The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-22
WILLARD MORAN GO AS VIEWED
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DAN ThANlioNo' FSb. %l. IiiS two heavyweight boxers, Jess Willard and Frank Moran, continue to receive but scant courtesy at the hands of sporting writers on the Pacific slope. 1 Both of them have boxed in this city, and the exhibitions they put up were more or less the laughing stock of regular ring followers. That they have improved some in the past year or two is not denied, but when pro motors talk of charging from $5 to 1 $25 to see them in action over only ten rounds, the local sporting men are willing to concede the palm for en- Ithusiasm, or whatever else it may be, to their eastern brothers who are willing to pay the price.
 Not one man in ten here, 1t is said, expects any result from ten round bout As far as the temper of the California ring follower is concerned, nothing less than twenty rounds to a decision will satisfy them. Few look for a knockout in ten rounds, the only way in which the championship over that did stand under the node cision rule, can change hands.
 If the comments of the baseball fans are worth anything, 1t does not appear that Managers Berry and Me Creedie, of the San Francisco and Portland teams of the Pacific Coast league. have done themselves or the league any good by their quarrel over the question of whether or not Berry is financially interested in more than one team on the circuit
 With the financial and commercial side of all professional sports. espec- tally boxing and baseball, coming more and more to the front. there seems to be an uumistakable feeling of re vulsion against all these business de- tails on the part of the public. which primarily is interested in the sport itself. Sporting writers have not minced words in the matter of the Berry quarrel, which they have condemned as injurious to the game on the coast. With the picker ing over the monthly salary limit fin ally settled, the hope is expressed that baseball and not soiled linen will be offered the baseball public.
 The Pacific coast is not alone in be- moaning the decadence of boxing From New York, where the sport is within the law. comes the report that interest in the game has increased so noticeably this winter that many of the promoters have become alarmed According to the figures reported from Albany, the states share of the tax from the boxing clubs is only hali what it was a year ago. Chairman F A. Wenck, of the state athletic com mission, is quoted as saying that the dearth of new faces in the ring, and the law prohibiting decisions, are the principal reasons for the condition oi affairs
 California boxers doubtless have been made acquainted with the fact for the reason that number of them already have invaded the Atlantic state, where they are said to have been we'll received, and are doing we'll Willie Meehan, a local heavyweight with a considerable local reputation as a laugh provoker has taken we'll with the eastern fans, not only by req son of his antics in the ring, but be- cause he has decisively beaten the men who have been matched against him.
 Speaking of the prevailing hard times for the boxing sport, the follow ing item from a Seattle paper is en- 1 Tightening;
 "The snow has been a Godsend to many four round fighters who appear in local smokers. When the first call for men to shovel snow was sent out the ring artists responded. and many of our most promising pugilistic Ilightweights are now performing the first work they ever did in their lives"
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