's well-known vanity renders plausibic) Attell was just bent on showing the ringsiders that he hadn't “gone back,” und that he c “atand the gaff’ ag well as in hi days. In any case, Attell stood toe eng slugzed with Murphy until the e1 of the twenty rounds, throwing sctence to the winds. It was a great slugging matel, ald. Murphy had the beat Of it, Attell was badly cut up, FTER that it looked as if Able had come to the end of his long fight- ing cegeer. Why, he was a star Professional when Jimmy Britt wae an emeteur, and when Frank Erne wae food, and when Jor Gang was a young fellow, not yet champion, and when Bob Fitasimmons was letting Jeffries her maton for the world's championship, and when Terry McGovern was just being heard of, and Young Corbett was un- known. It was about time for Attell to drop out. Able wa» the only one who} didn't ehink so—possibly excepting Billy Nolan. Nolan seemed to have an ‘dea that Abe could sl fight. He captured Abe on the street in San Francisco about 5 o'clock one morning, when Abic was coming out of an ail night poker session, and, taking is money away, induced him to leave the olty behind and make one more at- tempt te “come back.” jolan took Attell to his mountain rench, where for two months he did his best to force Able to forget the white lights of the city. According to the McCarney Says He'll Claim Title After McCarthy Beats Jim Stewart | }lots of swimm Western White Hope’s Man- ager Predicts Great Things for Morris’s Conqueror. BY JOHN POLLOCK. TLLY "M'CARNEY, B Luther MeCarthy, white hope w fletic Mmelight by knocking out Big Cari Morrts just when everybody was think thar feat almost impossi bie manager 0 the Western ia very | usiastic about the championhp| chances of his man. Listen: + To the Byorting Editor of THe Evening Word Philadelphia, Aug @pent the day with Luther MoCarty js training quarters, Merchanty!iic He ls tn perfect condition firmly convinced he will seo quick vi tory over Jim Stewart Monday nigh’, after which 1 will im to heavy weight champlu and against Paizer, Wells, Jeannette or an other contender, WILLY M'CARNEY, Adthough Tom Mel the Low Angeles fight gare Johuny Kilbane the he featherweight evampion by thie fight four battler at his club at Vernon, Cal bn sw rey's club, abe tang with Mot club for misty Sie Start AGANST by The Press Publishing Co. (The To in Jim Coffroth’s arena in San Francisco, Abe Attell will) jy }almoat biack—umless they burnt-coked 6p 10 one ny in Abe ‘Atel front wn 1 | Knocked. inthe wath mind at th 4 Witte,” Wittaws's. ma Jimmy Tron lor ant with a satement to 4 wilting w let Jolmay fgnt Abe clretmmatane ATTELL TO-DAY Who Ever Came Back New York World), Much depends upon the outcome of this fight—for Attell. It is his one deaperate attempt to bring himself back Into public favor and the pros perity that follows. Nobody knows better than Abie that he'll be a “live one” if he oan decisively whip Mur- phy; nobody knows better that he'll be a “dead one” if he loses, Attell can't afford to lose w fight now. He has been slipping for a long time. He made several poor fights in New York, the last one #0 poor that the Boxing Commission was unable to believe the Foxy Abe could pos wibly box #o miserably without col- lusion of some sort, and 80 disqual! fied him from boxing in this State for atz months. After that, driven out where the picking is harder, Abe was forced His first venture He met Kilbane. Result, de- Mterature Nolan went out, hie attempt Was remarkably successful. He sald that Good eating, much sleep and plenty of hard work out In the hot California aun- shine had built Able up from @ feather- welxht to a genuine lightweight, sole La vone and sinew, that Abs condition, waa pound ped, and that | take off weight to make lightweight matches! Thin aeemed almost imposmble, know- ing the lean, muscular condition that Abe usually kept himself in. But Nolan gent out more circulars, backed by good Photographs. Certainly Abe was baked ‘him up for th photos. He looked fine. He was big a strong In appearance. FTER this Attell broke away from A Nolan—just why 1@ not explained. Apparently Nolan was entitled to something for two months of good, scien- tie