i TIIE SUNDAY OREGONTAX. PORTLANI3e MARCH 2G. X iOtfo WILLARD BATTLES LIKE GRIZZLY BEAR Ponderous Brute Strength Too Much for Grit of Ever-Trying Moran. IRISHMAN'S RALLIES FINE Tftiie After Time Smaller Man Car ries Tight to Opponent, Only to Tail to Feaze Cliampion With His Terrific Blows. BY W. O. M'GEEHAX. 5TEW YORK, March 25. (Special.) Frank Moran. the red-haired Irish American David, made a brave but in effectual attempt to bring down the Goliah, Jesse Williard. It was Wil lard's fight entirely after the first round and finished with Moran's face a smear of blood, while Willard was unmarked. The fight put up by the champion was far from impressive. He displayed no more pugnacity when Moran swung heavily upon his . head ' than he did wnen he was training with his spar ring partner. For the greatest part of the time he was wearing a broq.d and ponderous grin. WHrard's , Maude Too Great. At the first. Willard seemed a bit bewildered.' Moran by a flashy rush swept the big fellow into the ropes shortly after the bell rang and the crowd got its first thrill. But Willard wrapped his Ions arms about the body and Moran : could not penetrate that shield of muscle. Willard seemel even a trifle worried as he went to his corner. But after that he became al most monotonous. In the fourth round Willard shot out his right arm and his glove landed over Moran's left eye. There was a gush of blood and Moran went to his corner half blinded. In the seventh round it seemed that Willard would dispose of the brave little Irish-American. He Jarred him with a terrific right upper cut and began to batter hira all over the ring. Just as it semed that Moran would have to drop from dizziness and ex haustion, the red Irishman pulled him self togethe- and made the flashiest rally of the fight. He caught Willard with a right hook to the jaw and Wil lard backed up against the ropes. ' Fearful Blown Brine Grin. Moran followed him and placed three risht uppercuts on Willard's jaw, these blows would have sent Jim Coffey down for the count, but the Kansas colossus grinned when the. bell rang. Willard's left was his mainstay. With the advantage of five inches of reach, he jabbed continually, almost monotonously sending Moran's tow head back with each jab. The force of the giant's uppercuts have been exag gerated though. Several times he shot it to Moran's jaw and the Irish-American's head bobbed up but he recovered immediately. It seemed an impossible and unequal fight from the moment Moran entered the ring, and stood for the first time beside the gigantic heavyweight cham pion. Willard. bulked over him so big that Moran, who is by no means a small man, looked a child. But the Irish Arnerican play-boy did not seem to be depressed. He smiled affably at the Kansas giant and then looked no more serious than he did when he met Cof fey for the first time in that same ring. He had taken stock of his opponent, but he was not visibly impressed. From the instant the bell clanged Moran started deliberately about his work. He mov-d slowly, even more slowly than Willard for the greater part of the time, always watching, and always hoping tc land the blow which would even jar the big man. Moran Ever on Alert. The impossibility of this never seemed to impress Moran for the mo ment. He took the left' jabs without a change of position. Again, and again, he swung for the loose, high-hanging jaw of the Kansas giant, but when hei did land on it, some times with a graz ing blow and some times with his full strength, Willard only grinned. After the bout Referee White an nounced that Willard had broken his right hand on Moran's head in the third round. It could hardly have been a serious break, for Willard continued to use that hand all the way through the fight. It was his main defense and main offense .when he took the offen sive. To the very last Willard was peck ing at Moran's bloody face with the same left, which tantalized the blonde man. The only real ray of hope of the Moran sympathizers and they consti tuted a majority of the house was in the first round, when Willard, for the moment, seemed bewildered and dis couraged. His mouth was wide open and his jaw dropped as he went to his corner. New Glove Not Allowed. A big roll of fat appeared over the Kansan's stomach. "Keep after him, Frank, you've