The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-03
Now MosG Sought Heavy -eight in Game is Deter Sa1ned to Clean Up Field of Giants.
By ROGER TERRI.


 past five or six years has developed many good pugilisitc performers, but perhaps most promising of these is none other than Larry Williams conqueror of Willie Meehan, who brides himself with having defeated Jack Dempsey and a host of other supposedly topnotching heavyweights
 Because he Is modest and is not in the habit of going about footing his horn telling the world that he is capa- ble of doing this or that, Williams has been forced to remain in the back ground while admittedly inferior giants have forged to the front and literally cleaned up mazuma galore. Larry has remained contented to see his friends progress and the. writer knows for fact that he has sacrifice ed himself time and again and de- prived himself of many good paying matches simply because he has been generous enough to want to help some other opponent, who perhaps was better known, to get into condi- tion for some future contest.
 And for his reward from these men what has Larry received? What has been his reward? can answer that question with one word NOTHING!
 Had Larry depended upon the grat- itude of those whom he has helped climb the ladder of fame today we might have visited him at some poor house. But everybody, learns some time. Experie oce is a great teacher and Larry has certainly been taught his lesson. He has learned that the only way to achieve success is to per sonally go out and achieve it inde- pendent of aid from camouflaged friends or rank outsiders. It took him several years to learn, but he has LEARNED and today he is shifting for himse1f-AlND meeting with better success than any other heavyweight in the game. Recent performances bear me out in this statement.
 It was just eight years ago last January 19 that Larry Williams donned his first pair of padded mitts. And in the eight years he has accom- plished little for a battler of his tall ent, power and ability. But those eight years are literally damned with experience. Sad, indeed, but all hav- ing the.tendency of increasing Larry's determination to get to the top-and there isn't a heavyweight in the ring today who seems so rapidly headed in that direction as Williams.
 Fully six of those eight years have bG6h WoSlSu by WtSlGu l IIl6dh lIldL they have been spent on others. Those six years Larry spent preparing other fighters, and neglecting himself. It was not that Larry lacked confidence in himself. It was purely and simply a case of sincere friendship, for it can never be said that Larry ever turned down a friend. These asked Larry to work with them and Williams com piled with their request. He did so unse1fishingly and in doing so neg 1ected his own career. BUT he found relief and satisfaction in knowing and seeing a friend of his defeat his op- ponent.
 But they were years wasted, for a majority of those whom Larry trained for bouts were not his superior. In fact, they were his interiors and they pulled the wool over his eyes by flat tering him with invitations to put them in shape.
 Howver, the day when Larry was to realize the injustice he was doing himself soon arrived. And so he turned back the pages of wasted years, read them and re-read them and then cast them to the breezes- to be forgotten for all time.
 Now he is determined on writing his
  able future. He is coming into his own and as each day goes by the fans are caring more and more for this scrapper. This fact is substantiated by the numerous offers he has been receiving from promoters throughout the country. Yes, Williams is coming into his own at last and those whom he trained and are still attracting crowds had better take care, for they are the first whom Larry is set upon eliminating from his path.
 That Larry Williams ever donned the mitts was more of an accident than anything else. As a matter. of fact as a youth he had little use for the padded mitts, for he was timid and bashful lad when he ran about the streets of Philadelphia.
 But Larry was forced to fight. With him 1t was a case of either being openly accused of cowardice by his friends or hailed the hero of his peighborhood. And this is how it all came about:
 Larry Williams was IT years old and was living on Seventh and Siege1 streets in Philadelphia. The locality in which he lived was terrorized by young bully - a prizefghter whose boast was that he could trim anybody within miles of that district. And there was no one who dared contra dict him. Pete Moran was his name and what a fighting 1rishman he wasl
 He made a pool room in the neigh borhood his "hangout." When sober zae was fairly peaceful, but when un- der the influence of liquor he was terror and delighted in making his presence felt in the pool room by tossing cue balls at players and others who happened to be in the place. The proprietor, timid and knowing there was no limit to what he would do, dared not interfere and permitted this young bully to wreck his place.
 One day Larry happened to be in the place. In came this chap who admitted he was champion of the neighborhood" Che did not have to be told) and without warning pro ceeded to make target of those in the room by throwing the balls at them. All heads ducked, but this did not stop him. He continued and finally picked on Larry. The latter,