New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-20
Personal Touches Here
and There in Boxing
By ICOE

Whether Tom Jones or Jack Curley
will or no, Jess Willard will not step
into the ring unless he gets $4,000 fiat
for his end.
The big conqueror Of Johnson wa,
offered $4,000 few days ago to meet
Fred Fulton at Oshkosh: Our. old
friend Diamond Tooth" Howard APP
preached Tom Jones on the subject. -,
will give you ten grand If you'll
box Fulton for our club" said Howard
useless to name such a figure. Jess
won't listen to IT," said Jones.
"Irl make 1t $4,000, them" said
Howard.
Ascending, It's true, but the figure
is inadequate" said Tom in learned
fashion.
"Wait until get my citizens COM
mittee on the phone" replied Howard.
perhaps they will boot the price"
go ring 'em up and see what they
say, but let them bid high, for | tell
you that this big fellow Of ours has his
mind made up and he won't be budged,'
said Jones.
Howard disappeared into long dis
lance booth Oshkosh was hailed over
an overland wire.
In a moment Howard came back to
Jones. Seventeen thousand five hun
dred dollars Is the sky, so far as my
crowd is concerned" said Howard.
Impossible" drawled Jones.
"Jess demands $4,000 cold, no mat
ter what anybody else may want to
give. II wouldn't make any difference
| if you offered me s29 ,99999 / couldn't
| take It. In the matter of price Jess is
alone in his opinion. don't blame
him. He had to fight with nothing in
sight when he whipped Johnson, and he
is entitled to anything he can get now.
1t isn't that he has any fear Of the
man who Is supposed to have knocked
him down. That is good press work. II
is the same old gag that they worked
when Jack Monroe WAS supposed Ia
have foored Jeffries. You know what
happened TO poor Monroe when he
finally met JET in a regular fight He
wa: frightened to death, and went out
In jigtime."
Jake Ahearn was around town with
chip on his shoulder looking for
Frank Moran. Jake, 1t seems, was a lit
tie bit nettled because Frank had said
nat the Swiss. Badoud, had knocked
and that he finally knocked him out
/ in the seventeenth.
I GAS a matter of fact. IL was the
| eighteenth round when halt was
called. He fouled me. and I couldn't
/ continue" said Jake. NOW. as far as
Moran is concerned, | will fight him
and give my end to charity for the
pleasure Of trimming him. Moran will
/ find that Pm not Jim Coffey." "l'm
! with Jake" Clipped in Dan McKetrick
I "1ll let him fight Moran for nothing
/ or marbles, Just as Moran pleases.
| know Jake can whip him, and I'd be
| willing TO let him settle my little
/ difference with Moran In that way"
81 was seconding big longshoremar
one night, In a little California club,
said Frank Moran yesterday, "and my
man was getting n terrific drubbing
He seemed to be game enough and
Z helped it along with little blarney
every time he reeled TO his corner
After a particularly hard round he
mumbled and grumbled in the cornai
about the hard row he happened to DC
( hoeinR. ! spoke words Of courage anc
wisdom into his bi g ear, but when the
bell rang for the next round NJ
wouldn't bulge, 81,
Get up and fight, there's the bell,
I / said.
"I'm cooked, I'm done. No more FOL
me. thank YOU" he growled.
T "Why get up there and 90 TO tha
fellow / came came back. you're no
HALF whipped yet"
3 "Thar may be true, Mr. Moran h,
answered. "but I'm quite satisfied will
nv 80 per cent. II that won't do, why
/ YOU 70 in there and gather the othe'
ffty that that guy is handing out. In
! finished"
"some fellows are never funny until
they are dead up against It," remarked
| wilson Miner last night.
"This first dash of cold weathel
MAKES me think Of one winter nigh
when IL was cold enough TO make polal
near break right out in smoker:
had just come from the theatre and o.
/ rounded Cape Claridge the wind an'
The snow nearly gagged me. ] JUS
nade il and as | negotiated the tuf,
"round the corner bumped plum'
hang into old Kid Critic. the once greA
5sElio. Wilson he 1ipsd In bis usua