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Show NAPS SIGN TARBELL. Vt Cleveland, June 29. The Cleveland If team of the American league has 13 signed Tarbell, an Indian, who has 1 pitched for St Michael's college, near wf Bennington, Vt. n (Continued on Page Ten.) . tj (Continued from Page Two.) PAL2ER KNOCKS OUT BOMBARDIER New York, June 29 After floundering floun-dering around like a great, helpless calf in the first round, with his mouth and nose spouting blood in thick streams even flattened on the floor for the count of eight Al Palzer, the Iowa farm hand, recovered and battered bat-tered Bombardier Wells, heavyweight champion of England, into unconsciousness unconsci-ousness In the third round at Madison Square Garden last night. It was a terrific battle while it lasted. The seconds of the men were poised with buckets In hand for the leap into the ring at the bell which would close the third round Then the end came. The English champion was reeling before the fierce march of the enormous Palzer. Wells fu-tilely fu-tilely jabbed the face of the American, Amer-ican, while Palzer was steadily landing land-ing with his huge hands on the Briton's Bri-ton's stomach with fearful punishing punish-ing power. Once during Wells' last stand In tho third. Palzer knocked him down with a mighty body smash. Always throughout that final lound tho Englishman Eng-lishman was staggering. Occasionally he groped blindly for the great hulk that was slowly bearing him down. Finally Palzer dropped Wells with a body punch and the Englishman lay stretched out In the ring, flat on his back He arose once more, and tho Iowan bore- down on him. swinging wildly with both hands. When Wells finally fell again short, ly before the bell, it seemed that sheer exhaustion had sent him down more than one single punch. Palzer weighed 228 1-2 against Wells' 188 1-2. Palzer came out of his cornoT with a mad rush In the first round and Wells clipped him with right and left In the face until he had started blood. Palzer kept boring bor-ing in. flailing away at Wells' body. Finally Wells floored the gigantic farmer in the middle of the ring. Palzer fell with a crash that shook the ring foundations Ho floundered to his feet at the count of eight and Wells skipped away before the Iowan's rush, shooting both hands at Palzer's blond heal. He sent him against the ropes with a slashing right uppercut. It seemed certain that Palzer Pal-zer would be beaten. In the second round Wells kept clipping Palzer on the jaw, and once the Englishman nearly upset him again, but Palzer never stopped. Hea( lowered, he kept hammering at Wells' stomach. Palzer smashed his right to Wells' jaw at the opening of the third round. Wells tried to use his feet, but they were tiring. He poked feeble lefts to the stomach. Palzer worked -both gloves into the Englishman's abdomen, abdo-men, and Wells rocked. Wells put a light left to tho Iowan's Jaw and then Palzer threw his right Into Wells' body with his crushing weight behind it. The Englishman went down with his mouth open, gasping. He took the count of nins and staggered to his feet. Palzer kept on top of him and suddenly the game Briton slipped to the floor. A water-soaked sponge was fired by one of his seconds into the ring, splashing against the fallen Briton's head as the referee finished the count. They carried Wells to Vis corner, and' It was some moments before he could be assisted from the ring. It was a battle between giants that thrilled the blood of the 7,000 spectators. specta-tors. Science availed nothing against the overwhelming charge of the Iowa farmer. Wolls was Bimply outclassed as a fighter. |