The Detroit times., 1914-03-31
MANY BELIEVE
MORAN ABLE TO
WHIP JOHNSON
White Man Has Mapped Ont An
Effective Plan Of Campaign
For Title Battle
RICHIE HAS THE EDGE
IN THE MURPHY BOUT
1t win Be the Old Story Of q
Good Young Man Against a
Good Old One

etr1nG We remark that these are duh
days n puSdom.
But. ere some too anthusiastic fol.
lowers Of the dst1o sport can rise to
emAsh a n tie typewriter. We add
that tnere II : ray Of hope, In fa0t
two At them.
Two big ute battles. one for the
uehtveaght crown. between Willie
RStch1e and Harlem Tommy Murphy,
and the other between Jack johnson
and Frank Moran. OF Pittsbureh. Cor
sno heavyweight Ohampiopship. now
oeospy the center Of the stage. and Q
Ssw words anent the appToaching en-.
comfsrs may not prove amiss just
noU.
Although the Richie bout comes
aTst II Il not drawing the attention
the 4oran-Johnson battle IL.
inc reason II this: There's 9
mdghU good chance that. when the
pGpetually tired business man opeus
~ Newspaper on the morning Of
June 81. he will find that there r. Z
now champion Of the world and that
thAe champion IL z white man.
A poet once remarked hone
springs eternal In the human breast"
The public has been the goat for
many ana many white hope" since
Jack johnson. black man, dethroned
Jim Je6ris ct Reno July Z, 1910. But
hope - stf1l doing the sprinxinx act,
ana. at this tuncture. Moran ID the
principal objective Of all the hope In
these old y. 8. A.
But Moran II different. He "a not
one Of those fellows who quit work
immediately after Jack slipped the
rollers under the already lettering
JeR and set out to make . living Cat
the expsnss ct the public) on the
strength Of . hurly form and toW
sRQWy muscle punches.
He AAs another handicap which
makes him Ineligible to the white
hope class. He II Intelligent, poe.
seeood OF Z good education, 10 soft
spoken although confident, and does
not force himself bafors ths, pnbaic
eye 81. 49, =. So
--- Vvsut--ehsncO -hxy Ju2uBon with
mefs he aslu.
Sound like pretty big talk, doesn1
NJ But Listen to this:
i have LEAD . clean life, no dissi.
patton. no gushing Of wine In the
wee small hours. johnson has run
the eamut Of high life and 90 you'll
have % admit that I have q wonder
mi advantage In that respect"
Moran has mapped out campaign
which. II reports OF Jack Johnson'a
high LIE IN the French capital are
true = Of . nature calculated "a
bring defeat to the black man. He
plans 10 pin his faith to hard swings
to the body. and II johnson has been
living too fast, body blows are the
things that viii tell against MIN most
effectively.
Moran II known to be . clean liver
He Is young and has been boxing only
four years. He has mapped out Z
dehnite plan Of action. He Il Irish
and he II possessed OF one idea--tc
lick Jack Johnson"
We would refer him to your 70.
spectful attention - q man who has
Q good chance to win the heavy
weight crown IN Paris June q.
AZ TO the contest for the light.
weight title. Never IN the history OF
rugilism-always excepting the pecu-
liar Incidents leading up to the John.
sonJefIries battle--have incidents
combined to advertise q bout SO well.
Two poetp0nements on account of
the champions reported mishaps with
the resultant charges and counter
charges (probably unjust) Of cow
ardice on Ritchie's part. have served
IN make more than interesting bout
which. under ordinary circumstances.
would have attracted only an 0rdi-
nary amount of attention.
Richie, however, IL 20 untried q
quantity as champion that many be-
lieve Murphy will have more than a
good chance to whip him.
From his acquaintance with both
men the writer iB inclined to think
that Murphy IL not the man to hum
BILE the present title holder.
Richie, although champion, is Just
coming into his. own and. although
Murphy is q tough bird, the battle will
be case 81 q good young man
against q good old man. with the
odds, as usual, IN favor Of the young
er fellow.
The champion IL taking no chances
ON Murphy, however, and Is devoting
considerable time to preparing for
the mill. -* ~
In the meantime. Harry Foley, his
manager, is being besieged BY q host
OF managers who are oeeiro,is of get
ting matches for a. many young Tight
ers, some good. and some something
else.
Scotty Montleth,; who was here with
his protege Johnny Dundee, last week,
made proposition which In pretty
sure to receive attention after the
Murphy bout n the Scotchman can
make good on his offer. Montieth
informed Foley that the Mcmahon
brothers, New York promoters, would
guarantee the champion $4,000 for
Z tsn-round bout with Dundee at
Madison Square Garden IN May.
while Foley refused to enter into
any definite agreement, he Informed
the writer that he would attend 20
u matter amer WIrlie had Anished
:: 4 ~ sSst xitehas as1 / ars os,ie.
q % keep oar minds me- from other
toetloo until aftgr ne 1GuFpn1 ~
- Po)ey. ~ = measure ~ ~ g
q 1lufphy - gtve him the pref1Fonc6