The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-05-21

Jess willard arrived in Los Angeles
to begin training for the fight with JACK
Dempsey. Walking down the street
from his hotel. the champion carnc to an
open air Liberty Loan meeting. I'M
mcdiatcly Jess was asked to so on the
platform and say few words. He d.
This was his speech:
Boys. I'll starter with S9,ooV. come
on-shoos."
Clinching this shortest argument OF
the campaign, Jess wrote his check 1or
the s5.00n and dropped it into the box.
What do you hold in Liberty bonds
now. JESSE" I asked him.
More :han any ether tighter" sad
Jess. but I'm rot looking for adTcrtiS-
ing along that line" Pressed. he ad-
mitted that nc has invested TO the en-
tent of $ih.nhn.
Willard will stay m Los Angeles untl
a month before the fight. and then VIII
go s,ra sht TO tho battle-ground 10 put
the final touches on his condition.
Through the month of May he VIII ne
posing daily in a sevcn-rcel moving PIC
turc--,a Western picture. with no Don
inc in L. His work begins at IN t"e
morning. Hc rides horses and rcS'u"S
the heroine until about in tn" Il or
noon. %nSn ne away titiAI 'I'S 49,
rector and heg!ns training.
The company has turned a picture
dance hall into a large gymnasium
There Jess had his own ring put up on
the day OF his arriS Al. 1t is L regular
mans ring. with we'll padded floor. heavy
posts and double ropes all around. He
has the usual training apparatus aTranS'
ed along tho walls of The room.
I had my first glimpse Of Willard IN
many months when I called Tor MN
At the studio. Roy Archer. his manager
went in and brought Jess to the outer
sunlight AS the champion stHppeo
from the door had shock. He looked
like a walking corpse. His face was ol
CHASTITY. transparent tal!owE coior
But IL was only the now" actors grease
paint. There was nothing corpse like in
his six feet seven as h. came out hyisklE
and extended tho big paw that laid JACK
Johnson flat.
Also at the first glance noted that
II Jess willard ever weighed 500 POUNDS
as report had it few months ago. ne
doesn't weigh il now. His clothes Gov
cred no rounded paunch. and his DELI
was drawn TO the normal notch without
cutting into him. He had no double
chin. and while his face was round ana
smooth there were no tcShS IoiuS IN
tending from the sides of tho nos" &c
the outer corners OF the mouth. rms
in large man inclined 10 weight. Is AT
untailing sign Of fair condition.
In his gymnasium Willard quickly
stripped for action. Jack H"mple. ms
old sparring partner at Havana. was
ready and waiting. Hemple weighs 2pI
pounds, six fcct tall. FIe is in fine CON
dillon. fresh from 4 year in I'll" Marines
But when he stood up with big J'>S ne
looked like a small hoy. There's no get
ting around the fact that willard IS
giant among men. and that h" Is e"lne
t., loom up oyer Dempsey on The fouFtt
OF July like tho Wool@xorth building over
a subway kiosk
Willard Is Not Fat.
From a careful study os Wizard strip
ped and in action think I can say thai
today he is in almost exactly the same
condition he showed tn" night h" hoNec
Frank Moran in Madison Square garden
three years ago. That night h" wciGhso
1884, pounds. official weight. II" claimE
that his weight today is. exactly -6'
hounds. and that h" viii enter III" rms
at ESQ, which Is only s"r"n pounds 1n"r'