care—and ali that milk and meat Able ate on the ranoh. But Abe broke away. He said he didn't see why any! Manager should get part of his money. | He called off the match with Murphy— then called it on again on condition that Coffroth ignore Nolan and hand Able the money after the fight. So to-day tells the tale, If Able wine ho'll start at once for New York, and the preatt, of @ victory over Murphy this town, hard—only one dauntless Ketchel, who didn't know what it was to believe that he could be defeated. Ketchel came back and whipped Pauke. But the others, There was little George Dixon—nothing left after he had lost to McGovern, no mat- ter how hard he tried, Terry never could defeat Young Corbett after losing lost heart after being outpointed by | Britt, and lost everything else after jbeing knocked out Nelson. What | reat fighting has the Dane done since losing to Wolgast? Frank Err Vigne, Gans-—the great old-timers—aid they ever come back? Not one of them!) And among the big men—Cor- bett, for instance. Corbett trained a | year to regain his title. He fatled, | Fitaslmmons tried desperately to beat Jefiries in @ second meeting, and felled. ‘The old adage, ‘They never come back,” ta near enough true to be worth repeating, Attell may win to-day. Murphy tan't the weratest Aghter in tho world. He hee been beaten. Hut he has beaten Abe once, He should repeat, D BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. || Fairmont A, C.—Frankle Fleming va, Frankie Callaha vs. Kid) Herman, Young Lustig, all round bouts nasium A, A.—Frankle Nelson va, Eddie King, ten rounds, las A. C.—-Dick Peters ve. ten rounds, | C, Brooklyn—All-star A. C., Brooklyn Dohan vs, Kid Grave rounds Atlas A. C., Rockaway Hea Hock Hones ve. Montana Jack Sullt- Van, ten rounds, Johnny f Kilbane he will not fight there, McCarey has be using Kilbane of picking soft and for that reason Tl him, 1 that 1 to fight Riily mate! Andrews Agreoment , red off $1,000 promptly can Sid Burns, the Hoglish welterweight who © ladly puiaied by Mike Gibbonw A.C. ia roasting Gibbous unmercifully in Bug land, ‘claiming he te mot the great boxer credited id further claims that for deliberately claimed his forfeit of $250 when he | wae forced tw postpone hie bout om account uf sickness, who much through the ‘ive plunge and @ rush back to his trains j ing quarters, where he was thoroughly When the rubbers got skin rubb through glowed, his eye appeared as bright the moon when full and he was chuck full of “taspy, Swimming was always part De ready |got into condi THE EVENING WORLD, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK . RTS Is Swimming Beneficial | Or Detrimental to Boxers When Training for Bouts? OTvEr®- any OTWER GREAY CwARTProme * awe men TO Tome Baur’ = wrenc— arg Tray now ? . . Se From It. Many Fighters Have Found Bathing Extremely Health- ful When Getting Into Con- dition, While Others Have Experienced Bad BY ALEX SULLIVAN. S$ swimming beneficial or detrimental to boxers when preparing for ring ‘There are any num- would get him many » good matoh in|Per of men who declare that the salt | water makes them feel like “two-year- To-day Attell tries to “come back.” | Olds" when entering the squared cir But how many ex-champione have suc: |C!¢ While thero are many others who ceeded In doing that? “fany have tried |"*Y that the briny deep makes ther has hucceeded—the |#low and sluggish. jover again of another man's poison.” been lately that engagements? It has only atarted to find that the taking he old days most of the boxers who could swim made swimming part of their daily train’ to him at Hartford, Young Corbate | SUaeys for Instance, use pped when ontost reulation used to plunie. that he even down, their work wertte's training for important tle againat Terry ford Thanksgiving D. helped him to poswe ginger and quick that was respons! ble tumbling Young Corbett ts another delight in wint It's the old story man's food being part tn to stay a half hour at a time in the sea at New orp wh n preparing for important bat- und the water put his blood | and caused Corbett's of the | him, Titus can get out and trim the when getting | Youths of the United States and Canada mills, When he