The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-16
c0RBETT COMPARES BOXERS ] WITH RUGGED FIGHTERS
Says Rough and Ready Boys Like WoIgas
 Are Allowed to Violate Rules

his style as occasion requires.
 Given an even break a clever box CT will more than hold his own against an opponent who depend on clinches or on the breaks. The for mer plans his battle like a general; the latter depends on head-down, bull-like rushes and holding and hit ting in the clinches. This latter style of milling is not permissible by years made possible through ignor- ance or timidity of referees. Intelli- gence and skill are bound to win out in pugilism- when the game is con- ducted according to Hoyle.
 There was quantity if not quality in tham fans the past week. A major ity of clubs held shows and the les ser lights of the ring were given op- portunities to display their goods. The head-linerS must have been on strike for there was no match during the six days that could be d1gnifed by the ti- tie of '"star bout"
 The coming week will show i'm pavement Abe Attell and One Round Hogan were to have started the ball rollings but the feather weight champion has announced his inability to carry out the agreement owing to an injured hand. Some other boy of class, possibly Bat Nell son, is to be substituted for Attell. Promoter Gil Boag is anxious to land the Battler, but the latter's modest"
 demands would leave nothing but the furniture and building for Hogan and the club owners, so there will likely be nothing doing with the ex-champion. Packey Mcfarland Is also booked to illustrate to New Workers how an "old schooP' boxer can handle one of the modern style product. He boxes
 Young Hickey. a local lad who has been moving over number of am- bilious youngsters and who has been side e-stepped by many of the boys with newspaper regulations.
 Later in the week the much adver- tised K. O.. Brown will meet Leach
 Cross. This bout will be of special interest to Manhattan5tes as both boys are native sons. Cross has been boxing in splendid form of late and it has long been his ambition to match his skill with that of the youngster whose reputation rests largely upon his two contests with Ad Woigast. i Xmas week the sports of this town battles of the elimination series. On December 27 Tom Kennedy and Carl
 Morris meet for the first time, another case of skill vs. brawn and stamina The following evening brings togeth- CT the two Als-Kaufman and Palzer- at me NatlOndt SpOfLluS LluD, ana the
 odds are in favor of a short and
 bloody battle. Kaufman has a mighty punch, while Palzer has demonstrated he is a glutton for that sort of thing. He will find more sting to the former blacksmiths wallops than he has been accustomed to and his gameness will | be put to a severe test. His mana ger, Tom O'Rourke, believes Palzer the coming champion.
 I am told that:
 The "solar plexus" and the ''ulna | bone" have been retired in favor of 1 the vermiform appendix.
 The police stopped a boxing match 1 in Cambridge, Mass, on account of "roughness." tAnd this in the home Of 1 footbal1.)
 | Sailor Burke has Tom Sharkey lash-
 ed to the mast when it comes to down
 right prodigality with the coin. (The
 Sailor keeps in fighting trim by say ing car fare.)s
 1 "Go East, young man" is the battle cry of ambitious Western boxers. CThe 1 game must be>rather soft in this town judging from the easy manner in
 which visitors usually clean up.) l JAS. J. CORBETT.