Show II IE W MORAN WILLARD-MORAN N FIGHT WAS AS TEX rEX TEX RIC RICKARD'S FIRST FIRST NEW EW YORK K VENT VENTURE URE Jess Willard Was Too To tK Kind Hearted to Battle Bathe Rays High Compliment to Dempsey Dempsey's 8 HitIng Hit- Hit jing Ing g Ability Says He Didn't Lay Down t By T Tex ex Richard Rickard FIRST FIRS venture into New York with a fight was was the raging aging agin of the Jess Willard and Frank Moran affair at atoil aton atton ton on oil Square Garden V i j R scrap was looked forward to with considerable s but it was as regarded as a real big ev event nt understand that the tight fight n ew York then was Wa not the tho theLa La now Fights Fighte were limited to and and no decision could be other words o. o championship not well be decided In Madl- Madl are Garden at that time Of ot one It man knocked the other thin ten rounds the decision was wall wast t EThe referee however could pounce counce the winner of ot a a. fight tight on Vary Jary to the belief t of ot many manT I had r cUon with the n which Willard i l art became a chain cham- m mn md M At that I time I was wac busy with n and d other business busine II Interests e Ib Nevada Nevada- a Also AICo I had under con oon- on ho operation of ot a a. big cattle Sown lown In South America had gained d a it lot of ot otence ence enco and many believed that be hll eventually win the heavyweight from Willard Villard There was wac wash h talk of or this thie that I saw raw th the f t public Interest I decided to hand again of ot Madison Square Gard Garden n Is I affair may maT give you OU a fair fall It costs to put on a I fight I was saved the expense of ot ofEr Er Iran r an arena the arena the fight did not but but the Garden for tor that one Host m That gave me mo tot it-tot alof eventually getting the Garmy Gar- Gar tUm Ul my own use lice That was wac a a. long lead though h tuttle ful difficulty ft In In getting Wit Wll- to sign for tor the fight In and Reno Ined ned me a certain amount of ot good the tha minds of ot the fight tight p pen pea o- o ey knew anyway that I would f hood anything I promised I T F 15 D V t Itself went ten rounds with with- It was not nOl a a. wonderful The fans tan knew that no cham- cham Kwas to be decided unless by byone byone jone one should knock the other out iten tent rounds the same the WIllard-Moran WIllard fight tight house that paid Of Ot lount I paid Willard and a a total of On this was the expense of ot running as preliminaries II officials so 0 on on all this in addi- addi i the rental I made somer some somo r but not a great reat deal LAY 8 I had made my y first splurge lr ag ef York o everybody d seemed d to be and I wa was waa delighted Still J to I ambition to be a II great promo- promo was waa not gradually working up- up fIlth Ith V a a definite goal for my aim Vvo ve said the promoting of fights was waI always a ft sort ort of sport or 01 ked to get lIet in It eo occasionally a PI the fun tun of ot things Willard Incidentally wee was always alway 7 festing study ot me He was waa the theA A looking man that I ever everI I was honest and d' d there thera was no Question about r game ame Just the same ame you al- al t his whole he heart rt was not arne He lie did It purely a. a as A. a mat- mat business Jess had bad a a. high sense senser r and pride but there was no lit In him about th the th prize ring scribes that best In a a. letter to which I think worth quoting ver could fight never wanted to and never cared eRred for the game rame he wrote This by the the- he had lost his title I felt that I X wasn't built for tor a a. my weight my r reach ach height made me a I giant I never reI re- re I never had money God bless them never nevery y folks money I knew that I was wall a a. awand wand powerfully strong I just figured d that a a. man as big u Might ht to be able to cash In on his bin hat la Ss what started me on the g 3 boxing vER V T V got got ot this boxing game Into my liked U it t In fact hated J never hated a. a thing previously J J e as mon money y In It I needed I ey and decided to go 10 after atter It verV really knew how to fight t. t ll TV fights s I e engaged in I never could o l en erl Ing 16 to the other fellow In the thereal fer real eal damage I simply couldn't i Harming arming the other fellow tellow seemed obe i ba cruel and so long as the tha ellow allow didn't harm mo me much I Isee n C see sete any anT rea reason eon why I should ver var hurt any of ot my opponents round because not ono ona was able to hurt me much be- be eighth round and when they t me I got real mad and Just juston on them and If settled matters as a. asaeI as aeI I could But Dut even then I Ike ake ke this boxing business It was wall ir liked and I went after atter all I IJ J another letter I clip this pasCh pash pas- pas Ch h Is a little ahead of ot my story stOrT ems e-ems ms to fit here t think this fellow tellow Dempsey 7 good as he proved himself to take It from mo me that guy is J Say he sunk his hili fist three J. J PInto nto my belly He Ho Just burned ot his Into my stomach It f 4 d' d anything like that happen to toe toge ge e Yet there a ate e some who say V Willard was wa quite a a. writer of ot Some of ot them I have havo seen lIeen I Plot ot quote o from O o one of them In Dative of t the big g fight h tatt at Toledo eio f hire hero and besides beside It Is Js proper r place ff had cf closed up everything con- con aith tho the Moran Willard-Moran fight tight at st Square Garden I was through p game for tor awhile Some months wePt to South America and be- be operation of ot my big cattle I I camo back bacle to New York ocI oc- oc I IY but didn't stay long tong enough nto the tho fight game came The war waran Tend an and there thero was not much h Ie on the ranch down there I Idly Idly gathering an Idea w bt 1924 In U. U S. S and Great JI Cuba Japan and South Am AmerN Amer r.- r. N rth American Newspaper t Al- Al Ir I- I r All All tights rIghts reserved HELPS HOME BUILDER WILDER LN nt Feb 1 12 By A. A P. P The P.-The The government will wilt advance o 1 a j subsidy to relieve tIle the shortage In Ireland Private will benefit as mell melt as mur mu mu- r The purpose Is If it pos pos- oT bring down the cost coot of ot a aMora abom 11 Mora bom om house to 1300 1100 1300 four tour rooms 11 Ji nd ad five eJ rooms s 2300 3 O. O A |