El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-02

j the Wiuard-JohnsOn fight on Sunday
afternoon which is also the big day
of the races; but L could not overcome
the training of a lifetime and the
natural prejudice against holding
such an event on the Sabbath.
THE WilIard-John fight will be
a worlds heavyweight Championship
for all that the word implies. Willard
Outmeasures johnson and has every
physical advantage over the tail negro
Aside from this, Johnson is nearly
eleven years older than Willard and
has Travelled the pace that always tells
its story in the ring game at the proper
time. Therefore, L freely confess that
L look forward to Wizards meeting
refrigerated Johnson, no matter VINO
agrees with me, in fact, outside of Viii
lard L know of no one that Will not
smile when ! say, in absolute sincerity,
that in my opinion Willard could beat
johnson the best day he ever saw.
And when it comes to hitting power,
I think that Willard has developed
punch that is snappier harder and
surer knockout than Choinski Maher,
Bob FitzsimmOns or any of the old time
hard hitters. As sure as the sun sets
on March Willard will step from the
ring with Johnson on the floor taking
the ten count and himself champion of
the world. And right here L want to
add that unless Willard wins a clean
decisive victory one that is expected of
real champion, 1t will not benefit
him any.
Right now Willard is on the ground
in Ell PasO training for the fray His
able manager, Tom Jones, whose every
breath of his life is in mis- work, has
engaged the very best aggregation of
young trainers that he could find, and
no stone will be left unturned to land
Willard in the ring, ready and fit as
the proverbial fiddle.
johnson is en- route to the battle
ground. He was in fair shape before
he left Europe and took along several
sparring partners to keep him busy in
the gymnasium aboard the ship. While
he viii train as well as he always does
for this match. there will be that feel
ing Of superiority, which always clings
to q worlds champion, and L dare say
that up until the last minute the inner
Johnson will hold Willard cheaply. And
this opinion will not leave him until
he fully realizes that like all other
pitchers he went to the well once too
often.
In conclusion, 7 wish to state that
the fight arena will be located on the
Juarez race track, five minutes street
ear ride from the center of FL PasO;
the ring will be pitched on the edge
of the race track. The grandstand will
be used for the general admissions, the
promenade in front of the g-andstand
for the $40 reserved seats The lawn
viii be divided for SIS and $50 reserves
and the ring side boxes will be sold at
SIS per seat.
The fight VIII be staged at 70 o'clock,
this on account of the better light for
the pictures as well as for a precau-
tiOn should the fight go the entire As
rounds. Special rates on all railroads
will be in effect for the fight and all
the coast travel one way or round trip
tickets viii be entitled to stop overs
at III Paso. Nothing will be left I'M
done to look after the comfort of the
patrons of the game and every citizen
Of FL Paso and Juarez viii combine in
their efforts to make the coming
championship fight the greatest posi-
bic success"