Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

boy to beat him, but. like all champions,
his day will come. Another contender,
and persistent one. is frankie Burns.
whom Tommy Walsh has been boosting
to the front the past year. frankie is a
high-class performer. but the new scale
of weights for bantams, 115 pounds, it Is
recognized will make it hard for the New
Jersey fighter, as he cannot get below
116 pounds to save his life. In case Cou-
Ion sticks to 10 pounds ii will cut out
the Jersey boy and leave Kid Williams.
I.edoux, Coulon and Digger Stanley. TO
fight it out for the worlds title
If frankie Russell. the New Orleans
lightweight, continues to improve the
way he has been doing the past six
months there will be a strong rival for
Joe Mandot's crown in the southern me-
tropolis. Like Mandot. the new sensa-
ton halls from the French market in
New Orleans, being of French origin,
and he has had his early training around
the huskies who hang around the mar
ket place. He has come to the front
even faster than Mandot did, for year
ago he was not known. even as pre-
liminary boy of any account. but the
past six months he has met and defeated
such good boys Jack White, Steve
Ketchel, Joe Thomas, Joe Coster, Willie
Beecher and Tommy Gary. That is GER
tainly going some for a youngSter. and
now he is preparing for harder game. He
is billed to meet the Durable Dane, Bat
Ting Nelson. i'm a ten-round bout Janu-
AIRY =. and if he wins or makes good
showing he will be sent to meet Knock
out Brown of New York Just now he
is busy trying to get on match with
Joe Mandot, his townsman. but Joe will
not engage in any bouts for while. as
he wants to rest up. Joe claims that his
poor fight with Rivers in Los Angeles
was due to having gone stale. He has
agreed to meet Russell later on. SO we
may look for hair-raising match when
they clash
There will be plenty of coin lost and
won on the McCarty-PalZer contest,
which will be decided at Tom McCarey' 5
arena in Vernon, just outside of Los An
geles, New Year day. There will also
be new white champion. according to
the terms of agreement, as arranged by
Tom McCarey. There may be other white
hopes who have a right to battle for
the title and belt. but Uncle Tom has de-
creed that the winner of this contest will
be recognized the new white cham
pion and will be expected to defend it
against all corners I'm the heavyweight
ranks. 1t Will be battle of giants, for
both men are over six feet in height and
scale over 200 pounds: in fact, PalZer VIII
be near DO and McCarty about 20, 1t
will surely bring to mind the times when
the olden-time giants of the ring got to-
gether, men who weighed well over the
22D-pound mark. Palzer has been the ia
vorite up to date, owing to his splendid
showing in the east and his fine work in
training. but the chances are that when
the day of meeting comes it will be
pretty near even money and take your
choice. That appears to be about the
way the men size up at the present time.
Both are hard hitters and each one has
demonstrated that he can take a lot of
punishment. PalZer, when he fought
Bombardier Wells, was nearly out in the
first two rounds, being driven all over
the ring, but he stuck, took his medicine
and in the third round came back and
put Wells out. McCarty has shown in
all his battles that he can take any
amount of punishment and he surely did
display courage in his siXteen-round fight
with Jim Flynn. The latter can hit, and
he made McCarty take many hard wal
lops before he himself sought the can
vas 1t will depend a great deal on the
first man getting home with a couple of
good punches. for the one who does will
have the edge and the best chance of
winning out. Don't overlook the fact
that McCarty has been coming fast and
has the confidence. and it is going to take
lot of furnishing to beat him. He has
also been taught a lot by his manager
Billy Mccartney, and IL there is shade
at all | think Luther has it, The fight
should be determined inside of twelve or
fifteen rounds. unless both men work
themselves out early
Johnny kilbane. the featherweisht