The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-16
CORBETT'S WEEKLY
 BOXING REVIEW
PICKS FIREMAN JIM FLYNN
 TO DEFEAT LUTHER M'CARTY


 sBy James ,. Corbett. Former Heavy
 weight Champion of the world.1
 Special to The Evening Farmer1
 There is a renewed activity in the ranks of the white heavy-weights that
 sa1sgests a huay season ahead for the
 big fellows With Johnson deposed by popular sentiment. and the .Jeannettel
 aM1n Ebora .,,, ana m fhs evey arS aTlvaraas asa.. hard campaigns, the "1opes' have talk en new leases on life. Those who have already attained prominence are iay-' bftions and designs on the heavyweight title as profitable as possible.
 Big Al Palzer. Tom O'Rourl<e's entry ambitious youngsters has hearkened to the call of the coin, and declared an nrmistiee with the man who engineered the pugtlfstic campaigns Of Hhafksv. Dixon, Wolcoft and other knights Of khe squared circle. Palxer held cut Ter a long time and tried hard to force D'Rourke to relInquish the managerial refma. but found the legal game very expensive and harder to beat than rec Eensd on; then sensinly .S c9nciuasa to who has contributed not little to his success as pugflist.
 OfEourie plans to take Pa1zer West to meet the winner of the 5i1n Flynn Luther McCarty aa1fIe scheduled for December 10 at Los Angeles. That ls| provided MeCarty Is the victor I u1-
 
 mentor, has promised Tom McCarey, the coast promoter, to keep the big boy out there for a season If success Fireman Jim emerge with the honors. however it is likely the Falzer-F1ynn contest will be staged right here in of New York and the ten round route. McCarneys by the way. is an opti- rnisEic person, and VOWS nls green task than Al Kaufman. Billy may find he's mistaken in estime ting the | fighting qualities of the sturdy ex-Hre- l in the heavyweight division. Beating a boxer already on the down grade Is different proposition from .c tac'<llng one ed Kaufman was started on the to- boEgan by this same Flynn. and gfv- % sn the final boot by , ralzsT. t b;g Mstn m, ne Bourtan. 1t must be admitted that when McCarty engaged the Californian in l combat he was not facing Kaufman at his best: not by a long shot.
 My opinion Is F7ynn's experience and l aEEressfrenesss will prove too much for snsr Ihose method nsT'o of inning is not surfi- cfently vigorous to stop a man of the rushing bulldog style of the redoubt-I - If nsy be that I underestinaate Mo 1 Ezrty. but taking a line from New York perforrnances believe he has a l F7vnn m Tutter s is fine. m t biz, and and @ ad-
 nirably constructed. athlete, but evil dentiy lacking in the lighting spirit I tfs name suggests.
 Paizer;s long absence from the ring hes cost the big Teuton number | f ofr will will 5h insure ~ faie chances chan @ Quite few local sports have transferred their efrections and are nov touting Gun-I leading candidate for heavy weight honors- And with very good reaeou, | too. for at the rate of inaprovement months 1t is not too extravaeant praise to say that he can give the best of the white men a good battle aoeham he wss matched with the | Brooklyn Goliath. Jim Stewart, fairly clever boxer of about 225 pounds avor- sion on that occasion, and by the way I the rendering of the verdict cost Patsy | Haley his referees license end the Ma ever. not to dissress. Smith at that time did not show much more .thanf willingness to fight and cheerfulness in absorbing punishment that made a hit with the crowd. Yes, and a wild | swing that when 1t did land shook his gigantic opponent to the heels As or ffereabo1t, 1t can be imagined that he packed quite a healthy punch
 s'Gunbcat'' has devoted much of his training stunts during the last five 0rl six months to boxing. and that he has made considerable progress in that df- rection was demonstrated in the re- turn engagement with Stewart few weeks ago when he completely out cIassed the Brooklynite. So much so, l. m fact that the bout was stopped in the seventh round to save big Jim.
 If Harry Wuest. the Cincinnati light lives up. to the reputa- ton he has established throughout the Middle West. the s.Gunboat' will get a + cliff try-out when the pair meet in a ten round bout in this city next We'd nesday. Wueet is no novice at the garnes he has been boxing profession feated number of good men, amongi .hern Tom McMahon, the Pittsburgh New Workers who have been given the privilege Of watching yYnest at his local training quarters are favorab1y impressed with the Wes- .ernerie chances
 suffalo has candidate for the racs in George (One Davis who has been bow1ingi over with deadly regularity since adebutings' professionally. "OneI Roundse'' latest feat was sc duplicate -Gunboats' Smiths knockout of Jim Stewart in seven rounds I under ,tnnd am attempt will be made to match Davfe with the winner of the bout
 Ad wo1east put one over on his ,ritics by signing to box willie Ritchie day at CoffrOth's San Francisco arena Looks like Ad schose,' the hardest proposition of the whole bunch of 133 pound eligib1es. 7itchie recently beat Joe Mandot over 2 he ten round distance, according to -4mrr-@ p~r[H n