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Show BIG FIGHTS SCHEDULED TODAY Attell and Moran at Frisco, and Ketchel and Papke at Los Angeles. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. G. Tomorrow, Tomor-row, Labor clay, two boxing championships champion-ships will bo decided in California, among four men, who are acknowledged heads o their classes. At San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Abo Attell and Owen Moran, tho English boxer, will fight for the feather-weight feather-weight title, and at Los Angeles, Stanley Stan-ley Ketchel, tho middleweight champion, cham-pion, will meet Billy Papke. Both fights will begin about 3 p.m.. Pacific time, the limit of the Attell-Moran battle being be-ing twcnt3'-three rounds, and tho Kctchol-Papko twenty-five rounds. Two days later Battling Nelson and ,)oc Cans will mcot in San Francisco and for tho third timo. box for tho lightweight light-weight championship. There has been no difficulty in determining de-termining the choice of the public in these fights. From tho very moment speculation on the results began the favorite combination has been Attell, Ketchel and Nelson. Attell is stronglj-J stronglj-J fancied over the Englishman, the odds I standing today at 10 to 7, with a ten-( ten-( dency to lengthen. Ketchel is almost a prohibitive favorite oyer Papke, the 1 odds standing 4 to 1. while 10 to 7 repre-, repre-, Bents tho extent of tho public's confi-1 confi-1 dence in Nelson to beat Gans, , To those who measure tho chances of a pugilist by past performances, it is rather surprising to see Attell such a favorite over Moran. When theso two boxers met in this city a year ago, Moran gave Attell tho battlo of his lito, although he was supposed to havo had to do hard training work up to the last hour in order to make the weight. Both of these littlo men havo just finished a long and strenuous period of training and aro declared to bo in tho very best possible condition to fight for a world's championship. This fight will take place in Coffroth's open-air arena at Colma, and as tomorrow is a holiday a big attendance is lookod for, Pictures of tho contest will be taken. |
