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ee , MORAN MUST GET THROUH WILLARD’ GREAT DEFENSE TO SCORE A KNOCKOUT ¥ Champion's Perfect Blocking System Really Beat Jack Johnson, and ItIs , Hard to Picture Challenger Pene- trating ItWith Decisive Wallop. Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), | T is almost impossible to picture Jess Willard in serious danger of a} knockout, no matter how well Frank Moran may fight or how hard the sorrel-topped warrior may try to slip over the polthogue that brought Jim Coffey's champtonship hopes tumbling with him into the resin dust of the ring. Willard has more than mere phys loal advantages in this fight. He has @ good practical working knowledge | of the best way to use those adva tages. Willard has made an especial study of defense. When Jess w in Los Angeles waiting trial after the death of Bull Young; he spent much time around the offices of Karl Rogers, his law- yer. Mr. Rogers always took a keen interest in sport. He liked Willard for his good nature and his many fine Qualities. When Willard wax acquitted Mr, Rogers took him aside one day and spoke to him like thie: “Willard, there's no reason why you shouldn't be champion of the world. You're a better man than Johnson ever was, I've studied you in court and I know there's no yellow streak in you. 1 know there's a yellow streak in Johnson, for I've seen him dog it in some of his early fights. That yellow streak will never show when he's against a man he knows be can whip, but if he saw you against him, and felt that he couldn't hurt you, he'd lose heart and you'd surely knock him out. you’ Cee hee “There's only one thing you'll need to have to whip Johnson, You must have a defense that he can't FRANK MORAN 4S GLAD TRAINING IS OVER. through. Then, when he finds he can't whip you he'll know you will whip him in the end, If you haven't 6a defense he might be able to _ BY FRANK MORAN. baat 1'm glad that my training is over. 1 am impatient to do battle with beat you. But with a good defense you can wear him down, Spend 4/] the big champion. The whole thing is getting on my nerves, especially year studying out a perfect defense |} 1 wetting on m id admiration and then go after bim. If you get || eee” Comme un te mn of the him into @ ring you'll be champion.” |7 work, They all want to shake me In telling me the story Mr. Rogers |} by the nan aid take me how 1 fer, Villard started in at once, joat of them me that all their og Sad lo hours every day, |] fiends are praying for me to win studying defensive tabdtics, trying |] 4nd then they give my right hand over and over again the various ways Snothe: hard agueess, It makes my of blocking and avoiding blows, per- J hand tired an amped before I fecting himself in counter-hitting. It even start to bo: was this long preparation In defonse | . t made Willard invincible in Ha- iS vena. From the beginning of the |the blows and rolling his head about first round he stood squarely up to|to break their force. It sdemed Johnson, yet blocked or knocked aside | merely a mild massage to Willard. or avoided the black champlon’s| Beside these defensive tricks Joss dangerous swings and hooks and up-|'sew a little ducking occasionally, It} percuts. may seem funny for a man 6 feet 6 ss inches tall to duck blows. It's so| With Jess Middleweight That Moran’s Only Chance |incney than ‘would ever two men box in a ten- to Win Is by a Knockout. | round ’no By Mike Gibbons. (Generally Regarded World's Best | Middleweight.) DULUTH, March RANK MORAN'S only chance to| is centred in this bat Jess Willard in their ten in Madison Square |Garden, New York, on Saturday night lart, wht Is by a knockout, I don't think that} will be T te almost impossible to jab Will-| much easier for him to lean back and avoid them that way. But per- ard on the head when he's Aght-| haps he learned how to duck while in ing. He pulls, away from jab | tho clreus. He does it fairly well and makes it fall short, or he meets | However, I'll say right here that he tr with a high guard with his right | didn't duck under a single blow in the Havana fight, and if he had Johnss arm, bis left crossed underneath