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Show " CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS 5j -:pii fir Mk xfasatessai i r pSSfeii 1 'vm"www'f ,i ii hiiiiiiiii"'','"'W H jj CopjTlcht. 3 010, Sclls-Floto Sliowa Co., Inc. jj. C Jess Willard, Champion Heavyweight Pugilist of the World, With Sells-Floto Circus, Coming Here. 8 f. Jess Willard, "Heavyweight Champion Cham-pion of the World," who is coming here with the Sells-Floto circus, has an absolute faith in his own ability. He figures out things for himself and once he has made up his mind keeps to the path he has decided upon with small regard for the views of others. This does not mean that he scorns the advice of others. He will listen patiently to advice, weigh it in his own mind, and then do what seems best lo him. We should say that the keynote of Willard's character is a keen faculty for observation and a stubborn per-sistnnce. per-sistnnce. He has a power of unwavering unwaver-ing determination which enables him to labor patiently at an obstacle, until un-til he removes it from his path. When he started out to become a fighter men laughed at his aspirations. aspira-tions. No one took him seriously. But he believed in his own star and he followed it through black clouds of discouragement until it guided him where he is today. Physically, Willard is a marvol. Most men of his height have some weakness but the present champion ia wonderfully proportioned. He is taller and somewhat more muscular than the majority of men. His coat of arms should include a pine tree or telephone pole.' For all ideas you get of Jess are vertical. It was Dec. 29, 1887, that Joss Willard Wil-lard was born in Pottawatomie, Kan., and as he grew he lived the life of the outdoors, and the life, of the cleanly, clean-ly, both in body and In mind. The ordinary habits of tobacco and liquor never appealed to Jess. His immense physique felt better without them. He was scarcely a boy when the 'd range called him. He became a cow- ; boy, and a real cowboy. At night, ') when the "boys" would gather around the chuck wagon for their evening ; sports, it was Jess Willard who always al-ways won the "boxing bouts, with hard- r ly an effort. t His pugilistic record began in 1911, i during which year he won seven fights and lost one on a foul. In the next two years 'he continued to win from man "after man, until Gunboat Smith was given a decision over him In ; twenty rounds. After knocking out Dan Bailey and George Rodel, he was finally matched with Jack Johnson and knocked him ' ; out in twenty-six rounds on April 5, , . 1915, thus accomplishing the task he i : had set himself in the beginning of winning the title o "Wroiid's Champion." Cham-pion." After that he did no fighting until March 26 of this year, when he won M the decision over Frank Moran at M Madison Square Garden, New York. II When Willard started the only H things in his favor were his Bize and M ills determination to succeed. Today M he is fast for a big man, ho knows gg how to hit, has a variety of blows, M ami has developed a very efficient de- w fense. During the performances of the I Sells-Floto Circus here Willard will j be first introduced in his old role of j( cowboy. Later he will appear in ring t cotumo and with his sparring part- ii ner Illustrate how he won the cham gj plonship and also the punches used fi when ho defended the title at MadI- I son Square Garden. o jj |