The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1915, Page 14

rt : Te WILLARD STRONG AS JORNSON AND AAS PUNCH NGPCWER TO BEAT ANYBODY HE HTS -o- Big Jess Lacks Negro’s Smoothness of Action and Perfection of De- fense, but Has Improved 100 Per Cent.and Says He Feels He “Could Beat Two Johnsons.” BY ROBERT EDGREN, ' Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New Tork World) S4AVANA, March 20—1 b. Just watebed big Jess Wiiard at work, 2nd met admit that he made & strong impression, in spite of the dif ference between lis fighting style and thet of Jack Jobneon In @ roid hour of bard bustling avout with bis training staf, Including twelve roun te Of strenuous boxing, Jess has shown perfect condition, some epurte of apeed, | eaturance, ability to take punishment and ww avoid ft, and puucning! pewer that ht to beat any man living If bia punches land | Willard hasn't the marvellous smoothness of action seen in Johnson. He be still a littie awkward tp footwork But he has improved 100 per cent ince bis New York fights, lias learned @ lot about bitting, has beoome full @f confidence, bas grown broader and stronger and, above all, has cut out the clrous stuff and settled down strictly to business In comparing Johnson and Willard bere of, the Principal boulevard of the + # te impossivie to forget Johnson's °' his le an excluelve hotel in ute pertection of defense, bis the courtyard @ good ring platform haw quick eye and quick hand, his leo- nd it, ae pardlike smoothness and cunning, Io hotel court fll these things Johnson ts superior. froin the wind. ha Me is a master fighter against « faire) Wen w Vy ekiltul m His brain is quicker! fire! works then Willard’s, and in absolute ware ordination between brain and motor) qy4 Rerves, shown in the smoothness and | enc eeouracy of every movement, he le ah wadoubtediy superiur, As for mere) jy), Strength and muscular condition in} With Willard were Jim Savage of his training bouts Johnson seems to ep ARS, k, ve , Monahan of Low Jack nothing, Ho is far from being id Walter Hemple, boxern the Victin of dissipation described in| BAYAk welghed 210 pounds atripped, fo Many despatches. re thse, Monahan about 200, - of the throe luoked lke a ehild wh WILLARD 10 YEARS YOUNGER, |compared with Willard WILL TOWER OVER JOHNSON, | Willard fret went through several Bu Joauson will be thirty-ogot Minutes of violontly active work with years old wien le enters the ring v! gees ort tpn ge fondle be boxes Willard tea & pheumatic dum- a. beay has my on @ bowl-abaped iron pedestal. thickness that goes with his tuirty- |e attadked the dummy with a#imu- eight yours. Wisard, with tie Cuil lated ferocity, much to the amuse- parent of a grown man, stil Ment of the crowd, flattening it with the clean cut lines of youth, Gach Powerful Lehi es Jebason bas become burly. Willard) V4" No Joke to Willard, \ fo simply built in proportion to his {tt Brimly and Unamiling, Two or throe 0 n the dummy, Great Leight, Henofit of his puch, iatrodueed the wi is only @ litte tallor than |yoying Punch, introduced the ilard’s sparring partuers. Yet Will Phe drat to face Wt = Jerd’s sparring partners look like noe Willard waa Hem. @oboolboys Wada tiey ure in Loo Fink Why “hoeed eat AeereMlve fellow, with bim. He towers over thom le itinually, but wan unable to peeteate ‘e t. He'll tower over Jonson. |Wittard’s paved Taare ta id illard bas evidently been making i and thon Willard f 1 @ close study of Jonason's style of! 1 both hands and deliberately Mighting, bi» blocking ava inter |held his u his Jaw for a dozen or so hard fering and balancing, aud ue Uses lawings, letting hie rock from many of Jobnions wie Je to side as the blows landed, and Ditting tue: being entirely unaffected by th In the third round with 1 Bits Like uw lash, Me seeds able to {Gee in Bava purnen any ue feb Wen suine of bin punches that Willard held hin Jaw out, stop! weveral blows with it and’ then, hard lagu and land just exwcuy Fight, the efvct isn't whut one ex- Hemple swung another left with ith Willard’s hitting it is differ- veral hundred weaie Aa well am the i the from the wind, mien a x. Th 100 Indies, some Cub some American, all with their all beautifully and ati nd all filled with © pr et Of seein