New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-29
Realism Is the Thing, SO
He Suffers Punches on
the Solar PleXuS.
CHAMP A DRAWING
ROOM ACTOR NOW
Months of Affluence and Adula'
ton Have Worked Wonders
with Johnson's Conqucror.
Bv ". o. MCCLELLAN.

Jess Willard showed that he could
Belascoize his training stunts yester-
dav. At the wind-up of his play bout
with Walter Monahan the champion
lifted his long arms and let lis spar
ring partner send IN four stan blows 70
his stomach.
The punches were not the stiiest
that Nonahan could send. OF course, but
they sounded like the thrash Of HALL
Then Willard leaned against the ropes
and laughed. He was telling the crowd
in dumb show that Il would be very
d.Aicult matter for Frank Moran 10
hurt him with a blow TO the body. VI
course. this little bit Of pantomlme
must have been well rehearSed, but u
impressed the multitude.
Willard showed again that he learned
3 great deal from Jack Johnson IN thai
Havana fight. lie has even borrowed
Jsck Johnson's trick or catching MS
opponents elbows with the gloves.
This renders the other person helpless
30 FAR as lashing out is concerned.
Jack johnson did this often when ne
Felt the losst bit weary, and he used
10 grin al his antagonist as he did II.
An innovation was sprung when us
sif Hussane. the Tremendous. Iumult-
nous and Terrible Turk. went IN for
little shadow wrestling with the cham.
Mon. Yussif used 10 amuse himself
bv tossing the 35O-pound Pierre lie
Colossc into the chandeliers.
Throw jess around the ring Int,
tie" suggested Tom Jones. Its good
Cor him" The Terrible Turk tactless-
~ tackled the champion and attempted
TO do some Of his well known and Justly
celebrated piano moving stunts. lie
tucccd and painted. but he could not
move the quarter ton Of Kansas beet'
81. can't be DONE moaned the Ter
rifed Turk. az can't bulge him
Willard seems gradually 20 be over
coming the difiidencc which at trst
made him sphinx instead OF an ldoi
10 the fight fans. In one brlef hall
hour he seemed 20 show visible I'M
,rovement. Persons who could not AZ
first forget that Willard was one OF
those clownish white hopes began 70
see in him great boxer as well Is
great chunk Of Drawn.
Ind sfil they q0-od. and stH me
.conder orc,c, that one big g'nk could
gather al he knesr.
The confidence that came after the
defeat OF Johnson probably did H..
Willard began TO realize tna' ne wa
tho champion of the world. In TINS
lofty cminence he WAS entitled 10 GER
tsin things and they came 20 HIM
Fortified by this confidence, he Is twice
as dangerous as the man VINO beat
Jack Johnson.
The training stunts yesterday were
according 20 schedule. The champion
ranked his feet before the Colonial
Hotel and occupied a large section o.
the drives lu Central Park. From
the pounding Of his feet the police at
first feared that ono Of the elephants
had escaped from the Bronx Zoo and
was moving south toward Brooklyn.
But their fears were set at rest when
they saw that the object IN locomoton
was a sweater and was moving on two
legs. II is not customary for elephants
20 dress that way or 70 use only the
hind legs when in a hurry.
Jack Hemplc $50 pounds was the
first sparring partner. Willard used
that tantalizing straight left on this
one. Once or twice he let Hemple
reach that floating lower jaw Of his
with d jolting right. Whenever II
landed Willard grinned afably.
Then came Monahan. who apparently
punches al a much sitter rate. Once OF
twice Willard lifted Monahan from tho
floor with a stiff right uppercut.
II is evident that the champion IS
trying 10 lose his old fighting posture
Nth the legs far apart and the hea'