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Show ABE ATTELL IS LOSER IN BOUT New York. SepL 14 Abo Altell will never regain hla title from Johnny John-ny Kllbane unless he Improves vastly on the showing h made against Harry Har-ry Thomaa In Mndison Squaro Garden hero last night. The Englishman out-punched out-punched Altell at overy step and whon Abo did attempt some heavy work to tho body he was net thero with the punch, so that tho Britisher suffered little. Tho only visible result of tho once great littlo fighter's attack was when he opened a puff under Thomas' oye, drawing a flow which looked worse than It was. Before tho fight Sheriff Harburgcr warned Referee Job of the Gardner Athlotic club that if thoro was anything any-thing brutal about the "boxing exhibition" exhi-bition" It would bo stopped and both participants nnd tho rcfereo arrwsted. Mr. Job was very careful after this warning He stopped both premillna-rles premillna-rles when the boys showed slight signs of being weary So when blood began to flow in the Attell-Thomas mix-up, the crowd began to fear that Harburger would act, but the fight went the limit of ten rounds. Attell outboxed Thomas in tho opening open-ing lap; in the second Abe demonstrated demonstra-ted that while ho could box ho Jacked the punch. In the third spell the Britisher moused Abie's left eye with a Jab In the first second of the period. pe-riod. They mixed it hard and the crowd went wild. They started the fourth with Thomas shooting In a hard left which sent Attoll's head back with a jolt Thomaa kept up his jabbing jab-bing and had Abie worried at tho end of the round In the fifth Attell could not seem to get away from tho Englishman's Eng-lishman's left, he could neither duck nor block it, and he took a good deal of punishment Then Abe tore in any they had a beautiful boxing contest con-test with little damage to either until tho bell rang. Attell showod to advantage ad-vantage in the sixth and seventh and lifted Thomas off the floor in the eighth, but Harry came up fresh in the ninth and Able stalled. The tenth - as slow and anybody's round. All told, It was a weak-kneed affair. oo i |
