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Show 0'ROURKE FINDS WILLARD IN NO CONDITION AT ALL By FKANK G. MEKXE. Staff Correspondent Universal Service. TOLEDO, O., June 22. No admirer has suffered keener disappointment over the present condition of Jess Willard than Jack O'Rourke, one of I lie great athletic trainors who assisted the big fellow for his winning figlu against Jack Johnson. "I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw 'him," commented O'Kourke. "I had read some slories which glowingly told of his condition and I was bunked into boiieving them. The Jess -Willard of today is far re-. re-. moved from the great gladiator that put Hie negro into the pugilistic scrap heap. f "Willard is fat on the outsido and I fear that he's mighty flabbv on tho inside and it's what is inside that really counts. A fighter may look good to tho eye and seem " fiuelv trained from the outside, but if h'e isn't hard all through he cannot stand the pace of many rounds of fighting. "Willard is slow, very slow, lie appears ap-pears n.uscle-weary already and he a boxing on the flat of his feet. What a vast difference from the Willard hat I trained wilh for months back in lf15. There was an alhlete, an unbeatable unbeat-able fighter. A fellow who could stand up all day long and tako everything every-thing that was handed out to him without with-out tiring, a fighter who did not know the meaning of weary. Willard now seems old and weary. In 1915 he moved around on his toes all the time. Now he works on the flat of, his feet. There is no Fpringiness in his legs and no zip in his action as compared to 1915. "And the frequent dropping of his guard indicates ihat ho gets warm and weary quite easily. "Willard mixes it furiously with his partners, for about one minute of each round and that's all. Then he lays off and lets his partners hit him while he stalls around and rests for two minutes from the exertion of that one minute of work. "There's another fault with Willard Wil-lard and a great one. He isn't timing his punches. He's got the same fearful fear-ful strength, But his batting eyes : seem dimiried. The champion used to hit with unerring accuracy. Now it's different. He is making plenty of wild swings even though they are directed di-rected at slow moving sparring partners, part-ners, whose every trick of defense is known to Willard. " . "What's your thought as to the outcome out-come of the fight)" O'Hourke was . asked. "I'm not committing myself just now, but if Willard hopes to win he'll have to be in far, far better shape than j he is right now." I i |