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Show ALBERT PALZER STILL CRYING Friends of Albert Palzer declare that If a decision had been allowed he would have received a draw at tho end of the six-round bout with Tony Ross In Philadelphia. They vigorously vigor-ously protest against the opinion of some ringsldo sharps that Palzor received re-ceived a hard thrashing. Tom O'Rourke, Palzor's manager, admits that the big white hope put up a poor fight and proved that ho is still in need of a vast amount of ring work beforo he goes up against the winner of the Jim Flynn-Luthor McCarty bat-l bat-l tie at Vernon, Cal., on December to. O'Rourke, It might be said, was bitterly bit-terly disappointed by Palzcr's showing against the husky Ross. After the mill the excuse wan offored that Palzer Pal-zer had been suffering from a heavy cold, but did not call off the match with Ross because he expected to win easily. Persons who saw the scrap declare that Palzor was slow and clumsy and that Ross outclassed him in boxing Rklll. Ross also mado the Iowa giant's nose bleed praotlcally at tho start and that worried Palzer a loL Rom was In the pink of condition. O'Rourke 6ays that ho intends to send Palzor after second raters, Including In-cluding Jim Stewart and Sandy Ferguson, Fer-guson, within tho next few weeks, if only to give the big fellow plenty of actual ring fighting. Palzor looked all ovor a coming champion when he stopped Al Kaufman hero laat winter, but tho feat, as It turned out, was not so very wonderful Inasmuch as Luther Lu-ther McCarty recently stopped Kaufman Kauf-man in half the time required by Palzor. Pal-zor. Bocause of his break with O'Rourke last Bpring Palzer allowed himself to get but of physical condition condi-tion so that ho waB hog fat when he boxed Bombardier Wells in the Garden. Gar-den. It is a matter of record that Pal- , aer, after beating WoBu, rofased toJ live up to a written agreement to bo McCarty In the Garden within 3ix weeks. Palzer, under O'Rourke's racntorshlp is bound to Improve, but how much'' New Yorkers who have heard of tho wonderful deeds of Charles Ledoux the French bantam champion, will j have a chance to Inspect him for tho first time at tho Fairmont A C. this week Ledoux will box 10 rounds withi Battling Rcddy, a local boy who can fight Ledoux has knocked out Joe Bowker and later Digger Stanley for the British title and tho Lord Lonsdale Lons-dale bolt. The Frenchman Ls called little Sani Langford In Paris because of IiIb pow - j erful shoulders and back deelop-ment deelop-ment Ledoux has como here to flc;ht both Kid Williams and Johnny Coulon Tho latter already has signed with the! Forty-fourth Streot, Sporting club fori n match with Ledoux on December G but the Frenchman will do nothing until un-til after the Reddy bout. Another card offored for the same ovening is a 10-round bout between Gunboat Smith and Harry West of Cincinnati. Word comes from London that so many members of the National Sporting Sport-ing club belleo that Referee Corri should have called the Wells-Welsh bout a draw Instead of giving the verdict ver-dict to Welsh. Manager Bettlnson has signed the boxors for another 20-round 20-round bout In February, under the same conditions that governed the mill a week ago. George McDonald, Matt Wells' manager, in a private cablo-gram cablo-gram to a friend in this city, says that the worst that "Wells should have received was a draw, and that as a matter of fact ho was clearly outfighting outfight-ing Welsh at the finish. Corri, it will be remembered, was scorched for calling the first Lang-ford-McVey fight a draw. Langford beat McVoy on that occasion, according accord-ing to competent eye witnesses, but Corri would not see it. Battling Nelson, who is matched to box 10 rounds with 1-each Cross at tho Forty-fourth Street Sporting club on tho afternoon of Thanksghlng day, is bringing his own gong to be rigged at the ringside. Nelson is so deaf that ho cannot hear the bells ordinarily ordinar-ily in use at boxing clubs, so he has purchased a huge fire gong that can be heard above tho din of the crowd Nelson looks to bo made to order for Cross and will be a lucky boxer if ho stays the limit with the heavy hitting dentist. |