The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-26
ENGLISH HEAVY ONE
WILL MEET JACK
PALMER
Match is Scheduled to Come
Off This Evening in Los
Angeles.
lBy Knox Blokoff.l


New York. March 26.-As prcgnos-
ticated in these dispatches several
weeks ago, Jack Palmer. the ex-hea-
vyweight champion OF H'england. has
been unable to get a match with Jawn
O'Brien or any of the other shining
lights and is forced to begin his Amer
/ lean career more modestly by taking
on Jack Twin" Sullivan. The mill is
scheduled for tonight before the Pa
cific Athletic club in Los Angeles and
is to go twenty rounds. The men
Will enter the ring at catchweights.
Fifty per cent of the gate receipts
is to be divided between the fighters,
sixty per cent to the winner and forty
per cent to the loser.
The battle will be chiefly interest
ing because it will give line on the
class OF the British invader. who is
being touted as real live one in
many quarters. Ii he shows half the
form his hackers claim for him he
should find Jack Twin an easy victim,
although the latter is yet far from
been trained by Moll Mcdonald at the
East Side Athletic club in Los An
geles and according to reports is in
good condition for tonights biff con-
test. Some three years ago when
Jack Twin was in England he fought
Palmer fifteen rounds to draw, but
that was before the Englishman had
become big noise in British ring
circles.
Palmer is feet 101s inches in
height and usually enters the ring at
about 10 pounds. He is a trifle lean,
but has broad shoulders and well-de-
veloped biceps and looks like a good
piece of fighting machinery. He is
% years old this month. Like Squires.
the alleged phenomenon of the Aus
tralian ring, he is an examiner and
began his career by fighting fellow
pitmen with bare fists. Since becom-
ing professional pugilist Palmer
has fought forty-three battles, win
ming forty. He lost his title as Eng
fish heavyweight champion to Gunner
Moir on foul, after nine rounds of
fast and furious milling in which
Palmer was said by London sport
writer's to have had the best of it.
His ether losing scrap was with Mike
Williams, an English heavy of some
repute, who put Palmer to the bad in
seven rounds. 1t was case of seven
come eleven. however, as Palmer
turned the tables few weeks later
by knocking out Williams in eleven
rounds. Palmer's only draw was
early in his pugilistic career. when
he met Jack Twin Sullivan, his OPP
ponent for tonight.
The cognomen of Jack Palmer" is
only a nom de pug, the Englishman
being known in private life as plain
John Liddell. His battle with Sulli-
van marks the turning point in his
fortunes, as ii he gets the decision
O'Brien. Burns and other would-be
champs can hardly side-step him.
Palmer's manager made numerous at
tempts to get match with O'Brien
before signing with Sullivan, but the
Philadelphians only proposition was
telephones at forty rods.
Frisco Fight Game ReOpens.
The open season for pugs in San
Francisco begins tonight when Fight
ing Dick Hylafd and Cyclone Johnny
Thompson will go a twenty round
route for the delectation of the fight
fans of the Golden Gate and the profit
of Matchmaker Morris Levy The mill
will serve as wake fer the Hartman
anti-fight bill, which was murdered
by the California legislature. The
fight was originally carded for next
Friday. but Hyland is one of those
Sunday school sort OF pugs you read
about and refused to desecrate Good
Friday. The men will go on at 1873
pounds ringside and this will favor
Hyland, as the Cyclone is trife hefty
for a lightweight. Jack WEIGH will
referee the bout.
While neither Of the scrappers has
cut any wide swaths. the fight ought
to be an interesting one from the
fact that the men have fought twice
before. breaking even on the decisions.
In the first meeting at Los Angeles,
when Thompson was an unknown, he
got decision over Fighting Dick on
foul. Their second meeting was in
Ogden, Utah. and Hyland was given
hairline decision, at which the cy-
clonic one turned loose great gobs of
wind and ragged and reared SO might
lily that the referee was forced to take
to storm cellar. Hyland was equal
ly confident that he was given the
double-crOss in the foul decision at
Los Angeles, but expressed his disgust
more quietly. as befitted one of his
reputation for deep and abiding piety.
Without expressing any decided opin-
ion on anything so uncertain as a
pugilistic encounter, the dope sheet
apparently favors Hyland. Jack WEIGH
who will umpire the affair. has an
enviable reputation as square sport
and any decision he hands down
should settle once and for all the
question OF superiority as between
Hyland and Thompson.