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Show McCarty and Palzer Arc In First-Class Cond Stories of AVs Illness and Luther's AM Circulated Only to Affect Betting ByEM. WALKER. By International N6ws Service. hr OS ANGELES, Dec 25. Al Pabar I and Luther McCarty, popularly ac- copted as the two best white J 4 heavyweight boxers In America. have but two days of training between be-tween them and their woll-advertlecd meeting. This pair of big fellows will enter the ring of the Pacific Athletic club at Vernon Ver-non next Wednesday afternoon before an assured houso of 535,000 to box a scheduled sched-uled twenty-round contest for the- Mc-Carey Mc-Carey diamond belt emblematic of the world's heavyweight championship. Los Angeles, tho real home of tho boxing box-ing game, has been taken by storm, and for the past threo wcelcs the seat reservations reserva-tions have been rolling In so steadily that Promoter T. J. McCarey's one regret In the world has been that ho did not raze the historic old "Tavlllon on tho prairie land and rebuild to accommodate 20,000 persons. But for tho tact that a low scale of prices ?3, 35, $10 and $1G has bean adopted, all ring revenue rocorda for southern California would havo bqen broken upon this occasion. At tho oamo prices charged for tho Wolgaat-Rlvors go. tho heavyweights would have drawn ovor $50,000. In one way the iralnlnt caB the two big boys has set ajH More spectators have atte&didH day workouts than &ver 'udH camp route before. On SujH Palzer and McCarty have pldH pacify crowds. B Two weeks ago It was rtbH P&Izer, on account, of his adHf weight and reach, and tuperloB! pericnce, would be a pronouoejH In the betting, but, up to datK men havo been held on ah 'H The bettors appear to h&TB termlned upon this point. IK camp bulletin of ten days Sffo'B feet that Palzer was not odB trouble In becoming accllmntaH ho vas suffering from throatvH un attack of biliousness, hadlH tho betting. Manager Bill jH announcement that McCarty his left hand while sparring" wftiB Kaufman likewise failed ttfTH Impression upon the bettors,, jM developments of thn next tMfl this connection will be reoijB As' a matter of honest fact.'B Carty and Palzer aro In sufjH; class physical condition. ThaiH has been thorough and conadeaB they look the parts of twoH trained boxers. |