El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-31

q AN FRANCISCO, Calf May 81
~ AS a promising heavyweight Jess
Willard may be lacking in many
ESSENTIALS but he has one or two quail
tiles which should encourage any one
undertaking the task of giving him a
pUgilistc education
To begin with, he is true blue in
the matter OF courage. In the next
place, he can assimilate bruising blows
without hanging out the slightest sig
nal of distress
These constitute admirable ground
work for any one about to DeEln a
course in the Queensberry university.
And there is still another good point
about friend Jess. Instead OF crlnG-
ing covering or cutting his stick when
he feels the impact of a glOFed llSt,
he stands TO his guns and rights back
TO the best Of his ability
Work Resembles Sharkey's.
In this direction he recalls the meth
DDS Of the old time ring hero, Tom
Sharlzey. IT used to be said that swat
tins Tom on the Jaw was like pressing
the button which started a lot OF rapid
play machinery
Before Willard and Smith entered the
ring the men who were laying. 10 TO
seven against the Kansan looked for
Willard would fail a victim to Gun
boats overland right early in the
evening.
1t was amusing to hear the various
predictions made as TO the manner in
which Willard would start his journey
fOOrward when the gunner made con-
nections- Some said Jess would top
pie slowly like a monarch Of the for
est going down before the woodlands
AK Others said he would collapse
like a tall chimney struck. amidshlps
by a 10 inch shell-that he'd come
down AL Of a heap"
willard Is not Jared.
When the test came, the gunner's
best punch didn't bulge Willard an
inch. OF course, there were times
when Smith was hard put to it to reach
many Of Gunboat's WaIOps were partly
spent before they found lOdgment. but
he landed with full force occasionally
The blow impressed the writer as 70
Wizards ability to assimilate, was de-
uTered In the 18th II was GunDOaI
pet right handler and Willard butted
into il in such way as TO accentua1e
she weight of the delivery
To my surprise, Willard did not
show the slightest evidence Of being
Jared. On the contrary ne went a
Gunbeat OpeumOuthed and had him
dipping and sliding along ropes, to es-
cape as awkward assortment Of right
hand assaults as 1T has been my priv
Iege TO witness In many long years
Has a Hard Left
Willard sports telling straight LETT
He is scarcely 10 blame, in way, as
between his length of arm and the al
ditiOnaI reach he commands by bend
ing forward an opponent would need
20 jump the ropes, almost 10 be out
of reach. But his right upper cut has
been OTer-adVerrised. 1t is delivered
stiffIv and with little regard 10 dis
lance OF direction and for these rea-
sons IS easy TO avoid. How on earth
1IcCartv ever ran foul of it is hard
10 imagine unless it was that Luther
in his anxiety to accomplish some
thing kept tumbling in head down
ward and thereby rendered himself a
mark for the punch
Needs Schooling.
A few days before the bout the
writer talked with Bob Armstrong I
at the Gunboau Smith camp VIII 4
lcrd's aE came I'D and old Bob re- I
marked "ffo is as fine a piece of raw !
material rs 7 have ever seen but he /
needs % Jos o. schOOlln'
Bob is right Just at present Jess !
has gamcuess. strength and powers (
of absorption. He has his straight !
ieft-he could not dispense with il If 1
he wanted to. but whatever else he /
possesses is not much use to him He .
needs TO begin at the bottom and make (
q thorough study OF rlugmanship with .
especial attention TO acquiring ideas Z
OF timing and measuring and follow
his performance with GUnboat. lac /
does not know the Psychological mo-
ment when he sees IL. He had Smith (
cOruered and off balance more than
once and then stood away and simply
glared at him
Conflicting Instructions.
Wizards friends explained that Jess 3