The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-05-02
4 Class Of Heavyweights Has
Been Developing That May Be
Greater Than the Greatest Of
Hu1AaAu XAasa AaA

Twenty Years Ago.
s''saa1s A.. ~ ". ut II i! s.i e::s . o.
THE white hope" has passed the
Joke stage.
When Jeffries Wa freshly In
he discard and johnson could look
Ill around the horizon without inter-
cspting . signal from any rival more
dangerous than littio Jim Flynn II
WaA all the fashion to rdicule the
hopeleas 'hopes." In those days they
were merely numbering. awkward. yet
oxceeAingly earnest novices.
1oy four years now The derided
'0opoo" have been struggling along,
growing slowly less awkward and
numbering. and more earnest And
0u0denly the world 10 awakening 70
me realisation that a new class Of
hoavyweiEhts has been developing. q
clasD that may be greater than the
oT0atest OF twenty years ago.
For the call for white hope" has
epeoed new lanes Of ambition for big
men. The country has been raked
and scraped for giants. One after
another the supermen have been tried
out. Some have been quickly bat
tered back TO the lumber camps and
the rolling mills and the farms from
which they came. but . few have
come through the test like sword
blades Of soft iron hammered and
heated and hammered again until
they become fne tempered steel. To.
morrow their nance may be eoho4ng
around the world.
V/EsrERDAY whom I came into
Il my once. on . bench In the
a waiting room waS . rather
maabive looking person who slowly
unlimbered himself at my approach
and began to stand up. when he had
completed that operation felt e " I
wa looking up ct . human Wool.
worth Building.
In his ordinary street shoes Jses
Willard stands Just little over . fest
Z inches tall. He tops six and half
fest In his bare feet. And he y the
longest specimen Of . fighter In cap.
tivity and A. symmetrical - be y
long. It V still mystery TO me
whether Jess rode up to our twelfth
0oof in the elevetoe or Just stepped
In through the window.
<SI WANT . match With ounboa&"
said willard. We were matched
for California. but he has
drawn out. I'm AFRAID hs Isn't enx.
tous 70 meet me again"
why Ganboaff" I asked.
"Becdxse he 70 the best heavy
scet0At ! KNOX," saSd willard.
II soaxt to find out " I'm q bet.
ter man. The best mon " tAe
fclIoV Vho shoUId h0ve o choncs
at Johnson. I pGnt that chance.
II cay other fellow cax beat me
ri ckeerfvlIy sctthdrup In ~
favor. II CON beat the Others
J soaSt Johnson myself."
II used to be too good natured
20 oght," Jess went on. ave changed.
I 20 in to win from the start. used
% walt until was stung. and II !
wasn't stung badly enough Just
went along and thought It was Joke.
'When / fought 0unboat IN Cali.
lorn1a I'd never even seen . twenty
refund fight. l thought twenty rounds
would be awfully firing and ! was
content to Just go along easily. When
] lad 0unboat staggerinG ! didn't
hurry. I thought was winning. and
the Decision took me by surprise. I'll
take no moro chances like that again,
- tAs Gunner knows It."
xI1 LET my punches 90 now" said
Jess. "Daly was . tough prop
osition. He has the biggest hands
aAd Arms ! ever saw. ana he's my
otoooo. He nearly LASTED ten rounds.
! punched Mcmahon until l was
ashamed TO hit him. and he hardly
touched me. Someone sent out re-
BORT that he beat me. III take no
more chances like that. I've heard
people say Rodel ISN'T game. I think
hes the gamest man ever met.
Knocked him down twice in the first
round and eight times before he
stayed down m the sixth. Any man
who'll jump up after such knock
downs In game. ! put my 40 pounds
behind each knockdown punch. I've
been sighting them all. and learning
In every fight. ! study all the fast
little fellows and learn from them.
I wasn't strong a year ago. because
I grew so fast. Now I'm twenty-sev
on and I'm developing my full strength
above the waist. Boxing In a wonder
full exercise for developing a man
You'll See the difference next time !
aght here.
"I1 pdr fnterfercs ptth base.
bsJI- cut 0xt the Uar."
John McGrdtc says the Federal
League is a flat failure.
Only q month or so ago John
confided TO friend OF his an
optnton that the Federal League
scds "the first good thing he had
ajl09ed TO 90 By him since Ne
be0aN, to play baseball"
Whdddyuhmedn, Jd,0n-"0ood
tAsagr'
Here's "a sensation for the end of
to-day's COLUMN, like what authors
call the snapper" 1T the end OF q
good story.
Can you imagine Billy Murray's
0ghtinx stock'
Well, Tommy Murphy says that
he's . Portuguese, like Azeveda. and
that Murray isn't hts name at all. at
all. Tommy saw Murray" the new
xetcnel." fight In California. Tommy