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WILLARD NBOUT
Pittsbmrg Heavyweight Says
Every Fighter Has a Weak
Spot; to Go After It

NEW YORK.-@Every man has his
weak spot; TN ffnd Wizards" said
Frank Moran when asked how he in
tended to fight the big champion.
Il whipped Coffey by driving right
handlers into his body and then chip
ping him ON the chin. Coffey's legs
weakened after the body punishment.
They weakened because Coffey grew
too fast. Willard Is three or four
inches taller than Coffey. He grew
faster He's more of a physical freak.
All freaks have their weaknesses.
They don't develop evenly. They don't
round out physically and mentally. II
they're not mush in the upper sec
ton they're likely to break in the mid
die like Q bridge that isn't properly
braced. / expect to hit Willard in a
way he's never. been hit before, and
when i do I'll bring him down.
Fighting Is Just a matter of study.
ing the effect OF blows and then ap-s
plying your theories IN practise. !;
learned in my early fights that DELHI
crate planning and execution Is the
thing that wins. That's why Fitzsim-
mons was 50 great. He could wait for.
his opening, and when it came he had
lnis plans laid and was ready to put the
winning blow in with the best scienti.
nc effect. ... I'd.
VIII Wait Him Got.
81 can wait. That's why expect to
beat Willard. The man who can wait
is the dangerous man to fight. ] like
the men who IRE in a hurry to get me:
l like to have them come at me red
hot to knock me out. They find me-
waiting"
"Yes, Frank, but it isn't every one
who can afford to wait. While you're
waiting You get hit more or less.
There aren't many men who could
have waited through those uppercuts
Corey handed you in the sixth and
seventh rounds of your last fight"
Frank gripned. u
They didn't hurt me-" he said.
''They just made me feel more like
hurrying. ~
81 learn q lot of my boxing from
smaller fighterss Willie Lewis was thes
greatest tighter ever saw, in my est
nation. He knows how to fight. He
could wait his chance, and grab 1t. /,
One OF the best fights ever saw was
between Willie and Marcel Moreau in /
France. More8u was a corking fight
er. He was tough one. They thought
he'd beat Willie sure. Willie used q
little trick of countering his leads.
The referee called the fight q draw, |
but because Willie had won so many 1
fights that they thought he could af-
ford to let one Frenchman have a
complimentary draw with him. It was
something Ike that IN the Carpenter
fight, where Carpenter got twenty.
round decision over Willie. II ever
a man deserved decision Lewis de.
served the decision over Carpenter.
Willie was great in that fight.
after his Moreau fight asked him
to teach me that little countering trick,
and he did. / keep It in reserve to
use when need 1t. A while ago one of
those Western heavyweights came out
to Dial Hawkins place to box with me.
He had a black eye. I asked him how
he got It. He said he'd been boxing
with Andre Anderson.
'''I don't know how he hit me- he
said. I just tented him and got Nit
on the eye. When tented him again
l got hit again. I don't know how #
when I run across anything like
that like to figure 1t out. So told
him to start In and feint at me in the
same way. He dabbed out his LETT
and moved about four inches and
used that Willie Lewis counter and
landed ON his eye. =.
"'Gee!' he said, that's the way got
it
so now / know another fellow who
can use that trick. ] study al lother