The Alaska citizen., 1912-02-19


ipate any difficulty in disposing of
him.
When the gong sends Johnson
and l away on our journey, the
sports will see some real fighting.
! expect to have the sympathy and
confidence of four out of every five
men witnessing the contest, and that
is going to help a lot"
DEBORAH, Iowa, Jan. IA. If
DEBORAH needed a boomer slogan it
now has it in Watch AL Palzer."
What Frank Gotch has been to Hum
boldt as an advertising medium Pal
ger is expected to be for DEBORAH,
and then some. Since he was able
to subdue Kaufman in New York
city Palzer has been the talk of the
town, and everywhere is heard the
expression that he is the logical
white mans hope" to go against
Jack Johnson.
| Albert Palzer, who will ever be
known here at his home as Big
Foot was raised on a farm near
picked out as a professional boxer.
He was looked upon as a big, awk-
ward, brawny. goodnatured, big
hearted chap, who was always pop
ular with the kids of the neighbor-
hood. Farm life got a little too
monOtonous for him and he came to
town and was roustabout at the
| J. l.. Anderson feed barns. It was
net until the navy sought him out
and he was put through some of
the physical training necessary that
ne discovered himself and his friends
then discovered him and put him in
training
He recently paid the old home a
visit and partook of some of
mothers meals" One thing about
Big Foot unless he changes might
lily, if he ever attains to the honors
of champion pugilist of the world,
the country will be free from brag-
gadocio Palzer has a host of
/ friends here who are willing to back
up most any sort of promotion if
Palzer would only give a little en-
lcouragement. Thus far he, with
his manager, O'Rourke, have never
sought any financial backing from
the people of this locality.
NEW YORK, Jan 80. - Abe At
! tell, of San Francisco, featherweight
champion of the world, today is
roasted to brown turn by local
sport writer's, who are unanimous
| in declaring that he has either gone
back or deliberately stalled in his
recent fight here with Knockout"
Brown. Although the sporting crit
les agree that Attell had all the
better of the contest with Brown.
they declare he logged it until the
fifth round, and that even from this
point on he did not extend him
self to the limit.
One writer quotes Attell as say
ing that he was doped and hardly
realized that he was in a fight. AT
tell, in this statement, says he al
ways injects cocaine into his injur-
ed hand before going into battle.
and that on the occasion of the
Brown fight he got too much of the
drug
CHICAGO, Jan. 30. - The many
things he intends doing to the New
York boxing commission as punish
ment for their decision not to allow
him to appear in a boxing contest
in the empire state were told here
today by Jack Johnson, the negro
heavyweight champion First of all
he says that he is going to box in
New York whether the commission
likes it or not. Then if its mem
bers get gay he says he proposes to
wipe them off the map.
Here is the way the cinder put
lit:
I'm going to fight in New York
whether them commissioners likes it
or not. They seem to forget that
l am de champeen, and reckon
some little authority goes along with
the title.
Tom Mahon, boss of the Douglass
Athletic club, says he wants me to
fight there, and I'm going to fight,
commission or no commission.
Just to show em I'm a good fell
low I'm gwine to send each of dem
commissioners box apiece Then
If the commission tries TO stop me
I'll demand a reason. If | don't
get satisfaction I'll hire de best
lawyer money can buy in New York,
take the case to cote and wipe the
commission off'n the map.
Il am going to New York next
week. l will box in the gents
waitin room in the Grand Central
station if in no other place, but
just watch me make history. That
New York boxing commission has no
more right to violate the 14th
amendment than has an election
commission. If they can't draw the