Evening star., 1911-08-13
Only Six of TWenty-0ne En-
trants Appear for Second
Show in New York.
TWO C0MERS RANK HIGH
IN preliminary SCRAPS
PaIzer and Kennedy, Especial
Iy Latter, Display the Most
Consistent Form.
By James J. Corbett.

NEW YORK, August 12.-Great white
hopo tournament No. did not pan out
as the promoters and fans had hoped.
To the contrary II was what might be
termed frost and compared with No l
show was disappointing. Only six or
the twenty-on entrants put in appear
ance and Of these only one made noise
like a regular scrapper. In the finals he
lost his noodle and the decision at the
same time. fouling his opponent before
we could get a real good line on his
ability.
This idea OF tournam aments is a splendid
one and If promoters do not develop
frigid pedal extremities some OF these
aays a heavyweight may show with suf-
dcient skill and natural lighting ability
to warrant some experienced person TAX
ing him in hand with the ultimate idea
of molding him into such shape where
nm exchange of swats with Mr. Jack
johnson, or his successor, will be in
order.
The fact that a colored man reigns on
the pugilistlc throne makes 1t possible
for these unknowns of little or no hstic
capacity to show their wares to criticai
public and while in the majority OF IN
stances to date the quality OF the gooas
has been punk, fight followers should
take heart in the thought that IL IS
through perseverance, and constant ap-
plication that anything worth while. is
ever accomplished and hope some Day
tangible results will be the answer.
Palzer Knocks Out Kennedy.
Al Palzer, the winner OF Tom
o'Rourkes tourney, did not enter the
latter competition for the good reason he
pI fy,,r a NJ o..
ment on hand. that of trying to squelch
Tom Kennedy's ambition to become
heavyweight champion Of the world.
Palzer would have had little trouble
cleaning up the bunch as not one OF the
contestants showed enough to convince
q Judge Of pugflism and pugilists that ne
could get up sufficient steam to make II
Interesting for O'Rourkes big boy.
Speaking of the Palzer-Kennedy bout.
that was some fight. all right. and though
the latter was practically knocked out in
the ninth round he was by no means dis
graced. Kennedy is a clever boxer and
can punch some. too. and it appeared to
me he was overconfident when boxing
palzer. Toms cleverness stood him good
service during the first round or two. but
seemed to make the former amateur
champion careless and lose respect Tor
the other fellows prowess.
Palzer is a great big strong youth with
a certain clumsy cleverness and Is show
1NG Improvement every titiC iiC Ot0A 80
Under the careful coaching Of the vet
eran O'Rourke the youngster IS learning
how to box and getting faster on his
pins. He has those great gifts OF ma
ture. strength and stamina. While 1t is
a far cry from his present crude and
unpublished methods to the skill and clev-
erness OF offense and defense Of the
champion. still AL has the goods in the
rough and Tom believes he has the mate
rial to make a champion.
Should Stick at Game.
As for Kennedy. 1 sincerely hope he
will not become discouraged with defeat
in his professional debut. He ought to
keep right at the game. He is young
man Of intelligence and education and
should improve wonderfully with expe-
rience. When he learns to depend more
upon his skill as boxer he will be able
10 beat men OF the Palzer type. think,
and much better men. In roughing 1t
with man as strong or stronger he IS
wasting all he has learned Of boxing and
merely testing strength with his oppo-
nent. Had he been content to depend
upon his knowledge of boxing and to keep
his antagonist away from close quarters
he probably would have succeeded in out
pointing Palzer. BY the judicious use
OF a straight left-hand punch he could
have accomplished this and possibly have
won the battle.
So many mistakes of this kind are made
by aspiring pugilists with natural ability
as boxers that few words Of advice on
the subject may not be amiss. A young
ster after devoting months to learning the
art OF boxing develops rapidly until un-
usually proficient with the gloves, as was
the case with Kennedy. who upon his first
professional engagement throws science
and the results of hard work and practice
TO the winds. He ought to have admnis-
tered unto him a good swift kick where II
will do the most good-and made to see
the error of his ways. What's the use Of
a boxing education and natural cleverness
IL a man Is going to forget them as soon
as he steps inside the ropes.
Carelessness Loses Fight.
With Kennedy's youth and skill no man
short OF a champion should be able to
connect with any part of his anatomy
with sufficient force to cause knockout.
Do not acc4se me of Dragging when I
mention that at his age l stood off the
greatest fighter. to my mind, who ever
put on glove. and for much longer
period. and in the opinion of the majority
at the termination of the contest. l refer
to my sixty-one-round Dattie with Peter
Jackson in the year 1891. Kennedy ap-
pears to me to have in him all that goes
TO make up champion pugilist. At
least SO far as the cleverness goes. As
TO gameness. I don't know, OF course, al
though IT must be admitted he did not
seem lacking in that quality the other
night, but stood up and took a lot OF I'M
necessary punishment like major.
With bUxfng soon TO be legaliaed in this
utat ig aG "a racanfiV a n