The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19

amount to something worth while. Burns claims Pedky's boxing has inn l charge and that future work in the ! ring will bear out the statement. Well. I hope Pelxy makes good. He
 has gone through quite enough re-
 gently to disgust a man with the game and shows he has the right spirit by
 estly believes Arthur is the goods why not match him with big Jess Willard. 1 The latter fighter is at present in Cali fornfa, and I understand Pelky is also 1 in that locality. A match between 1 these big fellows ought to be a, good card out San Francisco way where Willard is thought pretty we'll of by ] both public and promoters. Arthur ] should show us som ething in the fight 1 ing line before talking fight with the l p-notchers-such as they are. Smith has a. decision over Willard, and if be time enough to challenge the Gun boat
 Tom O'Rourke tells me that the Palzer-C Carpenter match is a sure i thing for Paris next October, and that s15. .O00 purse for the bout. Also that the winner will be given a, match with Jack Johnson in Noyernbre. We must hand it to O'Rourke. He can never be accused of not trying. He took PaIzer abroad last Fall on the promise of a fight with Johnson which fell through, of course. But it was through, no fault of Toms. He had Palzer on the ground ready and i anxious, but Johnson owing to cir cumstances over which he had no control could not carry out his cnd of the bargain.
 O'Rourle does not think that Car pentier will give Pa1zer much trouble and it really looks that way. Georges could not beat Billy Papke, not to mention Frank Klaus, and it is diff cult to figure how he can hope to withstand the assault of O'Rourke's giant fighter. His only chance would seem to rest on Palzer's failure to get. back into form. All has been on the sick list for some time and it might develop that the illness has robbed him of some of his great strength and stamina-which was his chief stock in trade. But O'Rourke laughs at that suggestion, and says Palzer will be better than ever the next time he starts.
 Tom has an idea that Jack Johnson is not the good fighter he was a. few years ago, and believes that the first good man who meets him will prove it. He says Palzer is the man who can turn the trick, and while he is quite alone in that opinion, he pro- poses to put it to the test providing Al is successful in the Carpentier match.
 wish Palzer the best of luck, but I doubt if Johnson has gone back so far that Al can beat him. Jack has undoubtedly made inroads on his health the last year or two, but a few months hard work should put him in good enough shape to make short shift of a novice such as PaIzer. Still you never can tell. O'Rourke may have the right dope on the coon after all. Time will tell
 Speaking of Johnson, why should the authorities worry over his decision to live abroad in the future? By all means let Eim stay over there. He is hardly a desirable citizen for the U. s. A., and so far as his escaping pun ishment, why it will be tough enough on him to be exf1ed My only regret is that he did not finger in this coun- try long enough to enable some one to take the Heavyweight title away from him.
 Writers on boxers and boxing have been very busy the past few weeks I picking opponents for lightweight champion Willie Ritehie. And strange | to tell, a boy has been overlooked whose chances to defeat the cham pion-if it can be done-wouId seem EO compare IaVOraDty W1Lh EnOS6 or the others named, among them Leach Cross. Tommy Murray. Jack Britton and Freddy Welsh, refer to Young Joe Shugrue, the Jersey City boxer, who is one of the best lightweight prospects developed in this section of l the country in years.
 Leach Cross is being boosted stronger than any other candidate Still Shugrue ttput it on'' Leaches in | a ten round go here a few months ago. And he has trimmed everybody he has faced since that time, and has not lodged anybody. Tn fact, he has | taken on a. number of tough custom CTS who were given wide berth by more fashionable and better adver- tised boxers.
 With a good hustling manager this boy would be out in California right now and in line for match with the champion. Shugrue has the goods, or I am greatly mistaken.
 JAS. J. CORBETT.