Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-20
MORAN is DODGING DILLON
Heavyweight Who Will Meet Will
lard Wants None Of Jack Dillon,
VINO is Only Lightheavy.
AND COAL MINER is WISE BOY

NEW YORK. Feb. ls.-Now that Jack
Dillon again has shown that he is every
inch fighter. It l. going to be hard for
Frank Moran to continue his policy OF
silence regarding the challenges of the
Hoosier light heavyweight Dfilon's at
titude has earned for him the sympathy
OF ring followers. While Moran has been
busy wrangling over the amount he is
TO receive for a Willard match. Dillon
has been moving down all coutenders
and saying little.
Already Dillon's record Is far superior
TO that OF Moran and no doubt II would
be even more imposing is II were not
for the fact that the men who have a
reputation 70 lose will Rave nothing to
do with hitn. AS a heavyweight his
slate is clean of defeats and among his
list Of victims are Battling Levinsky,
Jim and Porlxy Flynn. Jim Savage,
Charley Weinert and now Tom Cowler.
OF these men, at least two--Levinsky
and Weinert-would have better than an
even chance of outpointing Moran. The
Pittsburgher did stop Cowier. but that
was In 1911 when Cowier was a green
novice and even then II took him six
rounds to do the trick Since that time
and particularly during the last few
months Cowler has improved so much
under Jim Corbett's coaching that he
has moved up from tenth rater to a
place among the second flight.
Coffey Won't Fight Dillon.
Moran's one claim to fame Is that he
defeated Jim coffey. a man who can
not be dragged into a ring with Dillon
under any oircumstances. 1t would be
just as hard to induce Moran to tackle
the nimble LevinslSy. yet the latter was
easy for Dillon. savage once stopped
Moran. yet Savage. was outclassed by
the man from Indianapolis. Weiner'
has been pleading for the opportunity
to show. up the challenger of Willard
but Moran shows no inclination TO sikn
articles. although Of all the leading con-
tenders the Newark youth is the least
dangerous.
Dillon IL the man In the ring today
whom no one IL pestering with n chal-
longe. He has swept the field clean and
there IL no one left to meet HIM. YET
Moran has the nerve TO pose as the logi'
! cal contender for championship match
and to ask the public to support him IN
his stand.
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match Moran consistently harps on th'
| fact that size does not count There
fore he cannot make that excuse. tol
s,destepp,ng the made-over middle
weight.
| DfIIon Is Faster.
Dillon and Moran have many qualities
in common. Both can give and take
harder wallop than the average big Eel
low. But Dillon II much faster with ootf
feet and hands and his defense Is fa'
superior to that OF the Pittsburgh blond
Dillon has two good hands. while Moran
has only one. And Dillon does not teie'
graph his blows. He can start eithei
hand from any position without sivins
| the least indication that he is about e
fire. Moran cannot hit until his feet an
! firmly braced and he always serves warn
ing before he shoots
Moran, perhaps, can put more weight
behind his right handlers. but Dnlon'i
blows have more OF the Knockout snap
| On the whole, he IS a far better hitter
The punch that nattened Cowlsr would
have done as much damage to Coffey
Moran could not keep Jim on the floor
although he hit him again and agar
after the Irishman had grown too veal
to hold up his hands.
In their effort to force Moran's hanS
Curiey and Pollok have announced tina
they had matched Dillon with Willart
instead OF the Pittsburgher. In makini
this known Pollok said that Curiey haG
been in communication with Tom Jonei
and that willard's manager had con
sented 20 the new arrangement.