nter at we The work who went at 1. his might, drew back six inches let the blow pass, Hemple pected to land that one, warantes of the force bh ent. Big Jess, although none tod fast!ting into it, giissing Willard’s on jot and Hone too sudden in| made him tu#h half a summer: bas a knack of drivi eavily on one at or right with plenty big jolt in every punch. time Wi But he didn't look aro t the crowd, He has learned to keep his eyes in the ring, Savage came Yorkers know t¢ @rive in his blows with that he doesn't use because he Hemple. Now mong ordinary "t want to kill off training [heavyweights Bay ranks as. a ‘tag. I think this impre: of power | pretty dungeroup man, He ts in fine eliberately held in reserve is the|condition, for he has been working etrongest argument for those who will be ‘on Willard's chances. thing is that Willard, 6 feet 6 tall and symmetrically built, be the first man Johnson hus ever met who can match him in oe. If the fight resolves itself & question of strength and en- @urence Willard, with ten years’ ad- hard every day, both at El Paso and here. He has plenty of skill, But Savage had as much trouble as jHemple in finding Willard with his blows, He missed some and others were well blocked, Those he landed didn't shake the giant in the least And Willard held his jaw for Savage too and let Jim flat! away as it he should outlast even the gi-| Were hiting a punching bag, left and suniepian. pete donigon, Vil-| right, left and rient, very loosely muscied, He in) WRENCHES SHOULDER OF endurance and juick = Jim Ber ene hd quick Fe] gAVAGE WITH STRAIGHT LEFT. In the second round Willard began to do some hard hitting himself, and the shore} Savage was unable to stand up ndint thel against him. He drove a sharp ri it * white contender does his train- ‘and has his training quarters at Miramar Hotel, on n@ Havana Harhor A®o1 the only busi- ness that runs itself is the one that’s runnin’ down hill About the only pipe that's left to itecle fe the one that never did give satisfac- tlon—and maybe that was the fault of the tobacco. Try VELVET, The Smoothest Smoking Tobacco, Its aged- in-the-wood meliowness makes every Pipe the favorite. 0c tins and Sc metal-lined bags, “| Along With Gibbons for Ten as a THE BVENING WORLD, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK : en TUESDAY, MARCH 3 WILLARD GETTING USED TO GIVING AND TAKING IT JE 98 HAS TO HOLD BACK HI8 PUNCHES TO AVOID WIFING OUT HIS BFARRING PARTNERS OUTRUNNING EVERY Booy ON THe ROSD “SPORT McFarland Will Have to Use Everything He Knows to Step By Vincent Treanor. IKE GIBBONS evidently feels that he will have little dim. culty making 145 pounds at % o'clock In the afternoon for Packey McFarland, Mike's argument along thia line ts this ain the lightest boxer that ever attained promimence middleweight, I have never weighed 165 pounda in my life while training. Tho problem with me while training tn not to lose too much Weight. I've had to nurse myaelf carefully to weiglt around 162 pounds on the day 1 box, To mako 146 punds at 3 o'clock is as easy for me; now it was when | was regarded as a welterweight.” For a boxer who admits that he never took @ boxing lesson in his life, Gibbons ix a wonder, McFarland will have to use everything he knows to atep along with the St. Paul phantom for ten rounds, Talking of ton-round bouts, (bbona takes exception to the critica who believe he can't do as well the twenty round distance as he has done {n ten-round bouts, Mike assures us that, although he has never bo twenty rounda, he ts willing, anxious, to take on all the’ leadi middiewelghts over the long route. He also issues a general Invitation to moat of the light heavies, too, LIE RITCHIE has fallen for the cane since he took to the theatrical business, “When I was champlon of the world, Plaine Willie, "1 never wore a cane because I figured folks might say I was be- coming ultra-swell, I realise now that such an idea was foolish, Since I've beon carrying the stick I've en- Joyed myself immensely "# company for one, It into Jim's body, then moved back d let Savage attack, As Savage slipped in quickly and started a right for the body Willard suddenly shot his left stratght out and struck the Orange fighter flush on the mouth, Savage's