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2 m1 TON WILLARD NOT JUSTIFIED BECAUSE HE . 7 Se IS NO LONGER PUNCH-PROOE —_—_—__<42—___-—_—_—- Betting Sentiment Is Likely to Be Against Big Jess Because of His Unpopularity Since He Won Championship From Joha- son—Dempsey Is Popular Man of Present Match, With a Record That Makes Titleho!der’s Look Like Joke. | By Robert Edgren. Copyright, 1919, by the Frm Pubillahing ¢ v Piz)! | pects to see Champion Jesa| Jess A FEARFUL BLOW ae ¥ enter the ring July 4 as favorite over Jack Dempsey, but I doubt that he Will be a 2 to 1 favorite Of course there is the argument that Willard has been out of the ring for only three years and that Jeffries was out six years before the fight at Reno. Jeffries, too, had to take off 100 pounds in the course of ten months, while Willard needs to lose only half that much to be down to normal Jeffries was fighting a champion known to be a great long y never fought a long battle. fighting weight. distance fighter, while Demps\ In spite of all that, Jeffri pool room in Reno on the night before the fight. On that dope Rickard might figure @—————— Willard a 3-1 favorite. But curiously | contre enough, betting doesn't sin follow | dope and figures. counts immensely. wanted to see Jeffries whip Johnson Jeffries was popular, was far from a favo! 0dde on Jeffries And now when Wil to meet Dempsey and heavy odds-on favorite ting because of his great advantages, his position as champion and the fact that he was brought up on long distance fights, sentiment is the betting go the Mkely to make With the general public Willard ts an extremely unpopular champion, owing to his repeated refusals to give his services to various branches of war work, and his grasping selfish- ness in money matters, have become the most popular of al! g@rampions, and he threw away his @hance because he never could see and farther than J. Willant and J. Willard's growing bank account, Jack Dempsey is the popular man ‘a the match, Sixty pounds lighter than the champion, through all opponents like a whirl- wind, winning fight after fight in a lifting him from his f round or two, and establishing a ring | record that makes Willard’s look like & joke. He has been extremely ac-! unexpected aggression, Johnso! tive in war work, boxing scores of| ily stayed away from him for nearly bouts for various patriotic causes, and | 4 round. jon, av never turning down a request for nis | services when it was possible for tim to appear. well known fact that Jack Dempsey de & clean living athlete, who takes pride in keeping in fine condition, ‘Willard was like that once, whun he first came into public notice. condition and big Jess have beon strangers for three or four years. Jess has put on fat that he hasn't taken off again—not natural fat. the fat of overindulgence in the things that destroy athletic condition and So, In spite of his bulk and his ruddy looks, it 1s doubt- ful that the Willard of next July 4 « be tm a class with the Willard who gent Johnson crashing down twenty-sixth round at Havana. Willard Punch-Proof Four Years Ago. Yea, Jess WAS a superman when Tex O'Rourke knew was = punch-proof. fought Johnson al! day night before the fight Jess told me that he would take avold risks, a8 he knew fight ali afternoon without tiring, on he knew Johnson would weaken from the tenth round on, was watchful fighting ability. His programme Yet 1 don't know another that time who could lutely desperate for the too much weight and he had dissipated weaken as soon twentieth round of hard fighting that Johnson really showed a sign couragement and thought the fight had gradually against him for some time. began to go. of weakening, in the twenty-third, quickly, and only Willard's found Johnson three rounds later It was in the early part of the tight that Willard needed his In the first round Jess started shake Johnson's confidence ing the first drove the black champion's he: back and made his eyes water when Johnson found he couldn't po. sibly reach the giant from long range 4 to do what he was fore