got him winded," screamed one of Moran's friends. But in the next round Willard came up with that ponderous grin and began to jolt Moran's head with that straight left. Once he caught Moran with a right uppercut and the Irish-American play boy should have realized that it was impossible. Moran went to his corner a trifle more serious, but not discour aged, apparently. In the sixth round Moran reached Willard's head with a hard right swing and broken open his glove. The ringsiders clamored for Charlie White, the referee, to get a new glove. The Aldermanic referee shook his head. "You can't put anything ovtr on me," he said. Just what plot he suspected was not apparent. It was the most subdued crowd that ever saw a prize fight. There was hardly an audible cry of encouragement to either of the fighters. Once in a while a Moran sympathizer voiced his hope when the Irish-American landed hut the Willard grin that seemed to follow every hit choked the cries of encouragement before they were fully voiced. Whlnper Heard All Over. In the seventh round it seemed that Moran would be battered round the mat. Willard had swung Moran's right uppercut and was proceeding ponder ously to beat him down. There was a hush over the Garden so intense that one man's whisper: "There he goes," was audible all over the lower floor. One or two people moaned slightly. But Just as the towhead of the red Irishman seemed dropping he rushed Willard with a fury that bewildered the giant, and Willard backed against the ropes, puzzled and angered. It waa at this point that the right hand of Moran could have earned him half a million dollars if it had been the right of the traditions and of the ex pectations. It caught Willard on the side of the jaw, but only a glancing "blow. Willard grinned serenely and ponderously as he moved to his cor ner. It was- Moran's last chance. It was his best rally, the last i wild at tempt to bring the prize which Moran has coveted all his life, but it was in effectual, it was hopeless. They may fight again, but thf re sult could hardly be different unless Willard could be stirred to a colossal pitch of wrath and fighting fury that seems impossible. The man seemed devoid of temper or pugnacity and his defenEe is as inpenetrable as the de fense of a grizzly bear. He strikes as cumbersomely,-but with some of the force of that animal. In a finish fight Moran would wear himself out trying to reach the giant. Finger Broken In Third. Willard seemed to be trying to im press this fact on Moran in the quiet moments of the bout. He would per mit the smaller man to place the left glove against his chin, then would jerk his head upward and grin while Moran missed the right swing which he had carefully timed and aimed. "I broke the index finger of my right hand. I broke this finger in the second round. That prevented me from finish ing Moran. The pain was intense when I tried to use my right. The injury came when I started a right which landed on Moran's elbow. So you see I was practically a one-handed fighte for the-rest of the bout. I could n't use my right, for the knockout. If c had been in shape, I would have fin ished "Moran early, perhaps In the iuuilh rouna. In his dressing-room after the fin-Tii Moran was still convinced that he car beat Willard. "Why, I think that I won the wiinn tonight. He never hurt me. realiv r,nr during the fight. The blow whic opened my eye was only a graze. I stung, but it did not really hurt me. That champion cannot hit. Over th. finish route there would be absolutely nothing to it. I can knock Willard out, and I'm going to keep after him until l get a chance to prove it in a lo -a-fight." Willard will Drobablv leav trrfni r . Chicago. FIGHT CLEAN', SAYS II. POLITZ Portland Man Says Willard CouH Have Scored Knockout. Herman 1 Politz. prominent lor V sportsman, who managed the El'.f baseball team three or four years ago, was a ringside spectator at the V 1-lard-Moran fight last night and tele graphed the Sporting Editor of The Oregonian immediately on the conclu sion of the contest. Read it for vour- self : New York. March 25. Knortlno- TT.lUrtr Oregonian, Portland, Or.: Willard cleanest flKhter ever seen. Could have knocked out Moran any time. Largest crowd that evr attended any Hunt. HERMAN POLITZ. FIGHT TIES UP PHONES THE OREGOMAX