The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1915, Page 22

ene: Sas pain | ene ' He Has Grown T He Appeared i Has Improved By ? kone R b (Special Cable Derpated F Jack Jonson beats Jose Willard wWomendvns: weights He Jobnecn ing, and desides there was with bie plans. In the afternoon Jack put on al nd whiszed out to the race track, wh: Willard Monday afternoon Predominant color of the jockey’s blo Bim. “With a name like Mike Cohen th “H's a hunch, anyway If he wins | lose. has arrived here. He thinks the bout BE ‘The ring and surrounding boxes at the race track where the bout will be ~ held will be erected Sunday after- "goon. They are ready to place in position. Immediately after the fight be removed and the day's races fey big fight will be held whether gon bere and rain is expected nearly day. The holders of gran Stand seats will be tn soft If it rains Monday, but the holders of ring side; boxes will be in for # drenching. Big posts will be erected outside ‘the corners of the ring, and if it rains a big tarpaulin will be extended over- bead tho ring. ‘There is no truth in the report tha’ Jobnaon is betting on himself. H (gold bis manager, Tom Flanagan, tha ‘the is unwilling to give 2 to 1, In any event he has not decided to bet on Dimself, and if he does he wants a good deal better odds. _ dohnson is not at all worried by the Feport that United States District At- forney Clyne of Illinois is now tn ¢ Wasbington, D. ©, for the purpose of * arranging to extradite him. Johnson, SE it will be remembered, wa: Chicago for 4 violation of the Mann <t aboeet slave law and jumped his bail ne Jim became champion of the by knocking out the great Fits- simmons. He has the same curly hair, the same slant of the fore- , the same high cheekbones, Beavy brows, well set jaws, powerful ‘and powerful arma. ere are a few differences between Willard of to-day and Jeffries of fit- teen years ago, Willard is four and a jer inches taller, Hix reach, s# hea, ix eight and a half r than Jeffries had. His ically Willard has come to bear | great resemblance to Jim Jeffries Spring threshold new Spri Irving That 's the growing impression among those who hese watch on the training of the two men here Jack picked a horse by the name of Mike Cohen to win the last race Im the programme the horse was described as Mike Cohen breezed and Jack cashed a good sized bet. tain, on account of the odds, that he'll win tn the eighth round. Mike Gibbons, generally regarded the best middleweight in the world, fest who to pick after seeing both men work out,” President Menoca! has accepted the box of eighteen meats sent to him by the promoters and he will attend Monday's fight. adjourned for that day and all ite members are going to see the big mill. mot it reins. This is the wet aea-) indicted in! There Is No Time Like the Present. WLLARD LOOKS BEST MAN JOHINSON HAS EVER FOUGHT FOR HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE —o- remendously Since n New York and’ in Boxing After Months of Study and Coaching— Resembles Jeffries Physically. T FDGREN Ww HAVA i bev) beat the beet man he over fought are keeping @ Willard has grown 1y eines be fought MoCarty, Kearne and the old crowd of heavy: has become by far the best of the white contenders. did very Mtthe work yesterday. ees te tee tev tent some heavy retnfal) which may have 1] bis diamonde, stepped into an auto ich will be the scene of his tattle with jegro" on account of the use Bight to one was quoted against at baby cant lose,” said the champion | win from Willard, and tf he loses, I Now he ts cer | Will be far from one-sided. “I'll know | said Mike. | Congresa will be | But in muscular detail unlike Jeff. The f champion’s mun bunches and ridges. Willard’s mu: cles are long, round, smooth an supple. He has the build that is aup- bosed to indicate great endurance and ability to recuperate quickly. He n't in the least muscle bound. And in general build he ia far more saym- motrical than Jeffries, who, for hin I xpeed, was bullt more Hke a draught horse than a racer. WILLARD HAS STUDIED BOXING GAME FOR MONTHS. | Willard ts no woll proportioned from | the head that fits into a 7% hat to hin No. 11 shoes, that at a little distance he doesn't look like an unusually tall | man unless seen in a crowd, ‘There, | of course, he looms up like a light: | house, And Willard han added to his un wual physical qualifications a much mproved knowledge of boxing. several months, ever since there ap: peared to be a chance of a Jobnson match, he has been constantly train jing and studying. In the ring while ie ht stood out in gre: waichos every movement his men, studies everythii | prepares his defense and his attack jand counter attack In detail, day by day. You can see him studying and you can see the result Willard has devoloped a great left! {hand and a slashing uppercut that is nearly as good ax Johnson's and sure- ly better than any t used by any other aspiring perspiring heavyweight. He