pro-| might have been able to reach ne 1 Havana fight Willard simply |Uppercuts, which might have saved a his head back a little to make|CManging the pugiitatic map after th. battle, Johnson hit short. Bs Willisd tisee (all <OR akacisibia And there's nothing more discour-| of Qofense ween in’ bouts between aging in the world than to lead at &/ skilful small men. He plain target and find your shots fall- ing short. A blow that eve the mark may do some harn we say in golf, “Never up, never in”) oe A jab that falls short does no damage and only leaves the assailant open for a countering blow, Moran, in his Coffey fights, stood wtanchly up to Coffey's blows, wait. | ing bis chance to plunge suddenly in with @ flailing right for body or jaw content to go along fighting on nis physical prowess alone. He has stud- try to work that “delayed right" on Willard, who will be holding Moran off with the longest left Jab ever seen | iniy ia a ring. While Moran ty waiting,| steam A cee te Willard will be bouncing lefts from] S)SQlm A. C which will stage ite . 1} shows the Manhattan Opera House his face, a thing that tan't good for] "BONS nt any one indulging iv watchful wait. | 0" West Thirty-fourth Street. Al Reich, inj the young local heavyweight, and Dan Willard’ left bothered the life out| “Porky” Flynn, the I fighter, who ef Johnson. The first blow of the] has fought all the real good big fellows fight was a hard left jab, with ajin the squared circle, will be the prin twist of the glove at the finish, that|cipals in the main event of ten rounds made Johnson's eyes fill with water! Flynn has @ newspaper decision over and interfered with his sight as hel iteicn, tut aa the later jres ioroned was forced to plunge in within hit-| since that fight the prospects are that ling range, Willard held Johnson oft| {eet . often with that left, It was his front | Nee Rae mui Hy row of trenches, ] thin time 9 fours, two si Willard uses the left well in coun-| @nother ten-round serap will pe tering right-hand body punches, star bout Kid MePartland will day Jim Savage plunged in to shoot af the contests right Into Willard's body, Willard . | hooked his extended left against Jim's was 4 frat ftle entertainment in to-night. ‘The club is the ently or elthor man will put punch, verdict on follow, ts much more cle heavyweight, tecting his body, Scores of times in | with at least one of his well known | oUshest Kind of a propos tackling the tion in Wil. | Setback » been unable | closely kouts In| dous bulk will enable hi papers and [)stand Mc ports In the n't been | enter ined to fight for a king's ransc and it surely is a king's ransom t) fighting for ted the game well Vinay ar By John Pollock mawwwwrwnrnrD But it will be discouraging work to A NOTHER new boxing club, whic hh | hooked up for two more fights anized, will hold | wiht be will go against Job clever lightweight of bout at Akron, and on April 4 with Johnny Harve in & twelre-round | brought off at Columbus, | battler work's lightweight Lave & workout vem» | Neither Maisel, High Nor Gil-| hooley Larger Than Pro- verbial Pint of Peanuts. will be Previlie's lant « fore tackling Beunie Leonent in the Ganlen nex witwoig lay for hie ma h Kilbaue, feather neck, whirling him around and throw ing him headlong through the ropes, Incidentally, the shock of the blow added to the jerk caused by missin hia own lead, nearly dislocated Jim's | right shoulder who is staging te pn | bouts to the Willan: Moran beayyweig! Jay wlgwed up Jim Savage, the rai heavyweight, to meet Bathing Leviusky in sem final he tag fight, Pirewan Jim Bi wae fought Levi but on account o by Pret Pulton, Joneton out all of Willard’s recent training | «. work I've noticed that he lety his head roll with every punch that) After many attempts lands on his face, This is the neat-| ‘imted between Freddie Welsh, the world’s es WEY of breaking the force of a| Sesion weal desea. aie Cee blow. I saw Willie Lewis use it in EEE r wight w clash in ® tenvound go at 1% Vellously well in his famous fight| )vnde 1m Madison 4 mn March 1 with Sailor Burke years ago. Buike| *® to revel of $12,000 and nt $8,000, wisich Ie a larger amount