Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-01-17
MORAN ENTITLED
TO BATTLE WILLARD
BY Pac. and Int'I News Service.

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Frank Moran
has earned the right to battle Jess
Willard for the heavyweight champion
ship OF the world. The big, blond
Pittsburger's recent achievement in
scoring two knockout victories over
Jim Coffey has placed him in a posi-
ton where Willard cannot ignore him
with homer.
Moran has improved wonderfully
since he met Johnson in Paris in 1911.
He has learned lot in ring skill and
n lot in generalship. No man can
stand up better under punishment
than can Moran. His power to assim.
Hate it is marvellous.
Moran has right handed punch
that can send to the mat any man
that it hits-bar none. His left Is used
mainly for jabbing. but his right is
the finisher That right smashed
against the jaw of Jim Coffey twice
and Jim Coffey crumpled. Coffey
may have a glass jaw, but that right
handed wallop that Moran deals out
can jar even concrete jaw.
Moran a Ring General.
Moran fights a cool, cautious battle
He never loses his head. He's shrewd
in the extreme. In the first Coffey
fight he faxed grogginess in the first
two rounds. Then, when Coffey was
least expecting ii, Moran came out
and fought like wild man.
In the second battle with Coffey the
blond Irishman permitted Coffey u
jab him around the ring for the first
five or six rounds. He played the
| groggy game. Coffey, confident OF
victory on points, began to rush Moran
more and more. And then, Moran
rushed out of his corner like a tiger
and with a series of jabs and swings
weakened Coffey to a point where the
big Irishman was easy prey for the
right handed wallop that ended the
battling in the ninth round.
Moran VS.. Willard.
Jess Willard is physical perfection
He's so big and so powerful that Il
seems to many now that he is unbeat
able. Ranked with the majority o.
heavyweights today. he Is unbeatable
But Moran would have a chance wiz
Willard-and real one.
Moran has a punch that is as power
full as that of Wizards. He is gam,
to the core. he can stand more punish
ment than any man In the ring today
He is faster than Willard and jus
about as clever He has q hair.trig
ger brain that has won many fight
for him. And he has had many o
years of ring experience to aid him.
Jack Johnson scored a victory OIL
points over Moran In their twenty
round Paris bout, while Jess Wlllart
scored knockout over Johnson II
the 26th round of their Havana battle
That would show Willard as the su
perlor to Moran on the surface cond
ton. But wait!
Comparative Showinas.
The Johnson who met Moran was
younger Johnson than the one tina
met Willard. Between the time of tn
Johnson.Moran and the Johnson.Wi
lard bouts the big negro dissipate
considerably. thus robbing himself u
some OF the power that he had in tn
Moran bout. And he grew older an
fatter, too.
Had the Johnson.Willard bout ende
In the goth round. as did the johnson
Moran bout, the negro would hav
won by huge margin. Johnso
shaded Willard in the majority 9
those first 90 rounds. and he shade
him by far greater margin than h
shaded Moran.
SO, when you compare those tw
bouts. you find that Moran made
far better showing against Johnso
4 for 20 rounds than did Willard-an
. against n far better Johnson thu
: willard met.
Moran is much shorter and niue
I Fighter than willard, but somehow @
other, we feel that II he got charc
at the champion within the mex tho
Or four months 1t would be create
: battle.