The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-23
DOES NOT THINK
 MORAN GAN BEAT JOHNSON
Manager Billy Gibson Elated At Im= provement Of Heavyweight
 Jim Coffey

fBy James J. Corbett, Former Heawy-
 weight Champion of the WorId-9
 Special to the F'armer-)
 New York, May 2s.-In just one month from next Wednesday heavy weight cllanpionshf match will be staged in Paris. Unless something ehappens to put the plans of the pro motors and principals in the air And, Eprinted concerning the coming bout Fin the American papers than of any match that has taken place within n.y. memory Wntcn goes to show how the public feels re- garding Frank Moran,s chances of de- sfeatinz Jack Johnson Few fight fol- lowers give the pale face even look sin.
 Joe Jeannette. back from Europe for a few weeks, says Moran hash the ghost of chance to lick John son. Joe is stable mate of Moran's, both being under the management or Dan sMcKettrick, and that may e1- plain his poor opinion of his stable mates skill. Faniliarity breeds con stempt so we were told in the copy sboois at school and Joe has been mixing wath the white trash a whole Dot the past few years. Se1iouslys though, Jeannetters opinion would be worth while if we were sure 1t is on
 
 5J 5Jeannettess race pride is not tr1fte sstronger than the training camp con nectson that binds him to Moran Therefore we must pass Joseph up aS a regular prophethe may be pre5u- diced In favor of his own cornplez1cn- However in this connection it might be as we'll to quote Dan Mo Keffrick himself on the subject Be- fora McKettTack went to Europe where he closed the bout bStween Johnson and Moran-he exzSressed himself quite plainly on the merits of the white hopes of the country, 4in- cluling his own charge, Moran. This, of course, was before he had landed the match and while a chance re-
 mainsd that his more promising can didate, Jeannette. nl1ght get the bcs1t In discussing the cham pzonsh1p situ- ation Dan declared that there wash a white heavywefxhtsI in the game who figured to have chance against Johnson. Also that he had handled enough Of them to have 8 pretty good line on the abiHty of the entire lot In fact. Daniel said that he re karded all the white hopes as a lot of jokes, or something to that effect I But carcun1stances alter cases and now that Jeannette has been passed by the champion and he has landed the prize for Moran, naturally Dan talks in different tone But way down deep McKettrick hasn't a very high opinion of Prank Moran
 However, Danny,s opinion one way or the other will have no effect on the result. Moran is taking a long chance-that is the way both he and McKettrick figure 1t and the long chances win at times And if Frank should happen to be lucky enough to win why there is a fortune for both in the next few years And there Ia nothing at stake Moran has not thing in the matter of reputation to lose In the event. of defeat he will stand just as high in the opinion of the public as he does noxy-Which, it
 must be admitted. is nothing wool worthian in it's proportions
 Just the same those fans who fg-
 ure on taking flyer on Moran out of sentiment will do well to think it over carefully before cutting into the bank to bet, but merely intimatfng that it will be a good idea.ato insist on pret- ty good odds on MT. Moran. Four or five to one ought to be obtaihable garding the outcome of the battle al- most unanimous in favor of Johnson ] But the four and five to one shots bring home the Sugar now and then Jeanette has been unusually .sgab- by since he returned from abroad In the past he has been as close as the we'll known clam about matters in which he has not been directly inter ested and has left 1t to McKettrdck to do all the talking Not satisfied with sneering at Moran's chances Joe has gone out of his way to knock our old friend Gunboat Smith In speaking of the long talked of, but, still in the air, match between the Gunner and Georges Carpenter, Jeannette let loose a few remarks boosting Car pentier and predicting victory for the Erenchrnan.
 It is recalled that Joe fought Car pentier fifteen rounds and was given l the decision month or So ago. number of critics and experts who witnessed the battle opined that Car pentier was at least entitled to draw verdict It may be that Joe's rather mediocre showing in that af- fair is the cause of his anxiety to boost the Carpenter standing. Joe in his latest matches around New York gave evidence that he had gone back quite a long way, and this was
 further substantiated by the trounc- 1 ing Sam Langford administered in Paris While Carpenter may be a. great fighter there is nothing in hss
 record so far, outside of his showing with Jeannette, that makes him look the class over the Gunner. It is not
 so very long ago that Frank Klaus and Billy Papke both beat him, and | I don't think either would cut much l figure in 9 match with the Gunboat-
 Jeanette might alter his opinion I if the Gunboat were to take him on. Sam Langford tried the Gunner out sI and lost the decision. And Sam has since trimmed Jeannette to a fare .Is Isthe-We1I.
 Gunboat Smith may not be the T greatest heavyweight in the game,
 but he is one of the greatest, if the 1 dope is worth anything. He would
 be the public choice in a tilt with
 Jeanette if they were matched to-
 morrow.
 The Gunner demonstrated in the match with Langford that we have
 been rating the blacks too highly since
 Johnson beat Jeffffries-or rather the
 shadow of the Jeffries of a few years
 previous. Even though Johnson