thaw he Would bare got if he fought Jubnny Dundee, had come within an ace of knocking Willie out, Willie, back against the ropes, was almost helpless, His arins hung at his sides. But a8 Burke Lat-| Accaruing to Frank Mulkem, the promoter of tered furiously him, trying to fin- | mu Vackey MeVariand led ish his work, Lewis rolled his head | fight agsia aod has authory from side to side with every punch | up for « ten rund bout Ww be that landed, until after half atininute| week io May, Muikero wired di ton or so he had gathered strength: aguin, | offer today for Ted “Kid Lewis to meet M when he countered suddenly und! Farland knocked Burke down. The w wee on if Mulaery woul Lewis rolled his head with the bio wanted was the most interesting thing in the| - fight. And Willard has the same) joes Willard declared today that he wil trick. He won't push his face into for tis mame in Chi ego on Bundey @ any of Moran's hard drives. If they| He las emgaged & drawing rom car on. the reach him he'll roll his head with |awenueth Century Ldwitet, He will be accom them, which is nearly a6 good as! panied by his manager, Tom Jour, Jack Owls, ding them entirely, Yesterday | its mparring partner, Walter Monabau and Jack afternoon Willard encouraged Jack | iumpie, and bis secretary Hempel to hit hif on the jaw as hard — *# be could, ana’stood there taking Frankie Callahan, the Brooklyn Lightweight, ie sign him tie fiat leare | fighting Uew dave, ty working har of Brooklyn on Tueus EVENING WUKULD, EST SPORTING PAGE BURSDAY, MAROR 3 WILLARD’S DEFENSE Copyright, 1916, b TT is HARD To see How MORAN can GeT BY WILLARD'S VABBING Lert To DeLiver_ Py HIS FAMOUS , DELAYED Rionrt . Mike Gibbons Thinks Bout Will Go the Limit, Willard Victor Sayst, When McFarland and 1 fought tor SAYS] « $32,500 purse in New York last Sep- tember 1 thought we paid to se jecision bout, Jot the hu ew—and we e thousand Ing to observe the gr over, Men from ev ure going to see it, real good exhibl 1 am a decisive | the world Willard| 1 look to see boxing many nm terned after the N if the bout plea On Average to boxing will rec But to get buck to th lard’s long left will langer throughout, te en} is too much of a ring YANKS’ 0 MACON havin + hard morning’s workou | trate ) Manager Donovan had | Welcome order that the y jover, A play of some kind was under - ussion and the wh | whit a | tusten and Col, Ruy to Mac y had bou Mecarma, [of $130,000, ‘The to observe Jat the home plate. In the | broad w " over the outer ring, made up mostly ueelf on the }Of pitehers, Wild Bill was M4 down at something and the su i» «Tand the Colonel craned their necks to better see Meo buwy Vol balls,” the Captain n the |to Baye me “TURNS His HEAD WITH THE Bow, | » suns these two men are drawing down, Their combined purse 4unounts to more money to over twenty~ | dt certainly ts a great thing for box- interest that the y walk of life and If the bout is om of the manly re it will be, it 1 bis boost for boxing all over States by legisla w York Sta d, if It should prove to be e a temporary n's most _ terrific n they |slaughts, Although I think ove the ring that both men will be|route Willard would score a knc 1—!out, in a limited round match Mora lightly. He t# as Ka confident, fight may turn out. ne and too clever to be stopped, URED =) (8 SMALLEST, YET. a two-handed hitter as well. time ©) FASTEST IN GAME Joe Wagner could ¥ rest—e could have beaten colored man By Bozeman Bulger. . March 28 ets HA Yanks may fail ale points of distinction, but there | can be no doubt as to their| the smallest and yet the fast. | st outfleld in Organized Baseball, neldent at the training grounds after them,” surp They are sifitt their posite signals to the Pp a Tn a minute or two the rin evs broke up and there th Maisel, High and Gilhooley—netther f Pra {Plite, In the grandstand were Capt.