Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-01
AUSTRALIA Will
Be THE HOME OF
NEGRO FIGHTERS
The Pale Face Stalwarts to
Have Everything Their
Own Way in This Coun-
try.
Ia
BY W. W. Naushton.


San Francisco, Nov. 30.-f Joe
Jeanette goes to Australia. in Jack
Johnson's place as he has contracted
to do, rather unique situation will
present itself.
All the colored heavyweights will be
piled up on one side of the Pacific
ocean and all the white hopes on the
other.
! And that, possibly, can truly be re-
garded as an unmixed blessing.
| With no dark shadows falling ath-
wart them 1t will be fine time for
the rale-face stalwarts to get togeth-
err and determine who is who. For that
matter. the initial move in the weed
| ing out process has already been made
for Jim Flynn and Luther McCarty are
| to face each other at Los Angeles on
December 10.
The pity of it is that AL Palzer, who
it was thought was being held in re-
| serve for the winner, should have in
jured his reputation through a wretch
ed performance with Tony Ross.
Everybody thought so well of Pal
ger. He wasn't looked upon as a
clever exponent of the manly art, but
he was accredited with natural fight
ing talents and the qualities of
strength, pluck and endurance calcu-
lated to compensate for his lack of
! knowledge of technique.
| Now that Paizer had been humbled
by Ross, whose leading record is nearly
as extended as that Of Tony Caponi,
we don't know what to think.
| May Claim "off Night"
| 1t may be that Palzer will claim it
was an "off night" with him when he
did SO poorly with Ross in Philadel-
phia. Being prominent pugilist ex-
planning reverses Is thoroughly within
his province but if he acts wisely he
will undergo spell of training and
demand another match with Ross.
1t is the only safe method of vindi-
cation, and unless Palzer adopts II
and turns the tables on Ross he will
remain under cloud.
It's a poor wind that blows nobody
good and Palzer's setback means add
ed Importance to the Flynn Mozart,
bout,
The winner of this affair will be re
lgarded as the best of the white hope.
unless Palzer does something amazing
meanwhile.
In the go at Los Angeles Flynn viii
be under all manner of physical handi
caps. McCarty will outweigh an,
outreach him, but disadvantages o
that kind never discouraged Flynn.
Among the time-honored adages o
the prize ring is one that says in eff
feet "A good little man cannot be ex
pected to defeat good big man."
1t Is doubtful II the argument hold
good In modern pugiiism. In the oil,
days when there were so few punche
known to the ring men and whel
every bruiser followed a stilted styl
Of milling 1t stood to reason, l sup
pose. other things being equal. weight
) strength and stature would tell.
An Age Of Specialists.
But this Is an age OF specialists an,
we have them in the ring as we'll as il
other walks of life. There Is no com
/. mon school of boxing nowadays. Prob
; ably nc two men who have reached tn
top OF the Queensberry ladders in re
cent years fight alike. The best mel
i'm the game are self taught and fol
J low out ideas Of their own.
IF Jem Mace lived today and pitte,
his straight lefts and rights agains
the knocks and jolts now In use h
would have his head torn off in fiv
minutes" said champion who ha
recently fallen from grace.
3 That may be putting 1t rathe
strongly but the fact remains that tn
. days when the blows and guards wcr
as defined as the cuts and parties 4
saber drill have departed This is tn
laee Of short uppercuts, loop the loopi
underswints. overswings and what mol
, and the man with new blow Is tn
dangerous customer.
: the contention that good little maj
can not lick a good big man, Sar