The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1916, Page 10

UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1916. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW Y WILLARD MOST REMARKAB CHAMPION OF FISTIC WORLD Heavyweight boxing partners are help- less before him. Points That Make Size and reach make it easy for him to avoid hard punches. Despite 260 pounds weight he is as agile in footwork as Jim Corbett. Has variety of blows, any one of whioh | looks a knockout, Johnson’s Conqueror Present Day Wonder turist. Outclasses all heavyweights In diffloult | and novel gymnasium exercises. Shows shock-resisting powers In stunts no other fighter would attempt. Has improved wonderfully in all fine points of fistic art. His knowledge of conditioning exer- cises would make him expert physical cul- Has to hold back his punches to save his sparring partners from rious Injury. By Vincent Treanor. W HEN last seen around these parts. Jess Willard was just @ bashful, big fellow. awkward in manner and speech. He was of the big overgrown boob type. He stepped on his own feet when he walke @nd conversed in monosyllables. As a fixhter he had nothing but e giant’ physique to recommend bim and a palr of arms long enough to en to grasp an opponent’s shoulders aud hold him off. He didn’t know the! @ifference between a left hook and an uppercut, and teaching him anything of the fine points of the fistic art seemed a hopeless task for any one to pe hampton. Th day Willard ts a ©! ‘! e eaitassurance of @ title holder is geen in all his actions, He walks @ure-fouoledly, with an air of su- | veges] Ly with the confi- a side and then to the other, with the wrace of a demonstrator in a store window. “Watch Bim at this stunt,” Jack Curley. “He's the bent’ putter a who has for an Need in re. Rigaintl He certainly euccess; le jegente | wi je best writer over saw nce in himself, without reach-| all his gymnasium travels, ms it of chestiness. In short, soe wi a i champion of the world or “in Willard was juick change “the minute he stepped out it The crowd appreciated the cham- pion’s work and applauded loudly. Shadow boxing came next. At this Willard was a revelation. He jumped around with the agility of an Abe At- ef his room at the Pioneer| tell. He was in and out, driving AC, to begin his first day's ber =| straight jabs. up; itting and cee: Frank Moran. <Attired in full/ countering his imaginary opponent maroon-colored lum} with the skill Jim Corbett used to which covered him from | show at Unis particular form of gym- tops, and an Amer- | nasium exercise. He jumped forward, backward and It was evident that they were getti: all my f a treat than they antic! tod, Of a righteous liver, and his eyes Many of them rem At M jembered Willard = bright and snappy. A. smile! only by his lumbering antics against the equally lumbering Carl Morris countenance of this man or indicate to a of business. <A of hair carefully twisted in a big curl over ‘the right side of bis forehead: Viewed any position, Willard ts really ®andsome man, probably the best- ing title holder in the history of =. Kept frony under cover he 1a the most popular too, @VERY INCH A GLADIATOR IN POSE BEFORE CAMERAS. When Willard stepped before the of cameras, and struck a Pose for their benefit, it was the naturalness of a Jim Corbett ~ latter's palmy days. No one tell him to hold his hands this ‘wey or that. He assumed the posi- gladiator Uke a jusiness. ey are not ready yet, Joss,” sald Manager Tom Jones, as Willard stood tense, with guard up in figh' fash- while the camera men justed machines, “They want the position, don't fey?” answered Willard, as ‘he pa- p@lently awaited the pleasure of the { BBotographers. “One of the snapshotters wasn't er voce the flagh light went off ie was promptly led down by “You're always ‘Tom.. o1 A yesterday.” \ Brown looked hurt and Willard ed at his discomfiture, saying: me on, we'll do it all over again.” At the next pose, Jones asked Wil- @#a not to be so good natured for the big champion was continuously smil- ‘All right,” said Jess. “You want a fellow to be serious whether he is or late, Brown,” “It was the same way not. ‘The writer here asked Willand to Dleock a straight drive to the body punch) for picture Qforan's tavori wes. Walte Moran's par straight for Willard’s heart. Joss it coming and easily doubled bis arm back against his body at an sate angle. The punch landed on|pounds and looked’ ft. Voy ‘the forearm, near the elbow, and as | started boxing bh hen he Monohan leaned in with its delivery, | Johnny