New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-29
Dillon Will Find Difficulty
in Meeting Red Rage
of Moran.
SMALLER MAN is
THE BETTER BOXER
Promoters Expect to Receive
Twenty-Five Thousand
Crowd for Bout.
By w. o. MCCLELLAN.

Francis Charles Moran and Ernest
Cutler Price meet tonight at Wash
ington Park, Brooklyn, in what prom
Uses to be one of the most swatsome
ten-round contests ever held in this
vicinity. The optimistic promoters es-
innate that $4,000 persons will see the
bout and that the gross receipts will
be something in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
The students of the Queensberry art
arc of the opinion that the men are
equally matched, despite the disparity
IN size and the difference in technique,
and whatever money is bet is wagered
on $3.50 basis. There is "a rumor to
the effect that the wise money will be
poured in for Dillon at the last mo-
ment, but so far that sagacious coin
appears to be particularly shy.
Francis Charles is somewhat grieved
that public opinion has not made him a
fayorite over Dillon. He is serenely
confident that the Giant Killer will be
easy for him. He has been confident
of that ever since he was aware of the
existence of Mr.. Ernest Cutler Price,
of indianapolis.
The spectacular manner in which
Price otherwise Dillon-has been per-
forming of late has convinced a good
sized following that the bigger they
come the softer they are for the In
dianapolis midget. He is variously
compared to Joe Walcott, Sam Lang
ford and other mastodon slayers by a
coterie of enthusiasts.
Dillon's Rise Steady.
The rise of Dillon has been steady.
He has been fighting for modest sums
as often as twice month, and he has
fought anybody and everybody, without
regard TO height, weight or previous
condition of servitude. The rise of
Moran was rather sudden. Only q
short time ago he was wandering in a
lonesome fashion over Europe with
that other soldier of fortune, Willie
Lewis.
He came back light Of heart and
lighter of pocket to fight Coffey.
He felled the Roscommon giant
twice, and then tried with Will
lard. He failed to come within
a mile Of landing the heavyweight
title, but he lasted the ten rounds. Will
lard landed heavily upon him, but
though the sorrel top of the Pitts
burgher was decidedly bloody at the
finish, it was erect. Also, Moran fur
nished the only drama of the contest.
when, battered and all but out, he raj
lied and forced Willard to the ropes
by sheer force of his red fighting
courage.
Dillon is by far the better boxer, and
his ring experience IS naturally the
wider lie has demonstrated more than
once that he possesses a punch. His
right was heavy enough TO bring down
Charlie Weinert, one of the most prom
Using of the younger heayyweights, and
it was hefty enough to upset Tom
Cowler, the man mountain, who was
sent in by James j. Corbett as the COM
ing champion of the world.
The Moran adherents bank first upon
the power which their man has in tho
right hand which twice sent Jim Coffey
TO the mat. Also they have great conf
denco in Moran's ability TO Withstand
punishment. That Dillon could ever
down the man who took all that JACK
Johnson could give for twenty rounds
they hold impossible.
Francis Charles sailed from Albany
last night and is due in New York early
to-day. He will spend the day in medi-
tation. Dillon spent the afternoon
watching Benjamin Kauff play baseball.
Dillon is the same sort of shrinking
violet. He informed the world at large
that he would knock Moran cold.
The semi-hnal will be between the
Zulu Kid, an abyssmal sort of person
with forehead too narrow to carry a
whole wrinkle, and Gus Christie. This,
too, promises to be one of those earnest
affairs.