The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09

| New York, April S..-1 am very much afraid I will have to put big Carl Morris in the never was class of white hopes He has the size and the nerve. the ability
 to take punishment, and the fighting spirit l to take a place in the first flight of fight l ing men, but he seems unable to learn how
 to fight effectively.
 | It's a pity. for the big Oklahoman is
 most 1ikable fellow and would have
 made most popular champion. l It is understood that he has pretty well
 made up his mind that he can never be a 1 first rater and that he has no desire to stay in the game as a second rater. All of which may be true, but unless l miss my guess, he will have another try at 1t before long. He may yet develop the streak of tiger in his disposition without | which no man may hope to be a cham pion
 | The elimination of Morris leaves Flynn and Palzer the leaders of the white hope brigade. If Flynn actually does fight l Johnson, Palzer will be left alone in his
 glory.
 Speaking of white hopes Tommy Burns
 thinks he can come back At all events
 he appears right anxious for an oppor- tunity to prove that he can. His offer to | take over the Flynn bout on condition | that Johnson meets him if he beats the 1 fireman, agreeing to bet his share of the 1 Flynn purge, with the champion. looks 1 like d sporting proposition which John l Arthur might well consider.
 l It is probable that a fight between l Burns and Flynn would draw better than | one between Johnson and Flynn, and it l ic rtafp ba " would be a better card for Johnson than either man is now.
 The fight arranged between Al Palzer l and Bombarder Wells ought to be hum- mer. The Englishman is a shifty. hard | hitting proposition. who it will be re- | membered, was matched with Johnson in | England. If Palzer succeeds in beating | him decidedly it will stock up pretty nearly to par and will insure him a chance for the championship.
 l Fight experts in this section have their
 eyes on a husky young BroolSlynite who promises big things. He is Alfred J., alias l Soldier, Kearns.
 If Keans boxed as well as he fights | he would be unbeatable. He would be ! the man to change the complexion of the heavyweight title from black to white. | But at present Kearns knowledge of l the game of hit, stop and get away is | limited. His conception of it is confined | to hitting the other fellow and bringing | him to a stop, and in the execution of l it Kearns employs no sidesteps, feints, ducks, slips or other movements in which 1 Gibbons, Attell and others delight. Kearns
 merely focuses his eyes the point of
 the other mans jaw and then begins to shoot at the mark with both hands. His | plan has been successful, as witness seven | l-nA Aclxo in, | ing Jim Coffey, the Dublin giant. 1 1t is true that Kearns got q setback | from Sailor Burke early in his career. but since then Burke has not been anxious
 for a return engagement , 1 Physically, Kearns is an ideal figure for 1 a white hope. He is 59feet II inches tall and weighs 200 pounds. He is built on the 1 lines of Tom SharlSey and possesses speed strength and ruggedness If Kearns haa | the benefit of instruction from a cluster of clever sparrers like those surround l ing Carl Morris, the Brooklyn man would
 soon become the leader of the white hope i colony
 The wallop is all important in winning | glove fights. Kearns has a righthand punch that can drop anybody if it lands. | When the soldier runs up aganist Cum 1 boat Smith. the Frisco heavyweight, next 1 month, it will be curtains for Smith. who 1 is too frai in physique to stand up be- | fore the hammering that kearns Is sure l to hand him.
 | One Bob Moha of Milwaukee is entitled
 to mention when the middleweight division | of fighters is under consideration. The
 masterly manner in which he trimmed | Sailor Burke the other day was enough | to make anybody take notice. Any md- | dleweight who thinks the man from Mil-
 waukee is easy picking has another guess l coming 1 Moha is an unusual middewe'~hf s@ fr-
 as his physique is concerned. He is built | close to the f.-ound. is about as tall as | the average bantamweight but has the 1 arms. shoulders. the latter having every l physical advantage with the exception of l brute strength, but Moha was the plug | ging. slugging fighter while Burke was
 the dancer-usually backward dance-- none too willing to take chance. 1 Throughout the 10 rounds Moha rarely
 took a backward step. He kept his short