for his famous bat- MeGovern at Hart. ay, 1901, he did dhe says this « the vim and e for openings for speeding the lown the pugi- | JEFFRIES FOUND SWIMMING RE- DUCED HIS WEIGHT. | Jim Jeffries is another fighter who did consid able sw gaging He that the exercise stimulated his bl but it than whi thing for at “Nobody swimming with a also ted to who euch day corporation,” daily dip are expert Practically the fi hing in the Knockout Brown was Cross in the Garden, anager, again do any swin for & fight word hi after (i mming before en- not only fe o more | when training & falr amount will be the big Mivan, the late Stanley |, wot ood results] and bear rd aga) “rd beaten by 1 Danny Mls bout, dd too much bathing at nat Rockaway Effects boxers water handl- | x stunts, ‘Tom off weight asing troubled fellow xers such | bi Frank. names | after Morgan, and stiff that he could ‘hardly propel them,” said Talkative Dan. “I never saw him ao stiff and 44 ls a wonder to me that he was abi move at ail. I think anybody who says that ewimming {8 beneficial for a fighter is crazy. I delleve that instead af freshening them it makes them lazy and more inolined to go, to sleep than exchange wallop; Just as soon as Brown recovers fr his auto aceldent ‘he'll cut out swimming whenever he ls matched to box.” CROSS THINKS SWIMMING HURT HIM IN O'KEEFE BOUT. Leach Cross, by the way, hi rd of he thought he must be mistaken about) it, and as is invariably the case, he} thought he would find out for himself. Therefore, when he was matched with mmy O'Keefe recently for the St. SATURDAY, Brown's experiences with bathing, but | Nicholas Rink, he hired a cottage down He thought It was doing him ai ahha world | CAN ATTELL “COME BACK’? — Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). the Reds, who umpired for twenty inatanco. faults. of good and took a daily dtp right up} Consequently when he wae ma‘ to the night he was to box. The dentist was generally credited with a victory over the Philadelphian in thig fight, but he was nothing like himeelf—he didn't display half the abil- ity that he manifested in his previous fight against K. O. Brown. At times he seemed to be In for a decisive whip- ping, but his old-time ring generalehip came to his rescue and saved him. After the bout die was pondering over his poor showing and what caused it and he suddenly remembered tho way Brown had said swimming affected his arms and legs so he vowed “never again” when he had another match on hand, AUGUST 3, The Greatest Players Kick the Least Against Umpires, Says Hank O’Day “The players who kick the most don’t lest as jong on the diamand as the players who behave themselves,” says Hank U’Day, manager of few exceptions, are the best sportsmen. How often do you see him kick over dally and strikes? He even tempered and has sense enough to know that he cannot get all breaks. Nine times out of ten the player kicks to cover up his own How often have you seen @ player kick over @ third strike when the ball cuts the plate? The player knows that he is out fairly, yet he makes the howl to square himeelf with the fans. I Gave been trying to teach my players to refrain from kicking against the deci- sions rendered by the umpires. Three of my men have been ruled off the fielé this season and they have heard from me, Umpires make mis- takes sometimes, but I find that in the long rum one club denciits @s much as another from bad decisions.” 1912. ‘ BALL PLAYERS MATINEE IDOL years, “The greatest players, with Take Christy Mathewson, for Make Champions Defend Or Forfeit Their Titles Is Commissioner O’Neil’s ee tainty, and not simply « question of Jeanette Out With Claim for| (ech tube th Summon, Johnson's Honors, and Ready | crores’ tte,cf, the National tohed lieve there is « great deal of ebuse against Young Jack O'Brien, the clever for Tommy Burns. the colors by boxers who have ad brother of the famous Jack, he packed to the distinction inferred bayond and. went into the mountain et Falle- Stripes should sot be used $y art and went into the moun! at ould not used ware burgh. According to reports he te get- HY ehooddn’t the holders of! those who at teast.hold national elem: ting in better shape than