Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-01-03
pALzER WINS AGAIN
Winneshiek County Pugilist Knocks
Out Kaufman, Californian
Giant.
PALzER NEARs CHAMPIONSHIP.
Defeat of Kaufman in Fifth Round
Puts Only One or Two Men
Between Him and Jack
johnson.

Between Him and Jack
i johnson.
It's not very far cry after all
from swipe and general roustaDort
in the l.. j. Anderson feed barn down
on Broadway to the champ onship Of
the world in the puglistic arena
! Nearly everybody remembers AL.
Palzer, big, awkward, brawny, good
natured, kind hearted fellow that he
was, favorite with the kids, just
la common, every day fellow with
scarcely thought for the morrow.
But there were lots of people here
that never knew him at all.
Now his name is in every paper,
and on nearly every tongue through
out the country, for he is heralded
as the real white mans hope" and
the coming vanquisher of Jack John
son and the winner of the champion
ship of the world.
4 His victory Thursday night at the
National Sporting Club in New York,
when he knocked out the big Cali
fornian, AL. Kaufman, in the fifth
round in scheduled ten round bout,
in one of the fiercest battles ever
known, makes him the most talked
of man in the sporting world today.
We append clippings from several
|. different papers. to show the way
they view the fight, and the future:
New York, Dec. 2S.--With hard
right uppercut to the jaw, AL. Palzer
of New York knocked out AL. Kauf-
man of California in the fifth round
of scheduled ten round bout at the
National Sporting club tonight.
Kaufman was dazed and helpless on
} his back while Referee Patsy Haley
slowly counted out the seconds.
The bout was furious one. After
Palzer had knocked Kaufman down
} twice in the opening chapter and the
Californian had extended similar
favor, Kaufman in the second. third
and fourth rounds jabbed and smash
ed Palzer's face till it seemed Palzer
would be unable to weather the
storm of punches. But Palzer kept
} boring in, and by hammering away
at Kaufman's stomach and ribs in
the clinches so exhausted Kaufman
that in the fifth round he was very
weak.
1t was too heavy blows to the
! stomach near the end of the fifth
the portals of defeat. PalZer, who
} had been working close, ripped in a
} hard left to the pit of the stomach
that sent kaufman backward
through the ropes. While sitting on
} the second strand and holding onto
the third rope with arms extended
J Kaufman started to straighten up on
J his feet. AS he made the move Pal
J ger ripped in hard right to the
! short ribs. Kaufman grunted and
rubbed the injured spot. He then
wriggled free. But he had scarcely
; circled over to the far side of the
} ring when Palzer lifted him off his
} feet with a hard right uppercut.
! Kaufman was dazed and weak long
after the time the men We're wrang-
ling over whether he was knocked
J out or saved by the bell.
The Fight by Rounds.
Round THE first round was a
slashing one. Palzer knocked Kauf-
man down twice and Kaufman serv-
ed Palzer in similar style once. Pal
ger started fast, and by carrying the
fight to Kaufman managed to topple
him over with straight left to the
stomach. Kaufman jumped up and,
tcatching PalZer In the throat with a
, hard right, knocked Palzer on his
back. Palzer jumped up quickly and
caught Kaufman on the jaw with a
right. Kaufman went down in a
heap. He got up slowly and Palzer
rained a shower of lefts and rights
to the face until the bell.
; Round kaufman came back
and evened up the honors by jab-
bling, hooking and crossing lefts and
rights to Palzer's face. Palzer was
J wild and missed many swings. Sew
eral punches shot over Kaufman's
shoulders.
.ound 3-Kaufman fairly smoth-
ereu fdiZeT 3 race WITH straight loIts
} and right hooks in the third. Palzer
did not attempt to block the punches,
but kept boring in. At close quar-
tiers Palzer hit Kaufman many short
jolts to the stomach.
Round kaufman mixed his at
tack. He started tattoo of punches
to the stomach until he had Palzer
doubled up. He then shifted to the
face and planted two singing hooks
to the jaw. One of the punches rock
ed Palzer to his heels. Palzer kept
boring in, but spent the greater part
of his time in holding on.
The knockout came in the fifth as
described above.--Chicago Inter
Ocean.
i AL. Palzer of DEBORAH. Ia, won un-
dying fame Thursday night and as
surance of consideration as the next
opponent of Jack Johnson for the
heavyweight championship of the
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