The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1916, Page 6

el JESS WILLARD TEN TIMES MORE DANGEROUS “STUNG THAN BEFORE BEING HURT Moran Will Find the Champion the Hardest: Man in the World to Stop, There Being Three! Discouraging Things About Fighting Him—| He’s So Big He Can Pull Away From a Punch; If Hit He Doesn’t Seem to Feel It or Lose Any Speed, and When Hit He Always) Whips Back a Punch. | Copyright, 1916, by the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) RANK MORAN speaks confidently of his ability to knock out Jona | Willard, But Frank will find the champion the hardest man in the world to stop. Johnson hit him many @ furiously-driven blow in Havana, and never drove him back 7 4 toot or caused him to show any sign of even momentary distress, Willard has a natural defense— an instinctive defense like that of a bear. I've often heard ft said by; hunters that !t would be impossible to hit @ bear with @ thrown hatchet, | The bear would slap the flying mis-| sile aside. A bear is @ natural boxer. He guards against blows and does practically all of his fight- ing with his forepaws. Perhaps Willard, brought up in a wild game country, learned the first rudiments of boxing while playing with some bear oub. I know that boring with a emall bear and studying its slapping tricks was a favorite amusement of Jim Jeffries at one time. And Bob Fitzsimmons told me years ago that he learned the best part of his boxing stunts by watching tigers, lions and cats, Lake a bear, Willard atands stralght@——$—$_______________; when attacked, and leaning back to pull his head away from blows either slaps them aside or catches them on | his crossed forearms, He guards his’ head better than his body. Possibly that is because he has a great deal of confidence in his abilily to withstand body punishment, and a body punch causes no visible damage. The champion's great height makes ! \t easy for him to Jean back and avoid ordinary jabs or swings. In the Ha- vana fight with Johnson he com-! pletely puzzled the black champion | before the first round was over. Jobu- son started with the idea that he'd | lit Willerd whenever he wanted to Fie found that the shoe was on the HOW WILLARD AND MORAN COMPARE PHYSICALLY. MORAN, 29 Years 6 ft. Lin, WILLARD, 29 Years yther fo ila ult hit him, but — © couldn't hi ¥ except in th " boay When he vjabbed at Ailard’s | 208. Willard hurled nin 3 ney the bug fellow leaned back a foot ,forWard and struck Kearns a right aud let the jab fall short. When he | and smash on the jaw, knocking hin ; |down #0 hard his heeis flew hold Willard | the air and he atruck the flour on hie shoulder blades, to be counted out. Kearns, who had been coming along lke @ champion, had a “giase jaw" after that punch, M tried to stand off and away with an extended left arm Will. | ard reached over it and Jabbed Jobn- son on mouth or cyes. Willard's tremendous reach, alded by his height, | nabled him to hit the man whose | locking and countering had made! ipton of the world, Willard mand pull back fron making him flounder ‘CARTY, fresh from w Al Palzer in Los An scour came to New York. Willard] elplessly put up against McCarty age a| he "The idea was that Willard I fight asainst a good counter hit- | Was big enough to look good in the} laa ee fighters hag|"ne with Luther, and Luther could found that out while fighting Johnson, | exhibit his wares to an admiring But Willard 1s a better counter hitter! New York crowd, Luther exhibited m pping vould hit John ty counters, yus thing: “aet-up. TS a danger foree other THE EVENING WORLD, 8 ATURDAY, MAROH 18, 1918, _ BEST SPORTING PAGE IN WILLARD HAS A NATURAL DEFENSE Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Eveaing World) Wircaed WITS Back ! When TJounson caver Kin WITH & TeRRIBLe Boor sow -.--.