The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-09
AL PALzER MOST LIKELY
LOOKING WHITE HOPE NOW
Former Champion Corbett
Declares New Yorker
Could Easily Beat Carl
Morris.
By James j. COrbett

Chicago, March 81 "see by the
paper" where Bob Fitzsimmons says
he could take hold of Carl Morris
and fit him for a battle for the cham
pionship inside of three months. i
doubt IL Fitz is correctly quoted or, if
so, whether he has ever seen Morris
IN action Anyone who would under
take the job Of making a champion
out of Carl in ninety days would dis
cover he had a contract on his hands
A number of competent trainers have
been working on the Oklahoman for
over a year now. and as yet he has
failed to show anything. like a real
high class performer.
am not attempting to underrate
Morris. He may be all his friends
claim for him, but one would think
he would show an occasional flash of
it In his fights. His best performance
was when arrayed against Tom Ken
nedy and then his work was good
only by comparison with the miser-
able showing of the latter who WIS
not any where near his best FORM
II asked for an opinion 1 would say
that AL Palzer is by far the most
promising of all the white hopes"
who have sprung into public notice
since Jeffrfes met defeat at Reno.
believe he would beat Morris decis-
lively in a twenty round battle. Pal
ger has youth and strength; so has
Morris. Both have stamina in abund-
ance. In the Flynn battle Morris re-
Operative powers were put to
severe test and found not wanting.
And so were Palzer's in the fight
with Kaufman.
Palzer has aggressiveness and the
lighting spirit. departments in which
Morris is shy. The latter reminds me
somewhat of the late Gus Rubin in
that respect. Gus might have been
champion had he been more on the
hitting powers are superior; at least
he has used them to better advantage
than Morris. In roy opinion there Is
no white man who gives greater
promise for the future than this big
farmer boy from Iowa.
Although Palzer has signed to boz
twenty rounds on July 4 with Eng
lands heavyweight champion Bonn
badier Wells. his manager announces
that a little thing like that will not
stand in the way of arranging a ten
round contest with Morris or any
other aspiring white man in the in
term.
The National Sporting Club and
the Empire Athletic Club have each
offered a purse of $1,000 for the pair.
but Morris refuses to box at the first
named owing to the fact that Palzer's
manager. Tom O'Rourke, was former
" connected with that institution as
matchmaker. This appears to me a
rather poor excuse. The managers Of
the National were first in the field
with this most liberal offer and there
fore entitled to the match unless their
bid is boosted by some other organ
ization; at least it would seem so to
any fair-minded person. The long
drawn out controversy over the battle
ground is growing tiresome and it is
high time the men came to an under
standing The delay aggravates
Gotham sports who have been look
ing forward to this scrap as the fistic
treat of the season ever since Morris
beat Kennedy and Palzer triumphed
over Kaufman.
Two important middle-weight
matches have been arranged for the
latter part of the current month
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