The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-01

days of Terry McGoveru. Personal ly I consider KiIbane the superior of any boy in the division, but bis excess sfve tinidity in making matches is putting him in bad with all lovers of the sport.
 Advices reaching me from Paris state that Jack Johnson has. knuckled down to real hard work for the match in which he is scheduled to de- fend the championship against Frank
 Moran next month. This indicates that Johnson is taking the matter more seriously than one would gather from the oft printed interviews in which he ridicules the Prtrsburger's pretensions, and that he intends to enter the ring in as good condition as hard work can put him.
 Moran is not the strongest candi- date we could offer for the Johnson thing, but maybe he will put 1t over. CT and it will not take a great man to beat him. A fellow like Gunboat Smith with a punch-and the conf dencey the Gunner possessee-nnight make the big dinge hit the floor for the full count. Johnson can put in several months at the hardest kind of work and still be a long way from good lighting trim. Years of dissi- patton can not be undone in so short a time.
 
 Johnny sCoulan. and Kid williams clash for the bantam title one week from next Tuesday. This match will decide the ebantam- weight champion ship of the World--if have the cor rect dope; I don't know so very much about the little feI1ows-and the eyez of sporting men from everywhere will be centered on Los Angeles when the sturdy little Chicagoan will enter the ring to defend his honors in d bout with the most formidable chaI- lenger he has yet faced.
 The opinion prevails in this local ftyLat least that is what I gather sporting men-that Williams will prove too strong for Coulon. who has been out of the ring for a. long time. as a result of sickness. At the same time Coulon's class Is admitted by aen and those who favor the Balk4a@r ea0 opinions to the extent of laying odEs against the champion.
 Coulon has written to friends that he will enter the ring in fine shape and that he does not entertain a thought of defeat That is a habit champions usually have-that of thinkinS they are unbeatable. He will find Williams a much improved boy from the one he boxed at Madi- son Square Garden two years ago, or am much mistaken. AZ that time the Kid lacked confdence; had he been g. tride more aggressive he would have earned the popular yer dict. Williams has since beaten all corners, among them that unusually clever youngster. Eddie Canpi. and now has that confidence that comes with experience and continued suc- cesses.
 If roofing will do him any good Coulon is a sure winn%r. There are thousands of sporting men in the country who are pulling for the champion, if only for the reason that the tactics adopted by the Williams people to force the champion into a match before he had fully fecovered were not of the highest type, of sportsmanship, and Johnny by ac- cepting the challenge has won over many who would otherwise have been disinterested.
 Williams success in the coming en- gaEement will not necessarily mean, though. that CouloR's condition made it possible. tThe Kid is a. great fight CT and Johnny at his top form might have a tough time staying off defeat Williams, if the winner, will make splendid champion.