The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
UNIQUE FEATURES
OF TOLEDO BATTLE
Fewest Rounds, Largest Arena
and First Title Fight in
Middle West.
BIGGEST PURSE OFFERED
Gate Receipts Will Probably
Quadruple Previous Mark
for Title Contest.
BIGGEST PURSE OFFERED
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The contest between Willard snd
Dempsey in the arena at Bay View Pan
Toledo, July 4 promises to be unique In
many respects. The number OF round.
scheduled Is less than in any preceding
bout for the heavyweight championship.
Under London rules all contests were to
a finish. and even after the Queensb.rry
rules superseded the London code title
bouts were mainly to a finish Sullivan
, and Corbett were scheduled to box to
finish, ana 30 also were Corbett and
Fitzsimmons.
Jeffries and Fitz were limited to Is
rounds. and all the boilermakers title
bouts In the East were limited TO IS
rounds. His fights with Fitz. Corbet,
and Rubin on the coast were limited
to twenty rounds. His final battle with
johnson after emerging from a well
earned retirement was finish one.
Tommy Burns fought only twenty
round bouts in making good his claim 70
the American title. and his bout with
Moir for the worlds title. as was his
battle with johnson in Australia, when
| he lost the championship, were both
limited TO twenty rounds.
Johnsop-willard I'm 40 Round Bout
johnson fought a 20 round bout with
Moran, but when he and Willard met in
Havana the limit was IS rounds. which
| to all practical purposes was a finish
battle. Since then Willard has had one
| ten round bout with Moran.
! A twelve round bout between two
clever shifty boxers neither OF whoii
could hit hard would to a certainty 20
the limit and be decided on points But
! in the case Of Willard and Dempsey ac-
ton is assured from the outset, because
| Dempsey is the most cyclonic batter
since Terry McGovern was in his prime.
willard is not noted for aggressigene
but the combative challenger WI COM
pei the champion to fight or run. There
fore the chances OF the bout lasting the
limit of twelve rounds are remote.
The only bouts in which the title
changed hands and which lasted Longer
than twenty rounds were those between
Sullivan and Corbett. twenty-one rounds
and Willard and Johnson, twenty-sI
rounds. In pouts in which Jeff success
fully defended his title he required
twenty three rounds to beat Corbett
and his contest with Sharkey lasted the
limit of twenty-five rounds.
The Case of John l.. Sullivan.
1t is noteworthy that Sullivan lost
his championship the first time re de-
Tended 1t under Queensbury rules. al
though ne never was bereit OF his hon
ors under the London regulations
Corbett and Fitzsimmons were de-
feated the first time they defended their
titles, but JEFF never was beaten, while
he hall tta oba Wi oh nd "a
manned in retirement would have shared
honors with Jem Mace, the only retired
and undefeated heavyweight champion
of the world.
Burns was beaten the first time he
defended his title against an American
boxer and Johnson lost the title on bis
third appearance in the ring Against q
challenger. Wizards only defence q
his title was in ten round bout with
Frank Moran and he held Moran safe.
The big Kansan will have a siren
uous time on July 4, and II he retain:
title at the end OF his bout with Demp.
sey 1t will be proof that the title holder
Is a much better man than his record In
dicates-
Largest Arena.
The bout Is remarkable in other a.
rections. The arena, which VIII hold
10000 or $4,000 persons, is the largest
in which a heavyweight champ I7n'h'G
bout ever took place, and there is sinai
question that the biggest crowd that
ever looked at a title fight will view The
, struggle.
It also is the first time that n heavy
weight championship under Queensberr'
rules has been set for the middle West
The big battles have taken place e'.he'
on the Pacific or Atlantic coasts or +
: the South.
The purse OF $127.500 exceeds a.
other purses in the history Of heavy
weight contests. and there is good ren
son to believe that the gate receipts
: will approach closely to the il,oQ0,olt
: mark