Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-02
AL PALzfR IS
 BADLY BEATEN Referee Gave Fight to Mo Carty After O'ROurke
 Failed to Give Up.
WAS A WHIPPED MAN
McCarty Pleaded For His Weakened Antagonist White Hope Fam
 fly DwindIing.
tBy w. w. Naughton)

Los Angeles, Jan, 1.-The white hope family is dwindling, Al Palzer being the latest to have his picture turned towards the wall. The end came in the eighteenth round. After O'Rourke's novice had taken a cou- pie of head iitng lefts and a jarring right and had reeled towards the rope with his arms lowered, Referee 1 Eyton stepped between him and further harm and decided in favor of Luther McCarty.
 It seems that in the resting spell between the seventeenth and eigh- teenth round Eyton had gone to Pal gers corner and consulted with Tom O'Rourke as to the wisdom of allow ig the lowan to continue target for McCarty's smashes. McCarty also had pleaded with O'Rourke whenever he found himself close enough to Palzer's manager to be heard.
 Do you want me to kill him" was the way McCarty put it as he bent towards O'ROurke over Takers shoul ders in the clinches. O'Rourke turn- ed a deaf ear to McCarty and when Eyton spoke to him in the resting spell murmured: T am watching it and twill throw up the sponge if think Palzer is in danger of being hurt
 When there was no sign of inter- ference on O'Rourkes part after fighting was resumed Eyton took the law into his own hands in the man. ner described.
 It is very likely that there will be much controversy over the referee s act. Seeing that Palzer's principal stock in trade is his ability to as simulate punishment, anyone who { backed him will probably claim that the big mann from Iowa would have 1 frightened again and continued bat i tling if Eyton had kept aloft. To a distant spectator, however, it appear ed as though Eyton had hurled him. self into the breach at the right nick of time. For many rounds Palzel1 had been absolutely at his oppon- ent's mercy.
 His big blonde face was gashed and bruised and was smear of red.
 His protruding chin of which so much has been written, glishtened with the
 blood that swelled over his lip. It was an unlovely spectacle to watch a courageous giant be ng cut and smashed to pieces by dexterious ad- versary andI the writer did not hear a complaining voice when the bout
 was stopped.
 Palzer received as artistic facing As rising young heavywe ght ever
 received from rival.
 It did not take the crowd long to decide that Palzer's sole hope of
 winning day in the delivery of
 knockout runch. Before the tenth
 round, had passed it was plain that
 there YVES very little chance of any
 such thing happening.
 Palzer himself discovered that il
 wasn't easy to reach Luther's face
 in anything like solid fashion and he
 pinned his faith to a right hand body
 punch, expecting no doubt to crack a rib and turn the tide of the contest
 that the flowing all too swiftly
 aga nst him.
 I McCarty, in addition to hitting
 with. lightning speed and hitting al
 the right time, was as nimble as cat on his feet. Over and over agar he watched for indications of Jeff lead on Palzer's part and scored 1T
 advance of his opponent. It wal very rarely that Palzer landed square l ly on Luther's face but it did look a. though Palzer hurt his man occas ionally with the right hand smashe' be placed beneath the heart.