he was in the work's champlonships be forced | pionshins. * last time out. O’Brien, on the other to defend titles as well as the hang, 19 down at Atlantic City, upon | holders of the English titles to the advice of other, know. Big Jack approves of salt water | versus, wetat Magee lige rit bathing. Young Jack takes a swim | @estion the sporting ne Mi every day and intends to do this right |Ssking itself lately and now the New up to the night of the bout at the | York State Athletic Commission, which Rink. é vontrole boxing in thie State, ie be This Dout will be an filustration of | coming interested. the relative value of mountain train-| at jeast one member of the Commis- a|/Champion in 1906 Goes to Peoria to Compete in Na- tional Regatta Next Week. | | 1m 8. TITUS, retired| amateur single sculler) is going out to Peoria, in his daily UL, nex sday to compete in the He delighted in the wator so {ational regatta there on Aug, 9 and used to “break }10 ‘Titus he amplon- | for a quick | #hip again from activ onypetition since 1906, If he does the sporting world should certainly sit up and “proclaim him the real thing in the way of comebacks. Rowing is no child's t the eighteen age of thirty-eight years, years of competition with behind play at any stage of the game, and {f| Age No Handicap, Thinks Sculler Who Will Try to Win Back I have gone Into training with my whole heart. I've trained just as I used ¢o, and haven't overlooked anything. Of course it has come hard, but I've made up my mind to neglect nothing, Most of tle would-be comebacks make a fatal mistake in figuring they don’ need to do this or that. You will remember that Jeffries rarely boxed while training for Johnson. He'd go mountain clim>- ing and fishing instead, which might fitted him for @ walking match a but not for a fight. “I go through all the stunts I @&d back Od he surely will be entitled to Jonapter in the history ‘Titus his Kk und to-day fe he did in his eh: has set 8 almost as mplonship « phar tra ned conscientiously since ea. sprir wing at least ‘oncesa day, and very often twice, on both the Harlem Hiuds: rivers Friends have seen him say he is atill and the wateh shows tme trials easi! ao fast as anything he ever did in ain. jing at the top of hls career AT HAS OVERLOOKED NOTHING IN TRAINING. and hat ach Wid never let him ning When training y Brown's muscles were so sore “I don't see apy real reason why san't accomplish what I've set out to do," said Titus tov “Unlike others at Arverne, and did @ lot of swimming, who have tried to come back and fmied, n 148. 1 row a | lot, eat thre: big | meats a day, p of rare meats, and wet tn elgnt or nine hours’ sleep every night aave cut my walking down all I could. Where | used walk, I ride now, and I sit down every chance 1 got thing to know, the legs are very important for foot drive t. Tam taking of the development of the other. muscles by rowing and good rubs with @ liniment I've mixed m¥selt.’ Titus was reminded of the fact that no matter how entaustasblc he felt about | his proposed comeback he surely nust experience the effect that comes as the years pile on, or there was nothing in the ‘adage that youth will trumpn, admit just one thing in that com- nection,” said Titus, “and that i that T @nd' 1 become ‘exnai quicker save my legs, You in\ a bs will bring this matter to the attention of his colleague, Major Dixon. Com- missioner O’Net) has been in communi- a dibaltind Srainiag, ston, Brank O'Nell, believes there has e ‘been altogether too much atalling of Titus, His Old Title cation with leading lights of the box- ing game in England, France, Australia| The Metropolitans and and sections of the United States whare Dlny_ et Lanox_ Oval = late on the part of champions when Campane Taghien - Year, the game flourishes and he has been ry thelr crowns seemed in danger, and at | pA, the next meeting of the Commission he ? Good assured of international support ff the Believes He's as 4S |New ‘York Commission ‘will take the ‘ initiative, The plan tentatively | p; . win Ever at Thirty-eight. formed to to reach an. satarnationss | Wibses witvwise suit hw agreement whereby a world's cham-| pitty expected. Play oie i} plonsbip