Show MORAN SERIOUSLY BELIEVES HES HE'S I T NEXT IN LINE Tn f i MEET 1 Pittsburg Heavyweight dr d sues a Challenge D ati tl Champion He's Hes s Heady Head I Purse Is Big EnoiS r. r RANK MORAN was a a. ringel F El FRANK witness of the tho md One might have though that would have come away himself that it was Willards Willard's not his that took the slugging J Jac Jaci C blows ai But it a appears pears that Mr Moran thin pretty t well of f himself ata a a pugilist JI ea rl g has issued sued a challenge e eo to o Dempsey The fact that Jess Willard smother er Continued on page 3 3 A I MORAN SERIOUSLY Continued from page 2 2 him into oblivion two or three years ears ago doesn't have any weight with Moran in influencing his judgment of himself Such a little tittle t thing might happen to almost al almost almost al- al most an any man man he argues LIKES HIMSELF Moran is a bright fellow well educated and with the thO blarney blame tripping enter- enter from his tongue lie He has been abroad and he tle lets everybody know I about it He speaks English fluently and discor os learnedly on sociology l I philology higher mathematics tics the ue of nations the campaigns I of Napo on and almost any other topic under the tho skies Also Abo he picked d Willard Villard to defeat Dempsey When the near battle was over Moran was the one one- who did not come out with the opinion that the ring has never held a harder hitter than the new champion But Moran pointed out that Dempsey hitting i edWN Willard apparently a r Jes whenever h he wished s floored d him seven times In that first round and yet could not put him down for the count And he expressed the opinion too loo that t Dempsey had In that first round disposed of all ail the real swats in his system being un unable unable un- un able to floor Willard Villard in either the second or third rounds SLIM CHANCE Wherefore Moran is clamoring for a about about bout boit with the champion He wants It to tobe tobe be staged in Pittsburg his home town Dempsey has expressed a willingness to meet Moran if suitable terms are offered Also the same goes for forr all other challengers ers as long as their complexion Is white Dempsey likes to fight and the lure of the tho footlights footlights' does not appeal to him at atall all He gladly pass up t tto the he fortune to be he made In n the show business and attend strictly to his trade But t just u as a p prophecy well we'll say eap nobody no- no lh lre bo body I Is going i 10 to make crt it worth Dempsey's Demp- Demp I sc soy's sey's s 's while to meet Moran Here is one i challenger le who i will be taken seriously lent b by himself jm 11 |