New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-26
Dillon May Fight Bob
MOha in the Gar
den Arena
By W. o. MCCLELLAN

The local boxing promoters are once
more bristling. with indignation over
the activities Of Tex Richard. The in
dignation is due 20 the report that
Richard was looking over the Levin
sky-Dillon bout in Boston with the
idea Of matching the winner with Jess
Willard for the heavyweight title.
Such a project. me local promoters
hold. is very reprehensibe. If such
match is made, they maintain that it
should be staged by home talent. The
local promoters have never forgiven
Richard for getting the Willard Moran
bout and annexing some $50 900 or s40,-
600 thereby. Now the home msgnates
fear that the Nevadan is working Sc
cretly and alone 70 get another heavy
weight championship fight and another
$4,000, more or less.
James j. Coffroth and Baron Long.
the California promoters, are also ang-
ling for the big fellow. They want
him 70 battle TO finish with Charlie
Weinert. at Tia Juana. Mexico. at the
end of the year. Harry Pollok has al
ready signed Weinert for the slaugh
ter.
1t is hardly possible that Willard
will consent 20 fight again unless the
purse is something in the neighbor-
hood of the one put up By Richard for
the bout with Moran. II he does tight
his opponent will not be Jack Dillon.
When Willard arrived here 70 prepare
for the Moran bout he was told about
Dillon and asked II he would box him.
TOO Little Says willard
"Haw! hawl" replied willard. mo,
sir, won't box little fellow like that
Why. it's foolish on the face Of il. Peo-
pie would laugh US out of the ring"
Wen box anybody" put in Tom
Jones, the Barber Of Kewanee, who
does most Of Wizards official talking.
you can box him If you want 20,
Tom, said Willard, "but l won't. He's
too little"
Yet Dillon was not too little 10 fat
ten Tom COwler, who Is very close TO
Willard in the matter Of bulk.
Speaking Of Levinsky and Dillon, we
rise TO remark that they seem to have
the greatest brother act known to the
annals Of pugilism. Is would take an
adding machine TO tell just how many
times they have battled TO what the
football fans would call scoreless tie.
Certainly they have fought each
other more often than even the two
black Sans, McVey and Lsngford.
Nearly every town in the country which
boasts Of a ring has seen at least one
Dillon-Levinsky fight. They have per
formed so often that not even their
managers know how the tally stands as
10 wins, losses or draws.
Never Met in Manhattan
The only place where they have rot
battlei s the island Of Manhattan. But
this distinction IS soon 20 be taken
away from US. Charlie Johnson, the
bow bandits little brother, has about
compile ted arrangements to have them
battle at his new club.
While the Dillon evinsky bout IS
brother act, it is always entertai ng
10 those who know the fine points OF
the art which they demonstrate. IL IS
almost as good as the brother act that
Abe Attell and Owen Moran used TO
pull for twenty rounds IN California
So Belascoesque we're their manGuVres
that many people used 70 thlnA tha'
they were fighting.
There seems 70 be a hitch in the
Dillon Mccoy match set for October 81,
the date of the Weinert-Moha bout al
Madison Square Garden. According 70
reports. the formagenous middlewelght
champion is willing enough. The coy
ness is on DillOn's part.
Dillon is considering inducements
offered for a match between himsell
and Bob Moha, the Wisconsin lumber
lack. James Johnston IS anxious 70
stage such a bout, provided Mona de-
feats Weinert Both men have every
thing 10 gain in this battle. II Weinert
wins there is a faint far-off chance
that he may get match with wizard.
II he loses he is a dead one. Frank
Moran can testify that il is thankless
iob boxing a smaller man. II Mona
wins he gets his chance at Dillon
PAYS Best Not to Fight
Mr. Moha is now bordering over the
IRONY of fate and the uselessness oil
earnest endeavor. For hgnung Joe
Cox he got just S45. Now because ne
aid not fight Weinert on the hrst da1e
scheduled the Boxing Commission mas
awarded him $3.50 as a forfeit. Mona
"a beginning to think that 1t pays best
for a fighter not 70 fight.