Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
FAVOR PALZER IN |.
BOUT WITH MORAN
Iowa Farmer Picked to Trim
Rival "HOpe" in Go
Tonight.
WOLGAST TO QUIT RING

Al Palzer is favored over Frank
Moran in the betting on their bout to-
night at the st. Nicholas A. C. Pal
ger will weigh about 222 pounds, his
best fighting weight. according to
Tom O'Rourke, his manager. Moran
is just thirty pounds lighter than the
Iowa farmer.
Palzer has not fought since he was
defeated at Vernon, Cal, eighteen
months ago by the late luther Nc
Carly. Moran and PalzerF fought in
Brooklyn two years ago. but at that
time both were novices in the white
hope" game, Since then they have
been bumped around bit and are
more experienced. The winner of to-
nights ten-round go will meet Gum
boat Smith. it is believed, in a longer
fight.
whats the use of going any
further?' asks Ad Wolgast. IT don't
need to fight for a living. 1 don't like
these short fights, and l would rather
quit altogether than spending my time
training and boxing a round like
sidewalk" Ad says he is through
with the ring, and will spend the rest
of his days on his Oregon ranch as a
farmer.
In the first fight in Missouri since
the courts stopped the boxing game
last fall, Tommy Abbott, of McAles-
ter, Okla, knocked out John Smith, of
Bartlesville, in the fifth round of their
scheduled ten-round bout at Spring.
field last night. The boys are middle
weights.
Harry Sullivan outfought Jimmy
Bradley in the windup at the Fair
mont Athletic Club, New York. last
night. Neither man paid much at
game, each being bent on landing
knockout punch.
Jimmy Walsh, of Boston, defeated
Jim Kendrick, of England, last night
in a ten-round bout at the Atlantic
Garden A. C. Walsh weighed 1221a
pounds and Kendrick 1917. Benny
Leonard stopped All Chung, the Chi
nese fighter, in the sixth round. the
referee calling halt when Chung
was on the verge of being knocked
out. Young Wagner outpointed
Johnny Fallon in a ten-round bout.
The scheduled bout between YOUNG
Pavese, of this city, and Tiger Young,
Brooklyn, was called off on account
of the sudden illness of Young. Ben
Hersh, who looks after the interests
of Pavese, says he has matched his
boy for a fifteen-round bout at Balti-
more on September % with some good
boy.
Young Jack O'Brien, of Philadel-
phia, and Sammy Trott, of Columbus.
O., battled through fifteen of the most
savage rounds ever seen at Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Monday night, with O'Brien
getting the decision at the end.
Jack Dillon, of Indianapolis, claim
ant of the middleweight Champion
ship, will depart this week for his
invasion of the Far West, where he
will fight Frank Mantell at Sacra-
mento twenty rounds on September
H. From there he goes to Salt Lake
City, where he is matched for
twenty-round fight with Kid George
on September %. -
The management of the Atlantic
Garden A. c., New York, has ar
ranged a big show for their opening
Saturday night. Three star ten-round
bouts and few high-class prelimir-
aries will be staged. Johnny Lore
will meet Packey Hommey, Young
Dave Kurtz, Of this city, will box
Willie Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, and
Young Ketchel will swap wallops
with Young Gloughery.