- “WULARD LIONS Bact AND PENDS OFF Biows Poe Tue MEAD =~ Jomnison Foun (VT ALMOST IMPo ssiBLE To | Tomssons user Hib EXTENDED Ler Tre Wer Monat Does — ~~ Jess ReAcHaD OVER IT AND | VABBED HIM ON THE MOUTH. Jess INSTANTLY COUNTERED WITHA FieRce PUNCH UNDER. THe HEART Arrer. ena STRUCK ON THE CHUN WNUTH WHAT Looked Like A KNocKouT BLow WiLLARD ONLY COUNTERED on NOMNSONS Ries, |EXPERTS PICK HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT WINNER Majority, Including Three Ex-Champions Willard to Beat Moran (Jeffries, Corbett and Fitzsimmons), Select in Big Battle Next Saturday Night. BLDOM has the outcome of a championship fight provided more uncertainty than the coming Willard-Moran scrap. Experts— Prominent fighters, notable trainers and close students of boxing —are arguing themselves red in the face on the merits of the two men, yet there is a great difference of opinion on the outcome of the big |] bout. Here are the expert predictions: | These Pick Willard. JIM JEFFRIES, former world's champion—Willard champion. Moran has little chance of winning hie tit! BILLY MULDOON, noted conditioner of famous athletes—Willard could have defeated Fitzsimmons and Corbett in their best days. The champion's weight and height form a big asset over Moran. JOE CHOYNSKI, one of the greatest fighters of his time—Willard should beat Moran decisively. | don't expect a knockout DAN MORGAN, manager of prominent fighters and a boxing author- ity—If Willard really wants to fight and takes the aggressive he should win by a knockout inside of four rounds. TED (KID) LEWIS—Willard is so big and perfectly developed that | can't figure where any one h @ to whip him. PROF. MIKE DONOVAN, old-time champion and boxing instructor of the New York Athletic Club—I can't see wi.ore the courageous Moran has @ chance with Willard In ten rounds, or in 45. Willard looks in- vincible at this time. GEORGE BOTHNER, wrestling champion for yoare—Willard sizes up like a fellow capable of playing his natural advantages to the limit. js the ideal than the black champion. He's a| his wares all right. He swarmed al) more dangerous man while counter-|over Willard and battered the big than Johnson ever was, When | Mnky novice wround tho ring for a Jess ix struck hard, and hurt, be, jaye Hew Mateue ator ete 100 punch back instantly, And) that he knocked chips ¢ ! the punch of an irritated gtanb of perfectly good jose Strongest instinct is toe take ah rhe uae fOr an Andi night, and pride a just before the fig “If Johnaou wice In the Havana fight Johnson | boxes and stalls along the fight may /C@usht Willard ith blows = that} jlooked as if they'd knock him out, limit, But i he eve ‘ eo Men dae over, hurts | mach timo I expected to wee the giant | Jess and makes him mad—good night Johnson! Jess will knock him gut| feel back, or even fall, ach time | ian. | Willard, without giving way at That natural come-back of Wil- | Ine h, ripped his right hand back into lard’s makes him « very hard Johnson's ribs, ‘The blows hurt fo beat. When a fighter jands he Johnaon, They discouraged — hina. | and “gets bis man going” } After the second incident. he w presses the advantage as } clinched with Jess just. ab me | cam. Moran is parucularly good at! Where I sat at the ringside. Johnson | finiabing 4 fighter who en mo- joked down at me and lifting his | mentarily dazed or weakencd by a Sight hand motioned as if to drive it blow. if he lands a good hard one,|into Willard'’s ribs in the clinch, and lands it right, he’s Mkely to sali dropped it again without hitting and shook his head. in tooth and nail for a knockout, It seemed as if he And right there he'll find Willard ten! intended to say: “What's the use? thmes as dangerous ax he is when un- 1 can't hurt this guy, and I'm only | hort. Willard has remarkable ock Uring myself hitting him." fie and he's heen hit many a { things about fight ss Willard \ 1 r » neve He's wo big tha can pull away nown the slighte sign of being frem a puneh ¢ you shoot dazed