La Grande evening observer., July 13, 1917, Image 3

FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1917.
LA GRANDE EVENED OBSERVER.
PAGE THREE
WILH if
EE THROUGH
WITH FIGHTING
HAS PURCHASED CIRCUS, FIRED
HIS MANAGERS AND NOW IS
READY TO CALL IT OFF
BY H. C. HAMILTON.
United Press Staff Correspondent.)
New York, July 13. The pacifist
heavyweight champion, , Jess Willard,
probably is all through with the fight
game. Never a lover of the game
which gave him fame and his fortune,
Willard has purchased a circus, -fired
his managers, and now, presumably is
ready to call it off.
There 13 nothing startling m a pre
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diction that Willard is through. He
could hardly afford to risk public cen
sure through taking on some of the
lesser heavyweights, and of the few
men available, there isn't a one who
wouldn't be able to give King Jess
the fight of his life. The action of
the champion in getting rid of Tom
Jones and Jack Curley is commend
able in a sort of way, for it eliminates
the syndicate which put the world's
champion to work in a circus instead
of sending him out to fight which
was expected of him by the public
grateful for . Willard'a success in
bringing back the world's title to the
white race.
Willard 'has declared there isn't a
man of sufficient ability to meet him.
However, he said this before Fred
Fulton succeeded in knocking out Sam
Langford something no other man
ever could do. Willard long ago
adopted a policy of no fights with the
colored men breaking the rule only
once in order to win the world's title
from Jack Johnson. It is doubtful,
just the same,' if his best days would
have done him any good in a bout with
the Boston Tarbaby, regardless of the
great difference in their siees.
If Willard yearns for a few more
thousand dollars and a chance to re
tire gracefully from the fight game
for him. Fred Fulton looms as his
for all time the chance is just begging
most formidable rival. Several pro
moters are eager to stage the bout.
The public would go wild over a 20
round go between the pair. And there
is no valid reason for holding it off.
Willard would confer a favor by
agreeing to the fight.
officer was most concerned to
about
talk I a ton, in the ventilating shaft of the
German s tunnel under Mount Cornil-
- Trench Tales -
His shrapnel wounds in arm and
shoulder, though not dangerous were
somewhat extensive, and he was new
ly back from the hottest kind of
fighting; but it was not at all the
fighting -that this particular English
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let This one shot can actually be
paid to have made possible the French
victory of the same day in which the
final conquest was made of the north
ern slopes of the Moronvillier crest
from Cornillet to Mount Teton. The
tunnel under Mount Cornillet was one
of the veritable masterpieces of de
fensive organization which the Ger
mans have perfected in the hopes of
maintaining an unbreakable hold on
French soil. The system of tunnels
underneath in which reserves could
bo kept safe from all bombardment
was calculated to render the Mount
absolutely untakable and to insure
permanently the German's strangle
hold on Champagne. The tunnel con
sisted of three galleries which were
united in the center by a cross cor-1
ridor. Several ventilating shafts ex-'
tended upward to the top of the
mountain and ventilation was assured
by hand-worked ventilutors.
It was this tunnel that on April 17.
in the original French attack along 1
the Moronvillier front that checked
the French on the extreme left. As
the victorious "pollus" swept up the
Moronvillier crest, driving everything
before them, three battalions of re-
serves, fresh and fully protected in
the tunnel from the French's artillery
preparation, suddenly dashed out, and
delivered a counter-attack that
checked the French foot soldiers al
ready exhausted from a long vigorous
attack and advance.
The latter dug in, however, before
the mouth of the tunnel and were able
to hold out till May 4. . The Germans
in the meantime having brought up
fresh troop3 from the rearward
through the tunnel and repaired their
positions at the exit of the tunnel
were ablo finally to lon:e the French
to fall back.
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undertook the capture of the. Mount.
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capture or the destruction of the tun
nel, and for this some of the heaviest
French artillery was brought into
play.
During the artillery preparation of
May 19, gas shells were rained into
the mouth of the tunnel until it was
practically certain that the garrison
had been driven out or killed. The
airplanes however were unable to re
port any indication of serious damage
to the tunnel with the exception of
the entrance, which however in view
of the experience of the first attack
could hardly be counted on as insur
ing the destruction of the tunnel. The
bombardment continued with all its
intensity and with an ever increasing
accuracy, as every shot was controlled
by aerial observation, until suddenly
during the forenoon of the 20th, just
a few hours before the infantry
scheduled to dasA to the assault, th
big 400 millimeter shell, struck
squarely in the principal ventilator1
shaft of the tunneL
' No doubt remained in the minds of
the French commanders of the ef
ficiency of this shot and they ordered
their troops to the assault But it
was only after the mountain with it
tunnel was taken that the full effect
of the shot could be established.
' The shell penetrating the airshaft
demolished the transverse corridor
which connected up the three galler
ies. Half of the garrison was dead
and the entrances so filled up that the
rest could not escape. Several hun
dred prisoners wore taken from the
interior. . . ,
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REMARKABLE FEAT OCCURS IN
THE CONQUEST OF MT.
CORNILLET.
Projectile Larger Than a Man and
Weighing Over Half a Ton Lands
in Ventilating Shaft of the Ger
man's Tunnel This One Shot Made
Possible the Victory Half of Ger
man Garrison Killed.
BY HENRY WOOD.
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
CHAMPAGNE, June 30. (By Mail)
The most remarkable feat of marks
manship of the war occurred on May
20, during artillery preparation that
preceded the French's final conquest
of Mount Cornillet and Mount Teton
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I manning one of the new 40O milimeter
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