had done b And at this Willard fofl and again by «blows swig short jlecking them size gpd strength enabled him to Sebpacn's rushps just as ibe BEST SPORTING PAC Tennison STRUCK. Wie taro e8TH aA HARD LEFT Hoor oN THs OAW . Now York Rvening World.) RICKARD says that he ex Tomson STRUCK. Willard ente# the ring on July INTHE PIT OF The 4a2to1 favorite over Jack Dempsey. STOPOCM « «+. Tex O'Rourke, who conditioned FY CARY PASE « Willard for the Johnson fight, says Jess won in Havana because Jess was “a superman, who could not be hurt by @ blow.” Jess may have been @ euporman! in Havana, and as champion he may wh A SWNGING Ano Wirraro SMASIED RIGHT Boo wend - - A Boor Gtow THaT ARARIY was 2 to 1 favorite over Johnson in every, ms Bs abe se sta \ Lestoiteslblne sg Wipe | trio of a heavy football team | holds the charge of a plunging bac«. | When son found he couldn't ch Willard's Jaw easily he tried | |roughing. Wiliard leaned back against *, laughing, while Johnson to pia him there in a helpless | position. As Johnson tried to hit, Jess | uddenly shifted and slipped aside, | atching J on and throwing im | headlong aguinst the ropes, The Willard deliberately stepped back | At Albany for Hearings toward the middle of the ring, giving | Red Cross Directo Willing to G » of the Red C Jobnsu ime to ppreciate ne fact | * y eo » b nl tbat he had been, outdone in-steenptt Go With Others to Help who directs all forms of entertain and tricked in balane It was a blow nent 4 1 nty-three hospitals at Johnson's confidence and self-ce ceit, as effective as a punch on the jaw There was a time a little later, in the seventh round, when Johnson, | hands at Albany on Mar. 11, the after a minute or two of felnting, at ——— ————___—_—_—_— _ te for the hearing of last found one ‘opening for " Doin e for th t A side bes tremendous blow at the pit the Gibbs Boxing Bill and a public 1 hearing on Sunday baseball, This vrts"atotach" whieh ne arave in (Bowling Strikes wx ard Spares ) Out Ring Sport. How Wataro pommstad SJornison IN THE KING HE sport world will mobilize all his bit t r Gillette * Loyalty bo Debarkation Hosp! date pron huge frame, | Walter Hartley, known from coast well known bowlen too numerous mentous the an is of New York “Knockout” Blow Only to coast ava very good bowler, made Mikio -ashtatiog, ave so willing to ; his first appearan in the eastern ine 1 he ros Ss are de: Made Him Mad. | ; A tentative schedule o} Senator Gibbs, who has cl 4 : dividu: championship tournament Adl with oe b hooded Giblil th wavive Boxing is thls State ng in New York § If ever a blow was meant for a| 4st night when he met Alex Dunbar knockout, that was, Johnson, grin. | 4t the latter's St. Nicholas Alleys. He ning, pulled back to give Willard rocm | rolled fairly well, averaging 183% | to fall, and in the same ant Wil- | for the six games rolled, but was no enrag Hed back his rigut | Match for the “chief,” who was in fin d voxing. bowl! been drawn tp for er Whe] team, under fe jeadersh 4 wate We) Walker, 21. Walker and 2. Le Hoden- burg, "19 are Be veterans, while J. T. has 4 all friends of the fistic game to Albany on March 11 to ex- ract pe hand and sent it smashing into John. | fettle. The “ehies” lost the ea: Desigmey and the team of bowlem that) ‘Twins, at pr@ent in the School of /MAY best be conducted is new 1 considerable momentum son's body, knocking Johnson buck | PY, Reore oF 128 | Led athe ave to" meta | Business, wha comes from Massachy- | lines. ‘Senator Gibbs has amended st few y several steps on his heels and nearly | did lowe as he wound up th ‘8 ; M. Le V@aRaalte, '20, with Line ‘the first bill he prepared which pro-| the stubborn opposition on et | play with the splendid av of fei, are others whom vided that bouts could only be staged ARS ORF Fast oat The superman had taken a knocks | 224 8-5 out punch, and ins d of being In another rely on. Ten) in buildings that are us ties rolled at the Pas- 1 exclusively haye already signed up | knocked « time Alleys, between J. Keller (who e ule inc or athletic purposes, t r these rt baseball