BUSINESS WAITS o.v sportixo XEwr;, First Reports of Hockey Game and WlIIard-Moran Clash Appear In porting Extra. There was perhaps more interest dis played locally in last night's bout at New Yor,k between Jess Willard and Prank Moran than in any pugilistic event since Jim Jeffries' defeat at the hands of Jack Johnson July 4, 1910. I he results by rounds were coming into The Oregonian office at 6:30 o'clock, Portland time, and from that time on until 10 o'clock it was impdssi ble to get outside communication over The Oregonian telephone switchboard. All other business over the telephone wires was practically forced to halt. All of this was caused by the many Inquiries which poured over the tele phone wires regarding both the big battle in New York and the world's championship hockey game in Mon treal, Canada. 'Willard wins on points, 10 rounds," was repeated by Miss Hazel Anderson, The Oregonian's telephone operator, be tween 46 and 49 times each minute for more than two hours, and when she was not making that reply she man aged to get in edgeways: "Canadiens 6, Uncle Sams 3." The first news of the fight appeared on the streets in The Oregonian s Sport Extra at 7:56 P. M., and every round in detail was heralded. The main event started in New York a few minutes before 10 o'clock, and 40 minutes later the 10th round had been shot over the Associated Press', only exclusive direct wire from the ringside. Less than 20 minutes after the fight had ended in Madison-Square Garden The Oregonian was on the street with the food for the fans. Great throngs filled the Waldorf and Columbia billiard parlors, where the results by rounds were flashed. Ap proximately 400 were at the Waldorf, with about the same number listening to the megaphone man at the Columbia. Every bulletin board in the city was keenly watched. There was very little betting on the result in Portland. Some of the foxy sportsmen were taking the short end on the blonde , Plttsburger, with the prevailing odds 2 to 1.- Practically all of the bets were to be decided on the Associated Press account of the battle. There are no decisions given in New York, and the sportsmen took the most reliable means of settling the question. GRIGGS UNDER FED COSTRACT Vernon Second Sacker Compromises That He May Be Free Agent. LOS ANGELES. Cal., March 25. (Spe cial.) Manager Patterson, of the Ver non club, said today that Griggs had a Fed contract calling for another year, but that he had compromised with the Wards on the condition that he be made a free agent. Baum will take up the question with the barons of the International- League. He failed to meet Maier up to late today. Don Rader and "Swede" Risberg have cinched the two utility berths of the Vernon club. Here is" the way the Tigers will line up: Spencer and Whaling, catchers; Gleichmann, first base; Griggs, second base; McGaftigan, shortstop: Bates, third base; Dadley, Ooane and Mattick, outfielders. Patterson led his tribe of pennant chasers through a strenuous workout today. From 11 o'clock until late in the afternoon the Bengals did nothing but work. Pat is elated over the condition of his club. He says that the players are in such good condition that he will give them a rest tomorrow. A n:ne-inning game was played this aft ernoon between the regulars and the irregulars. BLl'E MOCXTAIX CXVBS "CNITK Pendleton, "Weston, Echo and Pilot Hock in Baseball "League. PENDLETON. Or., March 25. (Spe cial.) Plans were formulated for a four-team Blue Mountain Baseball League composed of Pendleton, Weston, Echo and Pilot Rock. The season will start April 2 with the teams playing at Weston and Pendleton and is to last 12 weeks. The officers elected were: D. R. Wood, Weston, president,; Carl Gil bert, Echo. vice-president; Newton Roger, Pilot Rock, secretary; John Dickson, Pendleton, treasurer. Ventura Park Club Elect. A. C. Weinel. 