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Show ABE ATTELL AH ilHD Cny Ed W. Smith.) I Cliicngi. April 12 There is only 'one way to gel at a settlement of tho question between Abe Attell. featherweight feather-weight champion of the world, and ! Owen Moran. the misfit Britisher, I who is neither one thing nor another I as far as weight is concerned If some kindly disposed fight promoter i who has the public's interest ami pt ace of mind at heart w ill only match up the pair fur a forty-five round contest con-test some tangible answer to the qucs-( qucs-( tion probably can be arrived at. Otherwise It looks as If the young . fichters will go on fighting draws for I the remainder of their boxing career These little fellows seem to be tho toughest kind of stumbling blocks for , each other. Meran has a trifle on Attell At-tell in the matter of weight, but the Hebrew kid makes tip for ibis In a trifle higher speed and skill. Moran may he tho heavier puncher, maybe not. Otherwise. In the matter of bralnerlfs, ring cunning, fighting, ginger gin-ger and all-around cusscdness. there ltn't much to choose. It would make nn Ideal match over the long ronto, starting the moff early in the afternoon after-noon and letting them stick to It till one or the other had enough. Morao's career In the country since his return a short time ago has been checkered, lie lost twice, once to the clover Matty Baldwin In twelve rounds In Boston and aeatn to Tommy Tom-my Murphy of New York over the medium route In San Francisco. The latter Is generally spoI;en of as a questionable decision, although It wai not scolded harshly out on the coast, where Referee Eddlo Smith stands pretty well. Hints have been dropped nong too gently at tlnu-B that Moran has a l'ungry leaning toward the gay life. Kept down as most fighters arc on tho other side, he Is keen for having all the fun that Is generally "permissible "permiss-ible on Ihla side of the ocean. II likes the white lights and the fanfare fan-fare of the orchestra, with slathers of eatln's and drlnkln's on this side. Hence his ragged showing at times. We are told too, that 'Little Abey" is much on the same pleasure bout. Yet when one looks over the Califor-nlnn's Califor-nlnn's record one must marvel that he has stood the test of time so well. Abe is only twenty-six years old nnd ought by the precedents or the rln have six or eight years more of battling bat-tling ahead of him But when one thinks that he has been fighting al most continually for eleven years, fighting all sorts and conditions of men, making weight here, there and everywhere, but always bobbing up j as fresh and unscathed as a novice I J't the game, nil this does not indicate j that Abe has led a fust lire. But h ha-, for during his entire career ho has mingled with those who like to throw the throttle wide open going u; or down grade. Yet Abey, with that natural percentage his race Is 6up posed to have in Its favor, has been a great saver of his resources and flf-htlng assets. He . never caroused a great deal, because he knew tho penuty, but he likes to gamble and this takes up a great deal of his time. He's a great llttlo man. this Attell boy, and he will continue to be great for years to come, bad habits and all. He doesn't do anything to affect his fighting skill or speed that l. the chief beauty of Attell's system of living. Yet he has as much fun as anybody, even If ho i3 broke at times. |