war-| Joc Faicaro, the {natime alley repre eR uy i | provisions New York ( would Penile ty ay Re v elle on a handy fash i a ae Oa bes . ' i ly thor 1 Sen eit tative, f a La Me Yen aeels im Ao eft practically without a club. Sen- at Sunday ball will Again, a little later, Johnson, who | for Great crowds were in| alle DE ta ator Gibbs was quick to see this ins this meeting of the und mip ang tue) and Walter Drofessiona’ IX holes for knockout and win soon, planned and | gamen roile The scores follow executed as neat an attack as I've cver At the Nicholas Alleys—Dunbar, ended his bill to in- ler scope, Regarding justice and a lude a bre Many zed ball will be pr t terrific left to the right side of the point of Willard’s chin, driving Wil- | ja4'e-6. 53, . 156, lard’s head away over two @r three 146: « 168 1-6, oy feet to the left. Then, with a right | The next series scheduled for the | op fist already dropped to position near, tourr nt will be rolled on Monday | ¢ his knee, he awung a crashing half Risht when fehaeder and lucke ment | played his usual strong, 170, 189, drive being expects to gain much valua’ mation from the hearing on his b. According to present plans tner will be @ delegation of sport from France, helped at th owe expect to be life 1 1917, and helped Jeron moany, af whies EO OW OM get beck it bi Weta team reyrewsiting t with his right hand, I admit 1 thought that second blow on the jaw, (M ™m\a) @ sure knockout, So did Johnaon, o'dock in Ue aor without a doubt. I had just time to pin bars will, be tas half rise in my seat to see Willard ite ey fall when Jess straightened up and head's deletion of Ne at the samo instant hit Johnson a Schultze of West tt tremendous right hand blow over the heart that knocked him ten fe: th old time form. His best record in’ the St.George Was 66, Par for the eee that thousands who like to see a Iv glove scrap may be -Dundee’s Race Horse Wins iment A sagt Little Boxer Cleans Up in the second round, punch his son her und bout last night, ok The superman had taken two blows, the second of which surely Hiri Howling ‘Ame we the Ninitad thne would have knocked out any but a@ fe Lewis of Heldg. ‘at Thum's White bred game. He paid $2,000 for him Mupermany And he had struck back | Al. Johan a New Haven, Conn ue: Di inted . T Johnny says that although he 1lkes instantly, with strength unimpaired _—_ “ disappointed Last Time, But racing, he doesnt’ like ell enough abbed Wa w Jack Dempsey hit MARE ee man Fred Fulton in exactly the same way, | i lo become horse owner, and that % | Finally Latds Purse at |t9, Become, ® Ber te ds mn In exe me way War Mask was | pure PY, ie miler | hooking @ left to his Jaw and knock- or less against his will. Scotty but the ised R ‘ nore OF ing his head over to one side, and | New Orleans, thought that Johnny ought to be dif- sjuare de \ whipping tho right to meet the — m other fighters, and that it wed to of | r of his chin. In Fulton's case) Johnny Dundee is to receive a guar: | | Mik B i hoyrant | rye le ee ining tos Onn e The games of the Osceola Club of the result was a clean, cold knock: | antee of $1,500 for boxing Richie | i dy By Alex. Sullivan nse. He bid for the horse and then the Fifteenth ny District toe tH mit’. C, of Now Jena might to make | ‘ se. He t ’ out. | They could have counted Ave’ yiitchell, the Milwaukee lghtweisnt, | good in thie job, as be has been ideatitied wi OHNNY DUNDEE, the popular me to Johnny and told him he hod FRANKIE BURNS SCORES night at the Se Arm- minutes over Fred. Yet 1 find it hard 4 ten-round bout at Milwaukee on| the bo» for many you and benides knows tle Itallan lightweight ought him a horse. Johnny had not ANOTHER EASY VICTORY, ory are sure t ord break- to believe that the blows Dempsey pec gar eich ae tes Gal Cok ab bey Bht who has jr ehige to do but to make good, Now cil ng crowd of vers of old ruck were any harder than the ex- March 10. Johnny made this match] "at lie Vy een holding hs own against all nets giad he did = Aare ; Yorkville 30-yard ly simil blows T saw Johnson himself, as well as