Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-31 | Page 10 | Dark Shadows Cast on Willard's Gameness

Dark Shadows Cast on IVillard'si Gameness , r . - t, S) I By HINRV lw rARBtLL. Units r prta Bttltor. i NEW TORK. July II. Whn Jm WllUrtl wtw couRtsMI ut tn hit cornr tm yn kn, with t-ui- Plrpo Ufrd-knv Ufrd-knv behind htm cocktMt to HDd ovr nothstr rtsTht- hand, mtinr of ' th low.ooo who mw th flsht felt tht tb former hoavwtight chmploo Bu.d uit cold. kCvea dmtbt that hit vounir was phh ufflclent to wt him off tho floor wsvft no neo thin for a former rtwu- Rion to wry out wUh blm in him loot ht. . e No m but Wlllard ovor will know whothor ho wii r-aily out and unaMo to oontlnuo or wbsihr ho figurtvd that tho end was Inovttablo and that ho would oorapo punlshmoiit nnd pooalblo tnpurtoa by fotiiOAT out whaa ho had 4 od chanco, It to certain that Wlllard ma do no vlcont offort to lot up on hla ft, but It mar bo that hia la rnuacle had bocomo portlallr paraiyid. ven If hit hoad and hia mental faculllaa war not imp 1 rod. i Ray Archer, Wlttard'i bualnoaa man- i ar, was frank onourh to admit that tho bla- Manaan could havo votton ua i but that ho would only havo 4fono down a grain, aa ho was throuajh. Cntlclam of Wlllard'a act l on a do- Eenda on tho point of vlaw and It ring up tho old quoatlon of othlca. In Europt aa athloio who mi ho poles. po-les. I y boat ca and who ondanr hlfnaotr by continuing', can rttro" In r:opd rraco and nothing; la thought of t. Mil, trtngian did that In tho Vnltod Htatea, and they aro atlll Ulk. Ing about It bocauao Xmrtcft othlca of sport roqulro that an at hie to ghould go ihrougb or dla, ' Wlllftrd laft himself opon to sunpl-ctnn. sunpl-ctnn. howovori bocauao ho waa c h a r fd with doing tho aa-mo thing at Toledo whan ha rofuaod to cotna from hla oor-nor oor-nor In tho Domnooy fights) af tor ho had takan a tarriflo boating. , Zt to rather otranro that la both fn-tanooo fn-tanooo Wlllard dacidod not to con tin ua after ho had takon tho worst of tho boating and whon tt aoomod that bis Opponent was spent, All of American oportstneri do not agroo, ho we tot, that a fightor ahould run tho risk of portnanont Injuries just for tho sako of balxig crowaod for gamanosa. Why should bo havo gotten opt Ha know perhaps that ho couldn't win. and eha wlao thing for him to do waa to tako tho count and capo tho dan- ger of being badly hurt. Ko one eaa lay That he took a dive and on one Jen deny that he took a bed beating ill the wey through tho fight." Jack Brttton former world's welterweight champion, said sfter the flgh-