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Show COFFEY HAS LOST HIS CONFIDENCE By MONTY. Jim Coffey has undergone a change for the worse similar to the experience experi-ence of Soldier Kearns, who was hit so hard by Jess Willard two years ago that he immediately became a sec nd rater. Willard knocked the courage out of Hercules Kearns. The, Soldlfr ever afterward seemed deathly death-ly afraid of taking a punch from any man. Coffey in his bout last week r against poor, clumsy Jack Geyer of Denver seomed afraid to take a chanco. His two knockouts at the hands of Frank Moran have made I him wary. Even when Geyer was wide open Coffey was afraid to sail , In with all his power for a finishing punch. He finally stopped Geyer In the fifth round, but mainly because he simply outclassed the lattor In boxing and could land twenty light blows on him to one offered in return. Coffey Bhould have stopped Geyer in the first or second round. "" It was Roscommon Jim's first effort ef-fort In his attompted comeback. He hopes to fight himself back Into the good graces of the public and will tako on Carl Morris next, down In Sapulpa, Okla., next Wednesday. He ought to outpoint Morris because of his cleverness and speed at long range, but his protonslons to class are practically a thing of the past now. A man with a punch who is afraid to land it might as well not have a I unch. To become a champion those dayB a fellow has to have all around merit Coffey besides his new found carefulness has a "glass" jaw, as the only moderately heavy blows of Frank Moran proved. Judging from the present status of Moran, Fulton and Coffey, thoro is not a man alive able to give Willard a real battle unless perhaps little Jack Dillon should be the marvel his friends think he is |