The evening world., 1913-11-28
willard Must Box One Round
Davis Before He viii Be Per.
mitted to Go On With Carl
Morris.

SAcouopeTTy ~. Ss OF buIAlO
intends to prevent the Morris
Willard bout here Mr.. Murray.
matchmaker Of the club. called me up
% ne long distance phone yesterday
and gave me the 0ussnsberry A. c. side
Of the story.
We are friendly to Billy Gibson"
ssa1 Murray. but We can't let him
interfere with our game. We believe
that law and Justice are on our SHE.
and We intend to stand up for our
rights. The State Boxing Commission |
ruled that Willard could not box In this
State until no fulnlled his contract with
our club. don't see how the Commits
siea can reverse itself. even to obiigs
Gibson. ! don't think the Comm salon
V inclined to.
we aren't going to let Tom Jones
20 around making foolish statements
about offering W money. We have
nothing to do with him and want moth
Ing 70 DO with him. II he offered US
eteo TO pay our loss whom Willard side
steppsd the match with One Round
Davis hts offer 10 . Joke. Our loss ran
into Thousands Of dollars. and $500
~euldn't repay our direct outlay.
wizard made the match With One
Round Davis. We would have had q
eate. with willard and Davis At that
time. Of from 5000 to $500. Willard |
Got an idea that the match Wouldn't
draw. He said ~ much. and teis-
eraphsd us that he couldn't box a. he
had hurt his hand. Then he offered to
box u we'd sivs him . $500 guarantee.
ISIS contract called for twenty Der cent.
Of the gate. He didn't get the guaran-
tee and hs skipped out and went West.
10 has been boxing IN the West for
nearly . year. And now expects to
come back and boz In New York State
and ignore his eontraot with W. Il
there Is such . thing - law and Jus
lice and . boxing commission wsrs
not going to let him DO Il.
Jones 10 . tAIker-nothins more. His
ofssr to pay w S>co 70 foolish In Wow
Of the fact that WIZARDS contract.
breaking cost " . large sum in adver.
Using and other expenses a. we'll as
the safe We would have taken In.
Jones's offer to let Willard box for us
after his match with Morris In Madison
SQUARE Garden 10 ~ foolish as the
Other. Norris may whip willard, and
then Willard wouldn't be worth
nickel to W. u he beat Morris he'd BE-
no better card here than no vas when
~ made his match with Davis. Jones
10 asking " TO gamble. with no chance
O prodtins By II. We won't do IT,
wNlard must make eood his contract
weth ~ bsfors he ooxss anywhere else
n tAis state"
n Ne willard AFFAIR isn't straightens1
out II 10 going TO hurt the gate at
the Aorris-W willard Sovt. ~ no one
w b sure until tho last moment that
~ bout U going to take place. Tho
best thAns willard could do. II ne 10
seeowed With good Kansas ''hoss
hurry through Win ne One-Round
Davis Job. That wouldn't take him
long. Then he could come down here
and 20 along with the Morris match
a later date. Morris ana Willard are
sodng to draw . great house Whenever
tsoy meet. Whether rs this week or
two months from now. They are the
Mggsst Of the topnotch heavyweiyhts.
willard 70 fest and weighs over aao
pounds. Morris u . little over feet 1
end b ~ heavy ~ Willard. Both have
past year. and II ISN'T at al unlikely
that enc OF the giants 10 Q coming
heavyweight chsmp1on. When they try
out their strsngth end skill Il Will be a
trial worth looking at. Neither has
ever met hi equal in strength up to
this date.
Tp-MoRROw marks the pract,ca,
end Of the football season Of 1919.
Harvard has cinchsd the inter.
collegiate championship OF the Atlantic
slope by going through the season un-
beaten and by An4shing up with VIC
tories over Princeton and Yals. should
the Navy team Win tomorrow there'il
Be room for discussion over the relative
strength OF Harvard and Annapolis.
Also there 10 some uncertainty about
how Harvard compares With Carlisle.
Harvard cut out the game with Dart
mouth this year because Of two reason,
Dartmouth was becoming too strons
and giving Harvard too much trouble
each season. and cleo % popular In
New England that many athletes and
football players prsfewsd Dartmouth
Harvard cut out her Carlisle game be-
cause the Indians. like Dartmouth, were
too strong.
In Jim Thorps's year Carlisle swamped
Harvard. Jim Thorpe himself kicking
-four field goals. SO now there r. no
way Of comparing Harvard and Carlisle
accurately. Dartmouth bsa< Princeton
IN much the same fashion that Harvard
nd. scoring once on . muddy feh. ON
her showing in other games Dartmouth
seemed to have o team that compared
well with Harvard's. And then along
came the Indians. Travelling at the top
OF their form. and simply annihilatsd