Show WITH A FORTUNE STORED AWAY JESS WILLARD SHOULD I AID IN WAR WORK Heavyweight ht Champion Is Peeved and Retires to Farm Instead of Cf Aiding Red Cross By Robert Edgren Copyright 1918 by Pre Press Pub Co EW YORK uly 10 Jess Jess Willard Wll- Wll N NEW lard Is said to hive stowed away s something life Ute since he took the title from Johnson at Havana This talk about money is usually exaggeration Probably Willard has been been a party to to taking In about But Jess h had hd a b bunch of managers managers- r Just s Jh how much c of it he has has- now te tea is isa isa a question But I have no doubt at MIthat au MI I that he could show enough to support him in some de degree ree of easa IP up to a good old age and buy all the black cattle he wants for that Kansas ranch Jess Jesa could afford to spend his time working for the Red Cross Imagine the tremendous popularity Willard had In his hand hand and and threw away k J He e was a fine figure gu of e a cham pion He eb b beat the much disliked Johnson Johnson John John- son in good knockout style H He had everything to make him a popular figure the the most popular in all the history of boxing If It Jess Tess had shown a desire to do something something something some some- thing for his country he could have volunteered volunteered volunteered vol vol- vol- vol to fight a few battles for the Red Cross and for the army funds He could have done some boxing at the army camps where e men th In training I rd ha e would have been benefited through ou seeing seeing see see- ing him In action and would have enJoyed enjoyed en- en Joyed looking him over I It wouldn't have cost Jess anything to go around the country working for the Red Cross He Ite would have become more popular than on the day he beat Johnson a Johnson Johnson-a a million times more popular And with this added popularity popularity popularity pop pop- he could have done a world of good Jess Willard Is to be pitied Through sheer inability to realize his opportunities ties to do a great work and sheer Inability in inability inability In- In ability to put himself in touch with ideas that did not consist wholly pf ambition to make money he has missed the greatest chance hance a fighter ever had One of the boxers who went from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York to Buffalo last week to fight six rounds for the benefit of the fund that thatIs Is to equip our soldier camps with much needed athletic supplies said in my hearIng hear hear- ing G Gee e I wish I was Jess Sees Willard for a couple of days so I could help make the gate receipts bigger That boy had the right He wasn't thinking of himself himsel or his own credit He was thinking of what good he could do He wished that he could do more Fortunately for the good reputation of the sport of boxing there are thousands like him him and and few indeed who are ing to use their talents for a patriotic purpose |