cannot be held unless the now and that I'm not just like I used Berees to mest challengers with: to be in the last elghth of @ mile and | 12 © certain reasonable period. You know my long suit | JOHNSON’S BEHAVIOR CAUSE OF was that hosg! hy appok ing finish. I used NEW MOVE. to be able to lay it down in great shape. My Inability to do that just as satia- | pean qameremtycy ine Commission hae factorily now I attribute to lack of behavior of Jack Johnson, the heavy- time. If the championship were &| weight champion, and Ad Wolgast, month away I think I'd overcome that. |noider of the lightweight title. Pra However, youth must be accorded eome- | tically from the di y Jeffries was hum- thing and I'm not foollsh enough t0 | pied in defeat at Reno Johnson bas de- think that I have not been affected by | Seared he would not defend: tha tite the ‘years that have sipped by. he won that day unless guaranteed SCIENTIFIC ROWING COUNTS | $30,000 as his end. In the minds of A Lot. most followers of the game this igu fa excessive, but in spite of this he hi “I have advantages thet balance favorably axon weath ‘Fee deen offered the amount for a bout in , the one man I atiil retain my aclence and water: Pe Re, aes TER one fighter capable of giv- ing Johnson a real battle for the heavyweight crown. Johnson has also | be offered $20,000 for a ten-round no deciwion bout in New York with Jean- ette, but this, too, he refused, with the result that to-day there is @ wide- *pread opinion that he is really afraid of the colored brother from Iloboken. It ts with a view to preventing this \kind of stalling that the Commission proposes to start a movement that will put the question of world’s champton- ships on a businesslike basta, Another incentive to action on the part of the Commission is the attitude of Ad Mata, Wed. dat at BE The Rose Maid i"e0'<#t Summer Ried i gi HATTIE WILLIAMS it ihe 70 FUN MAKERS and Nae LYCEUM if Fa Poe Fs OF neal ton CARNIVAL, & DAILY MATS. IN Vic. Tonia, by G Mat WINTER GARDEN sais "gale To-Day, 0, & a™.|SHOW OF 1912 Sita to ae 8 BOUGHT AND PAID Cais COMEDY 481 Bont ray BUNTY PULLS Wolgast toward any one who seens| THE capable of wresting the lghtweight title steric _— from him, ‘The Cadillac terror's recent | | Manhattan 1157'S) Stock Co, "EOP ENS performances indicate that he, too, is 1 Bt Tis 280 idles none too sure of hanging onto {t much longer. Willie Ritchte gave him four of the hardest rounds he ever had to fight when he re-entered the Kamo al short time ago, and July 4 he w: in} the minds of a blg bunch of the spec- tators, really knocked out by the Mexi- can, Joe Rivers. The purse ideas of Manship. Sclentifte, clean rowing, you! a's manager, Tom Jones, never were kno Meas a lot, especially in rough | small, and now they have reac! high- | water, In smooth water I have satis- | water marks, All_Ad wants for an ap- pearance in New York is $22,500, JEANETTE NOW CLAIMS THE) CHAMPIONSHIP. Because of Johnson's refusal to meet Jeanette and because of his more or less sincere announcement that he Is about to retire from the ring, Dan McKetrick, the voluble manager of Jeanette, 1s out with a letter claiming the world’s champlonship for his man. He 1s ready to defend it againgt all comers, prefer- ably Tommy Burns, It is to. prevent such disputes as are sure to follow such claiming of tide and to make as well as claimed fled myself that the speed is still in me. T still have my welght, too, and am pleased because the hard training 1 have undergone hasn't taken it off, When T was champion in 196 I weighed 1M pounds, To-day I etrip at 10 and am good and hard,” When Titus won his last race in 1996 he performed the remarkable feat of winning two championships the same day, right after each other, the single sculls and the four-oared, both by ten lengths. No ono has ever done this, While Titus has been out of act! competition for six yea: he never hi actually given up rowing. He coached |that the jon propo: to seek Princeton in 197 and 1908 from a single | 90-operation with nations and shel, championships @ thing gf cer- ’ N78 Math USENET Iron Steamboats to | STEEPLEGH SS 1% Jordon Girls, Heevel a W PALISADES. px'% Atahin _Ascansion Dally.