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COULD GANS BEAT ATTELL IN LIMITED ROUND BOUT?By TAD.NEW YORK, March IS,—There -was abunch of talk on Broadway last night concerning Joe Gnns and his refusal to meet Abe At tel I in a handicap match.Quite a good many tlgured that the “Old Master could do the trick and turn it neatly inside the limit, but still others argued that he never met such a clever lad as Attell and would have his hands full getting a decision even.“Why. Cians has beaten all of his men inside of 20 rounds, excepting Nelson. piped one fan. “If he could lick Hawkins. McFaddep, Erne, Blackburn, Hermann. Twin Sullivan and fellows like that, where do you figure Attell to land? Gnns is a better hitter, a better ring general, can block better and is a master at every part of the game.“Attell Is too light in the first place; lie can't hit near as hard in the second, and would be afraid to mix in the third place. He has never bothered a big fellow with his punch. How could he hurt Gans? Of course, he knocks out Neils . and Kellys and Walshes, but you must ; remember that they are tenth raters as j compared with a man like Gans.The Attell man jumped to the wire 1 th^n and batted out a few. j1 don't think Gans can beat Attell ina 20-round go with all his weight amf knowledge. Attell is the fastest little fellow the world ever saw. They say that | a good big man will lick a good llttlu I man. but Kavigne won over Walcott and McGovern won over Erne. Of course, I don't say that Attell is a fighter likaki Eavigne and McGovern, but he's so fax* above either in the boxing alone that you j can't compare them. I don’t think Gans ; would even get a good punch at Aba la ! 20 rounds.Eddie Graney says that J1m Corbett was a greater man than Jeffries. Doe* that sound good to you?He says that when Corbett met Choyn-ski on the barge near Benicia, Cal.. th* . ex-champ was as strong as a lion, sick-; ness had not eaten his vitality away, and he was the fastest man the world ever saw. with a punch like a pi ladriver. Eddie says that Jim would have slaughtered Jeff had they met at that time, a* Jeff would have been slower than Philadelphia fire engine getting around.Graney says also that Corbett was ons of the gamest fighters we ever had. He points to the Jackson fight, saying that the punches Jim received in that go would have stopped any other than a game fellow long before the sixty-first round.
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Indianapolis Sun
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 13, 1908
Page 6
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