or weakened at empty air Just when one might expect to find If he la hit he doasn't seem to feel danger. | it or to lose any of his speed, | t Wilard| If bit hard he always whips back | | 48 as good | A punch to even the avore punch as laniod on Corbet at Car: | § a counter hitter Joss shines, 1 | THE WHITE ELEPHANT { remember one afternoon when! BOWLING & BILLIARD ACADEMY |... tne Stree nen nm Bay 2 BOWLING ALLEYS Rae efor drive 25 BILLIARD TABLES. RESTAURANT | Might into Willar Willard 1241-1251 Broadway, Cor. 3ist St., N.Y, ‘©! pening —~purposely, Jim made : a headiong plunge and drove the| right in as bard as he could, But the Bergman Bros. Bowling Alleys blow never reached the mark. Wil- LENOX AVE.—116th Street (i702 Sell aducated left nookea sud. denly in and caught Jim on the side Bullard Instroction and Estibitius by [Of the head, Kavage's right swished Past. tain Calin through the air, hitting nothing. Ha wn ‘ whirled around and plunged headlong 26 Billiard Tables 10 Bowling Alleys fircush the ropes. “Ande the inreane | BEVERYTIING #OR ight s acer | Billiards j-a7 Bowling »* ie rate ths | — —" always r He s unttl a blow Had BOWIE abipe it in ts the mor Prices ana lerms .0 Sul. tive way to hit, for the rival REPAIRS BY EXPERT MECHANICS, ait st West id St Near Sroadwia, pushes himself into the blow 4 of pulling away from It. And most discouraging thing in the world is to box against a man with He ie fast with hands and feet and should be able to take care of his nship. DAN M'KETRICK—Willard ought to beat Moran, as he will have many advantages over him, and besides, is a much better boxer and fighter than he showed when he fought here before. GEORGE LAWRENCE—It looks like a real good thing for Willard to beat Moran, but | don't think he will knock him out. If the fight was in Australia Willard would be a 1 to 5 shot to get the decision, JACK CANTWELL—Willard ought to win easily over Moran, as Moran has not improved in his fighting while Willard has. BOB VERNON, stakeholder for the big fight—Willard to-day is the equal of any of the big fight | have seen, from Sullivan's day down, Moran is an excellent athlete, but Willard looks by far the better man. BOB FITZSIMMONS, ex-heavyweight champion—Willard is too big for the Moran type of fighter. His height, reach and 250 pounds yive him big natura vantages. He is by far the b of the big fellows of to-day. JAMES J. CORBETT, from whom Fitz won the title—! won't be sur- prised if the bout goes ten rounds, with Willard having a little the better of it at the end, Willard, with his great height and reach, will be a hard man to beat. JACK SKELLY—I look for a great fight, but I don’t think th ls the slightest chance of the title changing hands. Moran is no dub. He carries a great kick, but he has never met as formidable a man as Willard, | can- not conceive of any man of Moran's size knocking out the biggest and best working champion we have ever had. SAM WALLACH—While | have never seen Willard box, the fact th he knocked out Jack Johnson, and will have a big advantage over Moran in height, weight and reach, makes it look like a certainty for him to win, L. LAWRENCE WEBER, who promoted the Johnson- Willard bout— Willard will win in five foun Moran h "t a chance, "JACK" HORGAN—Willard should win on sheer dope. have an outside chance, but | wouldn't bet much on it. Moran may nnn 6) FISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP } By John Pollock nnrannawnnnO® Renny Leonard, who has made thou-| the Capitol City A, ©, of St. Paul, Minn,, t sande of dollars in the last few months Meet Tom Othbona, brother of Mike Gibbons, h As @ result of hie many victories by |® ten-round bout at that cab on April 18. Papke's knockouts and newspaper decisions, re-| st bout was with Marty Rowan et Bt, Louis ceived $1,284.32 for stopping Shamus) Oct. 14, 1018 O'Brien last night. This sur was 35 per) ent. of the receipts, lest the State ti ©) round boute ‘pretianluary O'Brien got $917.96, which was, 26 aT Wisk" latina eae ales te cent, of the Kross, with the State ta tie ton remders, Augie Ratner, tie prom iy a8 rece] unted to a weltervelg! uf Bronx, will s#ap an tate joke 8 Hine MetTvague emt Ray Para t nol Witte > agsines Jolmny Kiet, the 481 a | bame local tigate Lew Durlacher, tho wae manager of several | eood fighters of Philadelphia a few years ago bat who !