The sun., 1919-07-05
WILLARD TELLS
HIS SECONDS TO
GIVE UP FIGHT
Hopelessly Outclassed, the
Champion Refuses to Con-
tinue Alters Rounds.
FLOORED SEVEN TIMES
$4,000 See Giant Gladiator
Battered From Pillar to Post
by Dempsey in Toledo.
By stag Correspondent Of THE sux.


TOLEDO, July while more than
$4,000 persons looked on in that i'm
mense sun swept arena on the shores
OF Maumee Bay this afternoon, Jess
Willard made most ignominious exit
from pugilism. With that vast gath
ering from all points Of the globe
waiting for him TO answer the call for
the fourth round, and once more face
the relentless attack of Jack Demp-
sey. Willard decided that discretion
truly was the better part of valor.
The big kansan who had entered the
amphitheatre only twelve minutes be-
fore acclaimed as the champion of the
world ordered one of his seconds to
throw towel into the ring in token
Of abject surrender, and to Dempsey
went the crown.
The crowds will say that Willard
was knocked out by Dempsey in three
rounds. There is no question that
had Willard continued he would have
lost the championship anyway, but
there Is some doubt whether Dempsey
would have been able to land the
Knockout punch.
FIoored Seven Times.
Seven times had Willard been
knocked down in the first round,
which ended in pandemonium, with
all except a very few at the ringside
believing that the fight was over and
that the champion had been counted
out. But in neither the second nor
the third round was the Kansan
felled, and the impression existed
among competent critics that had he
chosen to continue he might have
weathered the storm and perhaps
lasted the limit of twelve rounds
To many of those who sat by and
saw the annihilating Dempsey fail to
topple over the Tall Pine of the
Pottawatomie in the second and third
rounds it appeared as if Willard had
minutes and that If the giant cow
puncher had possessed the heart of a
real champion he might by sheer bulk
and iron stamina have come back and
turned a dismal and nauseating de-
feat into a glorious victory.
wiIIard's Rally Is Weak.
In the second and third rounds
Willard, though almost constantly
backing up under the fierce rushes OF
DempSey-Jack fought as savagely
and fiercely as a timber wolf-re'
mained on his feet, and at times even
took the aggressive. Twice in the
third round Jess drove Jack back or
his heels. But Dempsey leaped in
before Jess could follow up. Twice
Willard rallied half heartedly, only
quickly to flicker out.
II was apparent that his stamina
and endurance was ebbing with his
courage The giant lacked the one
celestial spark that in another might
have famed his huge hulk into action
causing him TO remember the first
round debacle only as a thing to be
avenged, and arousing him TO fight
on and on like n champion should.
But this king OF finance who went
into the arena champion of the rims
and came out champion of the white
feather had no stomach for real bat
lie. His two hundred and fifty pounds
of putty, encasing the heart of {
chicken, showed n yellow streak tina
would have besmirched the ring and
the title but for the fact that the
crown went over to so formidable
and worthy a new champion.
w.IIard's Act Sets Ring History.
Never before in the long history o
IN" heavyweight championship had 9
E".der of the title thrown up the
sponge. Never before had a champion
suffered the title to leave him Will,
he sat smiling in his own corner, fully
able TO continue the battle. uneven a.
II looked, but finching before thu
prospect OF further punishment ant
aoclining the issus. never before hat
The heavyweight king Of the world suf
y Tered himself TO be counted out o.
time while he retained his fighting
/ faculties.
For Dempsey, as he left the ring