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Show DILMESGOOO 11 EVERY DIVISION Heavyweights Have No Terror Ter-ror for Jack; Kid Lewis Promising prospect. By Inl ft'iiii I lonal News Sol ' ire. NKW YORK, Nov. Lih. Ju.-k Dillon looms ory ,.oii.-'i.'noiislv aiondlie pni listio horizon just now. lie doesn't seen, sizeable ennuli lo baltle Mjeaessfnlly j against Jes V.illard, but Ill's surely b i K . 1 1 u i . 4 1 1 to take on iiimI in-ohably heat I Ik- follows who liave been a:sl':nn y.'illal.l with I'ltallelim-s. Uilloti, liowe.er, yearns to swai Min.'lies with the eiianij'ion. He'b oontl .lent thai he 'an boat him. "Six months iii;o when I nnnounee'l t lint l-'d liyht any lir.av y weij-ht in tlie coiinlry, some foiks laughed .-it me,'' said liillon. ' I said I '-onld beat, the best, ol thorn - and the louder was the bnie;!i. I or the next. h: months I tr.e.l to prove toy elaim liy Kettinir a fi'iit v.-i t li some of tho-e heavies. "Well, ill last I .ol a .han'O against ' In. rlnv W. 'inert, lie was touted as one of the best heavies in the game He w as far bigger than me he outweighed tne but I boat him, and all the newspaper men who saw that wrap say 1 beat him i u a most decisive manner. "I weih only 170 poiiii.ls-.hut that s in, handicap. I 'm alter Willanl. He s mv (.oal. No man liw "'."'-r kno.-i.ed me iort' mv feet, and 1 don't think that il-lard il-lard can turn the trick. If he can't, i ll outpoint him in el ery round.'' Promoters just now are trying to ar-I ar-I range a Jack 'liillon Frank Moran mat'-Ji. DilloD is eager lo lane a crack at the 1 coii'iueror of .T i m ' offev. and he isn t lonibbling over terms. He'll tight for liinvtliii.n ho can get. But with .Moran it is different. He's very coy. He wants a large guarantee waved at him, and his demand- .pist now are a bit too large for the ordinary request and the bout, will tie on. 1 1 ought to be a hummer, .liinmv .Johnston, Ihe fight impresario of New' York city and iiear-by points. ' seems to hate unearthed a real star ill i-'Ted" Lewis, the lightweight person. ' Lewis lias been performing recently np in Boston town, and ha-s been hammer-int. hammer-int. nil his toes with much gusto. He's fast, has a good head, a punch and. he s a willing worker. Johnston savs of his man: "He'll fight anv lightweight in the country at KiH; he'll take on Willie Ritchie and allow him 142: he'll meet Jack Dillon, if Jack can make lo$, and he 'll take on Packey M' Karland at catch weights. Kddie McGoorty seems to have accomplished accom-plished a real "come back" since Les Darcv knocked him out. After that scrap' M. i.oorty declared he was over-tiamed over-tiamed that in his efforts to make the Weight he had "loft my fight on the road." MeCioorty ' showing since then seems to hear hini out in his statement that he wasn't through. McGoortv has mingled in four battles in Australia since the Darcy affair, and he has won each via the knockout route. His victims have been Billy Murray, the California middleweight; Harold Har-durck. Har-durck. the Australian heavyweight; Harrv Beeves of ?'.ngland, and Joe Bonds, who gained quite a reputation in Australia. . |