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Show Attel Not So Warm After All. The reports sent out from Philadelphia to the effect thai Ab Attel made a chopping chop-ping block Of Battling Nelson In their re-ceni re-ceni Plx-r..nnd tilt caused rpille a stir tn buglllsm. and give Jimmy Brltt the desired subterfuge to renounce his match wun Kelson it appears, now that the smoke of that contest has cleared away, tnat Nelson came within an aco of stopping bo In the fourth round by dropping him ror the count with a clip on the Jaw and. that he had the elusive feather-weight In a had w.tv In the h,t two sessions. Bye JVllneSSee of the contest State Attel made Battling appear like a cheap tenth ratet In the ilrst three periods, tnat he shot Hi bolt after the third round, and that he managed to stay the limit by I oldlng on Hk.- grim death. Also that Nelson Nel-son never gave Abe a moment's rest, anil that after the contest Attel acknowledged he was all In and was fairly beaten. None Of tin- accounts, for reasons bst known to chroniclers, mentioned the fact that Abe had been upset or that Nelson move than Evened up (he advantages L'aiud by Atte in (lie . arll. r rounds, so tho reports did Nelsdn a gross injustice. Jlmmv Brltt. ns did thousands rf others inter. Btl In the game, to-.k it for granted 1 that Nelson received n HQUnd drubbing fit the hands of the clever Abe, and gave the latter merited credit for po doing Brltt. however, made capital out of the supposed sup-posed defeat of Nelson, and ns soon as the Opportunity presented Itself tied himself up with a promise to meet th winner of the K i.ik Hanlon-"Young" Corbett tight under the auspices of the Haves Valley club next month. This unexpected move Soes not, necessarily, cancel his match with Ifelsoit, as the articles for their f-ght call for a meeetlng either In July or In August, and Is backed up With forfeits bf ImO bv each with a stipulation that neither engage In contests of over Fix rounds and with no decisions hinging on their results. Therefore should Brltt encage en-cage the winner of the Corbel t -Hanlon light before he se.tles his llstlc nllitTonces with Nelson, he will forfeit his M300. Brltt s onlv opportunity to avoid a meeting meet-ing With Nelson, It appears. Is the failure Of the organization that scours the August Au-gust permit to bid for the batti. as the articles are .l after th.if. month. Morris Mor-ris Levy of the Hayes Valley club unexpectedly unex-pectedly was granted n,rt July bermlt. end secured from I'al.t .1 1 romlse l,. meet the winner of the Hanlon-Corbfttt light, but. as prevlouelv mentioned, jimmy will loso his forfeit should he fulitll bis promise 1 evv prdbSbly will go after the Urltt-Kelson Urltt-Kelson match, as the Western club, the 11. w organisation under the "management of Sam Berger a,lJ Willie Brltt, received a setback from the supervisors wnen Its managers applied for a permit. Nothing definite will transpire until Nol.'oil and his manager. Billy Nolan, teturn to San Francisco. |