Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-03
HARD FOR WILLARD
 TO REDUCE WEIGHT
Surplus of Flesh Sticks Like Glue
 Needs More Strenuous Work.

After five days of training, Jess VII lard, the heavyweight champion of the world has discovered that he is not getting rid of his surplus avoirdupois as rapidly as he expected. In fact, Willard weighs just about as much as he did when he first came to New York.
 The champion and his manager, Tom Jones, realized Wednesday that the course of training that Willard has been following was not strenuous enough. In the morning, Willrad eX- tended the distance of his road work. and ran around Central Park until he had covered about eight miles.
 In the afternoon when he went to the Pioneer A. c. in Forty-fourth St, Jones decided that the champions s road work had been 50 hard that he would have to cut short his work in the ring. He boxed two short rounds with Jack Temple and two shorter ones with Walter Monohan. Then the title holder was so tired that he glad ly hurried to his room to be rubbed down. t.t
 Chairman Fred Wenck, of the State Athletic Commission, watched Willard box Wednesday, and was outspoken in remarking that the champion was far from being in the best of condition. MT Wenck commented on Willard's wind, which yesterday was very bad. He puffed hard after one round with Temple and after his second round with Monohan he was blowing like a | pOrpoise.
 The chairman of the Boxing Commits sion thinks that Willard needs some rough and ready sparring partners, as | his exhibitions with Temple and Mono- | han are tame. Last Saturday after ! noon Willard's boxing looked good, but | it has developed that it was the same | kind of boxing that he did with MOno- | han throughout lase summer with a | Wild West show. Chairman Wenck was of the opinion that Willard would ! have to settle down to much harder routine if he expected to get into the | best possible shape for his match with | Frank Moran at Madison Square Gar ! den on March 25.
 , Tom Jones insists that the champion
 is in good shape, in spite of his ap- pearanCe. Wednesday, in the ring, Will
 ard was slow and appeared tired
 When he began to mix it up with
 MonOhan in his boxing bout and got
 away from the cut-and-dried boxing performance, the champion got sew eral hard blows in the face which
 made him cautious.
 The work that Willard does in the
 ring at the Pioneer Sporting Club eacl
 afternoon is hardly enough to warn
 him up. He an dhis manager, Jones
 have decided that he must have mort
 strenuous boxing, and hey are al
 ready searching mih new sparrini
 partners, Willard is anxious to get A
 Reich into the ring with him.
 1 Willard, up to the present, has neve
 taken his boxing seriously. He Is al ways smiling at the efforts of his spar
 ring partners to hit him. When the,
 do land with the ten ounce gloves h
 merely smiles.
 In the meantime Frank Moran, tn
 challenger. is going through the mos strenuous kind of work in the cold an snow at Saratoga.
 One feature of Willards boxin which was evident yesterday was tha his guard was low. He protected hi body fairly well but left his jaw ope 2 to the blows of his opponents. Tim , and again Monohan hit the champio ] in the face, and in their first encount
 CT in the afternoon, when Monoha , was mixing it up merrily with Willar and landing on him, Tom Jones call i ed time and the attack ceased. { It was announced Wednesday tha : the semi final bout preceding the mai z contest at the Garden would bring to geher Battling Levinslly and JiI
 Flynn, the Pueblo fireman. There wi / also be two siX-round bouts.
 There was a good sized crowd O , those present including John D. Grim s mins and a party of friends. q From present indications there wi z be no moving pictures of the boI Il taken. Several promoters of pictul 1 concerns have considered taking on u a rights but as the pictures cannot I z shown outside of this State on accom s of a Federal law 1t is not likely tn; @ they will be made.