Show GREAT CHAMPIONS FOUGHT HARDER FOR LESS MONEY THAN WILLARD DRAWS DOWN When Jeffries W Won OIl Title From Fitzsimmons Only Was Split Between Them and pd nd Burns and Johnson Together W Were e e Faid r l t Copyright 1916 by the Press Publishing Co N W YORK Feb less ess 2 Willard will get for fighting Frank Moran ten rounds rounds-or less less-in New York Moran will receive the entire purse being Sit lt This will wUI bethe biggest purse ever paid for a bout In this state It It out out- outclasses Jeffries classes even Sullivan the per percentages Fitzsimmons paid Ryan to McCoy Matthews such great Lavigne champions Erne Ere as Gans Dixon and McGovern were fighting here Their fights were all long fights with decisions The only greater purse ever paid was for the forty Johnson at Reno and that also was Jeffries a and d Iv ft Un u. u hv hu nM fight between r TA TX v R Rickard IP to rrt Some of the o old d if time fights rangIng rang rang- Ing from twenty rounds to a finish brought In large sums sums sums-at at the gate I but only one the Johnson Jeffries-Johnson fight brought a gate exceeding Nearest to that was the gate at atthe atthe the Johnson Burns fight in Australia I which was Next below that was at the Nelson Gans-Nelson fight In Goldfield Gold Gold- I field Nov And next In line was the fight between Jeffries and Tom Sharkey which drew Willard Villard is a a. great champion like sonic rome of f tho the old timers And Moran I if H he makes a a- good showing against him will be classed among the best But no matter how impressive the tho I Willard-Moran Willard fight tight may be it is only a It ten-round ten bout with no decision If It Willard and Moran could fight light twenty or twenty five twenty five roun rounds s in this city like the old ld timers no doubt Rickard would have la e been heen willing to offer a purse of for the match It would be Worth north th the money Even I ven a n round tm-round bout between McFarland McFarlan and nd Mike Gibbons I drew over Public lublic interest In Inthe the sport has brown to such an extent that it would be bo almost impossible to calculate what a championship battle like that between Willard mard and Moran would draw in this city Of course taJ taken n to Reno like the John Jeffries son fight it wouldn't amount to so much The Johnson Jeffries-Johnson fight drew spectators from all aU over the The sentimental interest in Jeffries' Jeffries re reappear reappearance reappearance re- re appear appearance nce to defend his ancient title against the great black man made plade thousands willing to sp spend nd time and mon money to travel to R Reno no llo to see it RIckard expects the Moran Willard-Moran i bout to draw more than Ills His greatest trouble is to find an arena large enough to accommodate the crowd without having to charge big prices In fact he will have to charge unusually big prices to take in enough to cover his Ills purse and the necessary necessary esl essary ar expenses But at Reno Ileno ringside I seats ros co cost t 50 and when Corbett and I Il l Fitzsimmons fought at Carson ringside i seats scats ts brought 30 each i Theres There's a strange contrast between ti work and Moran will have havet t td do tie tie-in in the ten rounds i with the efforts of former great champions cham cham- h pl ns In longer er fights tights for much less m money ne At Coney Island Jeffries and Sharkey battled desperately through twenty-five twenty rounds Together they were ero paid Jeffries and Fitzsimmons Fitz- Fitz simmons in their worlds world's championship championship champion champion- ship fight at Coney Island paid Gans Cans and Nelson Neison in their finish battle at Goldfield were paid Burns and nd Johnson in Australia Australia Aus Aus- drew down Nelson and I Wolgast received Young Corbett Corbett Cor Cor- CorI I bett hett and Terry Ten McGovern were paid 1 2528 Several everal ten-round ten no-decision no fights held in New York under the present boxing law ha have e drawn large crowds so that the gate receipts have compared compared compared com com- pared well with those of ot longer bouts in the the old old days I Knockout Brown and Matt l Wells fighting the first bout Under tinder the new Jaw law in the Garden drew nearly which h was the l largest sum Hum drawn by byan an any bout held there in fourteen years or since or-since the Corb Corbett tt and McCoy bout which was the la lat laSt t fought under the theold old t Horton law McFarland and Matt Wells drew diew McFarland and Britton drew An And McGoorty and Gibbons drew 26 OO As all of these bouts packed Madison Square Garden with spectators from galleries to ringside it is evident that unless a larger arena is provided for tor the Moran Willard-Moran affair Mr Richard is going to find it necessary to charge championship prices for tor his seats The Garden seats only people It would be necessary to enable the promoters promoters pro pro- t rs to break even with purse and I expenses to charge an average of 10 I Ia it- it A seat or a scale ranging from 5 a n. s seat scat t in the galleries to 25 a a. seat at atthe atthe atthe the ringside |