Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-04
FOXY TON O'ROURKE'S WATTS
WIN not Hurry Al Palzar Against
Big Jack Johnson.
IOWA WHITE HOPE IN NO HURRY
mn Nsuehton Says II is Wise to
Hold Him Back and Avoid
what Happened TO
Carl Morris.
nv w. w. NAueHToN.

sAN FRANCISCO. Feb. A-According
to the best information obtainable. Tom
o'Rourke is in no hurry TO send Al Pal
ser against the worlds champion. Jack
Jehnson.
Z IL o'Rourke was quoted correctly. he
delivered himself Is follows:
''Palser Is a hid and he needs expert
ence. / want him TO meet Jim Flynn and
Carl Morris before ne even thinks OF q
match with the big negro. When l send
Palzer against Johnson you can bet he
viii win
There Is good. sound judgment in that,
but at the same time the course mapped
out does not insure Palzer against risk
10 his budding ambitions.
II 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 a
mxsch with johnson for fully a year.
He was TO be housed in a costly gym
nasium and coached and trained by the
greatest experts. ob,ainable.
He was to be allowed 70 work off his
superfluous energy In & few safe con-
tests ana was TO be developed gradually
until he could be entrusted with the task
Of yanking the laurel wreath from John
sons dusky brow and restoring the fistic
supremacy to the white race.
Jim Flynn q Block.
A 90 with Jim Flynn was to be part
Of Carts education. but It practically put
a stop to his championship studies. And
now Al Paizer is expected TO add TO his
experience by ,aekllng this same Flynn.
Well. II may tuEn cut all right and then
again It may not There Is no shrewder
ju.ge OF merit In nghtsrs than o'Rourke,
and n he honestly believes that Palxer
II match for Flynn the only thing TO
DO IL to lay back hnd wait for results.
Beyond a doubt. Flynn Is about as
dangerous q man as white hope OF
limited experience could be sent against.
While never a star performer. the pueblo
fireman has had his knowledge Of ring
maneavers enriched By contact with all
manner q fighters
He has been against tho clever ones
and the tremendous hitters and he has
developed a composite style. He has faced
Jack johnson. 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 different
kinds OF milling fairly hammered into
him. and. II he knows nothing else. he
knows how to detect the weak points In
IN opponents methods ts@
He showed In his affair with Morris
that he can quickly adapt himself to cir
cumstsnces. During years OF being buf-
fsttsd. he learned 70 change gear rapidly
and such q man Is always the rankest
person 10 q novice whose, fneager ac-
quaintance with the ring game compels
him to adopt the same tactics round after
round.
Chance for PaI.sr.
II Palxsr Gets away ~tlA rlynn. there
VIII be exoitsfnsnt galore. o'Rourke 9
md will be regarded as the logical op.
ponent" Of johnson. and then II win be
up 10 o'Rourke 70 exercise restraint. lie
wiil need 10 remember moys than ever
that Paizer 10 only 4 kid'' and steer
him clear Of the breakers.
I. A year Of considerate treatment win
90 wonders for the hope OF the white
,race." and IN the meantime Champion
Jack Johnson. and for that matter sam
Langford and Sam Mcyea. win be easier
70 handle than they are now.
Al first Il may sound unsportsmaniike TO
advocate the keepipg Of palset in reserve
until the pstsent, holder, Of tho title be-
sins to mellow. But In q way there Is
precedent for II.
Never a heavyweight oueehsberry
champion yet lost his crown In his bss'
1shting days. Everyone Knows that
John l. sullivan was mlddle-aged AM
portly when he lost 10 corbeti and tha
corbstt. after years Of high life ans
frayed nerves. could barely stand train
ins for his Carson City match with Fits
simmons. t
'rhs cornishman. who wAs always
freak and who could not Be Judged iron
an ags standpoint like other ring men
ssid be ws< In, q trance for tevera
rounds when Jsffries took the champion
ship from him. and there ls scarcely a
excuse for recalling what lcffries locke
rks at Reno with his thin hair and hi
pfnchsd face he was totally unlike IN
susppy-eyed. brown-skinrsd Hercules {
six years Gather.
Catch Hlm Going Hack.
yss indeed, he record shows that II
chAmp,onsh.p never changed hands un,
the champion pegnn 10 decline. and IL
cute right 70 nurse Palzer along uni
JACK johnson becomes trifle waeez
But PAlssf eas not licked Flynn y
ana II Is not a. oto-on bet that ne vi
liek Flynn Nor 10 Il a certainty that q
min viii nshl 4s's
Jack johnson has mnddied the paglli
t1c pool 10 sonae purpose BY saying N
lF1ynn VA. have to cancel the Palz
nAfrh or consider the Fiynn-Johns'
nixseh cancelled This. however. mi
urrsiy cause temporary confusion
this writing Il looks As though the F1yn
Johnson scheme viii have to be aba
dcned: An amendment 70 the law again
11xiinx in Nevada has made inoperatl
the cage brush measure permitting a
ish lights. according to legal anthoriti'
sna with Nevada out OF the auesti
there does not seem tosbe 'say plaza
this country where Fiynn and johns
ca work of their champlonship eneou
~.
New york win not tolerate Johnso
sne II IL xfzspered tina; ery attempt
infro6uce him TO the san Francis
night situation will result IN some su'
sction as prevented Jeffries and I
nssro from boxing here.
Jehnson has certainly ''scrambied q
go since he returned from ~YurruT
cd right now there Is more promise
q. r1ynn-pzlxsr. fight than one betwe
Jolnson and Flynn.
GOOD ROADS MEETING At
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