New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-29
PALzER KNOCKS OUT
ENCLAND'S CHAMPION
Bombardier Wells Goes Down
Before Shower of Blows in
Third Round.
BIG CROWD IN AN UPR0AR
Americas White Hope" Has
Close Gall Before Tide Turns,
When He Lands
Wild Punch.

Bombardier Wells the heavyweight cham
pion OF Great Britain and holder Of the
Lord Lonsdale belt, was knocked out in
three rounds by Al Palzer, the American
white heavyweight, at Madison Square
Garden last night. The battle was one OF
the most sensational ever seen in this city
while It lasted. and Palzers victory came
only after he verged on a knockout three
times
For the first three minutes and for the
greater part Of the second round Wells
made Palzer look Ike an amateur and was
on the high road TO victory when he grew
overconfident and careless. Palzer, on his
feet through sheer force Of courage and
good old Yankee grit never stopped his
efforts to land, and in the second round,
after taking a savage beating, swung for
iorn hope In the form of a right-hand punch
in the general direction of his opponent.
il landed and Wells hit the mat TO rise at
the count of nine, beaten man.
The end came after two minutes of box
ing in the third round, when Wells dropped
10 the floor a victim of sheer exhaustion
and not as the immediate result of
punch Palzer walked in at the start,
slightly groggy himself from the effect Of
an unmerciful beating in the first and sec
ond rounds, and whaled away. Wells
stepped in and around him. shooting a per
feotly timed left hand to the face, hooking
the left TO the jaw and head. and ever aid
anon whipping a right cross 70 the face
He was rapidly firing. however, while the
giant lad from the prairies was fast re-
covering.
Palzer lunged. taking a left on the mouth
without a whimper, and sunk a savage
right to the Dody of the British champion.
Like a pole-aXed steer the latter crashed
TO the floor writhing in pain. There he
stayed until nine long seconds had neen
tolled over him, and then rose. The crowd
was in an uproar, and Pazer, now fairly
reused took a left on the jaw to place his
powerful right 10 the solar plexus. The
blow landed true and fair, and once more
the Briton hit the mat Game TO the core,
he scrambled to his feet, but after Keeling
around the ring, feel TO the floor, out cold.
Wells, smiling and confident, a clever
boxer, and a cool, crafty general of the
roped arena, was as fast as streak at
the start and as clever as a Corbett. He
had the savage hitting power of Bob
Fitzsimmons, too, and, standing erect,
boxed after the manner of all English box
ers, shooting a left hand jab to the face
that cut, Jared and stung. lie timed # TO
the fraction Of a second and the contest
was not half a minute old before he had
Pslzer dripping gore and rocking about the
ring like a breaker-ridden derelct He
Il beat Al to the mark, and had him missing
his wallops, and, like snuous panther On
iii .cflVr
ing the savage lunges that his game, but
unfinished, opponent made without rest or
letup. There was not a man in the Gar
den, save Palzer himself, who thought for
q minute that victory would ever rest on
the shoulders of the Yankee and that
Americas prestige in the ranks Of the
heavyweights would be successfully upheld.
Bad advice, as we'll as overconfdence,
accomplished the downfall of Wells. He
entered the ring weighing 1882 pounds,
slim, lithely yet powerfully built athlete.
He tried to outrough and outslug a man
who outweighed him by forty pounds. In
the second round, when he had Palzer at
his mercy, he laughed, stabbed him on the
nose, and dropped his hands and walked
away. Then Palzer swung his right in
sheer desperation. 1t was the last rush of
the dying bull, the final effort of a Deaten
tighter who feels himself going, but who.
with the courage of the ancient Celts, re-
fused 10 accept defeat While Bombardier
snickered and withdrew the punch landed.
Down went the Briton, and up through the
uncovered roof rose the wild cheers of the
crowd. At the count of nine Wells rose,
and Palzer groggy himself. could not finish
the task which lay before him, and the
gong sounded, with both men Keeling and
rocking on their feet.
While he won Palzer showed little that
caused his enthusiastic followers any de-
gree Of confidence If confronted by a man
OF the ability Of Joe Jeanette or Jack
Johnson. Physique and courage are his.
hitting ability 10 almost unlimited degree,
but there he stops. Ring generalship,
Science or skill he has none, and he won
simply because he was able to rally from
terrible punishment and come back 10 win
by sheer brute force.
A fair sized crowd was on hand to wit
ness the battle. but IT was not the host
that many expected. There were goodly
blocks of seats unoccupied, but fully
$500 spectators were on hand. Many
of these were English, who fairly rocked
the roof with a yolley of cheers when the
band played Rule Brittans" and Wells
walked down the aisle. accompanied by
Jem Maloney, Paddy Maloney. Jimmy
Howard and Jem Kendrick Their recep-
ton, cordial as ii was, was overshadowed,
however, by the riot Of noise that greeted
Pslzer as he pushed through the crowd
while the orchestra played the Star
epangled Banner" Palzer was handled by
Jack Dougherty, Bill McKinnion, Johnny
Coulon and Juhnny Mack Re weighed
22sh pounds. Tom O'Rourke. his former
manager, sat at the ringside and cheered
for Wells, but in vain.
Palzer was nervous when he came up for
the first round. He wanted to fight, and
hght fast He got all he was looking for,
and In q hurry Wells, boxing well up on