|of them much larger than a bag of ay not knelt heads barely | ‘The sensation of the camp 1s Frank ater OenGe %[Gthhooley, who led the International one Eaten in| League os a hitter last season. ool Lreast pocket, Lee |Was with the Yanks once before, bt a Ne08 18 ble i was let out by Frank Chance on Thg to one side of the Lilliputian |count of his inability to throw, id out of the arm was very bad that year, and at time nobody questioned Chance's team gath- | around him in a circle at the| reac t for their cash outlay | they would have had to stand on tip- | Magee, not a great deal larger, was f Donovan towered |MAGEE MAY OCCASIONALLY th stood, In @ butting practice these |midgets were head and shoulders above every other man on the club in 1 understand, sprinting to first after laying down “He must be after those broke tn the club house and stole the 1 jim [“But Lean't tell just what ts wron Say, Duke," the Colonel called to ip two small me the Nationa rareails Ghia ci ee eee nd American League, aside from the Farrell, the old coach, stacking wp the] Yank trio, are Miller Hugging. and bats, “who are the little fellows that Donie Bush, but neither of them is an ‘he Presa Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Tue CHameion , WHEN HiT, BREAKING THe FORCE OF (T Dona Some DUCKING EF LATE es What Various Fight Experts Have to Say About Big Bout BY MARTIN JULIAN (Manager of Jim Savage and Former’ Manager of Bob Fitzsimmons). Moran stopped Coffey twice, all right, but he never delivered a punch hard enough to knock him unconscious. Willard are no stiffer they won't disturb Jess go t If the pu..shes he linds on you'll: yn the other hand, Willard punches harder than any heavyweigh. at years, and if he reaches Moran as often as Coffey did Frank w ly be knocked out, BY JIMMY JOHNSTON (Matchmaker of Madison Square Garden). { like Moran, He looks 80 good to me that I have taken : ingly foolish odds of 3 to 1 that Frank will knock Willard out. Goo me a man who can punch like Moran and I will let my money 1 any time, regardless of the alae of the other fellow, BY JACK O’BRIEN (Former Light Heavyweight Champion.) 1 said Willard was the best big man I had ever ter man than I thought, but still my prediction goes. F to last ten rounds ts to make a footrace of it. BY DAN M’KETRICK en. Moran is a oe nk's only cu. ace (Former Manager of Moran). Frank and | bave buried the hatchet. He's not a bad fellow ishmen, Owing to our recen( ferences I do not care to make any prediction about the Garden bow no matter what I should say it probably would be interpreted wrongly, picked Willard folks would say I was a@ sorehead, If I selected they would say I had some ulterior motive. Trouble is both of us are headstrong This [ will say, though. « believe Willard and the public in general are holding the challenger too ne a man as ever stepped into a ring. Also the mos: Certain it is that he will not be disgraced no matter how thr BY JACK M’AULIFFE (Retired Undef ed Lightweight Champion). Moran has the chance of his lifetime. If he keeps his head—and there is no doubt he will do so, for he 1s cool under fire and an exceptional ring general—Moran will have better than an even chance to knock out the champion. I have seen Willard recently, Moran yesterday showed more speed than Jess—more actual, telling speed with his hands and feet. Make no mistake, Moran is not only far above the average as a boxer, but he is He knows how to protect himself at all Willard will find it difficult to hit Frank. Jess's sparring part- ners find him easily, and Moran can do the same if he forces the fighting, His best chance ig to tear in from the start. than an even chance, If he does this he has better BY TERRY M’GOVERN (Former Featherweight Champion). 1 do not think there is a man living that can sland up against that fellow for ten rounds if Willard let himself out to the limit. I believe he dd the old boys—Sulli ve hand’ as th heavyweight the game has seen, n, Fitz, Corbett, Sharkey and the wily enough. The way he looked to me yesterday I believe he 2k Johnson at his best. And before Willard that best af all the heavies. | Willard atri f of Corbett, with the punishing and assimilating powers o' ne ee ces ine defensive skill of Johnson, If you get that idea you know what I think of the coming fight. Willard strikes me ag being Moran is up against the toughest Donovan is after? I'd like to see | outfielder Attle fellow ine. Ww of play o and out of the picture. have