Evening star., 1916-03-12
WILLARD AND CLUB .
MUST STOP Taxing
Boxing Commission Suspends
Pioneer Exhibitions for
Thirty Days.
ACTION DUE TO FAILURE
TO HOLD PROMISED BOUT
Champion Refuses to Meet al Reich
After Public Had Contributed
for Advertised Match.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 11.-Jess
Willard, world champion heavy
weight boxer, was summarily
punished today by the New York
state boxing commission. while
the Pioneer Sporting Club, in
which he has been training, was
suspended for thirty days. The
penalties were imposed because
| it was found that the boxer had
deliberately fooled the public.
In preparation for his bout
with Frank Moran Willard has
been training i'll public at the
Pioneer Sporting Club and has
been charging an admission OF
Is cents from every person who
watched him work out. 1T had
! been advertised today that he
would box with M Reich. Scent
ing trickery. Chairman Fred
| Wenck of the state boxing COM
mission warned the sporting club
management and the champion
that if he did not intend to box
Reich he should display sign to
that effect before the public paid
the price of admission.
! That was not done. When Chairman
Wenck visited the gym and found tina, .nat
i Reich. he called Tom Jones. Wiilard
manager. and told him to put on the
advertised attraction. When TINS was
refused. the chairman notified Willard
that hereafter he would not be per-
mitted to charge any admission except
at a regular boxing bout the Pioneer
| Sporting club, the chairman SAID, was
| a party to the matter.
"WiIlard deliberately declined to
meet AL Reich" said Chairman Wenck.
despite the fact that the bout has
been advertised and persons went TO
the Pioneer Sporting Club to see the
| bout. / warned all parties OF Just such
an occurrence, put apparently thes
took no heed
Willard hereafter. by the commits
sionerS edict, will not be permitted 10
charge admission for the privilege OF
seeing him train.
Moran Plans Surprise.
Frank Moran is working up star
tling change in his ring tactics. He be-
gan today to practice a left shift which
the late Stanley Ketchel used in such
spectacular and effective fashion.
10
MIR. willard he said just before he
started his boxing. Watch my left
shift. I'm bit proud of it,
But if you announce it this way It
will not be much of surprise. will
to" he was asked. The Irish American
playboy grinned cheerfully.
''Oh, it's only fair to warn a man that
he is going to be surprised" he said.
And Moran did actually exhibit left
shift 1t was not the whirling rattle
snake shift of Ketchel, but it was
fairly fast and when he swung around
he produced some fine driving power
with the left shoulder. At any rate.
it was strong enough to subdue Bill
McKinnon, an added sparring partner.
Hurt at Comment.
Evidently Moran is bit hurt at the
comment of his ability to use his left
hand All through today's stunts he
practiced a left jab and it was a fairly
well timed and effective jab at that.
Once or twice he hooked the usually
idle and listless left, and even Francis
himself seemed a bit amazed to learn
that it carried sting
While the playboy was experiment
ing with his left hand he incidently
furnished dinners for exactly 1913 hun
gry people on the East Side. The col
lection box in the gym at the Chateau
money was turned over to Father Nc
Nally of the Holy Name Mission in the
Rowery Il will be used in feeding the
homeless and hungry