Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-07
WELLS HAS SCIENCE
 PAlzfR JACKS II Jim Corbett Writes of the Two HeavyWeights Who
 Recently Clashed.
DURDEE' .KILBANE
Match Ought to Prove a Good MilI... Thinks We'll of the
 ita.ian.
(By James J. Cosh tt, former Heavy
weight Champion If the Worldo

(By James J. Fosb tt, former Hsavy
 weight Champion If the World.)
 New York, July G.-eSpecial to the
 'f1aphic)-Al Paizer is affectionatelg
 referred to Dy ardent admirers as ar
 enlarged e.litien of Terrible Terry McGoven, and the description seems
 to fiji him we'll tJ judge from the s,yle of fighting h has adopted aud
 by adhering to which closely he iaas
 won respectable string of victories
 There is no man l can recall among
 the heavyweights of the past two dc cades with wham one might compare
 this youthful aspiTant for champion ship honsrs, unless it may be Thomas Sharkey, Esquire. The Sailor and the Iowan resemble each other in aggfessiveness. Sharkey knew but one thing when in the ring and t.kat was to tear into his adversary r-egard- less and trust to luck to put tihta wal lop over.
 Palzer has adopted the same rush. ing tactics that made famous the for mer pride of the navy. But Al is possessed of several natural attribu- tes that the Fouteent,l' street bonifaee could not beast of during his fighting days; weight, phomena strength and extreme youth are among the advan- tagas. Also Al hits quite as hefty a punch, if not more so, and glories in recuperative' Qualities that seem to defy tile laws Of nature. . iea
 I have watched Palzer in the mat joriy of his ring battles, and pa. tic ularly in tle encounters with Kauf- man and Wells, she has been forced 70 submit to enough pun slhment in each instance to kill an ordinary person before calling Ton his wonderful re- serve powers to wear his man down and finally put, over the finishing touches. +'f2
 Sharkey could hit hard, as any of his former opponents will testify. But h's punches were of the wild swinging variety and he carried no Other guns worth mentioning. Palze,r has greater assorment of wallops and his straight punches transmit ter. rible punishment.
 In the Bombadier Wells-P -Palzer bout the one thing that impressed me mofs than anything else was the ,laiter's woeful lack of defense. He is all of fense and knows posi- lively nothing at all of the science of the game that teacass the blocking of blows with other portions of the anatomy than at which they have been aimed, wonder what Tom O'Rourke, was do- ing with this big fellow all the while hei had hfm in charge. Certain is it this department of Palzer's boxing education has beeh sadly neglected. It may be tha5 Al is of the slow think ing kind that it is difficult to teach, and one who learns best by actual experience than in practice.
 Still, one would Imagine the several beatings he has assimilated to date would have had the effect of causing him to try to block al punch occasion ally. Nature teaches us defense of some sort, if only cruder style, but Palzer either scorns the use of a pro- tective system or else he can't think of more 'jhan, oneI thing at one and thIe same time. s"
 Wells, and by the way this lad out classes all oolrer heaVyweights Tn the game in point'of skill, made Al look ike the veriest novice early in the and won the admiration of he spectators by the way he man. handled his much larger rival. In other words he put Palzer in the 1 tucker class as a boxer, and in the
 rst round almost out of business with a we'll meant punch on the chin: md be it understood that Wells, hough slight of framel alongside this liant from Iowa, can punch like all Int right uppercut with which he floored Albert was beauty nd everybody present thought it was
 case of curtains" for America's ride and joy in he white hope" line.
 Though defeated the Bombadier lade tremendous hit with the "tal- mt" Fitted against man who out 5eighed him by 40 pounds, science vailed little. The great bulk and trength and re'cuperative powers of he American overwhelmed the super- 'r skill and agility of the English ian. Wells is a very handy man 'ith the gloves and { a wonderful uncher, too. but it will call for Ian of Palzer,s own size or greater verdupois and offensive ability to r0l1 lIin fo fj+o m q Ho,r II. = f..Iy@-~