| Show I As Ed Smith Sees It Ii I AS TO JESS WILLARD AND HIS FUTURE CHICAGO Dec 30 They've They've been h having ving a lot to say rc- rc recently recently re re- about Jess Jen Willard boxing this man or that one some come time in the near future and somewhere in America It now develops that T Tex this Rickard-this Rickard this from an inside source source got got in so very much Dutch with certain people over his release of the story that Anne I Morgan was the real backer of the idea of bringing Georges Carpentier Car- Car Carpentier i to this country that there now is but a slim chance of the scheme going through This does away with the Carpentier bubble and removes a a possible candidate from the already mighty slim list Talk about s sending s Leslie Darcy Darcy Dar Dar- C cy against the giant slant champion is piffle Frank Frame Moran 1 a n. man of or pounds looked like an infant alongside of or Jess Darcy In good condition weighs but poun pounds J. J H He had better stiCK to the lighter class dugs It would be a n. Joke to matoh match him with great fl fighter thoU though Jl he hc undoubtedly le ly Is Is This leaves only Fred Fulton Fullon an and Carl Morris 1 ns its possible con con- tenders The and the are not taken seriously As a matter of or fact tact nobody la Is when Willards Willard's size bulk and general gen sen- general eral ability are taken into consid consid- I Now heres here's the truth of the whole thing Willard Villard doesn't care carea I a rap if he hc never sees sets another boxing glove c Ho lie hates hales to think I of the da day when he will ha have havo vo to get et down to the steady grind rind of training training and and a grind It Is fur for a aman mars man who has attained all possible possible i ssi- ssi ble in tho game and reached that a ago ngn o as tar fur ns os athletics ath uth- leticH h la is cone p 1 e Hh plenty of ur dough doug In theold the theold old sock Jess Is complacent regarding re regarding re- re I garding g the future lie Is fixed for life and HO so are arc the tho five little lit lit- tle Willard Villard kids What more natural than that the big hiS fellow tellow should ask ash a a. fierce price for tor his He Is hoping he doesn't get It It that's all And while on the tho su subject of or i I prices lets let's see If Tess Jess price of I Is so fierce after all Everybody ody laughed to scorn his I insistence that he get tot for his end for boxing Frank Moran ten rounds In New York last spring and everybody said Tex Rickard wa war crazy to give It to him Yes craz crazy like tike a fox tax The fhe gate receipts were elO in excess of or we are arc told and the lien nervy promoters netted a sweet p profit roil t. t When Wien hen receipts can be brought ht II Up tip to six figures the fighter naturally thinks ho should get a aprice aprice aprice price It looks that way Promoters Promoters Promoters Pro Pro- always s 's have yelled l that thata a fighter r Ic is entitled tle only to what whal lie la can draw dra On this ha basis li VII Wll- h loVd rd is worth almost an anything S e But in the meantime J T Tess SK n Villard Vil Wil Villard lard doesn't care caro an any mor more than Eva g Tan may which Is 18 stepping tome some e. e |