Dundes. itd uke 4 heavy ‘Wolard Plavtuily, tapped his right on the point of Monohan’s chin, A thought of Moran seemed to flash Jess stood still at the beginni across Willard’s mind as he did this. t! ing Abit of force behind the blow and | Minch, wqnohan up. He then nit Monohan would have been knocked fnto the middle of next week. WILLARD SHOWS CLEVERNESS AT PULLING MACHINE. ‘Phe session with the photographers over, Willard ran downstairs to the fe, where a ring is pitched for his ining bouts and a pulling machine rigged up. There was a good sived orewd of fight fans occupying benches om the ballroom floor, from where « few may be had of the cham- ut work. They received him with fied handclaps as he bowed. ing no time, Willard grabbed eer and in a moment was going ha variety of stunts. He Bajos tne weights far his head down to the Boor, t te one \rib-breaking qualities. Monohan tried id some sidesteppin, that was really startling. Sido-wkipe ping is more or less of a lost art @mong present day fighters, and it ‘was an agreeable surprise to note the proficiency of the big fellow at It. As & footworker, Willard apparently has ttle to learn, The stage shook a bit under him, but what stage wouldn't under a 260-pounder? Again the crowd clapped respectful avtically after « Pines silencs & little more than two years a, Madison Square Garden. wife The all-important boxing session was finally announced by Tom Jot Everybody sat back critically, as if pass final judgment on the man who had Jumped from the class of veriest novices to the championship in what was almost one bound, WILLARD SMOTHERS WELL- MEANT EFFORTS OF HEMPLE. Willard pulled on a pair of bi gloves and Jack Hemple, a 190-poun geese partner, was made ready, emple had plenty of action and ability enough to keep any average heavyweight busy, but Willard smoth- ered him. He threw off his left leads aa he would those of a bantam. At times Willard would wind his arma around his head and let Hemple bang away but never land. Joss's eye was quick. He'd watch Homplo arms and anticipate everything Jack would start. Now and then Willard would shoot in a straight left between a scant openings and never cnt "he sand did he mise 8 it come hard?” th, asked Willard during the “resteup Period, and Jose answored: fo, bu makes 1 ua! me wweat a feos breathed hard at thi and did @ lot of sniffling thrush ts nose, giving the impression that his nasal passages aren't as clear as might be. He took no ewallows. ey water, but walked around wating for the second round with Hemple. For most of this session Willard stood in his tracks, leaning back, and Dulling his head uway from Memple’ efforts to reach him. He blocked ev- erything Hemple tried to send to bis body with careless ease, Once, to vary this defensive style, he stepped in with a short uppercut, beautifully delivered, that snapped Hemple's head back, Willard had “pulled” the punch at that. We'd hate to ace it land full force on anybody. Hemple had done his share of the afternoon's work (two rounds) and| Walter Monohan took his place in the ring. Tom Jones explained that Monohan was one of the fastest big men in the business. He weighs 210 He had speed to burn and a wallop, but wen ried Willard. Beltear wer left to the by with @ punch that seemed to pow rushing and once chased Willard into 4 corner, landing a solid right on the chin, Willard laughed as the blow bounced off, as it would from a stone wall, The second round with Monohan was like the first, showing the help- lesaness of a 210-pounder against the big Willard. Like Homple, Monohan| was @ baby in his hands. When Will- ard eassayed to block his leads, Mono- han had no chance to land and when the champion cut loose with his punches, and they seemed of endless variety and all sensibly led, Monohan badn't ae yoees. wi Even Jones, Ward's awickan, 'g\less than six fvot away and threw dei ORK JESS WILLARD GOES THROUGH NOVEL TRAINING STUNTS BEFORE THE EVENING WORLD CAMERA Copyright, 1916, by the Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) WHAT’S ALL THIS! SENATOR DUNNIGAN TO STOP BIG FIGHT? Benator J. J. Dunnigan of the Twenty-first Genatorial District belleves he ha: an Irregu- larity In the Willard-Moran fight arrangements and a he will in- troduce @ resolution in the Sena this evening directing the New York State Athletic Commission to produce the lease given to Tex Rickard, who will etage the big bout in the Garden on Maroh 26, STICKING HIS FEETIN THE AIR TWENTY TIMES SN es Q ‘ad 4sucn- Imagine,” he asked, “what would happen to these sparring