Evening star., 1912-07-07

The sailor and the Iowan would COM
pare favorably in aggressveness. Sharkey
knew but one thing when in the ring and
that was to tear into his adversary, re-
Sardless trusting largely to luck to put
the wallop over.
Palzer has adopted the same rushing
tactics that made famous the former
pride of the navy. But Al is possessed
of several natural attributes that the 14th
street boniface could not boast of during
his fighting days: weight. phenomenal
strength and extreme youth are among
the advantages. Also AL hits quite as
lefty punch. if not more so, and glories
in recuperative qualities that seem to
defy the laws of nature.
7 have watched Palzer closely in the
majority of his ring battles. Particularly
in the encounters with Kaufman and
Wells. he has been forced to submit to
enough punishment in each instance to
k.t an ordinary person, before calling on
his wonderful reserve powers to wear his
man down and finally put over the finish
ing touches.
Sharkey could hit hard, as any of his
punches were of the wild-swinging va
riety, and he carried no other guns
worth mentioning. Palzer has greater
assortment Of wallops and his straight
In the Bombardier Wells-Palzer bout
the one thing that impressed me more
than anything else was the latter's woe
full lack Of defense He is all offense
and knows positively nothing at all of
the science of the game that teaches
the Blocking Of blows with other portions
OF the anatomy than at which they have
been aimed. l wonder what Tom
o ORourke was doing with this big fellow
all the while he had him in charge? Ger
tain 1t Is this department of Palzers
boxing education has been sadly neglect
ed. 1t may be that al is of the slow
thinking kind that 1t fs difficult to teach,
and one who learns better by actual ex-
perience than in practice.
Still. one would imagine the several
beatings he has assimilated to date would
have had the effect of causing him to
try to block a punch occa sionally Ma
ture teaches us defense of some sort If
only a cTEde style, but Palzer either
scorns the use of a protective 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 heavyweights in the
game in point of skill. made AL look like
the veriest novice early in the proceed
ings and won the admiration of the spec
tators by the way he manhandled his
much larger rival. In other words, he put
Pal2er in the sucker class as boxer
and in the first round almost out of
business with a well meant blow on the
chin. and be fl understood that Wells,
though slight of frame alongside this
giant from Iowa can punch like all con-
cerned. The right uppercut with which
he fioored Albert a beauty and
everybody present thought it was a case
OF curtains for Americas pride and
Joy in the white hope" Vne.
Though defeated the Bombarder made
a tremendous hit with the talent"
Pitted against man who outweighed
him by forty pounds, science availed him
little. The great bulk and strength and
n hn NarD ay,
overwhelmed the superior skill and
agility of the Englishman. Wells Is a
very handy man with the gloves and a
Wonderful puncher. too. but 1t will call
Tor man OF PalZer'S own size or greater
avoirdupois and offensive ability to drop
him 10 the mat for the full count of ten.
At that the contest ought to stand Pal
ger In good stead. He must now realize
he is not inyu.nerable. and that defense
plays a very important part in the art
of boxing. When a man weighing forty
pounds less topples him to the floor for
near Knockout. as Bombardier did
IN the first session of the pastime, IL is
time the recipient of the wallop took up
that branch OF the course which includes
the study of defensive tactics Other
wise il is only a question OF very short
tire until the now magnificent specimen
Of athletic manhood must succuZlb 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 a thorough schooling in GER
tain branches OF the science before send
ing him to certain slaughter by our dark
skinned brethren OF the padded gloves
Johnny Kiibane. featherweight cham
pion. will need bodyguard IL he con-
tinues 10 turn deaf ear to the appeals
Of Johnny Dundee for a match. Dundee
is an Italian. who adopted Scotch fight
ing lnonicker. and threatens to invoke
the aid of the Black Hand TO convince
the champion he is entitled to crack at
the honors.
kilbane and Dundee We're matched 10
box ten rounds in this city about two
months ago. but a few days before the
date set FOR the bout Dundee was can
ned and another boxer substituted. The
abb of the promoters at the TINA was the
rather mediocre showing Johnny had