New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-14

was real artist Joe Cans" he con
c.udcd I'VE shall never look uron his
like again.
/ REICH is already starting 10
y make capital out of the incident
4 \ ct the Willard quarters last Sat
urday The Manhattan Adonis
ia billing himself rs the man whom
Jess Willard refused 10 meet. The I'M
ference of that sort Of billing - that
the champion was afraid 10 box with
Reich Which is manifestly unfair
We are By no means stricken lnco-
hercut with admiration after looking
over the champion. but We refuse 10
believe that he rs turning pale at the
thought Of meeting Al Reich. We are
rather inclined 10 believe that II would
take q ball and chain and heavy one
AZ that 20 keep Mr. Reich in ring
with Willard il the Adonis suspected
for moment that Willard was going
20 hit with any sincerity.
Tom Jones is quite fearful about the
whole business. lie says that Make
Blumenthal. the designing manager Of
Reich. took advantage of his generous
and trusting nature 70 get lot Of press
agcnting for his protegc
Nevertheless. the Adonis will meet
the Astounding and Amazingly Agile
Andre Anderson AZ the Manhattan
Opera House on Thursday night. No.
gentle reader. the boys will not pull q
little duet from Verdi. They will init
ate thc opera house into the dark mys-
tcrics Of the boxfRht game.
Should the Adouis once more he
spilled we can already hear the clarion
voice Of James Johnston. Behold the
Amazing. Astounding. Agile Assassin.
Andre Anderson. who annihilatod the
man who frightened Jess Willard" On
the strength Of this James will modest
Is claim the heavyweight championship
OF the world for Anderson.
II 9TH Tom Jones and Jack Curley
are deeply panied at the criti-
- cigm made Of their training
methods by William Muldoon In
joint statement they voice their grief
thusly:
"Mr. Muldoon severely criticiscs
Tom Joucs's tactics OF charging = small
admission fee 20 watch Willard 20
through with his training stunts. He
says q large crowd soon poisons the air
but he fails 20 mention where the 25-
cent charge adds any poison 20 the air.
surely. II 500 show up TO pay quar-
tor. 5000 would show UP TO get in free.
Therefore. the 25-cents admission
charge diminishes the poison b. one
tenth.
while on tho point Of tho criticisms
over the small admission charge TO
raining quarters. which was never
done with a view Of getting any money.
but simply 20 have some form Of regu-
.ation and not 10 ovcrcr0wd The place
with tho same people daily, &c wish 70
remind the sport public that every
boxer that ever trained 90 Los Angeles
or San Francisco. which includes every
we'll known glove man. charged admis-
sion o. both Doy'c's and Venice; that
JeTr.cs charged ~ Santa Cruz and that
Johnson always charged admission 20
his training; but 20 come right nome 10
Now York. that even Jim Flynn. an his
training ~ hawkins. as well a,
Grupos'. always received a percentage
of the box office for hl' training.
40 quarter acre taken IN yesterday
a. the Pioneer sporting Club: consc-
qucntly there WAS nothing 10 neutralize
the air poisons. Nevertheless. Willard
seemed IN good health. As Jones and
Curley solemnly declared that they did
not want 20 get any money for seeing
willard train. they must have been per-
fectly contented yesterday. There was
not a iitnev taken 90 al the gate.