10 East Seventy-second street, has been elected manager of the Ventura Park Cubs. E. W. Axson is treasurer. The nine wants games after May 1. Its schedule Is filled up until that time. The team is open to meet any club. For games address the manager at his home. CHAMPION FIGHT BY MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York. March 25. Following is the story of the Moran-Willard fight by rounds: Round One. Willard jabbed Moran in the face with a left and the latter retaliated with three blows to the body, which Willard blocked. Moran hooked a left to Willard's Jaw and took three left jabs to the face in return. Moran swung his rlgh(. and left, to Willard's neck and received a. hard right in the body. Moran missed a right and went into a clinch and Willard tore loose and landed a right and left to the head. Wiilard smashed him a terrific left in the face, dazing the challenger. Moran swung wildly with right and left, but Willard laughed as he blocked care fully. Willard's round. Round Tv4o- Willard took the aggressive. Moran came back, the pair exchanging blow for blow. Moran broke and backed away. Willard followed Moran slowly around the ring and drove a right hook to Moran's eye, and battered him in the body. Moran was helpless against Willard in clinches. The champion staggered Moran with a left to the face as the bell rang. Willard's round. Round Three. Willard smashed a right into Moran's body, doubling -Moran up. Moran's savage swings could not reach Wil lard's jaw. Willard jabbed Moran with his left almost at will.' Moran grew shaky under the punching. Willard duc-ked two right swings and laughed. Moran swung a left to the body as the bell rang. Moran's round. Round Four, Villard Jabbed Moran In the face with two lefts, uppercutting Moran In 'he body with a right and left. Moran hooked a left to the body and a left to Willard's Jaw. Willard kept jabbing Moran with his long left and Jarred him with a right to the Jaw. A terrifi left to Willard's body never jarred him. Willard split Moran's eye wide open with a right. Willard's round. Round Five. Willard batted Moran with right and left uppercuts to the Jaw, and the lat ter tried to penetrate Willard's guard with body blows. Moran rushed Wil lard to the ropes, but the latter closed Moran's left eye with his jabs. Moran kept backing away, Willard following, using his left steadily. Willard's round. Round Six. Willard tore into Moran, battering him with right and left. Moran smashed Willard with right and left to the jaw. Willard uppercut Moran and opened his eye again with a left Jab. Willard jarred Moran with a right to the Jaw, up l ry WWVJ " l . " r '(' V - - - " 'if - v y V. ? . i i is r " i y -, . ' " - ' ; : - I' ' ' I I - J x V , ' V- , PAST AND PRESENT PURSES AND GATE RECEIPTS OF BIG FIGHTS COMPARED. Pugilist's Purse or Principals Percentage. Gate Receipts. Johnson - Jeffries . . . . $121,000 $270,775 Willard - Moran 71,250 tl40.000 Johnson - Burns 35,000 97,000 Gans - Nelson 33,500 69,715 Willard - Johnson 35,000 JG8.000 Jeffries - Sharkey 36,465 66,300 Jeffries - Corbett 43.638 63,340 Corbett - McCoy 38,810 , 5,350 McGovern - Erne 26,000 52.000 Nelson - Britt. ' 31,402 48,311 Wolgast - Nelson 20,000 37,000 Gans - Britt 26.000 36,800 Fitzsimmons - Ruhlin 22.000 , 33,000 Nelson - Gans 22,000 32,000 Britt - Corbett 24.989 2,245 Jeffries - Ruhlin 19,250 30,800 Jeffries - Fitzsimmons 22.260 31.800 Britt - Nelson 16,000 28,849 Johnson - Ketchel 21.000 28,000 Nelson - Britt 15.273 27,770 Burns - Squires 13,000 25.600 Corbett - Sullivan 25.000 - Papke - Ketchel 17,000 22.400 Promoted by Tex Rickard. tEstimated. HEAVYWEIGHT, WHO RETAINS JESS WILLARD. ROUNDS percut him until he wavered on his feet. Moran was running away at the bell. - Willard's round. Round Seven. Willard started after Moran like a wild man tnd beat him all over the ring. Under the fusillade of blows Moran was helpless, clinging to Willard blindly as the blcod poured down his chest. Willard fought coolly, picking his openings. White warned Moran against fouling. Moran ewung- wildly and, catching Willard on the Jaw, dazed him for a moment. The pair were fighting like wild men at the bell. Willard's round. Round Eight. Willard kept Jabbing Moran in the face with his left and the latter was bleeding from a number of cuts. Moran swung two rights to Willard's jaw, and the champion appeared winded as he went to his corner. Honors even in this round. Round Mnf. Moran rushed from his corner, land ing right and left on Willard's neck. Willard used his left steadily. Moran scored two swings to the jaw and re peated. Willard jabbed again and hooked a right to Moran's ribs. A left uppercut lifted the challenger off his feet. Moran swung to the jaw and Willard uppercut. They were clinched at the bell. Even. - Round Ten, (Final round.) They shook hands. Willard used his lert jab almost ex clusively. Moran swung a. right to the Jaw and left to the boay. Willard bat tered Moran with rights and lefts, but the latter came back gamely. Willard uppercut Moran to the face and. body. Moran swung, right and left to the jaw and Willard retaliated. Willard batted Moran. Willard caught Moran in a clinch and on the break was uppercutting with rights and lefts as the bell rang, terminating the bout. Willard, according to his sec onds, broke his hand in the third round. Weather Handicaps Eugene Team. