The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-12-03
Battle Tonight Between Morris
and Willard Should Be One Of
the Best Bouts Of the Season.


Copyright 1918. ty Ths Pras ruslishins Co.
THE New YusA World.
TvIIAT tcn-r0und battle between
Carl Morris and jess Willard at
= the Garden tonight 10 a hard one
20 figure out On previous perform
ances 1t should be a bear. And u Will
be either q bear or q wrestling match.
willard fought we'll here against Luther
McCarty. and on tho Coast gave Gun
boat Smith n hard twenty-round hight.
1oeing by a decision that was not ap-
proved by the spectators. When smiling
jess Is stung those at the rinGside see
some lighting. lie 10 naturally . big
farmer. smiliug and unooncerned and
not particularly ambitious. Often he
70 content to box along and try TO get
. little the best OF It. But Luther Nc
Carly found out that stirring willard
UP was like tossing u brick Into a bec-
hive. lie slammed Jess. and Jess jabbed
Luther's head back between his shou-
derblades and nearly lifted him from
his feet with uppercuts. He beat Nc.
Carly that night.
When he fought Soldier Kearns here
he took the bout as a Joke. Through
the first few rounds he cavorted about
the ring like circus clown, laughing
with unaffected good humor at the Sol
dier's Wild efforts to connect with the
kind Of punch I've landed on One
Round Davis. willard ducking under
the squatty soldiers swings was n pic
turs not soon to be forgotten. Then at
last kearns began whanginE away Ut
Willard's body. Jess lost his smile and
became serious for about nvc seconds.
That was long enough. Kearns sunk n
hook Into the giant cowpuncher's body
and stepped back to see II he wouldn't
fall. While kearns was apparently well
out OF range. big Jess popped over u
straight extension right. huah on the
.chin. and put Mr.. kearns out Of the
way with single punch. Kearns took
the ten lying aat on his back. admirlnK
the stars that tWinklsd with such M
usuai briiliancy down through the Gar
Sens open skyiight.
~ RL MORRIS. In his first New
York appearance. made a much
poorer showing than big Jess. who
struck his winnin8 streak In his hrst
night. OF courss Morris was put a9ainst
q fellow who was very good at that
tims-Jtm Flynn. Flynn gave the fat
ana awkward giant such beating that
nobody In the Garden that night had
the slightest suspicion that Morris
would ever nsht again. No man not
endowed with unlimited courage and n
fair share Of self conceit would have
fought again. for that matter But Carl
Allowed the stun that WAS In him when
he went quietly TO work again At the
New Polo. a. soon as he was able to
appear on the streets. He asked Leach
Cross and other little fellows to help
him and teach him. and they took such
0 liking to the patient. game, big man
that they boxed with him every day,
He learned q lot OF boxing In that way
when he started again he knocked Out
Jack Geyer OF Denver and beat a mum
her OF other men. His two fights with
Jim Stewart. then at HIS best. were
corkers. But the New York public
couldn't forget what show Flynn
had made Of the giant.
When Carts name was mentionet
people said: "Oh. yes-wonderfull!
game. But he'll never do" And tina
ended II. Morris went West and Soutl
snd North. fighting the best men h
could find everywhere. When news cam
that he had been knocked out by Nc
Carly. q novice, every one said; II toll
YOU so--a big. soft fellow with . heart
but nothing else" That looked like tn
end OF Norris As q fighter. But
wasn't You can't keep a determine
man down. and there's more determ
nation TO the inch In the okiahom
giant than In many q good man OF hal
Sic sise. A. . matter of correct rex
ord. Norris wasn't knocked out by Nc
Carly. He was fairly knocked dowI
but was on one knee watching his col
ner and waiting for the nine" cour
10 Jump up. McCarty's manager wa
manager OF the club Everything wa
AGAINST Morris. The referee clattere
through q caricature OF count al
~ Morris rose yelled: "You'e out!
There was no room for argument
A GAIN Morris showed his gamene
by quietly going on with his pr
= Gramme. learning the nghtlr
game by hshtlng wherever he could e
Q aGht. He fought in Canada. In Il
West and Middle West. In the sout
not with entirely unvarying success
but learning something new In ea'
0ght Finally. satisfied that he h,
something 10 show New York, he can
back TO the scene OF his first defes
Here. very few thinking that the slo
deliberate Oklahoman was anyth!l
better than q trial horse. a small cr0v
eav him knock out Al Reich. a M
and clever heavyweight, In the mo
WorkmAnlike manner. Then Morris "
matched with Gunboat Smith. Eve
one knows about that fight. Smi
swung his most furious blows again
Carts chin and dug them into his ril
with practically no effect Morris. ft
merly 80 mild, was as rough as u bel
he rushed and threw Gunboat all o'
the ring. trading punch for punch. Gu
boats hardest wallops only stung h
Into more furious action. Finally. Gu
boat swung a terrific. crashing r!g
on Cara chin. and Morris rushed h
10 the ropes. and In the eagerness
lila aiiack afEick hlaus tl,ut