Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-12
SUCCESS Of BIG
BOUT Depends
upon Willard
Can Make It Interesting or
Tiresome by Way HI
Fights
(By AIOnty)

(By Monty
New York, March 1.-THE artistic
success of the coming Jess willard
Frank Moran bout depends entirely on
the attitude of the champion. He has
it within his power to make the fight
beauty or tiresome plod. Which
he is going to do nobody but himself
and perhaps managers can answer. If
it turns into great fight Willard will
deserve the credit If it is rotten
one, Willard will receive the blame.
1t is a foregone conclusion that
Moran has sense enough to realize the
grand opportunity that confronts him,
his chance for fame and fortune be-
yond anything he has experienced in
the past With the worlds champion
standing up there before him-stanu-
ng up is right in the case of long Jess
Moran will be face to face with a
chance to become champion himself.
Since the contest is scheduled as a
ten-rOunder with no decision to b.
rendered a. it's end. the only way Mo-
ran could win he title would be Jy
knocking out Willard. 1t may be re-
corded as an absolute certainty that
he will attempt this very thing, sail
ing into the champion from the first
gong in an effort to land the old hay
maker.
With Moran's manner determined,
the whole thing rests with Willard. If
the champion decides to play it-saf :.
if he adopts Freddie Welsh tactis OF
simpl ytrying to keep his crown. IT he
aims only to protect himself from
lync an
deavor to beat Moran, there will be
an .uninteresting affair. Playing
strictly on the defensive, Willard prob
ably could hold Moran off for twenty
rounds with slight risk of receiving a
dangerous clip on the jaw or any other
vulnerable part OF the anatomy.
Swinging his huge bulk back and forth
from one foot to the other fifth his
left forward and the weight mainly
on the firmly planted right, with his
long left arm extended and the right
held close in readiness to sweep body
blows aside OF pry Moran out OF
clinch the giant probably could loaf
through the whole ten rounds without
the slightest risk OF knockout. He
managed to go over twenty rounds
that way against Jack Johnson in Hav-
ana, so why not ten against Moran?
Says He'll Try for kayO.
Willard has said and his managers
have said for him that he will not
wrong. cheat or defraud the public.
He is supposed to have intentions OF
assailing Moran just as vicloasly as
Moran attacks him. II am bent on
knocking out Moran just as quickly
as cam" declares big Jess. i want
to show the public | am not cheese
champion, SO l intend to use every
thing | have and give the best | can.
There are still lot of folks who
think | am a false alarm. I'll show
'em I'm going to put Moran out in the
very first round if | cam
Moran is what might be described
as IAN awkWardly clever man. He
seems to be clumsy, uncertain as to
lust where a blow of his own Will
land, inaccurate in blocking and duck
ing punches of the othe rman. He
really gets more results in the clever
ness line than appears to the UNTIL
tored ring observer. The pith of a!
boxing cleverness is ability to land
ones own blows and prevent the OPP
ponent from landing his squarely-
that and knack of conserving energy
so as to have enough LEFT when big
opening presents itself. A boxer may
loo kas clumsy, awkward and gaWky
as he wishes and yet he really is a
clever boxer if he accomplished the
three things mentioned. Moran.
Judging from recent views of him. is
Just the type of fighter, really
clever man who looks like chump.
His ring assets are not limited to
that right hand punch which laid the
Coffey and others low.
Not Likely to Go Limit.
Even with his share of boxing
ski, Moran has no chance to finish
Willard if The latter iries game OF
svoiding punishment with no thought
of winning the bout on points. II
Willard makes an aggressive argu-
ment of the sort Moran is expected,
any number of things may occur. Ill
event hat both start and keep at
full speed all the way. we feel safe II
predicting a sure knockout for some
body. Who will land it We guess
Willard.
In a real battle with Doth men mov~
ing at their fastest, it is pretty nearly
impossible fer it 10 so the limit OF
even ten rounds. Each has such a
mighty wallop that. if they both take
chances. it is uncomfortable that thei'
ruge fists could fail to connect
solidly during the entire stretch. be
it said right here that both of them
can punish hard enough to fall any