those with , t stars of the féathe res Jee Lynch, the crack little west side ¥ c : th: er ol tha ths Aaah ape are Mintel land in ration on Willard at jonnny Mealey at the Olympia A. A.! Pru Hatian midtiensiast| weight and sometimes the welt antamweliht, WHO Fecentiy won a |e Di, ea wand boar (worth the trip to th i Ab of Philadelphia on Monday night] 9ks! for tw hia month, On March) J oient division for the past ¢ * twenty-round decision from Toret ou ut 1,000-y € ' the As it out, and ua Johnaon|0f Philadelphia on Monday MIBMt) iy i. win tare MeCarron, the light| Welsht di n for the past ten years, Nunta’ the English bantam champion, New Jersey in will perne ed at the time, this and Ralph Brady, the Syracuse Ngat- | nearyweight of A *., for toh rounds at| made a ends hay Tandon will self, after coming a marked gh tide in the at Olympian Cy of | Reading, Pa., while on “1 M4 he is slated to] yester ed the word on as he fights Seaton § Milir games in fight. It was his last chance to win neuse oh March 18, For meeting} # Up against Tommy Re husky mid around that he hag received a te.. famous Europea 2 r 7 third vic Gard IHe had used everything he had ard ley, Dundeo Is to receive 891 m Malden, Ma rounds at the) o oe & tei. uynch has re ewton. Bre Lar dder, jeverything he knew, and landed His per cent. of the gross receipts and | TF ©, of Trent gram ‘ ue ch Frank Bray at he will be mustered out as so >_> — the old Un Pr ala best blows with perfect accuracy and ‘ itt t the horse tht Joh 4 8 country and 1 st 1 receive rit 1 j * i ant for boxing Johnny Ray in Pittsburgh owas, |us he arrives in this cou w undicaps the very limit of the power that Wax [eat Monday night he drew down a} Micky Donley r Mask, had @ Btod chance to wig |t is he at Fort Jay, Governor's [stave SPORT BRIEFS. ni Baker. In urd dash, Jin him. And it only stirred Willard | guarantee of $1,250 wo has won tt at tiie Orlaana . Here's Joe's letter to his manager, Ed * immy O'R Shaughnessy © momentary anger wna Abdiegie tg tee Soret nical bad ind Jack Eller w 1 AN eXchie ha reat of the Gabi te hardly worth | apoiee thier tae divelond, who, claina be Jay night at Harrison against Jimmy} Although on Motay War stag, {te Mend “Feb, 4, 1919 Eroamus Hall High School, ti ng contest going over. Willard carefully "wor, |i tie keitimate fouthorscight champion of that | Soilivan, the former amateur chaupion, who is! made a game effortythe dest he coulg| “Just a few tines to let you know ‘champions of 1918, gained posses eK Sadho ihacahow ailline tee Johnson down, outboxing him and. muntry, will die ting auvalitien in this] going great guna do was finish second in the race ra:, (that 1am inthe best of health, Well, of first place in the P. 8. A. L. ¢ the benefit of soldiers and sailors ef overmastering ‘him M® strength until ry to-night at tie National 4, C, of Phila Aatasds a : 4at reat that English bantam champ nip tournament last night by the district t wounded in the the fat in Johnson's body clog in deashia, He is Jory Fox, who ar * Ya & letter to thie Johnny Basen | B 1. Many of Johnny's frien Tommy Noble, in twenty rounds, W : 5 J ca War. The lah T. Mahoney heart and lungs and muscles tera weeks ag, Fox will box Young Rotidea Whe east lie he ls 90 longer under | dropped & gob of idoy f my ssed to weigh in at 8 st ng the six eamalca and Mrs, BE. Hasti ve the execte him helpless for the final stro! Philadelphia wis r Fraphie arg de- | tHe management of Jon Ca phnuy further | Johnny at that timealso sent out me | tied Iney at 10o'clock. Twas all right, | H fe Brooklyn Ice Palace, /8nd Mrs. B. Hastings at Pee When | saw Jess in his quarters an § Yor when he fought in t i A acter ey ri 1 bel tip that War Mask Moked like : oniy weighing 8 stone 7 (119 Ibs). No- yp wa best contested mat Boe hour later, being stripped and rubbed binge Sad, ieee ee MPL nor, Yesterday Wis ‘ld My Na not weigh in at all, sc » date, and was witnesse he had a. slightly bruised chin and etiike ay Pare Pha aa Arlanda | PPT Yn heer tasks namelovinved his forfeit of 25 pounds (8250), || Steer gy