@ now matchmaker of the big boxing New Bedford, Mass, announced to-da) he has matched Kid Williams of Haltumore A, Lippes, manager of Jeff Smith, the Bayonne Vike Gibbons | uD at Stine SPORTING. much greater reach and i left. thit's ike, le to fight Al, Shain @ twelreround battle oa the o___ always in the way, Being a at t A sae ight ot Atel 20, pte. Club, Bhlyn, Tel, G00 hitter, and never using a awing of a cine i = ie a - y| wide ‘hook, Willard seldom. te me 0nd | Petar rennive nimaelf open to a blow | got 5 we 1 * <= Hin J | if Fr . Moran ake good his eT ’ ud » ait LS PO-NIGHT, ut KALMMONT A, C, of Bronx | cheerful prediction } heserve all ; e 1 P ut D QUGIE WATHED eR Cae ang, | the fame and ooin that wonld come | retimd tram the ring tw areas | Brandt eve will fight | BAY PARKS ve JOHNNY MLLIS, | to Din with the title. Nobody can | htter to ty ha band at dhe "come hwcs" wane |B ora A Ue mal Joan, Congas, ‘Admiadon. 50 outs, ever say he didn't earn them, Nilo tae Jun been mmicbed 7 ibe malshuaber of Mery’ ol 'Rkdgencod "in “the, semitiogk” ‘ ‘The Patrmont A. ©, af the Bronx will hokl | 7 to § | Texas Leagu Moran Is Their Selection. JIMMY COFFROTH, noted promoter of Western championship bouts —! figure Moran has an excellent chance to beat Willard. He Is the cham- plon's superior in every angle of the ring game. GEORGE CONSIDINE, close student of pugilistio events—Frank Moran is game and can hit hard, Willard is too slow to stall him off | JOHNNY MACK, promoter and student of fights and fightere—! can’t | see Willard at all. Moran should win by a knockout within eight rounds, He has everything, and most important, the wallop. JACK M'AULIFFE, retired undefeated lightweight champion—Frank Moran will win by a knockout. Moran is in better condition than Willard and will be the night of the contest. OMMY BURNS, ex-heavyweight champion, who wae defeated by Johnson in fourteen rounds in Australia—! expect to see Moran get the newspaper verdict. His ring generalship should offset Willard’s great advantages in height and weight TOM SHARKEY, who fought a famous twenty-five round bout with Joffries at Conoy Island—I think Moran will win, possibly with a knock- out. Anybody weighing 190 pounds is big enough to whip anybody. | take no stock in the stories of Willard’s height and reach, They won't count much in a real battle. FREDDY WELSH, lightweight champion of the world—Willard is marvel in speed for such a big man, but he is not invincible. Moran plenty big enough to reach a vital spot, and | believe he has a great chance to win JIM COFREY, twice defeated by Moran All Willard has is size. He telegraphs all his punchet | better man } JOHN WEISSMANTEL—! look for Moran to win the big fight, as | think he will have no trouble in landing on Willard wit © terrific | rights which laid Jim Coffey low | JIM BUCKLEY—Moran is my selection for the fight. | really believe that he can punch too hard for Willard, and will also be in better shape than the champion. SCOTTY MONTIETH—Moran Is my choice to win, for | think he can lick any one he hits, and | am pretty certain that he is going to hit this big fellow. DOMINICK BUCKLEY—I cannot imagine how Moran can possibly Moran ig the HARRY HAGGERTY—Moran is my hunch. He's a good fighter, has | had experience, is game and ter than anything else, is a thinker, Give me the thinker in any line of business. HENRY W. MOLLER JR.