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Show WJLLARD'S " T ' TITlE IS IN j : PERIL-ALMOST New White Camp EitapeTd Dangerous Challenijer.Only Becausotof Risk. ': to - Aipl rant'i i Face ' ! bu - Snight away Jess' Willard has ,' a 'Challenger he can't flglft. .'The matter ot a large cast Iron contract stands between a public argument ar-gument In tho Tings as to tho'rela-ttvo tho'rela-ttvo physical merits of tho new white champion and William Russol, tho handsono giant "gentleman heavy" In tho rolo of Blair Stanley In "Tho Diamond from tho Sky." Tho announcement of Wlllnrd's victory vic-tory nt Havana filled the enthusiastic enthusias-tic Mr. Hussol with a blazo of ambitions, ambi-tions, llussel admitted Willard was a good man, and tentatively suggested sug-gested ho was a bettor ono. .Hussol decided to challcngo and do It in terms that would get action. Then along enmo S. S. Hutchinson, Hutchin-son, president of tho "Flying A" company, tho producing concern nnd mado remarks about tlio contract. "Man I'vo got your face alono Insured In-sured for about $200,000. Do you think I'm boob enough to lot you go Into tho prize ring and get that much facial scenery all mashed up? Forget For-get it, it you will please, Mr. llussel." llus-sel." Then Russell, Just to blow off steam, wont Into the studio gymnasium gymnasi-um and knocked all of tho tanglblo valuo out of threo punching bags and threw a 500 pound vaulting horse at an attendant who objected. Russell has been pronounced ono of the most perfectly developed men In Amorlca by a number ot sculptors. sculp-tors. Ho has been much. In demand as a model for sculptor but Russell cares xnoro for the 'taction stuff." Ho stands G feet 4 Inches tall when he gets up in the morning , and weighs 225 pounds beforo breakfast. |