The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-06
PALzER LARGE EDITION OF
 $ TERRIBLE TERRY M'GOVERN

Al Paizer is affectlonately referred to Hv ardent admirers as an enlarged edition of Terrible Terry McGovern and the description seems to fit him well to judge from the style of fight ing he has adopted and by adhering to which closely has won for him a re- spectable string Of victories.
 There ie no man can recall among 1ha heavy-weights of the past two de- cades with whom one might compare thia youthful aspirant for champion ship honors. unless it might be Thom- as Sharkey Esquire. The sailor and the Iewan would compare favorably in aggressiveness. Sharkey knew but was to tear into his adversary regard less. trusting largely to luck to put the wailop over. ae
 Palzer has adopted the same rush. ing tactics that made famous the for rref pride or the navy But Al is pos leessed of several natural attributes that the Fourteenth street boniface could not boast of during his fighting days; weight, phenomenal strength and extreme youth are among the ad- ivantages. Also Al hits quite as hefty a punch, If not more so, and glories in recureratfve qualities that seem to defy the laws of nature.
 I3have watched Palzer closely in the majority of his ring battles Par 1icularly in the encounters with Kauf- man. and Wells he has been forced to submit to enough punishment in each instance to kfil an ordinary person before calling on his wonderful re- serve powers to wear his man down and. finally put over the finishing touches.
 sharkey could hit hard, as any of hiM former opponents will testify. But his punches were of the swinging variety and he carried no other guns worth menticning. PaIzer has a greater assortment of wallops and his straight punches transmit terrible punishment "a ths RonhaFdisE WslIs.P K Palzsr 2 [ more than snything else-Mas the. lat- all offense and knows positively nothing at all of the science of the game that teaches the bloc$ing of
 with other portions of the ana tonny than at which they have been aimed.xssIaswonder. what Tom ORourke was doing with this big fellow all the while he had him in charge. Certain if Is this department of Palzer's. box ing education has been sadly neg lected. It may be that Al; Is of the slew thinking kind that 1t is difficult to teach and one who learns better by actual experience than in prac-
 stiIl, one woald imagine the several heatinss he has assimilated to date would have had the effect of causing him to try to block punch occasion ally Nature teaches us defense of some sort. if only a crude style, but Palzer either scorns the use of pro- tective system or else he can't think of more than one thing at one and the same time.
 Wells. and by the way this lad out classes all other heavy-weights in the game in point of skill, made Al look like the veriest novice early in tke proceedings and won the admir- ration of the spectators by the way he man handled his much larger rival In oth- CT words he put Palzer in the sucker class as a boxer, and in the first round almost out of business with a well meant blow on. the chin; and be it understood that Wells, though slight of frame alongside this giant from Iowa. can punch like all concerned. The right upper-cut with which he xloored Albert was beauty and ev- case of "curtaInsya for Americas pride and joy in the white hope" line.
 Though defeated the Bombardier made a tremendous hit with the ''tal- enk.' Fitted against a man who out availed him little. The great bulk and strength and. .arecuperative powers of the American overwhelmed the super for skill and agility of the English man Wells is very handy man with the gloves and wonderful spuncher but 1t will call for a man of Palzer's own size or greater avordupois. and offensive ability, to drop him to the mat for the full count
 At that the contest ought. to stand Palzer in good stead. He must now realize he Is not invulnerable, and that defense plays very important part: in the art of boxing When & .hin to the floor for a near" knock out. as Bombardier did in the first session of the pastime. it is time the recipient of the wallop took up that branch of the course which includes the study of defensive tactics. Other wise it is only a question of very ehoft time until the now magnificent specimen of sathletics manhood must euccunb to the volume of punishment absorbed. even in victory: Those who are advising the big fellow will do well to take the tip. if they have his interest at heart. Give this boy thorough schooling in certain branch es of the science before sending him to certain slaughter by our dark-skin- ned brethren of the padded gloves:
 Johnny Kilbane, featherweight cham .pion. will need a body guard if he continues to turn a deaf ear to the appeals of Johnny Dundee for match Dundee is an Italian who adopted a Scotch fighting monicker, and threatens to invoke the aid of the Black Hand to convince the champion he is entitled to crack at the hon. crs-
 Kilbane and Dundee were matched !. to box ten rounds in this city about two months ago, but a few days be- fore the date set for the bout Dundee was canned and another boxer sub stituted The alibi of the promoters at this time was the rather mediocre chewing Johnny had made a few days previous in an exhibition with Chi cago Charley White, and which they claimed injured his drawing powers.
 Whatever the reason Dundee did not get the chance to match his skill with that of Attells conqueror and that Is why he waxeth wroth at the cham piom and the promoters who stalled him out of the contest. Since that dime Johnny has met and defeated the best of the division in the East. Re M I~~~ 4mmm FN4 %4Wwnmn