partnors if Jeon ever cut loose at them?” ‘We said we didn’t care to evon e Speed and pre- sien on tee look slow. Hie uppercut delivered in close eeeme to have power enough in it to separate the head from the body. From a boxing standpoint Willard is etartling. He everything a champion shou! eces. LITTLE DOUBT OF HONESTY OF BATTLE WITH JOHNSON, When the boxing part of Willar first day's work was finished ¢ crowd clapped and clapped, A buzs conversation on the champlon's showing carried unanimous approval. ‘Those who didn’t see the fall of Jack Johnson at Havana readily. under- stood how Willard accomplished it, and many were the expressions of sympathy for Frank Moran, As if to give the crowd its 25 cents’ worth, Willard did a few more con- ditiont: stunts in the centre of the ring. ng flat on two Turkish towels, he raised his body and bent far over until his head actually touched the floor between his thighs, He did this backward and forward haif a dozen times. Then he raised his body on his shoulderblades like an acrobat. His feet went up in the alr almost perpendicularly be- fore he doubled his knees and brought Nis feet down to his chest. He did this twenty times to the delight of the crowd, that might have ex- ted such contortions from a Jim Priscoll but not from a 260 pound Willard next sat on a stool and, placing his feet under another on which Monohan perched his 210 pounds, leaned backward, several times in bend the crab fashion, until his head touched the floor. He va- ‘red this form of strengthening the stomach muscles by squirming in a semicircle side to side, from the same position. GHAMPION SHOWS WONDERFUL SHOCK RESISTING POWERS. So far Willard had put in a regu- lar day's work, but the most strenu- of it was to come, This was wheh Hemple and Monohan stood with all their strength a twelve- pound medicine ball at the cham- pion's stomach. There a dozen solid right hand punches could carry, Yet Willard took them all without wineing whild the crowd marvelled at his shock resisting powers, We don't know any fighters who would| be willing to make this part of their! datly training. After all was over Tom Jones was! asked to explain the wonderful iin- | provement tn the Willard of to-day and the big gawky glant of two years ago. work, hard work, and an ambition to| succeed, but that the turning point was Willard's bout with Boor Rodel at Minneapolis. “You know," said Jones, “the Boor outpointed Willard, and Jess and I wero a little discouraged. “You can fight better than that,’ ) told Jess when we reached our hotel, and he sald, ‘I know I can, Tom, but every time I started a punch the im- age of Bull Young came before me and I was afraid to let go.’ “Young, you remember, died in the ring aftera fight with’ Willard in Vernon, Cal, and while Jess was tried ond acquitted of the charge of man slaughter, he badn’t forgot it, | a sured bin,” went on Jones, “that Young's death was purely acoldental | and he MUST forget it, “Il try, promised Jess, some more fights and I'll do my best. From then on Jess worked hard and til be met and defeated Johnson last.| st Now Orleans Tei ‘Kid’ Lewis will hook up| go through with it. April, When he meets Eork alll asa & He said it was primarily | ;, | and uaat wit ‘Get me | Mbetul > Bopv Brows OFFSETTING MoraNs STRENGTHENING THE STOMACH MUSCLES _Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock =: Jimmy Johnston, matchmaker of the boxing shows staged in Madison Square Garden, has finally succeeded in clinch- ing a bout for the next show in the big enclosyre on March 8 which ought to result in @ slashing battle. The fighters who will figure in it are Renny Leonard and Johnny Dundee, two of the fastest and cleverest legitimate lishtwelghts in this country. This will be the second time they have met, having fought a ten round go at the Harlem Sporting Club on March 2, 1915, which was @ hummer, Since that scrap Leonard has improved wonderfully tn hty fighting, ‘hey will meet at catch weights. Dundee, accompanied by bis manager, Scotty Monteith, and Oharley Welvert, retamed from New Orleans last night, Scotty claime that Dundee ‘was rotibed out sion in his bout with Mandot there as he bi en rounds the better of the bout, Seatty ted that the fight drew @ gato of $7,575 and tat Dundes received & guarantee of $2,500 and Maudot 82,100, Milbum “Young” Saylor is dangerously ill at his home in Indianapolis from an attack of pnea- monia, He got a cold while truining for a bout which he neglected and which developed into the dreaded sickness, cancel the two contesta