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Show JESS ADMITS HE'S CHANGED I The two Jess Wfllonds One as ho Is now, tho other as lie was then In 1 1 Toledo. Bl DEA BN1 DEB i:y the e.ilendar Jess Wlllard is a year and six months older than when he lost his crown. By his face ho has aged more And It Is tho age which comes all in a moment not by the clock Jess lived more years In the fewi minutes ho spent n the ring with Dempsey at Toledo than h had ever llvi d before The memory of those terrible minutes min-utes "J"e to be credited With the present pres-ent lines In his face. v ILIjARD'S WORDS. "I'm a changed man." says the WI1I-ird WI1I-ird of today. And he looks It. ' Tin bigger than ever." lie says. I He looks that. too. J wanted money the last time I 'ought." He doesn't need It now. "Ill ha fighting to get mv crown' lack this time." There's th0 difference between tho' -I Wlllard of a year and a half ago and now. I When he came to Toledo he thought' like scores of hit friends h was) too big to be knocked out. He fig- j ured Dempsey would go down under his slow sledgehammer drives. Hal wasn't serious Today as he goes about his plans of; selecting a training camp to meet I Dempsey again he knows he can be knocked out by a smaller man. lie knows he ll hove to fight Dempsey dif-' ferently He is serious. i "It' pride not money that brings 1 1 nie back." says .less j "I v.rinf to show the world I've been 'I misjudged. jl "Dempsey hit me In a clinch when I I broke clean. That beat me. I "It Will be different this time." h This Is the philosophy which Will H tird h.us worked out after a y ear and i I 8 half spent In meditation. '1 He has sought the comeback trail I among the Kansas sunflowers. j And the serious Wlllard Is1 being taken seriously by boxing cxperLs. i |