The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-02-05
Detroiter Works Hard, but Has
No Chance Against Bear
al From Indiana
JACK CANNOT FIND
ANY WORTHY EXCUSE
Was Not in Condition, But He
Should Have Knocked Hicks
Out in Early Rounds
BY RALPH L. YONKER

Jack Dillon OF Indianapolis, one OF
the claimants OF the middleR eight
championship OF the world, gets no
credit for the beating he gave Freddie
Hicks OF Detroit ia eight rounds az
the Windsor Athletic club last night
Dillon had Hicks defeated after the
first 80 seconds of the bout, rappin Z
him On the face anr head al will and
having him groggy In the third and
fourth rounds. only 10 stall through
the remainder OF the bout
II Dillon thinks that he can beat
jim Flynn at Kansas City the 2Sth Of
this month DILLON says that he viii
beat him. by the methods he showed
against Hicks. he 10 entirely mistaken.
Dillon says that he will conine him
Delf to indghting against Flynn and
gradually wear him down. He viii
devote the first four rounds TO feel
Ing him out and then settle down TO
bmothering the fireman. He doesn't
believe that he can knock Flynn out
but he Ia confident or beating him.
But this Flynn Is some inhghter
himself. which Freddie Hicks Is not.
Flynn can stand even more punish.
ment than Hicks. unless the long
usage as a chopping block and meal
dcket by heavyweights has riddled
him. Flynn has better punch than
hicks. He showed himself to be a
faster and harder hitter even in his
kheater exhibitions In Detroit than
most OF the men Dillon has had to
face.
II Jack doesn't /ut mp better scrap
against Flynn than he showed Detroit
aud Windsor fans last night, he ought
70 be smashed 10 a pulp, and the
Writer hopes he is.
Dillon has several alibies for his
flumsy work against Hicks. la the
3drst place he was handicapped by the
sDig pillows that are Tsed for gloves
ut the Windsor clab. He said that II
would be impossible to knock Hicks
out with those mltts. That's what
o1ao SAID.
81 The clean break rules which stalled
him In his favorite method OF boxing
dnaghting, also kept Dillon under a
pull. He Is used 10 getting in lot
of his effective work at close range
81 But accepting these excuses. what
Alibi has Dillon for his fabby lack OF
Rondition? He looked as big az a
Mouse and lowered above and around
1ittle Hicks like a giant around u
B4gmy. A crowd hostile 10 the home
boy Immediately showered its sym.
Hathy, none OF which Hicks asked,
Aipon Fred, when they compared the
TWO men merely because or the Amer
team publc's habit OF encouraging
the under dog
What alibi has Dillon for his lack
OF pepper, his continual stalling tao
tics, his talky conversations with Ref.
cree Rocks, his failure 10 follow up
Advantages when Hicks was dazed, his
refusal to accept openings big as
barns. and his general Indifference?
~ When the bout was over Dillon
waved his arm at his seconds In his
corner. refusing even TO go over to
Ms seat 10 be prepared to leave the
klng. He staggered from the center
of the ring and over the ropes with
m air OF con man who has sold you
4 gold brick. tells you so and then
osks you what are you going TO do
bout IT,
Il Freddie Hicks is unfortunate With
Ms reputation hanging In the balance
be tried hard last night TO give a
fair exhibition. He stood up 10 Dill
Ion willing TO take his beating. He