—Moran is big and strong enough to beat | Willard. He is in the best possible condition, All he needs is an oppor- tunity to put over the wallop. JACK GLEASON—Ring experience is what will count most in this fight, Moran has had more of this than Willard and I think thie will offset the so-called natural advantage of Willard. JIM GRIFFIN, San Francisco roferee—Moran has a great chance if he makes it a rushing battle. He's lost if he makes it a waiting contest. He has tho speed, I'm sure, and | think he's the harder hitter of the two. HENRY MOLLER—Moran will win this fight. He has two good fights (with Coffey) under his belt, while Willard has fought only once | in two years. Ho has the necessary to end the mill with a knockout COL, CHARLES CROWLEY—I must k to the Mick. He's as good as they come. Willard isn't too big to be dropped, JIM DAY—Don't let any one tell you Moran hasn't a chance. He's more of a fighter than Willard and when he lands something is going to happen. ee Seeeeeesereeenend Rousch Will Report _ | To Giants To-Morrow MARLIN, Tex.,, DDIE ROUSCH, r fielder of the Newark Fi 18, out- March with Jim Thorpe on first base, Not only did Doyle hit well, but his fleld- ing was of high grade, One of his tops, & one-handed stab of a ground- will report he Giants’ camp] er, turned a seemingly certain hit to-morrow, Mana MeGraw heard] into a force-out at second base and tfrom the Inat of t 1oked off what threatened to de- elop into a rally y . > Oy tM . Rennic d Tinker In Hurt, ie Day (OUI OR S| TAMPA, Fla, March 18, — Joseph credit ho didr y Cobb of the | Tinker, manager of the Chicago Cubs, | Federal Le he pitcher four | W@® painfully injured nere to-day when times In @ Waco Navi-|hie automobile struck a post, He was gators and base only | pitched against the wind shield and through the grace of @ base on balls.|gashed about the head and face, @ But Larry Doyle was in his element. | glass fragment. cutting his eyelid. Phy: The black- red Irish lad, Field Cap- | siciana advised quiet, fearing posatb! ft Gianta he ia, ayed the injury to the ey v astit should he led} ee Giants to victory { The Belfast Chicken Is Dead, > Toy a veteran bantam weight boxer, known Larry tore Into the ball for threo as the ‘Belfast Chicken," died at, his perfectly good hits, and one of them home here to-day at the ege of eighty- was @ bome run wallop to centre fleldjeight years ST, LOUIS, March 18,--Wilam Clark, | Some rooks cover too much ground young at the bat, ‘The racing ts very fast from the Juarer track, Training camp slogan seems to be cut loose of be cut loose. ¥ If worry reduced the waist line the old earth should be a perfect twenty- An ump doesn't mind defending the country, but he hates to have some player toss a handful of it in his fac Don't know whether Villa has right or left-handed hitters, but quite a few lof ‘em will soon be batting from the |bottom of the plate. BING! TWO BITS! Br a good idea for some of ow fighters to train at Dayton, Ohio. to the calendar, doctor defends left- Generally it's a prominent ominent ftna Pbhete Walter Joha+ 1 League Too muoh preparedness is having a split second watch at a chess match, As Cleveland has cut the price of th much by ste 1m isaion fans won't suve s0 ying away |No Handicap, Accounts With Yonkers Box- HAMUS O'BRI | was stopped by Benny Leonard, the Harlem Sporting Club last night. | lof defeat, after Shamus had been The wallop that started O'Brien on blow dazed Shamus and Leonard | O'Brien staggered his feet and | his jaw, sent him to the floor again, up on his feet in such a weakened | | his hands. Without wasting any time where he ts, hand swings for his jaw. As each Tuesday is «pring } Well directed right swing flush on the, Pp ropes of the ring, where he hung | Jumped up to the side of the ring and, the battle, MecPartland then waved Muir, where he regained conscious- o'Br ondition. O'Brien made — ee ' But Being Leit- er for “Horseshoe” Story. , the the sensational local lightweight, in O'Brien's manager jumped into the | floored three times with heavy blows his trip toward slumberland was a dealt him another right uppercut, | Leonard, with a volley of short left ‘this time in his own corner, | Hope that Frank Baker can't come | Leonard rushed at him and again b blow landed O'Brien began to sink ‘put don't wander off it {jaw sent the gane litte [rishman mp. | Waving a Tu wel to Referec Leonard to his corner and helped to in a few minutes. from worse showing than many an atm | handed Is j * <! Sensational Local Boy Squares} jeaded Is,” S Irish fighter of Yonk the seventh round of their béut at | ting, waving a towel as a token on the Jaw. heavy right uppercut to the jaw. The | which dropped him flat on his back, j and right swings to both sides of | At the count of eight O'Brien got | condition that he could not even raise |). We'd rather have him out front gan to smash away with left and right | toward the floor, and Leonard with a reeling through the top and middle ||" It was then that O'Brien's manager McPartland, yelled fe him to stop wssist the unconscious O'rien to his bout y stountil he was teur boxer would have done, L onard hitting him when and wh he| , 42 they accuse Frank Morah: of pleased, and getting away from lis depending on one arm, we ask for iswings by clever ducking and side- wwirers on Alerander and coupla stepping. O'Brien was cautioned sev- eral times by Referee McPartland for striking low, O'Brien t hundred others Leonard recently Looks as if Old Man Winter wae t Syrac he former's Min= stalling to make a thousand feet of r complaining | Boxinis COM peel out of it. . rnlysion that Benny ad “horseshor —- in his gloves, ‘This time he'll prob- ‘on the insects are put o ably claim t Benny wielded an PF . jo ote cee = his earth for some purpose, but Leonard's showing recently is the! a twenty-four-hour dowiing en- best of any local lightweight in years | He has scored knockouts over many | “"ranee contest has still got to opponents. He sprang a sensation! step up front and explain by putting Joe Mandot away in nine rounds, and since then dropped Pail ph — Bloom, Jimmy Murphy and O'Brien ey fail to state whether Doc Bull + was added to Yale's football coaching sae ene onday staff or the publicity department. Robi uoout in 5 was pulled Ime. s who had n ep Va Like Achilles, everybody has | weak spot, tho’ most men hide ft witty their hats Instead of @ shoe, OE Sen MIKE GIBBONS BEAT | — JEFF SMITH IN TAME \LEARN ONE THING EACH DAY, About 100,000 regulars will make the BOUT AT ST. PAUL.) yo" am, Villa din’: ask for all those sparring partners we are sending him, id Philly, but the be seconds ahead of (Spertat to Tha Brening Wort.) ST, PAUL, Minn,, March 18 —Mike| Gibbons of Paul defeated Jeff) Professional basketball 1s played tm, nith of Bayonne, N, J, last night |cages, and why not? in ten rounds of rather tame fighting. | . The not one that might he | rat eong Rabid Rudolph, this cohium left-handed baseball expert. will be our home Mexican : correspondent, Not geet: war, he will be Jyrdadlt-sqid biased in his box goores, jtermed a decisive one, for Gibbon won on points alone, There was but little rough milling during the ten rounds, but what little rough work was done was by the St, Paul boxer, | fi pt nas | DRAMATIC FINISH WHEN ANSWERS TO QUEERIES TON KNOCKS OUT Queery Editon want to eee the JIM FLYNN IN SECOND. | wiiera-Moran fight in the worst wan — What do you advise? (Spectal to The Evening Work.) VERA SHORTER, MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 18—It] Getting a seat behind e roheee was the second round of tho fight poet is about the worst way. Jim Flynn !n the first round had] bd Queeries—Why do we have to mado a gallant stand against Fred| listen to this spring foothal! wuftfle? 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