Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-23


rnovv how you college fellows
& ws,.ac, a oouple of days before a big
-. you'd chew the ear of any one
teat.oked oross-eyed at you. Then about
@ serr before the contest was called,
: - ~ vivs anything In the world for
4 ~ rornpanionable earthquake which
~ ~, tear I'D the football field 30 that the
- ~. would be called off. You weren't
ss,. n what would happen to you. but
I -. - Ssared the result and the colors of
] ~ s.,- dear old college would be dragged
b he mud
DIgGent in Ring
,.rhat,s all right in high-brow athletics,
N. when two big men meet In 24-foot
80 ana battle for 80 minutes before a
seut audience that pays about S180,000
~ IN priyilege, it's n different PROPOSE
~, You don't care whether school keeps
!, not The only thing that you realize is
AL there Is great big hulk of humanity
s.fora yovi and you are too busy watch
hr him to think of anything else.
NERVOUS? Say, I'd be the most dlsap-
rolnted man in the world IL / did not get
chance at Willard next Saturday night.
/ Al not fear the fight. That's only an in
adsnt In my young life. The only thing
I'M AFRAID of is that the treasurer will get
hart disease and drop dead before l get
M share Of the purse. I'm going to get
i,sf5o for appearing at the Garden, and
ineed the money. My little fuss with Will
lafd is merely n means to the end.
DO you realize that Willard and my
s,li, two men who never graduated from
college, will draw more money than %
larned athletes performing on the grid
lruni Do you know that we will have
ncfe money in the box office than there is
It q worlds series baseball game? Last
fall, when the University of Pittsburgh
played Washington and jefferson moro
than 10000 persons saw the game What
we're the gate receipts? Were they $780,
lepl You can bet your life they weren't
Now you can compare higher education
10 brute strength and cunning from a box
shce standpoint.
Played Against Pitt
while l am talking about football ard
nlleges, want to correct a statement
credited to me In one of the papers.
vas quoted as saying that was hired
70 play football with the University of
Pittsburgh In 1908.' That is not so. The
interyiewer misunderstood me. At that
time II was playing football with n pro-
isSsional team in Pittsburgh and was
nked to come out and practice against
ne college players. / can see how the
fsporter made his mistake but / hold no
Rrd feelings against him. But | have
many friends connected with the UnIver-
av OF Pittsburgh, and l don't want the
e.ner colleges to get the wrong impression.
entered the university as a special
STUDENT, but soon discovered that l could
maze more money in the ring. Since that
ume have been educating myself"
This was the result Of m tDtarytAtu with
Francis Aloysius Moran, who declares,
Ellhout the slightest trace of egotism, that
Y as VIII win the worlds championship next
saturday night. Instead of unloading a
mole hoek of questions on the contender
lor pugilistic hOnors, we were forced to
sand for the interview Moran did most
y lhe questioning and then supplied the
answers
Frank held nothing up his sleeve when
y put on this unusual monoIogue. He
aaourdened himself, showing his true
lsellngs' proved that he has the most ut
aost .t confidence i'm himself and confessed
!, va. 8 ne was in the boxing game for all
I 'ne money there is in it, He did not
sssn on the beauties of the manly art"
'1.ead ne pictured the rough and rugged
eau IN Which must be traversed before a
gasuist Is given even little fame. He
saosed how the unknown preliminary
.sa,eI appears night after night, takes a
sstlpie beating and then limps to the box
Aa0e % collect about $40 for his work.
Willard Has Weak Spot
fnsn you ask me If / am nervous"
"a ~ noran snorted contemptuoulsly. II
- an OF the nervousness and fear
,ascAed out of me after / had been box
=. ~ ,,, one year. I feel as if / could knock
= willard right now If he appeared be-
X ~ me, He's big, but not invulnerable.
i !, ,'as weak spot and shall find it," ,
~ eohhdence goes for anything, Moran
M M carry out his threat Saturday. He
s'snsses he viii win and every action
- lt' Yesterday when he appeared
,s'Ye the select audience in Mr.. Hawk.
=. gymnasium, he did not act like a
y young thing about to be lead to the
,sser' Instead, he went through his
-.-Iahs stunts like a wealthy business
- ~ signing a check. He Just radiated
sfaaaeilee ,se when he punched the bag and
vas more apparent when he boxed
ss,.d louhd with each of his sparring
IN IN corbett and Norman Selby. who
- -. % wear the monickeF of Kid Mccoy
sa ne fooled the wise ones in the ring,