New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-24
BIG Fellow SCOTS at His
Instructions to Take
Things Easy.
MONAHAN- HEMPLE
MEET WITH SURPRISE
Sparring Partners Did Not En-
pect to Find Champion in
Such a Pugnacious Mood.

jess Wizards eyes apparently played
him false for an hour or 80 yesterday
afternoon. In the first place, he had
evidcutly misread the morning rewspa'
pcrs, which distinctly stated that the
/ heavyweight champion would take
things easy" and do little or no box
D ing" Had Mr.. Willard scanned the
( ante-merdian publications correctly he
would hardly have dared turn loose the
six cyclonic rounds which marked ms
days work at the Pioneer Club. i
wouldn't have been fair 10 the experts.
Furthermore, less persisted IN mis-
taking Walter Monahan. Jack hemplc
and George Bocri Rodcl for Frank
Moran. Al least. this Is the only con
clusion which can be drawn from the
way he went after that trio OF near
champions in the practice bouts OF the
afternoon.
Instead OF receiving instructions 20
"lav off" the big fellow. Monshan. Hem
pic and Rodel we're told TO "go IN and
get him If you can"-which resulted IN
some Of the prettiest and most vicious
boxing that Willard has done since he
started training for Pittsburgh Frank.
Jack Hemple was the first sparrlng
partner 10 run afoul of Wizards pug
! nacious mood. Jack, thinking that the
/ big fellow was in a mood for SEMI
recreation. gave Jess a playful clout
i on the Jaw in the first second of their
/ engagement. To his surprise and nor
ror. Jess set his teeth, conjured UP a
/ frown and sailed after his playmate
/ with decks cleared for action. He not
+ orly made Hemple run the regulation
distance between Marathon and Athens,
but he gave the latter such a clouting
that Hemple was heard to remark, at
the end Of his race:
"Hully chez. ] fought he said he
wuz goin' to take things easy today
/ George Boer) Rodel was the next
/ candidate, and what Willard did to him
was really remarkable. At that the
Bocr gave Jess a fast argument dur
ing tho two short rounds he performed,
and more than once he laid his right
fist, with the whole strength of his
1870 pounds behind il, flush on the
F champions jaw. Do you think that the
/ blows slowed UP or even shook the
Oklahoma Goliath? Pish-tush. Guine-
we're, we gave you credit for more dis
/ oernmen:,
No. the Bocr couldn't even drive
the shadowy smile from his employers
I lips. Neither could Walter Monahan,
who took a whirl at the game when
Rodel staggered out of the ring. And
Walter seemed 10 be trying extra hard
TO make some Of his punches count,
don't you forget il. He belabored Jess
Justify with right and left hands 10 the
/ face and body, but the big fellow only
Snecrcd and tore after MonohRn until
the latter began 70 wish he we're back
in that dear old Los Angeles once
again.
Nothing less than a baseball bat il
ever going to stop that fellow insist
ed Walter. when the bout was over
Truth to tell, Willard. instead Of
slowing up. worked harder yesterday
afternoon thar he has since he began
training lie pulled at the exerclser
for FIVE minutes; shadow boxed for
another FIVE; boxed six furious rounds,
and finished up with series of del
sarte exercises on the ma. which left
him soaking wet with Precipitation and
covered with resin Even then he
wanted 20 toss the medicine ball around
for an hour or 50. but Tom Jones. who
had been extremely lcnicnt with the big
fellows mood. at last put his foo. down
and ordered him to desist.
Few notab.es were on hand for the
workout, word having gone forth that
Jess would not DO much. One of the
few, however. was Stanley Fay. OF San
Francisco, who has been a referee at
the Olympic Club out there for some
/ twenty years. and who saw Willard in
! his fights with Gunboat Smith and
Charlie Miller on the Coast. You could
have knocked Stanley over with a