RACING SELECTIONS, small cut under his right ear, and : % Ju ttele| oo We Donte: Ia Fatlanelnhe <a tar med eithat he weighed somet by TEMS Sear 130 bem re aside from that was without a mari 1 Ha an ih eae 28 pounds c score Was 3 to Prior to this NEW ORLEANS “Didn't those two blows on the chin | Mun at xt reg show | dim Griffin, the weil know xine/der Fire was a promun I sure was str aud after fooling je the teams were deadlocked for) First Ttace — Mile, Dazie, Rarar, daze you?" 1 asked Tue Gonnny Daly and ¢ 4 of California, seeme 10 Ae Hos Tonnes ait thee round for the first elght rounds : her contest Poly| Guaran on Ture put Johnny told the gang arounc me) the lead. In another contest Poly Se ar aANae sad “Why, no," said Jess reflectively. | furke will figum in one of them, while Jouny | fficial there, for) ied ta Lenten ban er banned Ment in and fought him off h t, the eno! , nd Tace—Meddling Miss, Bert 1 tin at t Vo Prop shut out Commercial, 4 to 0, and) Williams. dack K “1 felt them, but I gave my head @ Bult and Willie Burne, both of deme Cy, w Mae the four-round devinion tv Sem 113 to 5. Odds of |17 he weighed what I did T w 1 rop shut out Come rage tS Witz nets "Charile ‘Levdeseas shake and shook it off." anit i the atellar ever 1, the colored hearyweight and| “Johnny says he cltaned yp Knogked him out, T sure got some |jumped into second place, wees race = Chi “And that mule kick in the pit of |. jis tean ary " Mee i " Vriewo hears t, at the money by betting ‘id g hand atter fete, eye ine 5 f vaun i th Race—Puts 1 Calls, Lora about that pod re 1 xd 1 romoter of San Fran. | HO recently received as his end toc NON eee oe alanis eason to-night when it ale i ig, Aldebarran. “He never hit me there," said Jena. | swe in a ten ¢@, ayy the manager of Vrwi Fulton, t 4| bout with Cha n Lec oes Pd Banle, aA hey: F the gymnasium on eran ide Hegnte | MiBizth Race Romeo, Saint's mia “At least, if he did 1 dic otic it” alread her application wii the | Miunmota hearyweia Te was Parent drew a record-break gcking me a 2 With advantage of ng on ita | J Ap.toanis OF ba 9id Ain b pallet A ce ? : ‘| wirel 10 Mike Colline of Bt, 1 War Mask was ved word that T co own floor, the Blue and White fve will! GRUP, Ryo —Broom Peddler, But t Y yours aga, pidry Lar weosilianion igttt aca of Pulte a tig tthe s tht have my discharge fo into the game confident of v ctory mveath. Race — . Kut t was four ye aga ooted that tlh mndianion will wu ager of Pultom ring bho ¢y [at the sale o iS fights booked for me 8 \gnq@ strengthened in thi confidence be~ » And when a fellow lives as Willard, grant it, ‘The clu hae not ion naw an yet, (to eancel Fulton's " Wien | Year-olds at ihe xuge Fo a aed ee ene sear itn nproved playing. agalnet | === has been living, fgur years makes 4 | but te chanom aw uo wil Auown a6 tw Collins relnesd it Fulton told Paruie w gofPy's old manager, start lot of difference, @.te Muah AU shead end look after hie atten, Lie ood viet occas ROCCE sme IN NEW YORK TILDEN BEATS AWD KHecKen WA over The OTHER. WAY RIGHT - on Te "Pant", Sporting Men Will Mobilize On Baseball and Boxing’ i unity with trouble of going |g round New York City, signified his ntention of going to Albany and do eading the cause of and decidit 4 with ue every Ah tly told friends that hearing on Sunday from ali r f State. This agitation to press their views as to how the game : . ¥ baseball oa the Sabbath ars. It was only {of the I. C ieasure from passing resentatives from organ- Albany on| beneficial | pen galt ch atter of rendering decisions \furct re now seen in a ring. Fiddling around untd | 19%, 1 avera Seorwiary JW ach. Hagen's short g eae As wea EAN nag been. to Wealeral at last he found Willard's jaw un- | 224 191, 190, wr Unusual sundard and kep and the number of rounds Senator s. In addition to officials of the guarded for a moment, he hooked a! sg ht anne «© running Bost of the time, while| Gibbs is still of an open nd. He ha ; me, Mathewson and Johnny Evers, infor- both of whom have recently returned will tell how baseball front during the most erious times and how the doughboys to play the game he Grand Central alleys 508 fi ; ing officials and a regi- on their return to their home coun- | uppercut to the other side of the St tie Grand Central alloys, No. pea! j 1 Brook, Couat Pete oe ennivere go to Al.