El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-03
To NURSE PALZER
As WHITE HOPE"
johnson Has Balled Up
Things Generally, Says
Billy Naughton.
CBy W. W. Naughton.)

CBy ". ". Naughton.)
San Francisco, Cal. Feb. S.-Accord-
ing to the best information Obtainable,
Tom O'Rourke is in no hurry to send
Al Palzer against worlds champion
Jack Johnson.
If O'Rourke was quoted correctly, he
delivered himself as follows:
Palzer is a kid and he needs eX-
perience. I want him To meet Jim
Flynn and Carl Morris before he even
thinks Of match via the Dis DeS-o-
When send Palzer 2ga;uss johnson,
you can bet he will wiz"
There is good, sound Judgment in
that, but at the same time the course
mapped out does not insure PalZer
against risk to his budding ambitions
If the writer remembers clearly, the
itinerary laid out for Carl Morris was
about the same as that proposed for
PalZer. Carl was not to think Of
match with Johnson for fully a year.
be was to be housed in a costly gym
nasium and coached and trained by
the greatest experts obtainable.
He was to be allowed to work off
his superfluous energy in a few safe
contests and was to be developed grad
ually until he could be entrusted with
from Johnson's duslky brow and re-
storing the fistic supremacy 10 the
white race.
O'ROurke Is>a sharp Manager.
go with Jim Flynn was to be 2
part Of Carrs education but it prac-
tically put a stop to his championship
studies. And now Al Palzer is expect
ed to add to his experience by tackling
this same Flynn.
Well, it may turn out all right and
then again it may not There is no
shrewder judge of merit in fighters
than O'ROurke and, if he honestly be-
leves that Palzer is a match for
Flynn, the only thing to do is to lay
back and wait for results
Beyond a doubt Flynn is about as
dangerous a man as a white hope or
limited experience could be sent
against
While never a star performer the
Pueblo fireman has had his knowledge
OF ring maneuVers enriched by con-
tact with all manner Of fighters.
He has been against the clever ones
and the tremendous hiIters and he has
developed composite style. He has
faced Jack Johnson and Sam LangfOrd
and Tommy Burns and Billy Papke
and Jack O'Brien and Al kaufman and
more besides.
He has had a knowledge of the diff
ferent kinds of milling fairly ham
mered into him and, il he knows moth
ing else, he knows how to detect the
weak points in an opponents methods.
He showed in his affair with Nor
ris that he can quickly adapt himself
to circumstances During years of be-
ing buffeted, he learned to change gear
rapidly and such q man is always the
rankeSt person to a novice whose mea-
ger acquaintance with the ring game
compels him TO adopt the same tactics
round after round.
II -Palzer gets away with Flynn,
there viii be excitement galore.
O'Rourke's find viii be regarded as
the logical opponent" of Johnson, and
then 1t will be up to O'Rourke to ex-
ercise restraint. He will aneed TO re-
member more than ever that Palzer
& MI Ii -~r n
the breakers.
Hold Back PaIzer Awhile.
4 year OF considerate treatment viii
do wonders for the hope OF the white
race and in the meantime champion
JACK Johnson, and for that matter sam
Iangford and sam McVea, win be cas-
Ter to handle than they are now.
At first It may sound spOrtsmanli1e
10 adFocte the keeping of Palzer in re-
serve until the present holder OF the
title begins to mellow. But in a way
there is precedent for il.
Never heavyweight Queensberry
champion yet lost his crown in his
best fighting DAYS Everyone knows
that John L. Sullivan was middle-aged
and pOrtly when he lost to Corbett and
that Corbett, after years of high life
and frayed nerves, could barely stand
training for his Carson City match
with Fitzsimmons.
The COrnishlnan who was always q
freak and who could not be Judged
from an age standpoint like other ring
men, said he was in a tranoe for sew
eraI rounds when Jeffries took the
championship from him, and there is
scarcely an excuse for recalling What
Jeffries looked like at Reno With
his thin hair and his pinched face, he
was totally unlike the snappy-eyed
brown skinned Hercules of six wears
earlier
Yes. indeed. The record shows that
the championship never changed hands
until the champion began TO decline
and il is quite right to nurse PaIzer
along until Jack johnson becomes a
trifle WheeZy
But Palzer hasn't licked Flynn vet
and II isn't an Odds-On bet that he
will lick Flynn. Nor is If a cerfsfnfS,
that the men win fight.
johnson Mindless Situation.
JACK Johnson has muddled the M
gllstic pool to some purpose by say
ing that Flynn viii have to cancel the
Palzer match or consider the TIv11-
Johnson match conceded. This. how
ever, may merely cause temporary con
fusion At this writing II Ioolxs e
though the Flynn-J Johnson scheme vii
nave 10 be abandoned An amendment
10 the law against dueling in Neva5s
has made imperative the sagebr77sL
measure permitting finish fights 80
cording to legal authorities. and v-f+L
Nevada out Of the question there 49,
not seem to be any place in This 80
try where Flynn and Johnson can ,,3o-I-
OFF their championship encounter
New York viii not toIerara Toh
son, ana It IS whispered that anv a. /
tempt TO introduce him to the Sa1
Francisco fight situation" viii -ae-,It
in some such action as preverfa5 e9 9tltl 1
fries and the negro from boxfn, b@--
Johnson has certainly ''scrsr 5bIas I
the eggs since he returned 80
uI.up' ana rlSht now there is more
promise Of Flynn-Palzer fight .ba /
one between Johnson and E'1r7- lIaH