which he was to engage fm within the next three weeks, Saylor recently mocked out Leach Crom at Cincinnati, ‘Three good ten round bouts will be steged at the boxing show of the Long colored hearywe! inoky and “Wild Burt Kenny and Dutch Braudt, Jess Willard and bis manager, ‘Tom Jones, will watah the scrape, As a result of an attack of tonallitis Charley | ©F% Young’ Weinert was compelled to call off two fighte which he was scheduled to engage in—with Vic Hansen at Shreveport, La., and Carl Morris at New Orleaus, Weinert contracted the ilines in New Orleana and as it preventet him from training his managur, Scotty Monteith, declared off both contests John Welssmante ‘o welegram from Ja Du b baile on Mar ing thls n'e fight with G that he would be ready to After rv. smith until Batuing Levinaky until March 21, {Ve Pioweer Sporting Club on West Forty: | AT THE STOPPING @& 12 LB. MEDICINE BALL WI His STOMACH PULLENS Idea of Player Ridiculed by Bosses + Strike | National Commission Members Only Laugh at Jim Gilmore's Warning Because Market Is Now Cluttered Up with Play- ers and Club Owners Would Welcome a Walkout. His physician has ordered him) plant at ty remain in bed for at least ten days and besides | Newark, be so burdened, | manager of the Broadway t , |moreans refused to take oie |t By Bozeman Bulger. EMBERS of the National Base- | M ball Commission, who are in/ ext New York for a conference this afternoon, do not regard serl-| pro that the players ure likely to decl a strike before April 20, The main thing annoying them at this moment ts a plan by which the peace settie- ment can be extended to Baltimore and clear the war business up for lon orn od, Officially the Federal League 18) out of existence and everybody scems | willing to let it go at that except the stockholders of the Baltimore Fed-| erals. In the peace plan no pro- | vision was made for the International League taking over either the Fed Baltimore or the one at President Edward Barrow sees no reason why his league should poi Job: That is the matter that must be straightened out by the National Commission, now holding, a belated | w conference in New York. Jack Dunn, who comes back Baltimore at the head of the Intern tional League team, ignored the Fed- } League park, and has bought a| piece of ground and will build a plant ‘This leaves the park to al will can Tu ‘vot of his own. magnates who of ball p | It is true Thi Andres Balsa, i} dollars would have been saved to the had foolishly signed players to the long term papers at/ remely high salaries. A strike is far from the thoughts! They are smart pi by James Gilmore | fellow knows that there are at pres- | Paperearedomu tod are | ent 200 diamond athletes out of jobs ers right now, tty smart fellows, and a death of the account of thi The th 1 Learue, Fe more players under contract are very well satistied to let the matter rest, | t came and they all anized ore intimates, these players, but there are simply| more and someb play than there are Jo! nted. ———— Lewis Wrentles 'To-Night, stInig tournament at the Manhattan academy. and Dick Butler, from the ra House nt a Casino at fifth Street to-night yrestie. to. Catch -agzeateh style, Yussiff Hu xe, will meet John Perelll, Demetriu ilos wrestles Harry Litofsky, an th 2 dead weight on the stockholders, al- |tackie George Sandele. All then ready heavy losers, It su happens.) or criyie, and best tivo out of thre though, that ainong tne ied stock-|¢an style, holuers there are many influential citizens, and unless Jack takes over = the big Fed park, they threaten t hat two streets are Cut throug: ball park that he proposes t ‘The thing was thrashed out while the Federal League swan wast being sung in Chicago, but the Balti. | bart, g nd | here the matter rests, | Mr. Barrow will confer with tie} members of the National Commission | this afternoon, but baseball men be- | lieve it unlikely that he will give an fourth Strest will hold a boxing show to-night, at \ingh Barrow has not recovered from | which threo ten-round toute will be fought, Im the main event Mike MoTeague will go againet 1 McCoy of Brooklyn, The principals in the other two contests will be George Ashe of Philadelphia and Eddie Kinley of Newark and Leo Vincent and eae good featherweight, yo hard hittin with the lo Toumy T Paterson, te, will 6 ldy Burns of Rockaway tn tho etar be ds at the Olymplo A, C Marlow Jiminy Dutty of We Woot Bide and doo Malone of Hariew and Jouon Buddy Nadler clash in the other two te etnenn well known fighter are e decided at outo Queensuery A, ©, of