El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-18
n ROUND WILLARD MORAN FIGHT
WOULD BE INDECISIVE, BELIEF
Wizards Record Does Not Show Him Winning Many
Fights in Ten Rounds By Knockout Route, and Mo
ran is Fairly Tough; On Other Hand, Moran Can
Hardly Knock Out W lizard in Ten Rounds.
Hr DAMON RUNYoN.


ATEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-In spite Of
n the terrific excitement. and the
1 heft of the offers that are being
made for a ten round bout between
Jess Willard and Frank Moran. we
incline to the belief that such a bout
would furnish middling poor show
1t might serve TO give a line on
the two men for a subsequent and
longer bout, but that's ALI 1t would
probably not be half as exciting as
either Of the fights between Moran
and Coffey-
willard is a slow beginner While
his record of about 80 battles shows
something like 10 knockouts, his VIC
tins in these cases were mostly non
entities Of the prize ring, and where
he met an opponent Of even small
ability big Jess generally failed TO re-
duce his man inside ten rounds
He goes fast enough when he finally
gets TO going, but It takes some time
to arouse him In the past his tenn
permanent was largely responsible for
his sloWness the long kansan being
a good natured bird, who seemed 10
greatly dislike the task in hand and
maybe his temperament has chanSeu
since he became champion Now and
then in his fights Jess used to occas-
ionally display a flash OF anger ana
would go out TO dispose OF the enemy
as rapidly as possible, but mainly he
is off TO a loggy start.
In the first year Of his fistic career
he dropped several impressions, but
even in that year Jess had TO go II
rounds to win one scrap, and lost
another in ten rounds on foul Two
other bouts are indicated in his rec
ord as ten-round wins for Jess
Big JeSs's Record.
In his second year he flattened one
John Young ewice IN six and then DNe
rounds; beat a Mr. Frank Bowers IN
three, Sailor " hite IN one and SOldler
4e-1nH Trasa 7sa rnr
Arthur Pelkey and Luther Mccarthy,
and failed 10 stop either in ten-round
affairs He was going ND little IN
the class Of men he was meeting, but
dropping back in finishing ability as
ne went up
In 1913. his knockouts inside of ten
rounds included Hrank Bauer. One
Round Davis, Jack Leon, who IS Saiu
TO be none other than Ivan Linow. the
Wild Cossack wrestler. who is just re-
turning TO the fighting game; George
Model. Al Williams and Jack Reed II
took him eight rounds TO beat ROdels
and eight to win from Williams. he
whipped poor old Bull Young in IL
rounds that year. -'Bulr' dying as re
suit OF the encounter. though ne was
about half dead when they let him en-
less could not stop Carl Morris in
ten rounds. and lost TO -Gunboat
smith in twenty He found four
round draw with Charley Miller, and
a ten round no-decision bout with
Rodel In 1914, he lost 12-rounder
10 Tom Mcmahon, the Pittsburg Bear
cat. at Youngstown, Ohio. and then ne
knocked out Dan Daily and George Ro-
del From the ROdel encounter IN
April. 1919. until April 1915. when he
knocked out Jack Jack johnson at Ha-
vana. Willard did not fight, and he
has not fought since he met Johnson
johnson A. a Basis.
1t took willard 26 rounds to get 10
old Jack. and il was 20 rounds Of fairly
earnest endeavor- We note that some
Of his friends say he could have ended
the fight sooner. but we take little
stock IN that statement Moran went