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Show $ty and Palzer Are A Well-Matched Pair .. $eert Heavyweights New Year's Day Should Be a Homeric Struggle. JKr W flf AtJGHTON". IME'vClSCO, Dec. 2S.-Jn a. IKS coir A! Far and KrCart two of the Ms- 5l.Wof-scraptlicy T?ill JHfoto bo ", One of JSCferty--Iis8 It In him fttadlip- of cloveman-K cloveman-K fjfftlr trtth Jim Flynn Rwr a superb boscr' taleta out thin way. KS oUier panyjSIfn Hr-!i not only ungainly bat impetuous. (CLaatryof Luthor's slyle KStonanf- It isn't easy MT. w carry himself vrlth Ity when his vis-a-vis It tucking- bronco ono , jifca a bull In a China ths combat resembles tcturo on true Queens-a Queens-a furious, floundering: t b.otwcan a couple of agsloremen, ono thins jvles toe the coratch e turmoil beglns-rllie present should appeal till see a Homeric side that a .better matched its were never seen In jjclosure. Fancy two veil over she feet In ping the two hundred fot only that, but their isfcad of bulging and is boasts a brace of a and the general ap-laaiaipr. ap-laaiaipr. are In tune with their physique. Each marked lower Jaw and Dules of a fighter. Angeles fight fans ; Hie outlook early in o campaign" and one see that Palzer ban a an 'McCarty." how It's measured," 1 McCarney, Luther's pher and chaperon. Js chin sticks out so ids nearer to McCarty ocs to him.' of pleasantry and lt3 ) bounds of possibility would feot safer about tho outcome of tho Now Ycar'o dash Jf Pofcer'B chin were no quite ,2 prominent, - . PALZBR'S -chin. - like l0 m. maid's face, Is hla fortune In a way. Thrusting Itself forward, like tho underbow of a battleship, it Is a; fine target for Al's opponents. But no ono has made what rnlght be called a lasting Impression upon It ao far. Q'ftourke'3 novice has been knooked down, of courso. but tho effects ef-fects of any rjunch did not last lone enough to cause him to be counted out. Out hore. -where Palzer hus not as yet been neon Jn ji real battle, his chin Is ono or the things that com-nicnds com-nicnds him to tho students of fighting fight-ing form. Guided by tho accounts of his eastern bouts that came over the wires, the sports think Al's protruding pro-truding Jaw ono of his biggest assets. as-sets. And a goodly proportion of them, remembering the repeated smashes McCarty jandofl hefora he tumbled that runt. Jim Flynn, are skeptical of Luther's ability lo swat tho lJalccr chin hard enough to put Falser out of commission for the ten seconds I prescribed by tho rules. i "You'll meet any number of fellows fel-lows who will tell you they put Falser Fal-ser down," said Tom O'Rourke. "But the man who can say. 4I put him down and kept him down' hasn't come along yet." ON tho other hand, McCarty argues ar-gues that -what, happened in the Flynn match 1b In no way a criterion of what will happen next Wednesday. "Luther'B best handhis right-was right-was crippled early in that bout," said Billy. '-It wa3 in the fourth round. When he came back to me he said. 'I think, my right hand is broken. It feels numb. We. found afterward it was only a knuckle that was hurt, but it affected his 'punching force right through the fight. It was different dif-ferent when he boxed Kaufman in San Francisco. There his handB stood to him and he ut Kaufman away in Jig time. I am not saying that Luther will finish Palzer as quickly as he did Kaufman, but anyone any-one who pronounces McCarty a weak puncher on tho strength of the Flynn match is fooling himself." And' that's tho way it goes. Arguments Argu-ments and counter-arguments, and it all helps to cloud the issues and increase the Interest in the approaching ap-proaching struggle between the two human droadnaughts. m BUT there lo one direction in "which thero is a preponderance of opinion. It is felt that of the two men. Falser io tho stouter hearted and moro feroclouE. "Have you over heard of McCarty dogging it?" asked one of the parties par-ties to a diecussion of the relative fighting -spirit of Luther and, AL "Ivo." "Then why do you think Falser has more determination than McCarty?" "Because he looks It." f It's really wonderful the number I of white hopes that have fllcd applications ap-plications for a contest with the winner of tho coming event. If one-half one-half of the big fellows who have declared themselves candidates for the championship, are worthy of consideration, con-sideration, tho outlook for heaw-welght heaw-welght trouble during iho next twelve months will be particularly bright. Idaho Teams Want Games. During the first week of thn new year tho Idaho Basketball league wjl open and the Blackfoot oulntctto expects to put uo a strong fight for the title, to which end they arc practicing dally. It Is hoped that tho Salt Lake high school fivo can bo induced to make a northern trlD this year as the Idaho teams feel satisfied that they can smother tho Indians In-dians In basketball as well as they did in football this fall. With a team averaging aver-aging nearly 160 pounds at the academy In PociLtello. and a Bolso high team of tho same size, both of which aro speedy and accurate, it would seem as thouKh tho Tdaho teams had a good chanco to "cop" the intcrmountaln title this season |