Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-27
BY Left Hook.

O'Keefe are going to mix up
again here New Years night.
The Dixie A c. has just made the
match, and if it is anywhere as
near as good as the last mill be-
tween this pair local boxing fans
will get a full run for their money.
Also Promoter Henry Norton is
burning the wires trying to get
Battling Nelson for the winner on
January Is.
O'Keefe was knocked out by
Jack Britton Christmas night, but
that doesn't lower his standing a
bit, for Britton is probably the best
lightweight in the country l say
lightweight because Danny Nor
gan, Britton's manager, claims he
can do 1913 pounds ringside
Packey Mcfarland is lodging
Britton and has been lodging him
ever since Jack outpointed him
over in Memphis. It's a cinch that
this pair will hook up ere long, and
when it does yours truly will string
along with Britton
BY the way, Britton got his real
start here in Atlanta, when he
fought Charley White and George
Memsic. He didn't get over 500
for the two fights, but he left a
mighty high impression, and Mike
Saul who is now refereeing at the
Dixie A. c.. claims that he was the
first to predict that Britton would
some day be a champion.
SO when you consider that one
of the three best lightweights in
the world, if not the very best. beat
him, O,Keefe's reputation has not
been denied in the least by his
defeat at Britton's hands.
At any rate, he and Whitney put
up the best scrap ever staged in
Atlanta, and local fans have been
bowling for a return bout ever
since.
WHEN Al Palzer and Luther Nc
Carly hook up New Years
day fistic followers on the Pacific
coast are likely to see a battle along
the line of famous old time fights
such as the Sullivan Ryan. JEFF
fries Sharkey, Mitchell Sullivan,
Kilrain- Sullivan, Fitzsimmons- Ma
her, Dempsey -LaBlanche, McAu-
liffe-Carney, McAuliffe- Carroll, Nc
Auliffe- Meyer, Lavigne- Everhardt,
Ryan West and hundreds of others
of those mills that We're nothing
but case of give and take
When Carl Morris was here
asked him which man he liked the
best.
"McCarty," he replied without a
seconds thought.
The writer has never seen Nc
Carly, but I saw Palzer lick Tom
Kennedy and AL Kaufman, and
those two nights the New Yorker
sure looked like a champion. He
knows little of the scientific end of
the game. is dead slow on his feet
and has little or no defense. but he
sure can belt with both hands.
Also Kaufman's right hand kicks
never budged him an inch. and
Kaufman could hit as hard with his
right hand as any man that ever
climbed into a ring.
IN his career, which so far as pub
lie interest is concerned began
in 1911, Palzer has had just six
battles of more than ordinary no.
tice, but ii must be admitted that
the results from four of the number
were exceedingly favorable to HIM
self, as they were clean knockouts.
on June Is Palzer won fifth bat
tie, Bombardier Wells. the English
heavy champion, going down after
three rounds of hard battling The
fight was nevertheless a moral de-
feat for Palzer, for had Wells any
stamina back o. his science he
would have made "a short quick job
Of the Iowan who was outpointed
10 to /.
Palzer'S next battle and the last
he fought was with Tony Ross. a
third-ratu heavy. ut philadephia.