Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-03-28

him against the ropes from which he
sprang with a high right swing on the
head. finishing the round, the honors of
which again were even.
In the final session the champion
kept working left jabs to the face,
planting six of them without a return,
although Moran was trying hard to land
an overland blow. Willard blocked an
other rush and jolted with right and
left as Moran bored in. At close quar-
tiers Willard drove half arm right to
the wind and sent two short lefts and
two rights to the head. Before the
round ended he planted at least a half
dozen short arm blows on Moran's face.
The awarding of the bout to Willard
was virtually unanimous among the
experts about the ringside, although
all gave Moran credit for his gameness.
Among the papers whose representa-
tives gave Willard the bout were the
following:
New York Herald, Times, Tribune,
World, Sun, American Press, Evening
nal, Telegraph and Philadelphia In
quirer.
RECEIPTS TOTAL $151,254.
Promoter Tex Richard announced that
the gate receipts amounted to $151.254.
Of this amount, the state received IL
per cent of the gross receipts, which
amounted to 1.344. O5. Wizards share
was SAL, 800, and Moran's $780, $50.
Combined with the percentage taken
by the state and the sI7,500 paid for
the rental of the Garden, the expenses
totaled s90.094.OS.
To this must be added other expenses
which will bring the total up to about
100000 so that Tex Richard and his
partner in the enterprise, Sam McCrack-
EN-, will clear close to $4,000 profit on
the bout.
FIGHTERS ARE SILENT.
Moran refused to make any state
ment after the bout other than to say
there would have been no fighting if he
had not taken the aggressive through
out the ten rounds.
Willard left the garden Immediately
after the bout, refusing to be inter
viewed by newspaper men. /.
DR.. Lewis Morris, who later attend
ed the champion at his hotel, said that
Willard had suffered a slight fracture
of the joint of the first index finger of
his right hand early in the fight. He
added, however, that the big fellow
otherwise was in good condition, and
that the injury to the finger would not
trouble him more than day or two
Richard said after the fight:
Moran put up SOOu nSnl' ne d
darn good boy. Willard was much slow
err than ! thought he'd be. If he broke
his right hand, as it is said he claimed
he did. it didn't seem to make much
difference. He didn't seem to need his
right a good part of the time"
The doors of. Madison Square Garden
opened late. a jostling crowd, impatient
at the delay, poured through the runways
IN single file, tickets in hand.
The big hall filled slowly. The CALLER
les were packed long before the bare
spots on the floor began to disappear.
From frail looking perches swung from
the rail OF the second floor balcony, the
moving picture men focused their cam
eras.
The preliminaries began, but for all
the crowd cared the boxers might as well
have been pummeling each other in their
own back yards. The spectators were
interested only in the big bout. John l..
sullivan. Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Carbett
all one time holders of the heavy
weight championship-had seats close
TO the ring.
CARUSO INTERESTED SPECTATOR.
Among those holding box seat tickets
were J. P. Morgan, Reginald &. Wander
bilt, Diamond Jim Brady, David Be
lasco, Enrico Caruso, General W. Cole
man DUPONT and Mayor Curley of Bos-
tom There were scores of women In
the great throng. Some sat in the
arena boxes but mostly they were in the
balconies.