El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-04-19
Willard May Be Champion For Years
IL IL IL ii ii
Few White Hopes Have Any Chance
By FRANK C. lIENI1E-

TESS WILLARD viii be heavy
weight champion Of the world for
y a longer period than any man who
ever held the title in the opinion Of
the men who know Willard best.
{ Just now there is not fighter on
the pugilistic horizon who looks able
{ TO best Willard, with the exception Or
sam LangfOrd. and '-Thammy- won't
Z get chance at the title because Jess
has decided that one battle with a dark
/ gent is quite enough.
Ever since Willard pushed his right
hand against JOhnsOn's face in the 26th
round Of the Havana affair the big
kansan has been bOmbarded with defis-
But he won't accept any Of them. It
IS unlikely that Willard viii do any
battling for another year or So What's
the use: He can make more money
By training for stage chOres,and there's
no chance Of his losing his heavyweight
title on the stage
Looking over the list Of white hopes
who think they have a chance to beat
Willard, one Immediately eliminates all
but three. One OF those is -GunDOat
smith who won 20 round decision
from Willard on the coast some time
ago That's when Willard was in the
raw state and the "GOoner" had Deeu
developed into perfection Smith
wouldn't have much OF a chance against
Willard now. because the Willard OF
is months ago is a far different VII
lard than the present one
COfTey Is slugEer.
The next gent that might be con-
sidered is Jim Coffey. an Irish party,
who has terrific punch, wonderful
endurance, gameness far beyond the
average, and little or no boxing skill
COffey Is a slugger-nOt a boxer.
corey might have a chance with
Willard If he were better boxer than
willard, but he isn't Therefore, VIII
lard would have the advantage in every
department Of pugilism over COffey,
which would leave C0ffey only the faint
hope Of sneallng over sleep-prOduc-
out the window.
Morris Is Most Likely
And now we come 20 No J-Car1 MOI
ris- This Norris fellow is regarded as
the original white hope, He was one
Of the first 70 get into harness after
the Reno affair for the purpose Of
beating up Jack Johnson
Norris lacks only an inch or so OF
being as tan as Willard He IS almost
as powerful He can stand more pun
ishment than any other man in the
game And his punches have terrible
power when they hit But that lets
out Norris He isn't any judge Of dis
lance lie IS as clumsy as they make
them He knows nothing about the
science Of the ring game and seems
70 be hopeless proposition as pupil
These three men are the best in the
game-and not one seems good enough
10 have q real chance against VIII
lard The new champ is only IS He
hasn't quite reached his prime At so
he VIII start 10 slip back, but ne can
do quite a bit Of slipping before ne
slips to the point where any OF the
present day fighters would have a real
chance against him In the future giant
may arise who may be able 10 take
Wizards measure-but that seems TO
be in the somewhat distant future.
Bradt Has Hard Luck.
George Bradt fathered the fight game
n Havana but IL looks as though his
offspring is going 70 kick him In the
ribs Bradt went to a lot OF expense
in bringing fighters to Havana and ne
went 10 even greater expense in build
ing an open air arena But the crowds
won't come
Bradr, who is a game sportsman, had Z
sunk a lot of money in trying 70 get !
the Cubans Interested in pugilism. but I