Show I I BLAME WilLS FOR FAilURE TO GET BOUT Colored Boxer Depends Upon Efforts of Paddy Mullins By ny SPARROW Sl SS S'S Special lent of o The Thc Copyright 1926 1929 Association NEW YORK YORI May Moy What L-What 1 about Harry Wills Like some dark brooding shado shadow he Is morea more moru a man of mystery today than ever cr bore before Ills his future futuro no man mon can read Evidently not even he be nor his manager Paddy Mullins can reo read t It Wills and Mullins seem eem to be depending upon the tue workings of i tate fate to better their fortunes A And nJ when men do that thet hey are aro dis- dis disappointed dis disappointed appointed more often ottel than not Some boxing enthusiasts enthusIast both men are to blame biame for the present status tatus of the brown boxer but that Wills Is m more re to blame than his manager Is only because he has ha not asserted himself It If they say Wills had forced the I Issue by meeting and whipping ever cv- cv ev every er cry ery heavy heavyweight eight the public con con- considered worth while he now would ev have the tho backing of ot a 11 powerful demand public demand that Dempsey meet him II Instead Harry has hu relied wholly upon his manager while listening to the praise of a bUI bunch ch ot of o fawn fawn- fawnIng fawning ing fans fang whose whoso sole sale Dim aim In life I 13 to bask In the limelight that falls on a ft celebrity It Is flattering to toone's toone's ones one's ones sense ot of o vanity to bo ho told how good one ono Is but It dotS does no not Jet g anyone anywhere In particular tar lar J IN IS TOUR roun BOUTS Wills has condescended to toe the tho mark four tour time times In the past pas two years Against Bartley Dartley Mad Mad- Madden Madden den he lie showed an effort not in 11 keeping with his He tried every blow In his reper- reper reps reper r tone of ot wallops to bring brini down the game white man while Madden throughout called him hint uncomplimentary uncomplimentary names The result was vas that Wills lIIs lost his head and Ills dis disappointed appointed his friends lends Nor did the tho fight with Luis Luls Firpo cover Wills with 11 glory or Firpo was beset with I deportation proceedings s up lip to the tho I moment he entered the tho ring and was In no mood to train for let alone fight for a 0 man who Is con con- conceded conceded ceded eded to be about as good as Dempsey Yet Firpo went the route and finished t In good sha shape pe As Aa for Weinert Wills llIs had nothing at all to fear In the Jersey man nan But this did not hIm from sweating profusely or from acting In a way to draw drow on an occasional boo rom roni tho tim crowd Giving GI up a chance to make makl by fighting Tunney anti and adding to his prestige by beating the ex Marine ex-Marine was a Il sorry mistake on the part of ot Wills Mullins Mulling and company In going over o to Newark and tumbling over the bulk that once was Floyd Joyd Johnson tho the brown panther sickened every ery lover of fair play Thousands of o fans who belle believed In Wills and ond clamored for his right to try for the heavy heavy- heavyweight weight heavy weIght title titio were t turned rne against him as ae a result of o that fight Either Wills 1 Is headstrong or orbe he be ha has been very badly man man- managed managed aged From certain of ot hl his mannerisms mannerism mann In the ring ho 10 ic has shown that he ha has a poor Idea of the way ay to gain popularity In the Dill Bill Tate fight back In 1921 he ha deliberate deliberate- deliberately ly pinned Tate Tates Tate's arm arms under his and whirling around thre threw him I the full tull length of ot the ring Right after that Wills was take tak tak- tak taken taken en n down to Havana to meet quo pun pun boat boat Smith who had not drawn on 01 a ft glove for tor for over three years But Wills was wag Inclined to take tako no nl chances One punch and SmIth turned his eyes to the hot Cuban sun un and was counted out xo o I If It he I li Is In Dempsey's class class- well class well ell then If It you ou come some Tight down downto downto downto to cases It must be said bo ho has bas done nothing to prove pro U Jt Then why hy all the hullabaloo about the Injustice of shunting him aside In favor of ot Gene Tunney Wills may have hove It In him to prove his world orld beating class It If Itao so ao It Is up to him hint to get Into a ac action tion fight all who daro dare meet him I I and build up for tor himself something some- some thing he ha has not got now a pow erful public foll I pow I |