The Washington herald., 1916-08-07
Dillon FELL IN
EYES OF FANS
Beating Levinsky Hung on
Giant Killer" in Baltimore
Cannot Be Forgotten.
AFTER SAM LANGFORD

New York, Aug. s-rhe promotion
persons hsreabouts are not talking so
fluently concerning Jack Dillon
Sam Langford bout as they did on the
day before Battling Levtnsky beat up
the Western "Giant Killer"
The New York Hebrew seems to
have silenced quite effectively the
lon after the latter pummeled one
Francis Charles Moran. 1t was figured
that Dillon was the best husky battler
in the game next to Jess Willard. but.
Levfnsky knocked sskew the calcula-
tionS.
Oh, yes, the Diuonites declare that
Levinsky's victory over Dillon In Bal
timore was nothing to get worried
about" But the fact remains that Le-
whisky beat Dillon and did IL so de-
cisively that 1t ranks Levinsky
notch or two beyond the Indianapolis
warrior IN the league" standing.
Dillon, in meeting Levinsky, prob
ably made the same error that Moran
made when he met Dillon. Moran
held Dillon so cheaply that he didn't
really train, and, secondly. during the
early rounds OF the battle he didn't
fight in a heady way. Dillon did not
consider Levinsky dangerous. Hadn't
they met seven or eight times before?
And hadn't Dillon beaten Levinsky in
the majority OF those affairs? OF
course.
Dillon Pulls Boner.
And so Dillon, without training like
he did for Moran, took on Levinsky.
He liked the money. The fight ap-
pealed to him as nothing beyond a
mild workout-and sure triumph. But
Dillon got the surprise of his career.
He was beaten all around the ring
during those ten rounds and never
once did it look as II he had a chance
for victory.
That mental foozle cost Dillon a large
flock of simoleons. II he hadn't fought
Levinsky. or If. in fighting him. he had
Won. Dillon's earning power would have
been very large, indeed. Undoubtedly,
some one of the live promoters in New
York would have put on a DillOn-Lang-
ford scrap-hsd Dillon been willing-and
the affair would have drawn big.
LangfOrd. the negro battler. is some
what popular hereabouts. He has put up
some awful fights against gentlemen of
his own color during the past two years,
but that was not because of lack OF abil-
ity. Sam needs the money for ''po'k
chops" Had he knocked out the only
men that he was permitted to fight un-
der the old New York State laws, he
never could have secured more matches
81 he permitted the boys to stick around.
But now that mixed bouts are permit
" ~nrr~r'. has the legal right to try
conclusions with some Of the white folks
.-.-.ssuS .l'c that lie would
r.r-v wind sr.-1r. brI.ghtfuy
against Dillon. he wouldn't take any
..ces. ana Dillon. meeU-g the ETcaUcst
hlacs man i'm the ring today, would have
fought 20 his absolute limit
rH. yes. indcedy, a Dillon-Langford
bout. With Dillon still heroized by his
victory over Moran, would have been a
mighty drawing card. But now Jack
Isn't considered such-a-much hereabouts.
Didn't Levinsky beat him-and do it
easily
why Not LsnGford-Leyinsky.
Ehy not a Levlnsky-Langford match
tEeg? Well. Levinsky is willing and so
is I.ursford. Maybe the affair will take
place during the fail or winter But
tHa promoters are somewhat dubious
about the drawing power of such a
match. Ievinsky. despite the fact that
he beat Dillon. isn't the same sort OF
turHstilc magnet that Dillon would have
been. Furthermore. Dillon and Levinsky
arc entirely different in fight styles.
DiilOns is the style that pleases the
fans. He is a boring fighter, one who
likes 20 slug toe-to-toe; a man with a
knockout wallOp. Levlnsky. on the other
hand is not kill -'em-dead' kid He
wins most Of his fights by darting in
and out; depends more upon jabbing than
in swinging. And the folks do like the
slugging boys.
The promoters fear that a match be-
tween Levinsky and Langford merely
would be a sort Of footrace, with Le-
Whisky doing the bulk of it. Not that
Bat would run away from ''Thammy," ,"
but it's something OF a cinch that he
wouldn't run into him as Dillon would
do.
It's too bad Dillon took a chance and
met Levinsky at a time when he had
nothing to gain by victory and an awful
lot lOse