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Show ATTELL" MEETS ' WELST0NK1T New York, Sept. 20 Abe Attoll. the American featherweight champion, will face on of the hardest propositions proposi-tions of his enrcer tonKht when he meets Matt Wells, tho English lightweight light-weight title-holdor, nt Madison Squaro Garden. Attoll will concede tho English Eng-lish champion fifteen pounds, and those who saw Wells hammer "Knock out" Brown -hero three weeka ago, I when ho had" to make 103 pourfds, ao no doubt, of hjs ability to weigh in this afternoon aL 1'35 without sacrificing sac-rificing a pound of punching force or stamina. ., The fight will be the first real test to which Attell has subjected his injured in-jured left arm in six months, but he has tried I ho member severely In training and is convinced that It is completely mendedfrom the break re. ceived last winter in a bout with Kil-bane Kil-bane at Cleveland Many of Wells' frjends say he made a mistake ia signing to fight (ho featherweight champion because ho will lose much prcfctlso If ho is defeated, de-feated, whllo AttellS position will not be seriously Injurp if he loses to a man out of his cjass. |