El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-18
Detroit Tigers are Quietly Preparing Surprise Conenders For Pennan

with Al Palzer in Paris there is con-
siderable doubt about it taking place
From information at hand from the
other side there is strOnE opposition
beginning to appear in the French cap
iuaI against the bout. The following
letter was received from a well known
sporting authority Of London;
Probably it will interest you to
know that Al PalZer, who is here with
his manager, Tom OROurke, OF New
York, visited Paris YESTERDAY ana
conferred with NJ Nienhe, of the big
boxing club there, regarding the pro-
posed bout with Johnson. Copies OF
the contract have been mailed to Chi
cagO for the negrO's signature, but
fail to see how the match viii come
off if Johnson is still held by the lat
and is also i'll, as reported here Even
if Johnson does come there is no GER
tainty that the match with PalZer VIII
take place Just now there is no ap-
parent objection to the match, that IS
between a black and white man, out
from what 1 have learned the past rev
days there are influential people IN
Paris who have taken the matter IN
hand and who say they will take
stand against it should the promoters
really try to go through with it. The
bout viii have to be very widely ad-
vertised to be a success and that VIII
draw lots Of opposition to It. It was
through the same extensive adyertls-
ing that the proposed Wells-J Ohnson
fight here two years ago was stopped.
am inclined to think that the match
will never come off in Paris, and 1
feel sorry for O'ROurke, who has gone
to considerable expense in coming over
to get it fixed up and who appears
to be a fine fellow Should ne IAN
there he will no doubt have a chance
u match Palzer up with some OF the
British or French heaVyWei lights
It is evident from the above that
the French people are not 50 easy Wnen
Il comes to boxing a1Ialrs as lney
were a few years ago. They are
learning all the tricks Of the trade
rapidly and they realize now that a
match viii attract so much attention
as the one proposed may not do the
game any good The chances are that
if sam LangfOrd was substituted for
Johnson against PalZer IT would 90
through without a hitch and it would
also prove one of the best cards that
could be offered in the gay city Lang
ford is a big favorite over there, the
Frenchmen having appreciated his
work against sam McVey when they
fought two years ago. And by the
way, it would be some scrap, too
There were several real surprises
in the fistic world last week, which
only proves again that the dope very
often goes wrong. Pal Moore, the
Philadelphia $50 FOUNDER, who gave
Charlie White such hard battle at
KenOsha. Wis, early last fall, was eX-
pected to retrieve his laurels, but
lust when he began to look good 10
the fans around the ring the chicago
lad shot over a hard right which
caught Pal back -Of the ear as they
We're coming out OF a clinch and IL
put him to the canvas for the count
OF nine Poor Pal was all but out
then. but he struggled to his feet and
finished the round after taking two
more knOckdOwus- It looked Ike
1000 to 1 that the Quaker boy would
never 90 the fourth round, but he
not only stayed through the fourth.
but through the tenth and in the final
IA 50 a I'd
even break for his effort in the tenth
session, although losing the battle by
a big margin He was beaten all the
way after the knOckdOWn in the third
and seemed unable to gain his speed
after that
Moore was too light for White and
would have looked better at 122
pounds While White was fast as
chain lightning and clever, still he
lacked a knockout punch, which viii
be very necessary II he ever expects