Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-02
EASY FOR M'CARTY
Pa|zer Beaten All the Way,
Fight Stopped in 18th Round.
PROVES HIMSELF CLEVER
O'Rourke's Protege Is Battered From
Start to Finish by Sturdy
Cowboy.
PROVES HIMSELF CLEVER
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, January 2.-Speed and
cleverness won Luther McCarty the title
of white heavyweight champion of the
world when he defeated Al Palzer in the
Vernon arena yesterday afternoon. The
fight was so one-sided that Charles Ey-
ton, referee, stopped it in the eighteenth
round to save the Keeling PalZer from fur
Their punishment. McCarty, PalZers curly
haired superior. was smiling and scarcely
scratched when the fight ended. PalZer' S
eyes were almost closed, his mouth, nose,
cheek and ears cut. Only a capacity for
standing punishment saved PalZer from
being knocked out, for McCarty landed on
his jaw repeatedly. McCarty, in addition
to the championship. wins an attractive
and remunerative theatrical engagement,
a large purse and the diamond-studded
championship belt, made at the order OF
Fight Promoter Tom McCarey, for pres
entation to the winner. The Vernon
arena seats, 11,O0O in number. were filled
to capacity, and several thousand were
unable to gain admittance.
McCarty and Palzer did not shake hands
, when they went to the center of the ring
| for the first round. They began smuggling
! almost Immediately. McCarty landing the
! first blow a light right hook to the jaw
| The round ended with honors even. In the
| second McCarty staggered PalZer with a
right hook. AL landed a right on Nc
Carty's jaw, but did no damage, and the
| cowboy returned right and left to the
head. He had shade the better of the
| round.
Luther Looked Best.
| In the third Palzer sent hard right to
McCartys jaw, and the latter landed
| twice on PalZer's head, jabbed his nose
| and rocked his head with another left
AL tried to rush and ran into a hard
right At this point the great difference
in the speed of the two men became
sharply apparent. 1t was McCarty S
round by good margin.
Rounds four. five and six were marked
by fast fighting and a pretty even ex-
change of blows, although McCarty, be-
ing the faster, landed more Palzer prob
ably had a shade the best of it in the
fourth. the fifth was even and the sixth
was slightly in PalZer'S favor, although
he suffered punishment and was bleeding
from the mouth and cut over one eye,
while McCarty was unscathed. Palzer
still was feeling confident in the seventh,
for he stuck out his tongue at McCarty
and winked at the cowboy he returned
to his corner, but in the exchange during
the round McCarty had the best of the
fighting. Early in the eighth McCarty
landed right and left to the jaw, and fol-
lowed it with another series of rights and
lefts. Palzer's blows We're landed mostly
on McCarty's body and We're not effective,
for the cowboy danced about the Iowa
farmer, strong. confident and fast. land
, ing almost at will.
1t was McCarty's round by wide mar
gin in the ninth. PalZer gamely took
more punches on the chin. McCarty S
deadly left kept getting through. PalZer
had slowed up a great deal, was very
tired and in the clinches showed great
unwillingnesS to break.