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Show MULDOON LIKES BOTH PALZER AND M'CARTHY NW YORK. Sept. 7. William Mul-doon Mul-doon Is a regular patron of big boxing bouts, but he Is not actively engagod In hln former task of training heavwelght pugilists. Muldoon. onco a great wrestler wres-tler and strong man. Is gottlng along in years, bijt hla fondness for flsticuffo will never dlo. Tho veteran Is as eager to eee a whlto heavywcUrht champion of the world as tho noxt man, and BOmo day, ho says, his hopo will bo realized. Muldoon has a high opinion of Al Pal-zer Pal-zer and Luther McCarthy, but he Insists that thoy are still too younp to bo .sent after the negro Johnson. "I don't bellovo that Palzer should be allowed to fight for the championship until un-til ho Is 25 years old," raid Muldoon re-j re-j cently. "Tho same goes for McCarthy. Both a.ro wonderfully strong now, but in two or three years theywlll be sufficiently sufficient-ly matured to stand rigorous training. Careful handling is important In developing devel-oping a champion, and these young mon need plenty of It." Muldoon, by the way, was really the only trainer who was able to dictate to John L. Sullivan. Tho latter actually feared tho big wrestlor and obeyed or-dors. or-dors. But when Sullivan was matched to fight Corbett In 1892. Muldoon refused to again take chargo of tho Boston slugger. slug-ger. Ho said that ho didn't caro to be worried any more. |