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, March 25. (Special.) With the close of today. there ended a week of inac tivity for the baseball squad, due to the inclement weather. The first game of the season is less than a week away. For the last few days Coach Bezdek has been giving the men chalk-board talks on .inside baseball 'and having the men warm, up in the gymnasium, but condition is being' lost rapidly. New 100-Yard Swim Record Made. NEW YORK. March 25. Hal Voll mer, of Columbia University, made a new record In the 100-yard swim to night at the intercollegiate individual championships here. His time, 57 3-5 seconds, was three-fifths of a second faster than his record of a year ago. 4 HIS TITLE. pyrlght by Underwood & Underwood. FANS CIRCLE GARDE Police iq Great Force Keep Cordon Around Fight. PANIC IS JUST AVERTED Speculators Heap Harvest From Lato Arrivals Men and 'Women in Stylish Garb Forced to Take Turn in Line With Others. NEW YORK, March 25. Thousands of fight-hungry men and women surged around Madison-Square Garden tonight, enviously craning their necks to watch the fraction of their number who were permitted to enter the historic build ing. An impenetrable cordon of police, mounted and on foot, had been thrown around the garden hours before, and only those who could show tickets were permitted to pass. Those who held the magic pasteboards were formed into what seemed endless lines, stretching back from the entrances. Panic Narrowly Averted. When the doors were thrown open, three-quarters of an hour after the ex pected time, the great throng almost automatically moved forward. It looked for a few minutes as if a panic would result, as hundreds tried to force their way in at the same time. It was a good-natured multitude, however, and the police soon restored order. Hundreds of stylishly-gowned women and men in evening dress who arrived in automobiles were forced to leave their cars some distance from the gar den. After struggling through the packed streets, they had to form In line with the other ticket-holders. Speculators Reap Harvest. Speculators reaped a golden harvest. None of them appeared on the streets, but almost every store in the neigh borhood held its quota of men who seemed to have plenty of tickets to sell at two or three times their face value. Even at the higher prices they found eager purchasers. Gustos of applause far back from the garden heralded the arrival of Willard, the champion. The cheers became a sustained roar as the police cleared a path for his automobile through the densely packed streets. His great height made him a conspicuous figure and identified him -to those who never had seen him before, A few moments larer Moran's car ap peared and he, too, received generous applause. Coast League Notes THE ownership of E. E. ("Lefty") Owen, young southpaw who started his baseball career three years ago at Hughson, a small community Just about ten miles out of Modesto, is still the bone of contention between Portland and Salt Lake. Bill O'Connor, business manager of the Bees, is in San Francisco, hot after President Baum for a final ruling. "Personally," argued Blankenship the other day, "I don't See how Portland can claim title to this pitcher. The only thing he did was to send a letter to McCredie in which he expressed the view that a young pitcher ought to get at least f.180 per month on the coast. "I don't consider that as making his terms- and the fact McCredie sent him hi3 contract based on the sum men tioned doesn't make it bindng. I would like to hold the boy as I consider him a good prospect, but I don't want to take him back with me to Salt Lake unless we can derive some benefits. So, O'Connor