to give a repeated Farrell in| High or Gilhooley, that's the outfield, |able feature is that they are all of a lesson, on how t6/exactly the name height. | It looks : *y|if some one had, with great care, #e- a with the catcher’s |it ted thom. to match, “It's @ pity to spoil the combina- Wore | tion by using Lee Magee,” says Dono- 1, “but there may be times when he Will play second and then the picture will be perfect." PLAY SECOND BASE. Judgment, That afternoon, though, he under- ‘The two small men of the National | game, hooley's arm now. fleld he made several practice throws yesterday afternoon that were prac- teally perfect—throws that could not bunts. Not only that, but they led|have been made with a weak arm, /in the hitting and in’ base running. There ig not a man in the league— | not even Ty Cobb—faster than these little fellows and it is doubtful if there is another outfield, outside of the Tigers, who can beat them hitting, There is nothing wrong with Gil- From deep right There is no doubt now about Gil- hooley getting a regular berth, first man to sit on the bench, unless Fritz Maisel has a very bad strea will be STILL BOTHERING FIGHT PROMOTERS Boxing Commissioner Insists on Dictating Unnecessary Preliminary Programme. Fred A. Wenck is suffering from a rush of zeal to the head, Mr, Wenck is Chairman of that well-known Box- ing Commission, The excess of xeal, #0 to speak, that has animated his every movement since he received an has led hin to make a number of tonishing demands upon the promot ers and principals in the Willard- Moran match that will be decided Sat- urday night at Madison Square G den Latest of these is an order that not less than three four-round prelimin- aries and one six-round preliminary must precede the big bout. Mr. Wenck explains the only possible reason for this—the Boxing Commissioners in their wisdom have decreed that every boxing show must include three four- round and one six-round bout It matters not that the thirteen thousand spectators will be there to see Willard and Moran in he ring, and don't care to be bored with a lot of “small time stuff.” Their desires are not to be consulted. They must see three four-round preliminaries and a six-round bout. The Boxing Commis- sion, represented by Mr. Wenck, so orders. Mr, Wenck authenticated that order in person this forenoon, He rushed into the fight headquarters, elbowed his way hastily to the door of the inner sanctum of the promoters, and rushed through it like a cyclone Inside was Mr. Rickard. The door closed behind the zealous Wenck with a bang. From inside came sounds indicative of a verbal battle. Wenck popped out again and was intercepted by Mr. Cashman “How on earth can we put on all those bouts and p Mr. Rickard's ; Moran will be in t and neither of them will welght to Maisel, Another remark- same height. It looks as He Hin The k, y" High, It seems a pity to keep a man like that out of the but Magee and Masel, can outhit High, and Domovan v: wisely figures that wallops are what make runs, both, word to the public that Willard and ring ready to start at 9,302" led Cashman, catching at the zealous Commiasion- leave. whooped Wenck. “See | here—8 o’clock—15 minutes—15 min- utes—24 minutes—9 o'clock | With this he shot out of t Mr, Rickard refuses to worry over the latest order. He says that the | preliminary bouts are up to Jimmy | Johnston, who can put on a bunch of | them for the ushers if he wishes to. What Mr. Rickard intended to pr vide for the entertainment of the spectators was one good ten-round bout before the big one, It cat. culated that this would give everyone time to get seated for the main event of the evening It is not customar of Iittle bot fo door. to have a mess » a heavyweight jchampionship mateh. At Reno there Was no préliminary bout, Neither |was there a preliminary in Havana. There was no preliminary to the Cor- | bett-tzsimmons bout at Carson, or at any one of half a dozen other im- | portant championship affairs, | Frank Baker’s Hit Wins Game MACON, March 23.