Show WILLARD IS HARD HAR HARDY 1 rOA Y R i COMING r. r BOUT BOUT Sparring Partner Says Big Fellow Can Win If He Hits Johnson Villa to Keep Hands Off By TES 0 ROURKE Willards Willard's Sparring Partner CAMP WILLARD VILLARD near Ysleta Tex Tor Feb 9 Jack Jack Curley Carley promoter of or the championship fight light of or Jack Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son and Joss Jess Willard Villard has received let tors tars from Gen Pancho Villa VUla practical dictator of ot northern Mexico and his brother that they will guarantee guarantee guar guar- antee anteo protection Further they will will ronder render all aU assistance they can to bring off the tho fight successfully Inasmuch as General villa Vill ilia controls this tills part of Mexico the throat of General Carranza against Johnson will havo little little- force Johnson will bo be perfectly safe s. protected protected pro pro- tested by Villas Villa's troops when he ho reaches Juarez His principal will be bo t to got get thero there After that he will bo be safe safo General Villa will m reecho receive no pecuniary ary nry advantages ld es from tho the fi fight ht other than what goes oes to him from hi his interest interest inter inter- est in Then local amusement enterprises In words thoro ro is no fear that Curley Curley Cur Cur- ley lcy must muse pay r n lot lct of graft raft to Mexican and md bandits Ho lie will have Jm so 50 much opportunity to make money on the fight i ht a as if it t wore handled han hau- dIed on tho American Ride nido Willard is hard at work He lie wa waded ell through h seven en miles of mud and rain at t dawn n the tho other day the day tho weather has been heon ba bad had and and and ho finished with a n hun lUn- lUn yard dred-yard sprint print Thon Then ho he rolled up in several eral heavy blankets an and out in front of tho the o open cn in the beautiful cotta cottage e Banker has turned over o to hint him for training I Willard i is not Only hi big but hul has good ool A of ring craft ft and 1 possesses a punch in either cither hand which if rf landed ri right ht will put ut a quick nick finish to any man Champion Tae Tack not excluded Willard Willard Wil Wil- lard Jard is learning carnin how to get every o po si bio ide advantage ad ont oat of his hie great rat size size ze Willard seems to have bare an unlimited amount of strength h 3 and d an confidence in his physical superiority over or other men mca By this thi I do not mean moan that he i is egotistical for aside from ring matters he ho is most affable and unassuming Each lay day adds add to his ahead already large list of in influential friends and should he be win win the t light fight ht he will without doubt be the most popular chant champion ion in years Wi Willard and is not built Continued on oil Waco 10 |