will have a personal talk with Baum and find out just where we stand." Owen accepted terms with the Mc Credies last Fall as announced in The Oregonian, exclusively, a few days ago. Blankenship has about as much chance of getting his services as a poodle dog has of out-chawing a wildcat. How ever, it was nice of Clifford to get the boy in shape free of charge to Boss Walter. Another season and the Salt Lakers are going to protest vigorously against so short a trainng season as three weeks. If the time can't be moved back a week or so. Salt Lake will ask for special privileges, on the ground that it is necessary to take the team home a week in advance to accustom the, men to the high altitude and ground conditions. The Recruit. We laugh about the biff recruit. Each Spring, the teams go 'way. Because his clothes don't fit him and He's somewhat of a jay; We Jeer about his love affair. We scoff at his cravat. We kid about the folks at home And eay his head Is fat. And when at last he gets sent In To make a hit, we all Lie back and roar and hold our sides To see him miss the ball; Or If he tries to pitch a game And fails to find the pan, We say he's got a yellow streak And roast him to a man. And when they send him home again Because he wouldn't do We never pause to think that he May feel a little blue. There has been considerable rainy weather at Lake Elsinore, Cal., lately; in fact, so rainy that the Los Angeles ballplayers could do nothing but shoot ducks, and the game warden will not allow them to do that. The other day it was raining and Catcher Clarence Brooks was so disappointed over the action of the game warden that he went out into the back yard of he hotel and fired a volley into a flock of domesticated ducks Just to relieve his feelings. A working agreement has been hatched up between the Vernon Tigers and the Vancouver club, of the North western League, whereby the surplus Vernon material can be sent to the Canadian town. Rain has prevented the Vernon Tigers from practicing so frequently of late that Manager "Pa" Patterson has threatened to obtain the Armory at Los Angeles to be used in case of a pinch. The time is drawing too close to opening day for any loafing on the Job. Spot McMurdo, manager of the Hay- den ball team of the Arizona Copper League, hit Los Angeles the other day in search of several ballplayers. None of the Tigers seem to want to go. LEAGUE SCHEDULE SET COMMERCIAL. BALL. TEAM MANA GERS TO MEET TOMORROW. Games Will Be Held Only on Saturday Afternoons and Will Begin on April 8. There will be a meeting of the man agers of the teams in the Commercial Baseball League tomorrow night at 6:30. The meeting will be held in con junction with a dinner at 226 Pine street. Following Is the schedule of the league, which will play Saturday after noon ball only, starting April 8: North western Electric Company vs. Crane Company; M. Seller & Co. vs. Wadhams & Co.; Lang & Co. vs. Blake. McFall Company; Fleischner, Mayer & Co. vs. Blumauer-Frank Company. April 15 Blake vs. Fleischner, Lang vs. Blumauer, Seller vs. Northwestern, Wadhams vs. Crane. April 22 Wadhams vs. Northwestern, Fleischner vs. Lang, Blake vs. Blu mauer, Seller vs. Crane. April 29 Lang vs. Crane, Wadhams vs. Fleischner, Northwestern vs. Blake, Selle' vs Blumauer. Mav -Jtller vs. Fleischner. Blake vs. Crane. Wadhams vs. Blumauer. Lang vs. Northwestern. May 13 Seller vs, Lang, Northwest ern vs. Blumauer, Fleischner vs. Crane, Wadhams vs. Blake. May 20 Crane vs. Blumauer, Blake vs. Seller, Lang vs. Wadhams, Fleisch ner vs. Northwestern. May 27 Blumauer vs. Fleischner, Blake vs. Lang, Crane vs. Northwest ern, Seller vs. Wadhams. June 3 Crane vs. Wadhams, North western vs. Seller, Blake vs. Fleisch ner, Blumauer vs. Lang. June 10 Crane vs. Seller, Blumauer vs. Blake, Northwestern vs. Wadhams, Lang vs. Fleischner. June 17 Blumauer vs. Seller, Blake vs. Northwestern, Crane vs. Lang, Fleischner vs. Wadhajs. June 2i Northwestern vs. Lang, Blu mauer vs. Wadhams. Fleischner vs. Seller. Crane vs. Blake. jujy i Blake vs. Wadhams, Crane vs. Fleischner, Lang vs. Seller, Blu mauer vs. Northwestern. July 8 Northwestern vs. Fleischner, Wadhams vs. Lang, Blumauer vs. Crane, Seller vs. Blake. hageiiIellsTf win DEFEAT OK M'CARROL, IS IiAIJD TO BETTER GENERALSHIP. Seattle Boy "Want to