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Show SWiflarJ's Fortunes Are mfain 4fop Pugilistic Crest Kdifferent Luck, Kansas. Fighter Will Have 'Se to Show Ability Against "Gunboat" Dmitri on Fourth of July. NAUGHTON. CISCO, Jan. '61. The trials and tribulations ;es Willard of Kansas ntercsting study. Once rs as a ringmau, when ; beamod brightly, he I .Luthor McCarty in a rty had been outboxed and had fizzled out as hopes' have done, no remembered that Wil-in Wil-in tho humbling- of rd himself would have it and the world would ess ""Willard. began to climb, and he gained on the lad-afc lad-afc Willard 's hands d bigger for Willard. sputation increased, so t was clearly a case of :rcmcnt so far as Jess iut what, did that mat- 'arty had a new picture attire, Willard posed, very paper that pub-; pub-; picture, one was i Willard 's. Jess was i Luther's side, ng between the pair : arranged somo day e, but something hap-and. hap-and. McCnrly.'s name sociatcd with pugilistic. west and ot marches, no lokcri. forfeited alt is that were formed of pI sports before they he went from bad to regarded as one of the hifc hope" movement. ;iu unfortunate occur-gp.les, occur-gp.les, aurlt while awnit-ricction awnit-ricction with the death ig. went cast ami en-w en-w It b t'arl floras. What papevs paid about tl)at olv bear repeating, and "5 scored a Knockout a t'Mfit have boon boavy-uamc boavy-uamc back to tho coast large preferred against the world brightoncd. ;ed him, aud before he receiving the oongratu-i-cll wishers, Manager d him from San Fran-would Fran-would bo a Jess Wil-' Wil-' Smith match for the fit chaiiMiiouship of the th's Daly City avcua lack where he was a tho ambition to get a ;lc was strong in hiin. 1' in fact. Thero was t he would get a .match cCarty, whereas the 'Gunboat" Smith is iiihwtaucce. it is vol for rail at fate, lie has . bit, but the ctorm of stauce8 baa blown by m planted squarely ou is question, however, -is, rd bo able to embrace that is knocking at his , words, -will tho affair ' place him on a pedes-back pedes-back to flounder again despond? to Manager Tom Jones, gentlemau who hails , it's all over, barring theatrical contracts for .the world. ico we are- giving Smith 1 the monoy7'7 Jones whether you did or not, .But what's tho diff orris or-ris thing is over, Jess money. Ho will be the it of tho world, and the will bo lying in wait anding him. chunks of Btaishj'ng to appear too in-:jBtyJon5H, in-:jBtyJon5H, on what do you WJgtasta of a tidal wave of flBlf- Willard?" was a quca-. t.tKfBP?e writer. W5iRat improvement in Wil-WnHVUftiislup, Wil-WnHVUftiislup, ' Baid Jones, tsftywg '.did not havo to improve fffiyKS0' Hc bont hini tho M2M Inf-was the victim of as' 9J'iB.cioQ as was ever dcliv- HavG ,B0 lltlIn to d that HP-'JrQTwinonS8t t,n03o prfiB-fMntKi'1 prfiB-fMntKi'1 y"'ar,3 has improved itSRr n ',at tnoe l"3 saw :fJBKP?0 "will scarcely realise iM-KVmo wan." SSR'Sl?-? .nothing for im- I fi'a5a"T'0I, tho suspicion of a sneer. "There are fighters who never improve, and Gunboat' Gun-boat' is ono of them. He's only a botch. All he has is that haymaker, and it's only the fellows who are scared of it that get in the way of it. They toll mo he missed Polkoy a hundred hun-dred times and might have '.kept on massing him, onty that Pelkey was tired aud discouraged and did not care what happened." Morris Wouldn't Fight. "'Why didn't Willard show somo of this wonderful Improvement when be boxed Carl Morris?" Jones was askod. ''Because Morris wouldn't let him," was thu quick roioiner. When seeing that his reply caused a smile, Jones hastened to explain more fully. "What I mean is that Morris would not fight." he said. "Ho is a giant and .just grabbed aud held. It takes two to malto a bout, you know." At first blush it might appear that Jones is simply displaying the enthusiasm enthu-siasm that should always be on tan with men of his calling. But ho achieved this much. Ho has caused a lot. of sports to promise themselves that they will watch Willard very closely when ho begins training in order to decide whether the charges of "vast improvement" improve-ment" have any foundation in fnct. |