Show t co 7 J Jack ck Dillon Is at Present the Most Sensational Figh Fighter e ein in the World Copyright 1916 by the Press Publish hing h- h ing lag Co NEW YORK Feb 12 The The most sensational heavy weight fighter in inthe the world at this moment is Jack Dillon He stands 5 G feet teet 7 Inches s in his fighting lighting shoes he weighs 17 pounds in fighting togs he fear no m man n liv- liv ing inA The other night in Brooklyn little Dillon the man eater knocked out big big Jim Cowler of Jim Corbett Jn Ja two rounds Cowler is over 6 feet 3 He weighs over ver pounds stripped He is a a. clever boxer He is a a- ahard hard hitter And Dillon Dillo outclassed him It is unlikely that little Dillon could overcome the tremendous s handicap in size he would be up against in a match with Willard illard The heavy weight champion champion champion cham cham- pion would be nearly a foot toot taller He would outweigh Dillon at least eighty pounds K But Dillon would fight him him on on a a moments moment's notice Dillon is far more of a giant killer killer r than the famous Walcott Hes He's a a. terrific ter ter- rifle hitter He can assimilate h heavy avy blows He can reach a big mans man's Jaw Jawand jawand jawand I and bring him down Hes He's always ag- ag e. e It is safe to say that nothing could drag Fra Frank k Moran Into a ring with with Dillon Moran wouldn't risk being I knocked out by a man six inches shorter short short- er than himself and thirty-five thirty pounds I 1 lighter 1 Jim Jini Coffey wont won't fight Dillon Dillons Coffey Cot Cof j Cof-j fey 6 feet 3 inches tall would would look look j ridiculous reclining on on the floor with little Dillon stalking about waiting forthe for forthe the referee to finish counting ten seconds seconds sec sec- On the Dublin gi giant nt These men MIGHT beat Dillon but the risk of being knocked out b by him is too great for a business man to take tale Dillon has knocked out Charlie Weinert and during the past few days there has been some talk of matching Weinert against Williard In Philadelphia Dillon hit Weinert on the chest in the second round and knocked him through the ropes and clear out of the ring That finished our friend Charles CharlesA A few weeks ago W Wein Weinert inert inert in- in ert fought Dillon ten Len rounds in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and was thoroughly whipped sticking sUcking through the ten rounds only by sheer gameness and a clever defense Dillon beat Jim Savage badly in ten rounds Savage had Just whipped Al Reich Retch He was going like a streak un til he fought Dillon Dillon DilIon knocked out Al AI Norton who vho was regarded in the West as the most promising heavy weight in the country country coun coun- try barring barring- only Willard Villard As a middle weight weight- weight weight-or for or he has only recently grown out of that class class ho he beat George Geor-e Chip Leo Houck Walter Coffey Coffe Mike Donovan Jimmy How How- ard Frank Mantell Jack Denning Bill McKInnon Tony Caponi George K I. 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O Brown Brown Bob Moha Sailor Sailor- Frank Farmer and B Battling Levinsky S S S Under the headline Wh Why Johnson I Faked His Fight With Willard the Peoples People's Journal ot of Glasgow Scotland Scotland Scot Scot- land published an interview with Johnson Heres Here's part of It Johnson I say now that there is n not t a man I breathing whom I think I 1 could not beat These ma may be he big words from the boxer who was beaten baten by Jess Willard Willard Wil Wil- liard lard at Havana but those in the know will wilt be able to read b between tween the I lines lilies I am not speaking I fully of ot Willard because I J think he Is Isa Isa a a. great fellow as fellow as far as a man Is concerned concerned con con- but If he were as good a boxer as he is a nice fellow he would be e a great fighter fl My fight with Willard was a a. financial financial financial finan finan- cial proposition But the story lory goes back s some ome little wa way You can hardly be expected to realize how I was persecuted persecuted persecuted per per- after becoming champion Yes I suffered some at the hands of the dandy people in America because they could not find a white man to be beat t me Well they promised me that if it I I would consent to be defeated by Wil VU lard I I. I would no longer be molested and would woula enjoy the freedom any other j man would I would be allowed to see seemy j I my old mother who couldn't travel to toI see me I would have my motor cars I and other property restored to me It Itt t sounded very attractive but they played the double double cross on me I a a aJack Jack Johnson didn't did fake the Willard I fight I-ht and didn't lie He down unless h hI he fooled tooled every everyone one around the ring lie He I surely fought ht desperately while hiie he lasted and was well knocked out j But theres there's some truth in hi his statement state state- state state- I ment that he was waR promised freedom I from prosecution not persecution tion In 10 this country countr after the Willard CI fight ht A diy day before th the Willard on I fight in Havana Hurry ln zEe who I was the real promoter promote of the affair I told me me that he had jut Just received at a a- aI t I message from the United States and he lie didn't know whether to tell Johnson about it or not He lie said that lIe he had been in communication with the legal authorities here and that he had as assured assured as- as sUled Johnson that everything e had hal been fixed so o that after the fight he could go to America without being arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested Johnson was WitS under sentence for violating the tIle white slave law lawan an jl l J skipped his bis bail il when be he w went mt to Eu Eu- rope Frazee said he had Just received received re received re- re a a. message saying that it was impossible to square the Johnson matter matter matter mat mat- ter and that Johnson would be arrested the moment he lie set foot toot on American I soil soli 1 I told Frazee I thought it would be c cI I decidedly unfair to Johnson to worry I I him with such a a. message a few hours before the fight fI and Frazee Frame said hed he'd I say suy nothing about it until the fight tight was as I over u |