The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-13
Willard Is Willing.

master. Jack Curley. who promoted the Havana fight. stands ready to negotiate a return battle.
 Curley. who is a Lincoln visitor. issued this statement tonight:
 Johnson, having publicly stated that he will fight Willard for 9 side bet of S25.OOO. just to call his bluff, will say on behalf of Will lard that he will fight Johnson under the management of John Bull. the London sporting publication. for I idle bet of s25 900.
 Willard will accept fifty Der cent of the gate receipts, the other 50 per cent to be donated to some chari- ty. Under no circumstance must Johnson receive one cent other than the side bet if he can win it."
 Best Man in World.
 There isn't man in the world today able to fight Jess Willard for the championship on even terms. Willard has everything to make him real champion. Of all the men be ing grommed to dispute his right to the title every one is lacking in some detail.
 In the ring at Havana Willard weighed 247 pounds, stood feet 6 inches and had reach of S3 inches. He was a good fighting boxer, with a good knack of straight hitting, a good defense, punch like mules kick exceptional endurance and stamina and resisting power and plenty of fighting spirit.
 Probably Jess Willard will never fight another negro Johnson was his first, and he says he'll never meet another, having disposed of the best Lanefcrd might have given him something of a fight, but Sans stature would make a match be. tween the two look farcical.
 Jim Coffey is about the biggest of the well trained white heavy. weights. He is fairly fast. fairly clever and quite good enough when matched against such other heaves as We have. But he hasn't any thing like Willard's assimilating power, Willard can take a terrific punch on jaw or body without seem ing to feel i'. A moderately heavy punch rocks Coffey. The fight with Jim Flynn showed that he has a weak chin, for Flynn isn't any bone crusher, and yet Flynn had Coffey reeling and dizzy several times from the effect of clouts on the chin. Willard would punish Coffey off iu jiffy if Coffey was in as bad shape as in the last Flynn fight.
 Reich Lacks Fighters Heart.
 Al Reich has everything, physi- cally that might make him cham pion. He is big, strong, quick and clever enough to give Willard a fight But he lacks one thing; he isn't natural fighting man. Fight ing is an artificial thing with him, developed in gymnasium. He en- tirely lacks the real fighters az gressiveness, quickness to attack, grim and unrelenting determination. Without that he would never have a chance against 247-pound Willard.
 Weinert might box cleverly against the giant, but he would never do more tfAn outpoint him for a while Gunboat Smith beat Willard in 20 rounds, referees decision, some time ago, but Willard has grown much larger is much strong CT boxes differently now, and has the confidence of a champion. What chance has 1S0 pounds against 247, both men physically fit and fairly skillful?
 Carl Morris and the rest would have no more chance than the men I've mentioned Morris is about as big as Willard but is fat, slower and comparatively as clumsy as a hippopotamus.
 When Willard gets ready to fight again-if he ever does-hell have hard time to find anyone to fight. pr. Lowell Not Borne Out.
 Dr. Lowell of Harvard University, in speech to the seniors, said "A man reaches his full physical growth when he is IS or 19 years old. and by the time he is 23 he is beginning to lose his keener per captions, so that this age may be called the physical maximum"
 Dr. Lowell probably never investi- gated the career of one Robert FitZ- simmons, pugilist. Fitzsimmons be- came champion of the world when he was 34 years old. Fitzsimmons fought in the ring for 34 years, and he certainly didn't reach his "physi- cal maximum" at the age of 23. If man is at his best at 23, how can anyone explain the fact that nearly all college athletes who live and train scientifically in college i'm prove in athletic ability for several years after graduating? Very few athletes reach the height of their