Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-12
EVEN IN
LAST BIG FIGHT
TOCONC'S SOUND
Big Sums Changed Hands
on the mccarthy Palzer
Match - Los Angeles
Money Was Plentiful.
BY w. w. Nauqhton.

able circumstance i'll connection with
the Luther McCartyAl PalZer fight for
the WLite heavyweight championship
was the manner in which the rival
betting factions held each other to even
money wagering from first to last.
There never was d case Ike it, prob
ably.
Very often q pair Of pugilists will sell
al even money in the days preceding
their match. At the last moment, how
ever, there is a pressure o. money from
one side or the other and one of the
men will so into the ring "A pronounced
favorite.
The philosophy of all this is that one
of the men has always commanded the
greater support but that his hackers
have held of to the last 50 as not 10
bun the market. Then in order to place
their money before it Is too late they
loosen up and offer odds.
With Palzer and McGartv it was even
money week III advance of New ears
day II was cen money the night be-
fore and it was even money When the
men we've taking their corners. After
the third or fourth round it Is doubtful
if an offer of 3 to l would have To-
Gated a Palzer man.
Now that 1t is all over the sports are
trying to explain how it was that the
hopes sold even. The majority appear
to think that Tom oRourke Palzers
manager, was largely responsible for
the stubbornness of the market
Palzer and 1Rourke arrived In Los
Angeles in time to see MeCarty defeat
and the Palzer McCartv contest ar
ranged o'Rourke at once began to in
quire for bets. He was willing at first
to give a little odds but he soon found
that il wasn't necessary.
The Los Angeles betting men had a
wonderfully good opinion of MeCarty
after seeing the way he handled Flynn,
and they not only met the even money
bets but made MeCarty Sigh. fasorite.
@ Rourlie and his friends We're al
ways ready to cover bets and presently
tHe Los Angeiesans began to think
They remembered that O.Rourke is a
very old timer at the pugilistie game
and that he has developed and man
aged many worlds champions. They
argued that the silver haired gentle-
man from New York is the last person
in the world to throw money away fool
ishlN and that when he plankcd down
his coin in support of his Judgment it
was time for the other side to proceed
with caution
Before Very long men who had won
on McCarty when he beat Flynn fol-
lowed O'Rourkes lead O'Rourke's
eagerness to back his man practically
paralyzed the betting It kept at evens
with comparatively little doing in the
wagering line right up to the ring
time
Now that 1t is all over YOU will hear
some of the sports saying that If any
other man but O'Rourke had been be-
hind palzer the odds would have been
10 to I in MeGarty's favor and that
many who took their cue from
O'Rourke would have remained loyal
TO Mccarty and won large sums
A laugh is going the rounds at the
expense Of Nat Goodwin, who was one
of the biggest winners when McCarty
defeated Flynn. Goodwin was one of
the first to greet Tom O,Rourke when
he came to town. From being much
in oRonrke's company. Goodwin be-
came enanored of Palzer's chances He
turned his back on MeGarty, in Il bet
ting sense, and the switch cost him
about five thousand dollars.
Goodwin sat close to the ring on New
Years day and happened to be III the
center of q group of Mccarty admirers.
Shame to take the money" said
Nat, taking out his memorandum book
and calling off some of the wagers he
had made on Palzer. Il have forty
three hundred placed at even money,
and it's like robbing people,
I'm willing to be robbed of hum
dred or So" said Jack Root, the old
time middlcweight, and Nat said brisk
". You're on
Then another man said he was will