Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-02
BOUT BETWEEN FRANK
 AND JESS JOKE
Such a Scrap Will Hardly Be Worth the Price of
 Admission.
(By Frank G. Menke.)

lBV Ffank G. Me1Ke.)
 New York, Jan. 31.--It doesn't seem to us that ten round bout between Jess Willard and Frank Moran will be worth the price of admission. A twenty round bout between the pair, in some state where decisions are permitted. would mean real bat tie, but ten round scrap probably would prove q disappointment. However, there seems to be at least five promoters who are anxious to put up from $45,000 to $55,00O for the fighters share in q ten round mill. They are willing to gamble that the receipts will go beyond the total eX penses of staging the bout which will be about s10.O0O beyond the price they give to the fighters.
 To us it seems as if Jimmy John sons offer of 55,OO0 tc the battlers is despc rate gamble. TO stage the bout it would cost him at least $65,- 000. He wants to put it on in Madison Square Garden where the seating ca pacity is around 10000.
 Big Prices for Seats.
 Before Johnson could sec daylight ahead he would have 10 get an aver ago price of s7 for each seat i'll the house Ringsidc seats probably would bring S25. The other floor seats from S1O to $15. He would charge g. for a gallery scat.
 Who wants to pay 5 for seat so far removed from the ring that the heavyweights look as sizable as light weights? Furthermore. who wants to pay from $5 to S25 to see two men battle in no-decision bout?
 If both men were fast, if both could put up fine boxing exhibition. it might be worth the price of admis- sion to see the pair in action. But it is unlikely that Moran-Willard fight, over ten round route, would be anything more than waiting cut" match.
 Willard fights a slow, cautious fight. He is not mixer. He lays back and waits for the other fellow to wear himself out. Moran fights along the same style. Neither man is in the aggressive class, so, judged hy their past records: each fighter would try to out-wait the other
 "Waiting.Out" Battle.
 Both Moran and Willard realize that the only way they could lose the match is to rush out and take a chance on the other slipoin. over a sleeep-producing wallop. Each knows that the other packs" such punch. But why should either get out and take a chance when he loses nothing by waiting back? <
 In, case Johnson lands the bout, Willard will get s35,000 and Moran $20,000. Each man gets his divvy, win, lose or draw.
 Naturally, Willard would like to land knockout punch upon Moran's jaw. That would clinch Willard's claim that he is the greatest heavy weight fighter in the world. And just as naturally, Moran would like to put out Willard and thus gain the championship. There's incentive enough for both men to stand tue-to- toe and slug from the first round to the last, but the chances of their doing it are remote. II
 Should ten round bout between the pair be staged. Moran undoubted ly would be the aggressor But what will he gain if he wins on points? Nothing but newspaper decision. Willard will retain the championship. Moran's only hope for victory would be via the knnockout route. and the chances are only one in 10 that he could shove a coma-develOping wal lop over during that period.
 should Fight Twenty Rounds.
 Willard is a glutton for punish ment; so is Moran. Both are husky and both can travel ten rounds with out feeling any fatigue. About the only way to knock out either--unless a lucky punch should figure in-would be to wear the other down. And that couldn't be done in ten rounds.
 It seems a mistake to match Moran and Willard over ten round no-de- cision route. The fighting game won't be helped by such match. It may prove such huge disappoint- ment that it will hurt the game.
 Moran and Willard ought to be matched over 20 round or longer route in some statt where decisions arc permitted. Each man would know then that he would have to fight to win: each would know that points would figure in the result. In such case it's likely that both men would forget their ''waiting-Out" style