New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-04
Personal Touches Here
and There in Boxing
BY IGOE

The prospects Of championship
fight between Jess Willard and Frank
Moran seem quite remote at this line.
Ike Dorgan. Moran, Jack Curley and
Tom Jones met yesterday, and after the
conference il was q settled thing that
Moran and Willard would not meet TO-
some time to come. Dorgan came TO
Curley's Office at the suggestion OF the
Willard interests, with view to sign
ing Moran up for a contest with Will
ard in which the big Pittsburgh man
was to get a fiat guarantee Of $1,000
for his services, no matter where Il
contest between the pair might be held.
AS soon as Moran and Dorgan en-
tered the willard sanctum Tom Jones
flashed the old papers in true ten
twent-thirt fashion, the same being =
wire from New Orleans promoters stat
ing that they had finally decided that
Fred Fulton was the big man that had
been selected to fight Jess Willard in
March. during the Mardi Gras week
The wire went on to say that me pro
moters had waited far too long for
Frank Moran to consent to a prellm-
mary bout with Fulton to see VINO
on the chin by the title holder.
Up spoke Ike Dorgan, for Moran,
quite pert. you asked US TO come
here to-day to sign. You said that We
would get $1,000 FOR our end in a
fight of twenty rounds il we wished 1t
or the same amount II we decided -
fight ten rounds here with the cham
pion. Here's my little old fountain
pen. Where's your papers, you, Curley'
and even you, Tom Jones? Tro' out
the foolscap and Moran's name goes
down in good faith. quite"
an tell you, Dorgan," said Curley.
What we intended was 10 have Moran
! sign an agreement TO accept that
amount for bout with the champion
and TO further agree that the bout IS
to be an open air affair here, and, per-
chance, elsewhere. Further, we were
to have a two weeks option on him"
beautifully put. Jawn. old boy" said
Ike, "but that is little too foggy for
I a pair Of old-timers like Moran and my
! self Well propose new angle right
now. Well sign a contract TO fight your
/ Jess Willard any place in the world for
one-third of any money that Jess may
get. How does that sound? asked Ike,
giving Tom and Jack the up and down,
the OHCt ONtI anu the hHiOuBH anu
through, to say nothing of last with
ering over all.
Sounds to us like nothing we ever
expect to hear again." said Curley and
Jones in a joint chorus.
Suppose, for sake of argument, that
the fight between the pair drew $780,
600, and Wizards share would amount
to something like $4,000, do you mean
to ask for third Of THAT" shrieked
Jay and Tee.
"By the time the pair are able 70
/ draw sl50,000," began Ike, moran will
haze earned his right TO one-third OF
what Jess may get. You must realize
that we intend 10 do a lot of fighting
between now and March. First of all,
we have planned 10 knock Jim Coffey
on his ear again, and then there are the
rest Of them-Flynn, Cowler, Gunboat,
| Dillon-to practise upon. We intend to
clean up that entire crowd before we
ever hope to get Willard in ring.
When we do we will De greater card
/ than the champion himself Get me
| Fighting is our business, and board
walking seems &c be that Of the Willard
syndicate. I quite agree with Bill Rog-
ers. the roof cowboy, when he says
that willard should 90 on that Ford
scow. He is the most peaceful cham
pion we have ever had:
"We won't daily with that old dove
stuff" said Jack. 1--WE another eariul
for you. | can show you CLUB OF one
hundred members who are pledged TO
paw 500 a seat to view fght between
Willard and Moran. How does that
sound. Ike 2" asked Curley.
Better than anything the author OF
Arabian Nights ever dreamed OF, said
Ike, as he chuekled back of his Adams
apple. ,..,,...n ;. odd.
cd. "We stand ready TO fight willard.
Also, we are ready to fight this false
alarm, Fred Fulton. All this talk from
the South that we ducked bout with
Fulton u bosh. You say that the Full