Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

hardly be greater interest displayed
throughout the country. McCartys i'm
pressive defeat of Jim Flynn opened the
eyes of the talent to the reality that
conditions are on the Improve" in the
heavyweight group and that We may be
on the eve of that anxiously awaited
transfer of the Flower of fstic suprem-
acy' from the blacks to the whites.
While there is little doubt that PalZer
and McCarty rank among the best of
the white heavy weights, and that the
winner of their contest will! have as good
claim to the championship as any other
-hter of either color since the dethrOne-
Lent of Jack Johnson. it is no sure thing
that continuation of the series of elm
ination bouts might not develop more
formidable proposition. Leaving out OF
al calculation those eminent dusky war
riors. Langford and Jeanette. there are
three or four others among the whites
who may file exceptions to the champion
ship claims of Palzer and McCarty.
For instance, there is Jess Willard, the
big Texan who came to New York I'M
known and unheralded one day last sum-
mer and surprised local sports by shad-
ing McCarty in ten-round bout. In
fact, Willard put a large size puncture
i'm Luther's reputation. and in view of
the easy manner in which McCarty has
since bowled over Jim Barry. Al kauf-
man and Jim Flynn, the Texans splendid
showing on that one bout alone entities
him TO reSpectlul DIS du dS-
pirant for the highest honors among the
white heavies.
Gunboat Smith is another who has de-
signs on the championship. This young
man has improved steadily since his first
appearance in the east and established
quite a reputation as knockout. He
has fought whenever opportunity offered
and disposed of the majority of his OPP
ponents in jig style. True. he disap-
pointed his many friends in the match
-sx' C,,yI; DrNfr 01<,
recently by failing to stop the veteran.
but that should not be scored against
the Gunboat, according to unprecedented
eyewitnesSes OF the encounter. for the
reason that Sullivan made a fight impos-
sible by his methods of stalling and
clinching Smith was willing and trying,
but Twin was there with but one Do
iect. and that was to remain the ten
rounds and succeeded because mis- knowl-
edge of ring craft was too great for the
comparatively inexperienced GunbOat.
Smiths greatest handicap I'm the COM
petition for heavyweight honors Is his
size. Although scaling in the neighbOr-
hood of $50 pounds, he stacks up like
middleweisht alongside the McCartys.
used to say, 1.-The bigger they are the
harder they fall and Gunboat packs a
mighty right hand wallop
Bombardier Wells. too. is still in the
hunt and contempiates visit to this
ne will be given a chance to wipe out the
stigma of defeat at the hands of Al
Palzer. Although beaten by the Amer-
Fan the Bornbardier made Il very favor
able impression on fight fans here. and
the consensus of opinion is that he fool
!shiy tossed off his chances for success
through anxiety to score quick knock
out. Wells is the only really clever
boxer among the hopes" and made Al
took like a dub in the early part of their
He ipH in md
ought to have romped a winner. But
Wells made the fatal mistake of throw
ing science to the winds and mixing /.
with much heavier and stronger man,
and suffered the consequences. PaiZer.
whose recuperative powers are simply
wonderful, was thus given the only
chance on earth he had to win. AL was
very lucky young man that night. He
vas not in the best condition; he had
supervised his own ira ming and made
bad job OF it. Had Wells not lost his
1ead over the prospects of knocking the
Dig fellow out there might have been a
different story to tell of the result. At
any rate the Bombardier showed the
spectators so much in the way of skill
and hard hitting that there exists no
3oubt OF his ability. and if the pair are
rematched the English champion will not
lack for supporters
Then there is our old friend. Carl Nor
us. the or glnal white hope" whose de-
Feat by Luther McCarty brought the lat
ter young man into prominence as con-
tender for the championship. Carl took
to the brush" after Luther gave him
that licking and only emerged from re-
irement a month or two ago. OF late
he has been playing the small time"
circuit, and has been very busy boxer
Furthermore, he has Won all his recent
starts, and with knockouts at that II
may be the big fellow had an overdose
81 the game and was stale when he ran
across McCarty. A. any rate the long
rest has done Carl a great deal of good
= n he can keep up his good work with the
bush leaguers Morris will have to be
given another chance to redeem himself.
So you will see. readers. il will take
more than the PalZer McCarty battle at
Los Angeles New Year day to establish
good title to the white heavyweight
Championship. And after the status of
the several aspirants has finally been
settled TO the satisfaction of principals
and public, the next move will be to
match the successful candidate with the
winner OF a Joe Jeannette-Sam IAangfOrd
bout for the worlds title. | note where
@cCarty's manager, Billy McCarney ha $
declared that the claims of the blacks
will be ignored should Luther be fortu-
nate enough to cleanup the whites
Would the public stand for that? l hard
ly think so i'm view of the fact that John
son was in undisputed possession of the
title when forced to vacate as a result of
numerous indiscretions. Therefore II
no he aAt1lx IT.