Evening star., 1914-01-19
NOT THOUGHT MORAN
WILL STOP JOHNSON
Pittsburgh Heavyweight Not Looked
Upon as Match for Negro
Title Holder.

NEW YORK. January 19.-Frank
Moran, the Pittsburgh heavyweight,
who Will try to win the worlds title
from Jack johnson in Paris next June,
hasn't accomplished enough on this
side of the Atlantic to make him ap-
pear formidable opponent for the
big black. If johnson. however, should
enter the ring physical wreck, which
he Is said to be at the present time,
Moran might beat him, but Johnson
only half fit ought to Outright the Pitts
burgher with considerable ease, in the
opinion of New York sporting men. who
are ridd1ing the match.
Johnson will be thirty-six years old
fsn March, when Moran will celebrate
his tWenty-seventh birthday ami
versary. The negro is six feet one
! quarter inch tall, three-quarters of an
inch shorter than the white challenger
Moran In good condition weighs about
200 pounds, at least thirty pounds lighter
than Johnson will be when he enters
the ring. Moran's ring record, how
, ever, doesn't indicate topnotch fight
ing ability. He began as a professional
In 1910. taking part in fifteen mills
He knocked out four rivals, all un-
known. and outpoinled others of equal
insignificance. Incidentally. he met
Johnson In a. four-round exhibition in
Pittsburgh and was a toy in the hands
of the champion.
In the winter of 1s1o-11 Moran boxed
| ten-round. no-decision bouts witt
Brooklyn. He beat MaXson, but Palzal
drew with him. In another Brooklyn
| bout Jim Savage. a fourth-rater, out
boxed Moran. who then went to Eng
land and France in 1912. He stopped
| Tom Cowler in six rounds and Charlie
| Wilson in two. both in London. bu,
these men were nothing more thar
punching bags. Moran beat Fred Stor-
beck of South Africa on foul in sever
rounds at a London club. knocking
| him out in, twelve rounds when they
| met again in that city. Stoker Smith
was put to sleep in less than a rounC
| in Paris.
! Poor Showing Against Kubiak.
When the Pittsburgher returned here
in May of that year he made poor
showing in a ten-round affair with Al
Kubiak in Albany. Tom Kennedy
knocked out by Bombardier Wells
held Moran to a ten-round draw ir
this city. while clumsy Tony Ross got
a verdict over him In ten rounds be-
fore a Cleveland club. 1t took Moran
ten rounds to stop Harry Wuest ir
Columbus, ;but he went to Juarez
Mexico, after that and knocked out
In August, 1912, Moran tackled Den
yer Jack Geyer in a four-round bout
in San Francisco and lost the referee s
decision. He whipped Sailor Schaefer
heavies, in jig time and then got a
twenty-round match with Gunboat
Smith. That affair was staged in San
Francisco December q. 1912, but
Moran lost the chance of a lifetime to
become famous by adopting the tactics
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chased him fruitlessly the entire route
and was declared the winner on points.
Five Battles Last Year.
Moran took part in five battles last
year. In March he stopped Al McClus-
key in five rounds at a local club. lie
Jailed to beat Sailor White in six rounds
in Philadelphia, and when he faced the
late Luther McCarty here in April he
was beaten in clean-cut fashion in ten
rounds. After that mill Moran offered
as an excuse that he went into the ring
with a broken hand, but just why he
didn't tell about it before the bout no.
body was able to learn. Moran subse-
quently knocked out Tim Logan In four
rounds at New Orleans, and also dis
posed OF Palzer in seven at a local club,
when it was well known that Palzer's s
physical condition should have kept him
out Of the ring.
The victory over poor Palzer was the
basis for much wild talk by Moran's s
manager. until local promoter offered
big inducements for battle between the
Pittsburgher and Gunboat Smith. to be
decided in September or October. The
sporting public also clamored for this
match, but, strange to say, Moran refused
pointblank, and soon left here for France
for the purpose of getting a bout with
Johnson.
After reaching Paris Moran refused to
box Georges Carpenter or Sam Lang
ford HIS manager wanted johnson or
nothing evidently believing that if per-
chance Moran should happen to win a
golden harvest could be gathered all over
the civilized world. 1t is worthy of note
that Johnson accepted Morans chal-
lenge, and once again sidetracked the
persistent Tar Baby from Boston. On
past performances Gunboat Smith in
stead Of Moran should have had first
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