has a tremendous lifting drive in that uppercut, It has robbed his training staff of its goat. Each of Willard's men is a six foot Each woigjg 200 pounds stripped over. fH is husky and a good boxer, Yet when Jess uncorks a j couple of uppercuts the trainers are | more than willing to clinch or keep out of range. “If that punch ever lands on me it's wolng to take my roof off, td Jim Savage a couple of days Andl could seo by the eagy look in Jim's J pn he stepped into the ring hadn't the slightest intention ade by is here and we are on the of Easter Sunday. Come to the Irving Hat Store for your ing hat. hats, as you know, are absolutely union made, and being made in our own factory and sold through our own stores, enables us to give you such wonderful value at our price. Look for the union label under the sweatband. Be Wise! Buy Direct! For| | going through practice bouts Willard | jy keenly, | EP SVEWING WORLD, FRIDAY, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK APRIL HOW WILLARD LOOKS IN ACTION AT HAVANA TRAINING QUARTERS a AIA S SPARRING PARTRERS aae & PooTeRs we ioe Bur Tas it THEY oor Jack Johnson in Any sixty pounde | it five years art in until inter tha int oon wpperenut | Hut Wil He used it fellow with letting Joan land that | Id avold tt une it on BavaKe, More's « han & good square unlimited courage, When Willard he amiles and nothing can wipe that smile out, the past week I've seen Monahan flecked with blood, bruised, scarred, hin face looking as if a horse had stepped on it. And after each hard nish he emerges with a amile, It jan't an apologetic, hope-you-let-me- joff-cany smile, either. It's genuine. I've aceon hin fairly reel to a corner at the call of time, With Hemphill it's a little different. He doesn't smile. He looks grim, | and grimly he dashes to do what he can and take what comes, A good | deal coi too. Hemphill takes hts aby, hammering. These two do the| rougbest part of the work with Wil Savage does more of the arm! tanaling, wrestling stuff. He does the infighting, carefully trying to alip | \inside—right close inside-—-where the uppercut can't como winging with so much behind it. HARDEST PUNCHES HAVE NO EFFECT ON WILLARD. n impression at Pleasure in beating up the men who work with im. Quite the contrary. When be pith one of his men too hard he's |genutnely concerned over it, He |doosn't like to take advantage of his superior sige and weight und hitting power. Sometimes after landing hard ho deliberately drops his guard, holds his hands at bis sides, thrusts forward jaw or body an tes any attack that the othe »w can deliver, | co to even the score, Tho only trouble is that. there's. no evening the score with Willard, He; \takes hooks and swings, Iright, and moves his jno slightly aa they land pols | plenty of hard knocks too, but never owe the slightost stan of a bruise a cut. He's trained until his face like tanned leather, As for his body, the hardest blows his can sink Into that do no! turh the sorenity of his smilo. Monahan has a good straight right. Sometimes he lands it ao effectively that Willard's head bobs back Ik iron duck in a shooting gallery rack, Hut he doesn't svem to foel the blow. t daze him. rae these men, strong aa they are, don't compare with Jack John- son in ability to land and in hitting power, Johnson is « powerful man, welghing about 240 pounds, who knows every trick and artifice of the game. When he wants to land a blow ny Pounds OR MORE THe WAY Should Beat Willard, Says Coffroth. dim Coffroth, meus Premeter of Cosct. SAN PRANCIBCO, April 2—Jehneon In any kind of shape should ve fight. Willard can't have improved since he lost te Gunbest Smith here twe years age, At that time he went through twenty rounds of making faces and fierce grimaces at his than he gives out, but eo wae twenty-six, ternoon when Nelson knocked out Gans. | have a chance with him, (Gomis Kind of Shape in himself. Johneon 1f Willard wins | will be he waite until the chances come he pute it neatly on the right I was talking with Som MeVe: “Wve given up is fight ie ti but Jack ing Johneon," ‘d ha chance at the title, $ oot good frien of mine and i'm not going to badger him. 1 think that right the hi man in the wre to beat. He makes you do rk and come to him, to lead, and when you ir left out he gets away from it and uses that la jah of his. That uppercut is the greatest punch in the world. Nobody can use It like Johnson. We all Knew how he can hit with it, and there's not one of us that wante to be hit. When he slashes out with that uppercut—good night.” “They talked about Johnson's avold- ing Sam Langford.