Show WILLARD GETS PREPARED TO MEET JOHNSON Former Champion Starts Active Training for Coming Contest By Dy Sr SPARROW Sp Special dal C Correspondent rn of ot The J Examiner Examiner ard-Examiner NEW YORK reb Feb Jess lO-Jess 10 Jess celebrated his being matched with Floyd Johnson this week by In dally daily workouts with ounce eight eight gloves against such heavyweights as happ ned to be bo loitering about the Madison Square Garden 0 rd n I 3 urn The Tho writer has watched the big cow cow- OW- OW cowboy boy carefully upon every l antI and feels tree free to say that such 1 weight eight for tor ago age as Jess JOsi Willard Villard carries does not seem to affect his footwork w luck iii 10 nimble and shiny ability Whether ho he I much real a abil tl it ity determined as 08 a fighter tighter may maS ma of ot course be bo de- de de tie only when he steps Into the ring against a real Opponent To date he ha has made no effort to mess up his sparring partners partner content evidently e to defond himself Irons from the spirited on on- on onslaughts of oC his hig opponents There is prObably ForIn a deep method In this For in that t historic occasion In Toledo J Jess es had no defense at all He lie pvc pre pre prepared pared for tor the battle battlo with no Ide Idea l so negative nel a as defense defenso would be sary necessary convinced whereas herens Dempsey quickly von von- con vinced him that It was the one thing he needed most It in its clea clear that Jess Is not now In i condition or anywhere where near It At the same time his appearance does docs not kad Iad to the belief bellet that training of o tit the proper sort would tall fail to put him In ia fighting trim When hen you consider Jess and then look 1001 over the other contenders ou begin to realize why Tex Rickard has hils sey been boen so 80 Insistent upon bringing Damp Demp- Dempsey soy sey and him Islin together Of all alt the rest Tommy Gibbons stands elands out as lIsa he hebest best beat In point of ot actual performance but try as one may the Impression created In miserable exhibition against Bartley persists Madden and Harry HarlY Greb Oreb per per- per 11 it Is generally agreed by critic critics that GIbbons could hov hav beaten Harry Oreb Greb had he been willing to como come to tD the Pittsburg windmill but he didn't do this And If he hesitated bout about mingling with the comparatively light hitting Greb what reason have we to believe he would be any more War warlike against the tho destructive Dempsey We will know more about Floyd aft aCt the Willard battle bottle but at the present time his bis record i Is not Impre- Impre Impre sivo sh else e Then Thea Luis Luls Firpo There hu has been a lot ot of tall talk about the size and strength of ot this but WI we ha base hae e to take a lot for tor granted Ills IUs record gets him nothing Sailor Max Mu- Muted Maxted tod ted Joe McGann Jack Herman and JIm Tracy comprise his list of ot vIc vIc- vIctims vic victims tim tims Apple sauce that's all II A As for this Jack they are ale touting so heavily In the we will learn whether he be is 18 1 a 8 a darb d rb or ora ora ora a bloomer ss when hen he he- meets he-meets meets meet Tomm Tommy alb Gib Gibbons boos bOllS at ot the Garden March 19 When hen you come to Harry Horry Wills WIUs you may moy well ell ask Who has lie he beaten beden tenNo bes-tenNo No one ono who amounts to anything na at atall atall all So after all affairs In the I heavy iw 5 eight eight clas class boll boil down to Willard old though ho he be Announcement by Joe Beckett In London that ho had signed to neat Dempsey In New York may be charac characterized am among those things unimportant unimportant unimportant It if true There are aa as many its ICs In the proposed arrangement as IlIJ In Ina Ina Ina a golfers golfer's alibi Beckett Deckett must like Dick Smith nd Carpentier Dempsey must sign some some- somebodY somebody tome body bodY has to put up real dough and the York state boxing change their collective minds mind |