head flopped back between his shoulder blades, He reeled, turned around and fell into the ropes, The Jar of the blow had strained his neck And wrenched bis right shoulder so that for ten minutes or so his right arm was helpless, Savage made way for Hemple, who took a pounding uns til Tom Jones called "time." Hemplo was reeling and holding to Wil who was letting him clinch to himaelt, Then came Walter Monahan, w has put on twenty pounds and learn & lot about fighting sinca he boxed with Johnson at Reno, Monahan made a rushing fight, but like the others, was a child in Willard’s bands. He did land one crashing right hander fairly on tho big man's mouth, driving d@ back hard and cutting bir Wilard paid little attention to , Went on boxing at the J and encouraged Monahan ut loose agaln, In the next round » pumpod in hard lefts and rights until Monahan, game but nearly bh was forced to reol away for a rest He held his jaw for Monahan too after that, and Monahan swatted It enthu- siastically, This seems to be about the only time Willard’s sparring part- ners can get a good crack at him, When Monahan was through Sav- age ci more, rd as he could, and Willard emil- asthe SoBe Nt My ee et ingly roughed it with him, In the dressing room, while Willard rubbed, bis was out wolng epare a NEWSAND VIEWS ¢ ANDTIMELY GOSSIP 1 e back and boxed two rounds | championship of America, which was He rushed and slugwed as) decided under the auspices of =| Wet K.00dby | Moran in Tenth it ae of London Bout NGARLY CRACKING yIM'S Neon WITH A JAB, | LONDON, March — 99. — Another ‘National League Umpire Makes] Brant te tisad the victorin, Klem Says Yanks Have Improved 50 Per Cent. HE TAKES HARD FLOWS ON THE CHIN WITHOUT BHOWING ANY EFFECTS OF THEM mn YALE ROWING SQUMD "TN PHILADELPHIA FOR } pylo handled ¢t Awerican dsghter has suceeeded in "het . es | pabty RACE AGAINST PENN dé « fombartion Weile, This Declaration After Seeing | Jere Tesreau and Fromme fofeating Hombardier Wells, the g 1 | pitching for the Glanta, th —_<. — { arn -Aoat Working for six inninise with Chiot tne it ts Frank Moran of 2 Club Beat Dodgers Again. vers. Then the p ve. WAY £0 Soecial tel fe Worsl) gives him soinothing to do with his who accomplished the feat, py Fromme and Sinith. Teareau held the) xiW HAVEN, Cona., March 90— hands." | Wells to sleep in the tenth round of Houston boys safe until the Gicnts . ‘ <a Vehar have been a twenty | DAYTONA, Fia.. March 30, |had pleked up a zood lord and at no |The wembers of the Yale crew squad oMMY M'TAGGART, the jockey round A terrific right-hand) ILL KLEM, tonsil Longue! ime was he in any Breat danger, lwith Coach Guy Nickalls left this who wan recently reinatated by umpiro, says the Yankees look] BROWNS WI Miss. Marek 20.{agternoon for Phil where the turf powers, will ride asa fone | | 0 per cent, stronger to Bim] Goji fea by tian Meee peouueed the | ow will mest the Pennaylvanin crew free lancd this season, instead of aign- tracted 4, liwan Skat peencns MbLwontan HUNTS Ge Batt RaRere Ny keare of [they will mast the De ania ori ing up with one of the prominent “duarter of Lie anes was Made thinks 40, as they are cloaning up| NUFIVT Who wan the Hiainstay of the [on tho S haylki! Saturday. The stables, Tommy hag g URtOd from ee eet omeM WR OS leno Wodwers, who recently put It all) of the fnternntionnl League’ tase sexe {coach of the 1 VENUS CPE REE the “foolish kid” mtage. Hie enforced | °"! — over the Athletics. son, dieplayed h form. th ¥ {Vivien Mis, by of Guy Nick- {dleneas bas been a lesson to him, and! piTLADMLPYIA ‘he score yesterday was 8 to 3 in) Aaa riher throe twirlers, Seaton, ‘ i i {f shoer ability as a horseman cou Ney Wh of Ch “at eer ho score y y Bi chappelle and Finneran, who did{atis, and In the many years that each counts ley Wil t Charlie} , ‘or ything, ‘Tommy should rank Thomas Uhtladelp the “final| the Yanks’ favor, but this doesn't} mound work In the game ‘ England & the leading jockeys of the bout lust night at t lt A. Cl indicate the marked superiority the) ¢, warner sgh ate mite GN semular have turned out crews Inglan yoar, With litte brother Johnny | White Kaye a and won] Yanks displayed over tao Dodgers. | ing the three Inuings that he was an (and in this country