+ Why, that's a joke. Neither Tex Rickard nor any of the other promoters have ever of- fered a purse for Johnson and Lang- ford, Johnson would have fought him any time, Langford wouldn't Sam used to be a wonderfully powerful hitter, but he never had Johnson’a skill. Jack would just stand up and use his | height and slash Sam with that up- percut, the way he did Tommy Burns, ‘That would be about all for Sam You'll see him slash Willard when Wil- lard comas to him. He's likely to knock out any man tn a round if he lands that blow," SAYS SAM M'VEY. MoVey had some interesting dope on Johnson's condition, was pretty fat when he came "he said. “He had fat on bis thighs and around the hips, and that's usually a sign among heavyweights that they're through. He was worried over that fat because {t was hard to take off. Ho's got rid of most of it now. We were talking tt over and I told him not to worry over carrying be a little fat, use at hin age taking it off would only weaken him, A man at twenty-eight can get into condi- | tion without much trouble in a little while, But when you're thirty-eight {t's different. rhe o Ne Drawn Prom tae ace ACTION aT TRAINING @ The Evening World ie the vyel comp! be written by Robert (EVENING WORLD HAS ONLY WIRE FROM BIG FIGHT TO NEW YORK the only New York paper that hi direct wire from the Havana Race Track, the scene of the Johneson- Willard fight, te New York City. Thie means that The Evening World per in the olty that will be enabled to furnish Ite readers a of the fight and round-by-round deseription, which will Johnson Can Beat Willard | JOHNSON NEEDS SOME FAT, | jrugged stret “Too much hard training takes the! anup out of you. I advised Johnson to leave some of that fat on his body, so {f the fight goes a long way have something to burn hy You have 0 ly to take off t fire. 80 ide, His wind ts good now strong, and with his style of fighting that's all he needs,” nish ahaa |W. E. Corey and Charles M. Schwab to Root From Op- posite Sides of Field Morrow, To- For the first time in the history of soccer football in this country, this year's national champlonship title Will be exactly what It purports to be. | ed national ra, b Jonships ’ never hefore the title been ar- dut by a direct or indirect mateh- i the best soccer clubs, Bast and West. In this year's struggle for the National Challenge Trophy, under of the United States Moot- ation, the semi-final stage has been yeach Homestead, Pa., and Bethlehem, Pa, will meet to-mor- row at the Lehigh University Stadium in South Bethlehem, and on April 10 the Brooklyn Celtics and J. & P. Coats team of Pawtucket, R. I,, will clash New Bedford, Mass. In the Homostead-Hethlehem game, the keenest rivalry exists, The Home- steads got into the semi-final by de- feating the Pullmans of Chic: |had won thelr Way to that at beating all the Chicago teams. ‘The Homestead team is made up of employees of t je Stee! Com- | Steel Magnates Interested in Soccer Football Championship pany, of which William Eilts Corey is President and Mr, Corey ts a strong supporter. ‘The Bethlehem team comes from the Rethlehem steel works and is supported by President €. M. Schwab, who recently gave his men $50,000 for the promotion of ath- letics and sports. Both Mr. Corey and Mr. Schwab have promised to attend Saturday's game, ‘The winner of the game will bocome a finalist, and on May 9 will meet the winner of the Brooklyn Ceittes-J. & P. Coats game in the final struggle for the trophy and title, This game will probably be awarded to Fall River, Mass. Broadway THUMS Ginetta his A'S Wear @®& 9th St. In Four Rounds, Says Fitz’ Cowboy Doesn’t Know Yet How to Use Strength Against Negro. HIS Is how Bob Fitzsimmons predicts the outcome of the Havana tight Monday and his comparison of the two contenders for the world’s heavy-weight champion- ship: “Johnson will beat Jess Willard in four rounds, If he wants to. Willard will have tho advantage of youth and th, but his ad will be more than offset by the « pion’s wonderful ring knowledge ana superior experience. ‘The cow puncher has a hard:punch, but he won't be able to land it on the negro.” Old Fitz, now in his fifty-fitth year, is well qualitied to give an opinion on the big battle Monday. He was one of the greatest fighters of all times. itzsimmons fought Johnson and knows Willard intimately. Ho is eager nea the vet to Is not th woight Johnson to see a white man win the title, but is all for Johnson asa fighter, In his opinion the champion knows too mucl: for the Kansas giant, who will Lo thoroughly outclassed, “Jack Johnson is the greatest fight or in the world,” said the old time day. “He could lick all the white hopes from San Francisco ty New York, with Joe Jeanette and n Langford thrown ASUS, one knows the Ile never had to show it Jeffries, Tommy Burns oj Johnson 1s 4 master of ring owlodge, and 1s big, fast and strony besides, I believe tho ro will be as strong Monday as ever was, His retirement won't weaken hin Johnson is too wise low to F on to negro's full & thing else he ha tire and come back provided he has suffictent training and preparation Judging from Havana reports, the champion Is well trained.” Fitzsimmons {# not very much tm pressed with Willard, Ho doesn’t hink the mastodonte Westerner is ps" for a big bout. 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