|tty: not just six days, but every day giant's jaw, catching him fairly on and Knobloch meet at Dyckman | ogee from club, He waa at the ment of boxing’s admirers go to Al: orth, week, the oint and driving his head clear alleys Street and Tenth Avenue. | {na her tour ot 1 Long. Island, last bany on March 11, and it is believed Seana aes pack go hard that Willard was bent mhinar’ who rolfed partin the tnternatio: t sence will convince the As- over from the waist as If trying to ira. eet der the auspices of the heir, promence cal Gen eis di JACKSON LOSES DECISION pick Up something from the floor Lirwouinald del Goleers’ Association tr sembly that the Empire State is de- vere {2 | Srous of having boxing restored, so TO FARREN IN FRISCO SAN FRANCISCO, March L—A wild landed by Frankie such an arm at en was TENNIS PARTNER FOR SINGLES TITLE ihnilipiici Richards Loses Middle States Final to Lad Who Won the Doubles Championship With Him, PHILADELPHIA, March 1.—WWilliams T. Tilden 2d of Philadelphia defeated Vincent Richard the sixteen. years old school boy who holds with hint the |national doubles championship, in the title round of the Middle Atlantie lawn tennis singles tournament om the roof of the Wanamaker Building |here to-day by a score of 4—6, 6—% 5—1, 6—2, 76, The meeting of the pair which wom |the Middle Atlantic doubles title om | Thursday attracted one of the biggest crowds of the tournament to the cov~ ered courts, and the onlookers were well rewarded by the five-set battle | that followea, The playing of Ti particularty in the last two sets, was the mos® briiiant seen during the tournameat He seemed ail over tne court, making spectacular gets thet ed the gale lery. Pace also was u factor in his game, but his smashing attack stood out above everything He used his straight, bullet-lke st to ad= vantage and varied this with a ree verse twist that proved entirely toe |much for Richards The young N r y. started’ | | wh land before Tile ed into his game, a rth 4. There |w ft ‘ving that | marked den n the doubles ‘Thursday } et, in which r i irds before 18 not #0 t took every= i] hor t 7—o, ) Tilden speeded r to in fourth set, Which went to the Philadelphia eve end, re he when fifth ) 1} his doubl “-| Intercollegiate Outdoor Games | Goto Harvard The intercollegiate track and field ames will be held at the Harvard adium in Cambri May 30 and 31, This was decided la nt at the meeting of the Exe mittes A. ALA Id at the }Columbia Univer ub, The recomme adopted tos c f the at the Columbia Club. ation will t the ann ssociat The Executive ( ittee also recommends the foll mportant fon on the el students who have been in t navy, or Ge rnment service No one shall represent any mem« ber of the association as a competitor at any intercollegiate meeting hel during 1919 who has not been @ St {dent in tha loge versity im good and regular standing from Nove 1, 1918, or who has not been a mem- ber of the 8. A. T. C. in good and regular standing from 1, 1918, and thereafter from or b: Jan, 1919, a student in good and regular standing in a universi'y or college \whereat such 8. A. T. C. was main- ltained. Unless it is that a student. | while in good and regular standing im any member of the ass ion en= \tered into war service for the United |States, or for those with whom the | United States was associated in ¢ war, and has returned to such un versity or college to become a stu- dent thereof in good and reguiar standing on or before Feb, 1, 1919, or if he were in such service at such time eturns to his university college and becomes a student t tin good. and regular standing, on or before April 1, 1919, In either of which events said student will be in that good and regular standing as ed by this tion ih ee is ‘i 1 will be Core aid Pegamlvatio uring the lor LNA mares oa? tea i