thetr charges sporting the allks, too, the McTaggart (Thuis wa vite die feet thal “Kay Caldwell allowed three hits! the mound. ‘Tho Ty Cobb of the eda |have not met until this week. family i destined to make some turf | every. round, 1 ttinehos “teee| and two runs in five innings, and Cy|can Mt most any kind of Uwirltne, | oy, meant ‘Yale c: hadi cowed history hereabouts this season, would have ‘ste un ‘Ordinary ‘boy| Pie, who was wild @t times, didn’t) therefore one ‘onsider that he: GARDE FSIS) Crew PO FO within the limit aliow aren ora hit in four Innings. | Bill's performance clearly shows that ;together loss than two weeks, and ce seems to be no end to ca Pioh twirled at the request of] he t* fast rounding Into form, Guy Nickalls has been back in this the discussion among focal! George Model, the Roer heavy-| United States Senator Pierce, who is Ls 1 O vouk.s, “ h ®l hard in order to win from Joe Woods, | Dakota. Pieh drove out the single! the New York G " nah ciek, : . abliity of Jim Coffey and Al Reich, | tho Lrooklyn heavywelght, as he puns | that drove in the winning run in the! \as postpone! on account of Hint ‘rhe |the regatta on the Schuylkill Saturday One finds good Judges insisting that | ised him so. my Int x Coffey would easily defeat Reich, the Military A. C. of Hast New Yr elr bout at | ninth, Lute Boone, who is proving a sen-; Ho hits too fast for him, they aay; {hat Jin Shortoll, the refor ped sation at second base, was the bate has a much better left and tien; it In the fifth round to prevent a! ting star, making two two-baggers that carrion @ lot ‘of weight, Other knock-out. and a single in four times at bat, Shedkor Coie teat ereue jae onal Irving Margolles defeated Harry! CORSICANA, Tox., March 30.—In! opposite way, Reich is as game ag SPeeks in an exciting ten-round bout | the final exhibition game of the Gi Corey and tite hander, ia thar opine | At the Olympic Club battle. In_an. | ania before they li *n-round Barry affatr Hddie Cook fon, und they point to his knockout | Other fate of Arthur Pelky to prove the Tater outnuaenied while in a statement. Reich put Peiky ou | Hrd ten-sessions affair Eddie Sieger cleanly in three rounds, whereas | 4 Harry Nelson broke even, Coffey’s K. O. of the Chicopee heavy - ee weight wi the technical variety, Referee Billy Joh stopped the bout when Pelky waa staggering around, on the verge of dreamland. For one believer in Coffey’s chances against Keich there is another just as positive that the Dublin giant Will be well beaten if he ever gets into the ring with the ex-amateur champion. Among those who regard Reich as Coffey’a euperior is Gene Comiskey, Gene has been looking at fights for twenty-five years and must be nuin- berad among the good judges of things flatic, ‘I'll bet $1,000 on Retch any time he meets Coffey,” saya Comiskey. No one ever accused Gene |“ of throwing away money, c Coffey gets busy again at the Fair- mont Club to-night when he tackler One Round Davis of Buffalo. Bol) McAllister and \hat tough nut Wag ner sro Wilkes-Barre meet at ‘the ow. shows to select from to. ‘Olnb of sonieat with tal the Ioeal lightweight, will «9 Jahan, tie Beoklyn lightweight, Thie pai 1y fumtslied a great battle at the san club: Vheve bouts will cos Manager Johooy Welsman. vel $3,500, At he Fairmont A, ©,, Jim Coffey, the “Dab. jm Giant," who has geen knocking out his oppo. uonta in’ quick time, aria, the Buffalo heavyweight, to the star bout while in compared notes, light hearyweight of California, ood At Reno ae! valiona with Kid Waguer, "said Monahan, | Wikes-Marre, Va, Editie Wallace, againat Frenee with exchan "L feel as help. For the second time in sucenssion Jeff Smits leas an a baby in front of him, 1 can't hit him to save my life except when he lets me, and I can't shake him with a punch. He's the strong- eat man I ever saw.” Hemple said Lit- tle, but agreed with the others. Willard'’s work was concluded with tralia, in @ twenty-roun m Feb, 20, Jammy Coffey ° Night weight, Won m® bout on the ame nig: Frank Jougs at Sptney, lof Brooklyn, who defeated Gilbert Gallant of | some wrestling and roughing about —~ | Manton, Leneh won't fight for sone time ou ac: | with Tex O'Rourke, a strong man.