Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-08
AL. PALzER DEFEATED
Hopes for Heavyweight Championship
Blasted i'm New Years Battle.
MCCARTHY POMIMELS HIM
FOR EIGHTEEN ROUNDS
Big Fighter Returned to Decorah Last
Night. win Go From.~e to
New York.
AL Palzer. the Winneshiek co,

AL Palzer, the Winneshiek CO.
white hope" met sore defeat an
had his hopes for the heavyweight
championship shattered in the New
Years Day battle with Luther Nc
Carty, of Springfield, Missouri, at
Vernon, California.
Outfought and outpointed in prac-
tically every round, battered and
pommeled, staggering blindly about
the ring, hopelessly defeated, referee
Eyton declared McCarty the winner
during the eighteenth round.
Palzer had practically no defense
against the Missourian's superior sci
ence, and the latter's agility and sci
ence enabled him to get in the blows
that counted quick and fast. Pal
zer's almost unbelievable ability to
assume punishment and keep on his
feet enabled him to stay for eighteen
rounds.
Local friends of Palzer, who had
known him for years, were eagerly
awaiting news of the fight, and would
not believe his defeat until confirma-
zion of the early news forced them
TO do so.
Palzer arrived in Decorah last
night from Los Angeles together with
Ed. Rossley, who witnessed the fight.
He will visit friends here few days
and then go to New York where he
will prepare for another match with
Bonn bardier Wells, the English heavy
weight whom he once defeated. and
declares he will again demand a.
match with McCarty.
Although a week has passed since
the fight, and many have read all the
details, yet we believe that the ma
.jority of our readers will be glad to
read the story of the fight by rounds.
hence we reproduce it herewith:
ROUND THE fight started at
3:1S Palzer rushed McCarty and
McCarty walloped him with right
and left to the head. McCarty drove
hard right on Palzer's eye. Palzer
missed two hard rights and a left. !
McCarty ducked wild swings. Palzer
reached McCarty's jaw with hard
right. Palzer staggered McCarty with |
hard straight left to the chin. Palzer
brought blood from McCarty's lip
with another straight left. They
clinched AS the bell rang Palzer
stopped to shake hands with McCar-
ty. Palzers round.
ROUND 2-McCarty landed hard
right to Palzers jaw and forced Pal
ger to make several vicious swings
They exchanged rights to head and
hard body blows in clinch. McCar-
ty drove a terrific left to Palzer's left
eye. Palzer reached McCarty's face
with two straight lefts and McCarty
sent Palzer's head back with left to i
the face. Both landed hard lefts to
the face. McCarty brought blood
from Palzer's nose with right swing
and sent lefts and rights to the stom-
ach. McCarty apparently landed at
will ON Palzer's stomach. McCarty's
round.
ROUND 3-Palzer sent right to
the body and put two hard rights to
the stomach. Both missed and they
went into clinch. McCarty rammed
a straight left into Palzer's face and
followed with right and left to the
body. McCarty landed light left to
face and cleverly blocked a terrific
swing Palzer, in clinch, crossed
with left to McCarty's face. Nc
Carly rammed Palzer's jaw with right |
and left with terrific speed. They ex-
changed blows in the center of the /
ring. McCarty's round.
ROUND AFTER feinting McCarty
landed light left to the face and drove
a right to stomach. McCarty missed
left swing and Palzer drove right
to the wind, following it with left
to the head. Despite Palzer's great
strength McCarty had little difficulty
in holding him in the clinches. Nc
Carly swung hard right and left to
the face and Palzer sent three rights
Palzer's jaw. Round even.
ROUND Both of Palzer's eyes
were swollen when he came up in the
fifth. McCarty. drove a hard right to
the ribs and they exchanged blows at
long distance in the center of the
ring. McCarty sent right to the
chin and swung a hard right upper
cut. Palzer drove a vicious right to
McCarty's heart. Palzer's head rock i
ed from right to left under McCarty's
we'll timed swings. Palzer missed
swings and McCarty drove right to
stomach, following with two lefts to
the face, causing Palzer's mouth and
nose to bleed. Palzer drove hard
left to McCarty's chin. but the cow
boy merely grinned McCarty's
round. =
ROUND 6-Palzer put two straight
lefts to McCarty's face, McCarty
swung his right to the jaw, causing
another flow of blood from Palzer's
mouth. They exchanged blows to
the head. McCarty sent Palzer's head
back with left jab, which he follow
ed with a hard left swing. He again
rocked Palzer's head with a short left
swing and caused Palzer to miss
vicious right unnercut palzer aent |