El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-12

the earlier days these boys had been
great rivals in the big city and twice
Palmer had beaten the Digger, once in
10 rounds and again in IL. This was
in 1902 and 1903 respectively. A pc
culiar incident of the affair is the fact
that during the interim each one held
the bantamWeight championship OF
England, but they never met for It
from 1902 till 1914. With many Of the
star boxers away Palmer and Stanley
were brought together for a match at
the National Sporting club in London
and this time Stanley proved the bet
ter man and also evened up for prev
ious defeats. For three rounds the Ped
lar showed his old time c~leverness and
made a wonderful showing, but he tired
fast and in the fourth the Digger sent
him to the canvas three times with hard
wallops to the jaw and to save a
knockout, Palmer's seconds threw in
the sponge.
Gallant Sore over Decision.
Alex Mclean, manager Of Gilbert
Gallant, the Boston lightweight, is very
hot under the collar because of the de-
cision referee Haley gave against Cal
liant and in favor Of Harry stone when
they met in a u round bout at Boston
last week. Mclean sends clippings OF
all the Boston papers to show that
Stone did not win the bout fairly. -Four
of the Boston sporting editors did not
hesitate to say that a draw would have
been giving Gallant a shade the worst
Of it, as he carried the fight all the
wav. to Stone and did all the real hit
ting of the contest. MeLean was so
wrought I'D over the affair hat he Of
fered to match Gallant against stone
for 20 rounds in private for a side
bet and let the WHINE take all the re-
cefpts in addition 1t is more likely
that the two viii be matched for a 10
round bout in New York before long.
Johnny KiIbane will soon be obliged
to fight George Clancy, the Baltimore
featherweight for the worlds cham
pionship, at the recognized limit of ~
pounds. CLANCY has had a remarkable
record the past year and Is certainly
deserving Of a try at the title. He IS
one of the few high class boys who
can really make the weight During
the past year Clancy has scored over
a dozen knOckOuts n against some
very good boys, too. Since starting this
season he has knocked out Joe Harang,
at Toledo: Knockout Mars at Cincinnati
and Benny kaufman at Cincinnat1-alI
fairly good lads in the featherweight
division. There are few OF them look
ing for Chaney's game and it ook
now as though he viii have to take on
heavier boys or get Kilbane into a
championship match. Clancy reminds
one verv much Of George (Kidl Lavigne
when he was in his prime, being able
to knock his opponents almost at will.
JohnsOn-McVey Bout Sidetraeked.
George Lawrence. the former Aus
traIian sportsman and boxing promoter
has gathered a quartet of heaTyweights
and is making New York his headQuar-
ters. He has Colin Bell, Australian
heavyweight: Terry kellar, the CaIi-
fOrufa boy: Bandsman Rice, the irish
-baavvweight. and Sam McVey, n
negro who has fought all the stars
in the Johnson division. Manager Law
renee has arranged a match between
McVey and Jack Johnson, to pc he.a
in Cuba during next March, but II
seems that the match has been side
tracked in favor of the Johnson-Wh-
lard contest
Mr.. Lawrence claims, however, tha5
the McVey-JOhnsOn match viii be hel9
as scheduled. Why not match Willard
with McVey over the 10 round route
and let the winner tackle johnson LOT
a big match2 The boxing fans OF the
country would be better satisfied II
Willard were to meet some really good
HEAVYWEIGHT and shOw h may De
expected of him against Johnson
There is no doubt about Willard being
big and strong and capable OF putting
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