—Through seven innings of yesterday afternoon's prac- tice game between the Yankee regu- lars and the Yannigans, J. Franklin Daker was @ rather inconspicuous fig- |ure. He had scored his team’s only run on an infleld error, a steal and Wally Pipp's first single, but bad done noth- | ing over which a crowd could be ex- pested to enthuse, It. all seemed distressingly remindful of Benny Kauf's hitless debut at’ Marlin a couple of weeks ago. ‘Then came the eighth and the blow- off, for in a moment of rash confi- | dence, Dan Tipple, who had gone \through 2 1-3 innings without per- mitting a base hit, shoved one within |veach of the Baker bat. When the ball finally Ht out near the centre- field fence Elmer Miller made a clever overy and a splendid throw, |but by the time the ball had been | relayed back to the diamond, Baker ‘was comfortably perched on’ second base, whence he scored the tying run, a bit later, on Pipp's second sa That the reguiars won by a of 8 10 2 was due almost entirely to the efforts of the Home Run King. Until he broke the ice against TMpple in the eighth, his mates were even feebler than usual at bat. Then, in- spired by his example, they batted oui @ victory 1n the last two innings. eceee sees TA JACK BRITTON IS GIVEN DECISION OVER GRAVES, DAYTON, ©., March 28.—At the Day- ton Gymnastic Club Jack Britton re- |ceived a fiiteen-round decision over Kid |Graves of Milwaukee here last night. Britton was too fast and clever for Graves, He kept his left hand w all the time with hooks to the bod straight Jabs to the face. He hit « at will, ‘Phe Kid continually forced the fighting and tried to knock Britton ‘out with right and left-hand swings, b: Jack looked the clas# all through ti battle, ‘The bout drew such @ crow | that hundreds were unable to gain ad mission. — Asevedo y Whi NEW LONDON, March Jones of Brooklyn was no match for Joe Azevedo at the Greenwood A.C. It was @ shame to let the bout go the Umit. Jones was cut about the face, eyes and ears, and took terrible punish ment in the stomach. The bell saved Jones in the last round, appointment as Boxing Commissioner | With “Bags” Baer Press Publishing Oa, fork, World.) RABID RUDOLPH: Sivo— “AN OWNER OF A 1917 MODEL CAR WOULD LIKE TO BUY 1908 MODEL GASO.- LIN Expert accountants figure that Wil- lard’s share of the gate will be over 100,000 gallons of gasoline. Baseball season will soon open in St, Looey unless rain grants the fans a reprieve, Freddy Weish is still the same lad who could step a Marathon in a@ tele- phone booth. By buying his own ball club Larry McLean has finally got a chance to get on good terms with the management. Amerioan boxers have captured the AMATEUR fighting championships of Europe. will not have to do muck 1 the fane will be broke, Refyree Whi breaking, as A pitcher without any control soon finds the manager has less dot to hand « varsity eight credit for the only college youths to get any excite: meat on water, ‘The Kaiser has finally wised up and has stopped treating the Czar's vodka trained troops to liquid fire, His experience with tackling dum= mies should make Percy Haughton @ geod man to handle the Brav: rookies. T wouldn't want to be an ump, I want hemispheres to know i ‘here are too many rhymes for ump— Bump and slump and chump and lump, Jump and stump thump— And each player is a poet. 1 clump and They say the only thing superior te Jess's blocking i a hay wagon in front of a fivver. Michigan's Chinese a himself over the © manag ye first to smanaate ¢ frequently ANSWERS TO QUEERIES. W. U. F.—No, the fight in a ri taurant between Moran's former man- ager and a lawyer wasn't for the check. Z. Q—You've been gyped. The 1916 season tickets to Central Park are blue. G. 0. K.—No special influence ie required to get a post-graduate course at Joliet. R. U. T.—Best recipe to the fight is to have a few of Unkie Sam's yellow-backed visiting card M. M. M.—iIt's a gift. But still an ability to the back of your own neck has no commercial value, B. G.—There is a war in Europe, but don't ask us to decide any more bets, N, ©. K—Only newspaper that awarded the decision to W. Jennings Bryan was the Commoner of Lincoln, Neb. Goof.—Are no golfing handicaps Every golfer is handicapped enougl by being a golfer. 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