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the sixth passed I found that I had beendouble crossed.The fluish came the other night—at St. I^ouis. I was to fight eight rounds with a boy named Ollie Kirk. He isn’t u very good fighter, but he’s a fine boy. At the end of the first round I could hardly lirt my arms. At the end of the second they were hanging at my sides. To save my life I couldn't strike a blow. So at the end of the sixth I stood In the middle of the ring and gave it up.”ATTKI.I. IS A VA A«KK \OW.Former lt;'hnm|ilon \\ til Wntch Other* T«ke *He Wallop*.Abe Attell has been telling all about J-iow it feels to become a Las been, says tobert Kdgren.Kioiiv this time on Abe will let sonic* ,£.body else do the lighting. He has a % ••stable” of one already. A few nights $ ago he saw Special Delivery Hirsch box ;f lit a preliminary at the garden. ”1 vliked the way the boy handled himself.” Abe explained, so 1 went to the dress* ' lug room afterward and saw him. ’Who’s your manager?’ 1 asked. ‘Haven't any :manager,' said he. ‘Would you like to have mo manage you?' lie would, sure. He weighs 1-5 and he’s been lighting lightweights and welters. So 1 took the boy on, and I'm going to teach him aft and make him a topnoteher.”But to return to the story. Abe has Interesting tale of the gradual do* line of his lighting powers.You see,” said lie, I've been in the me for fourteen years, and i'm only !» now. You wouldn’t expect a boxer o slip back at 2'J. especially a fellow like myself, wItli cleverness enough to Jteep the others missing and save his 'jaw.The whole trouble is In the training. Making 122 ringside has always been easy lor me. I've often fought as low as 1!S. Bui y a is of hard training, boxing all the time and miming on the ■ road, uses up your energy. 1 guess a man has about so much action In him, and when he burns that up he beginsto grow slow.That was my trouble. For three or four years I’ve felt my speed and strength slipping away.The flrstvtlmo I really fell back so far tlipt the public couldn’t help seeing It was when I fought K.-O. Brown. The boxing commission suspended me for aix months for that, but it was a mistake.When I fought Kilbano I had gone away back and I knew it.After Kilbano came that first Mur* by fight In Frisco. They say that was he hardest twenty rounds ever fought n the Golden State.That match was fixed. I fixed It Ith Jdurphy’s manager, Buckley, my-IL hoping to make an Impression that •uld force Kilbano to meet me again, urpby waa to lie down to me—take knockout tn tho sixth round. When
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Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Fri, Dec 13, 1912
Page 45
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