Butta! elute to N.Y night | Benny Loonaat of tide city will mect Rocky Kan: | fought with steady improvement, un- | ms, the Buffalo Lghtwaigbt, for ten rounds, while Moran New | with Harty Stone, the loval lightweigt, for tweaty | go gcores of big contracts would have soem, dmvalidated aod thousande of the wounds inflicted upon his league by the Federals, and sees no reason why he should give up anything to those who tried to ruin bis organiza- Henere are many who think Barrow is following a proper course. If all Organized B: ball had showed the same willingness to fight the Fe ‘ow did the “outlaws” might getting arrang n licked all tn without a peace nen it comes to warning of n impending st moguls of baseball laugn, would suit them better right now When the strike was threatened a year ago Bun Johnson was strongly in favor of allowing the players to If they had done Ke the Nothing | hundred or} went | be a ruinous cut in} ot necessity disap- not much dissatis- faction among those who have the; d and Ct Cuban ‘wonder, will di All these EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN TH DRIVING RIGHT TO BODY WHITE ELEPHANT TEAM BEAT CROTONA BOWLERS; STANDING OF THE TEAMS IN THE WORLD TOURNEY. Ae wiv bay White Flephs Metropolitan ironx. Pi bureka | SCHEDULE TO-NIGHT. Grand Central at Bronx Palace. HE formidable Crotonas headed by Henry Helse invaded Thum's White Elephant academy Sat- urday night and were only able to take one of the three games the clos- ing session, from the leaders in The ing World three man amateur tournament | ‘The first game was an up and down affair with the Crotonas leading and then making way for the Thum team | by running into a number of bad ks, Costa pulled the leaders in i front for their first victory by the .| close margin of 16 pins. that hundrec players are! In the second session the White disgruntled, but they are largely from’ Elephants jumped into the lead after he re of those who were left in the third frame and increased their the lurch by the a) League, ; advantage with each inning for their There is no discrimination against | second game with much to spare. The Crotonas showed the way in tho clos- {ug strings and grabbed their lone vic- tory by 18 pins. The rll Crowne a19 515 620 ” ew! erica’s In another Saturday night series Strangler Lewis. America® foremost’ the Park Row champions captured eater who. Ge" two of the games from Lowenthal’s Hunts Pointers at the downtown ‘The first game proved easy picking t for the downtown shooters, who with the assistance of Eddie Manasse's 241 The men score, totaled 559 against the visitor's - 482. Sepp's surprisingly poor pinning ne, the Terriblé gave the second game to the Hunts 8 Pointers by 9 pins. To fill an open date on Friday, March 17, the Broadway Arcade: ° Hunts Polnt series scheduled for to- e night will be rolled on that date. The scores: The people who are moderate in | what they say or do are the ones who are most trusted. They don’t overdo anything. When they drink they call for that mild and mellow Whiskey— Wilson— Real Wilson—That’s All! The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Boule FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free fi mixed drinks, Address Wilson, 311 Fifth Ave,,N.Y. That's Alli > ; ! Bad to Be Known as Your Wife’s Husband, but Worse to Be Known as Your Airedale’s Owner.” 8 Western athiote cops an * "pao the lads who think that Sols! Eitorerea *Saneea as Yar went a Kreave, Competing with spring baseball, spring football is attracting as much attention as a derby hat in November. NO CLOSED SEASON FOR THIS BIRD. ehest with How his throbs When he reads of Europe's sobs, And his frame crams full of pity When the crool Turk sacks a city, For each crime his grief will smoulder, Then he packs shoulder, Optics register no tear— Neatly massacres a deer. anguish his gun o'er And his system wells with pain When he ponders o'er Louvain, Be it Briton, Hun or Kurd or Teuton deed, he calls it murder, Though his heart pulsates with sorrow You can jamp him on the morrow, With his gun—just a habit— He assassinates | rabbit. lo velde is a weird did wondert 10 othe Ceabition oF oll American ‘ities Id series ticket se lf Moran b champion of the world un ists on his European right Willard he will be he in- An amateur 1s a bird who doesn’t" care how much of his gate money he spends proving that he is an amateur, Boxing at Sing Sing should meet with huge favor, Every boring club -“ has to provide an adequate number of exits. 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