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ABE AML ENTtBS (LIGHTWEIGHT CLASSNEW YORK. Dec. 7.—Striving farAfvnPdual titles h* lighters has become quitethe fashion these days. Mike Gibbonsstarted the craze. Now Abraham At-tell is out-for lightweight honors. At-arMic-ntall has beaten all *the likely men inthe featherweight class, and flnd^ noj-nore prospective victims in sight. Hence his recent signature to a contract to fight One Round Ho pan ■ on December 18 at the Madison A. C.IIf*“U may seem ■strange to fight fansthat I have Jumped the featherweight hurdle and landed among the lightweight class, but really there was ha other move to make,'’ said Attell ycs-tfcrdy. hVe become satiater]”--here Abe looked around as though Tom Sharkey might • appear on the Scene and object to the word—''with trim-riifng pbgillsUc lemons..“I cshsrtder myeir a better boxer tbdav than at any time,in my career. X tm hit harder .and work faster than I? CbUld two yaare ago. *My injured shoulder And arm Is now in pcrrect dbnditlon—something It was not When; ,f Betted with 2viAlt Wells. '“•'..fT consider the crop bf Hgbtweighte, v/Rh the exceptions of Wolgast and MeFArland,-^ easyf marks, 1 only nc^ tb trin by. having my jnails manicured te^vlilp them. I'll beghv.wlth HogAti :ani tlien.t£fte on Brown and all tb6 .others who think they know how to fight.. Later I’ll go after Matt Weils/'• *• ~ / lt;*. ••• i . - •» t
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Trenton Evening Times
Trenton, New Jersey, US
Thu, Dec 07, 1911
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