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Show wpnKP! nF''T n''rr msm t w ! TO BATTLE WlliARD Pittsburgr's Double Knockout Knock-out of Coffey Significant; Has Improved. By Trilunio Sp.-,'i;il Sport Sfrvirr. NKW YOKK. .Inn. 1-Vatik Mor:ii h:is ean:?l t : : o r-ivht t bp i tic .hs Wil-:i"d Wil-:i"d for ihe la ;: j'wiuhi i'han;wons!iip of tho uorl.i. The 1.;'. blond PititlHiror'a rocpnt ai !iit e:no;u ip sroiiiii; two knock-cm knock-cm victories oor Mm Cofiey has plin'ril him ih a position where AY ilia rd cannot ignore hini wiili lutuot'. Moran Ii:s imjiro'Oii womlorfnlly sinn he mot Johnson in Paris in 1914. Ho ; has le-iriioj a lot in rin? skill anJ a lot in poncTHlship. No man ran st:itnl ui hp t ter under pmiluriont than citn Moran. ; His txiwor to assimilate it is marvohnis. Moran ha? a -richt-han.U'd punch that cnji send to t lie mat any man that it hi is bar rone. His left is used mainly for jabbing, but his ri.cht is the finisher. That lili t sniashrd against the ,in- of Jim t'oiTey Twice, h'-i Jim Coftey crumpled. crum-pled. Coii'cy may have a i;1mss jaw. but. that rik'ht- handed wallop t hat Mom n deals out can jar even a concrete jaw. Moran a King General. Moran fichta a cool, cautious bat i le. He never loses h'a head. He's shrewd in the extreme. In tho first Coffey flight ho faked trrogrinesa in tho lirst two rounds. Then, w lu-n O o ?i e y was 1 e a v i expectiiiK it, Moran came out and fout;i:t like a wild man. Tn the second bnt tie with Coffey i ha blond irishman permitted Coffey to jub hi in around the rin for the lirst five or six numdfi. Ho played the Kii-try name. CoiTey, continent of victory on points, be-jran be-jran to rush Moran more mid more. And then, Moran rushed out of his corner like a tis'er and, with a series of jabs and swings, weakened CntTey to a poiirt where the hie Irishnian was easy prey for the riht-handed wallop that ended the battling bat-tling in the ninth round. Moran vs. Willard. Jess Willard is physical perfection. Tie's so bip and so powerful that it seem.n to many now that be is unbeatable. Ranked with the majority of heavy-weishts heavy-weishts today, he is unbeatable. 1'ut Moran would have a cliance with Y' il-lardand il-lardand a real one. Moran has a punch that is as powerful power-ful as that of Willard. He is irame to the core, he ran siand more punishment than any man in t he rinp today. He is faster Him n Willard and just about a s clever. He has n hafr-trti;..:er brain that has won many liphis for him. And lie has bad many years of ring experience, to aid him. Jack Johnson scored a Tietorv on points over Moran in their tweniy-round Paris bout, while Jos Willard scored a knockout over Johnson in the twentv-sixth twentv-sixth round of their Havana battle. That would show Wil la rd as the superior to Moran on tlie suri ace condition. But wait! Comparative Showings. The Johnson who mot Moran was a vounper Johnson than the one t hat met Willard, Between the time of the Johnson John-son - M ora n and the J ohn son- w Ilia id bouts, the bis nero dissipated consul -erably, thus robbing himself of some or the power that be had in the Moran bout. And lie grew older and iaitei, too. Had the Johnson -Willard bout ended In the twentieth round, as did the Johnson John-son -Moran. bout, t he nero would have won bv a huuo margin. Johnson shnded Willard in the majority of those lirst twenty round?, and he shaded him by a far greater margin than he shaded Moran. So, when you come to comparA thos I wo bouts, vrm find tha t Mora n made a far better showing aga in. si Johnson for twenty rounds than did Wlllurd, and thai against a far better Johnson than Willard Wil-lard met. Moran is much shorter and much llht-r llht-r than Willard, but somehow or ot her. we feel that if he got a ehance nt ihe clui rnpion wit hin the next t hi ee or fnr months it would be a regular battle. |