| Al 1 tho local manager of pugitista, who | wus of the dewiah holidays, | This made up a solld hour of hard |toou Jolt Suich of Bayonne, Jiouiy Corfey of training, In tho morning ho had run and walked seven or eight miles on the road, Judging by the work the two men are doing—and from all accounts have been doing every da h ex Ha My th and Vrank Loughrey of Ubiladeiphia ia for fights, in a letter (0 the writer say ¢ making good In their bouta, Mirus, i leat a larsey City hantamweight, pects to have a hard fight. ‘There is | ing in New Orleans and St, Louis, has just been no ign whatever Of ANY pogaiblo hip- | watchal to meet Duteh Brandt, the Brooklyn podroming, bantem, for eight Fe It Is hard to tell whether Johnson | us, i or weer, is the more confident, Pull Bivom of Mrooklyn, a very clever gut fe win ania, Ne, Wun 8 ale | re 3 arr" sara tata | LOVING PROFESSIONAL | eth west Dehneon” oe tit |i Hes Lie net sow OF NEW “MET” LINKS.| drew on a glove again as ve.” * Zulu Kid" will bate in the other ten tong —— Newark Lad Wins “Gym.” Title, | SAN FRANCISCO, March 80.— Frans Kanis of the Newark Turn- verein won the all-around gymnastic votont the Dill pew ted tho P nt malcistere of Ma. have made inst holding THO | the chamlonshio figds Jack Jour Panama-Pacific International Expo- and Jess Willant on next Monday. They have sition, Peter Hol, Norwegian Turn. | gent lottem to President Menocel, pristilo, verein, Anished second in the team ! on: ehempionshilp, with Rot! third, FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By John Pollock Tera! fight fans have two tinportant byxing will defend bis title in a the crack Brooklyn while in the other scrap Johnny Dundee, will take on One Round ‘omi-final Hob McAllister, the crack the game fighter of defeated Mick siace he has boon fights s rreently pamod by ‘Tou-round vours have been day nigut for New York, MeGraw's men easily took the measure of the Houston Texas League axgregation §to2 The New York leader was not lem Patecy Cline jas been avcured to fight Milt go at the y Arie Wali and Kid Herman aod Young Rosner and Corono Kid battle im the other two tens, Larney Lichtenstein, manager of Jimmy Clabby and Joo Welling, the crack Chicago lightweight, iach an citer of $1,000 for ‘eiling ten-round bout the early part of next month, . OW F | dohnay Deummie, the Jemey City lightweight, who owns to improre to erery fight, engages 10 two bouta thie week, ‘Tonight he takes om Young Rector, aloo of Jomey Ciiy, in the main bout at the Hrowm Gymnawum A, A., while on | Saturday nicht ho will go againnt Jimmy Dufiy | iy [for tea rownda at the Queensiory A, ©, of Long | Inend Teach Crome has Teco receiving many offers battle “i, Charley White in Madison Square Garden Mridgeport and Watertairy clubs | want hit to meet Boply Moore or W ‘Tom MoMahon, *th Haiting Levinaky meet argh Bearcat," and have signed article 4 ten-round be ancas Dine, wiio i eon. f, eliwcbed the aoa Jobnoy Rurt of Marinw and Bushy Gratem of Feeopoint will be the principels In the main | tof ten mands at the show of the Astoria | ALC, of Long Inland Ofty to-night, In another | tne 5S n meet Tony Elmer Loving, formerly of the Arcola Country Club, haa been appointed gol! professional for the new Metropolitan | links, which are now being laid out at) Quaker Ridge, Westchester County. Loving first learned to play golf on the public links at Van Cortlandt Park and is one ofthe youngest professionals tn the country, {team = will play to-day, International 1 of business mei of that elty to-day ‘nentative committee, with fuil authority from organized peice, negotiations who returned yesterday from a meet: ing of the organization in New York. ¢ Wa, FP Graham. pir has, Wen aban. auolre from clube all over the country since hia recent e Can Vou Cet Them weather per-jafternoon, At four o'clock the gec- mitting __ ond crew will race the Pennsylvanta Charles H. Ebbets, President of the! second crew over the 1% mile course. i Dodgers, expec sell his Newark Following that the varsity crews will ¢ Club to a group race. CHICAGO, March 30.—Onty a repre- webail, can reopen 1th’ the Federal waKue, according to President Gilmore, | EVENING WORLD’S HEADPIN TOURNEY DIXON'S Graphite. 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