Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-12-12 | Page 39 | Moran Prefers Ring to Gridiron Battle

1RA1 PREFERS Rl TO GRIDIRON BATTLE Says Fighting Is Gentle Compared to Strenuosity of Football Frank Moran who is a lead ng con tender for the heavyweight title waB perus ng the football results The football columns rece e Frank s at tention f rst in any newspaper Ah that s the game for youl en thuee.d Moran Football is tne great est game n the world and the tough est. Boxing is a einch when compared with football I know I have played at both games I played football reg ularly for three years and pardon me if 1 say I was a pretty fair player In 1908 T studied dentistry at the Dm versity of Bittsburg and played with their football team After that I played left tackle on the Pittsburg Lvceums a high class professional team that toured the sur rounding country and met the best pro teams as the Eastern Superbs, Can ton Tigers and the Columbus Panhandle ele en So yon see I know what I an talking about cont nued Moran Yes s r f ghting is supposed to be a Brutal sport and is be ng leg s lated against in some parts of the countr but let me tell you that I have been battered and banged more n one football game than during all my career n the ring In the r ng you f ght one man on the gridiron you have eleven to battle The worst beat ng I ever rece ved as a boxer was a pleasant dream com pared w th the rough handling I have been showered w th on the football field Onee J m Savage gave me two black eyes and they stopped the f ght because I looked bad and once Gun boat 8m th knocked me down That s all the damage I e er suffered in the r ng But on the gr diron Vi he e el la ghed Moran Then vas the rough days I was la d o t mo e than once and suffered br ses and b mps galore and a brflk en rib too And they call f ghting brutal went on the blond P ttsburg boy Well do you magine for an nstant that a chap could play in 200 foot ball ganesf Manj of our boxers past and present ha e engaged in over 200 f ghts Gans D on Baldw n ttell and others ha e done so No football playe could p a 200 games unless he possessed a fe ne number of 1 es Box ng s a large and successful p ofe s on Pofe s onal football s a fa 1 e Whj ' Because football s the to ghe of tl e two