Meet Sommers, Murray, Trambitas or Egan at Any Time. Romeo Hagen, the Seattle baker boy who boxed Earl Miebus at the Rose City Athletic Club a while back, writes a letter to the sporting editor of The Oregonian which friends of the eccen tric Seattleite will appreciate. Hagen knocked out Ray McCarroll, of Dillon, Mont., Thursday night at Pendleton. Read the letter for yourself: Pendleton, Or., March 24, 1916. Sport ing Editor, The Oregonian, Portland, Or. Dear Sir: Well, I won last night. This McCarroll is a good boy. He has fought Leo Benz to a standstill, but I tell you I was in shape last night the best shape that I have been in for the last four years. I wish that.it had been a 20-round go and that it had been with either McFarland or Gibbons. I know they would have about Jabbed my head off for a few rounds, but I would have got to them sooner or later. If I be have myself I can stand up to any of them, but I found out that they all go to the bad unless they take care of themselves. .... I know they all go if they get hit. I only wished that I had been box ing Billy Murray, Sommers or Tram bitas last night. The way I felt I am as sure as I am sitting here writing this letter I could have beat them. They got me down to Salem and had me fight Sommers a no-decision bout, and Evans was the manager of Sommers and the promoter. He wa3 lucky to get a draw, but after the match he sends telegrams all over the country that Sommers had the best of me. You see his game, he wanted to make Sommers a good card. They will find Sommers out before long. When I was in my dressing-room last night I knew I was going to win. I could feel it. He pretty near had me in the first round, and the crowd was hollering to him to put me out. I settled down to business and out figured him and put him out cold for more than an hour. I want you to nv t"his for me: Sommers can't lir-k one side of me. I will fight Sommers. I Murray, rramoitas, this Egan, from "torn I way. I tiveretl. any nine, uny place, any wi . . Signed). fiOilEO HAGEN, WILLARD.WITHHAND BROKEN, WlilS FIGHT Champion Uses Left After In jury in Third Round to Check Moran's Advances. VERDICT IS UNANIMOUS Tex Rickard and His Partner in En terprise Keallze $50,000 Profit on Bout Experts Win toy Moran's Gameness. NEW YORK, March 23. Jess Willard, heavyweight champion of the world, easily outpointed Frank Moran in a 10 round bout here tonight. Willard had, the better of points in every round ex cept the third, which went to Moran by a narrow margin, and the eighth and ninth, which were even; The conqueror of Jack Johnson de- clared he had broken all the bones in the back of his rig-ht hand during a slashing rally in the third round, and It was noticeable that he slid not use his right to any extent m the later rounds. Occasionally he uppercutted, Moran's body and jaw with that hand, but it lacked the punishing power shown In his training work. The chief feature of Moran's battle was his gameness. Although he could make no impression on Willard with, his hardest swings, he fought steadily and courageously under a hail of left Jabs and hooks whioh battered his face and almost closed his left eye toward the end of the bout. Several times Moran was dazed by the champion's smashes, but Willard. fighting with his usual lack of aggressiveness, did not appear to try particularly for a knock out. White Declares Bout Clean. Referee Charley White said after the. bout that it was one of the cleanest at which he ever officiated, and that he had to caution the boxers only once. Moran opened hostilities with a light left to the head, then tried a left to the body, which was blocked. Willard kept jabbing with his long right. Moran. boring in, swung an overhand left high on the head and then was driven back by several left jabs and a short right hook to the ear. Willard held him off with another straight left and upper cut with his right. The champion was cool and grinned at Moran's futile at tempts to reach his jaw. Moran worked industriously in tha second session, boring in and trying to land overhand swings, either right or left, while the big fellow Jabbed him hard and hooked a short right to the head. Moran found great difficulty in reaching the champion, but was per sistent, taking several stiff lefts in the face, one of which cut his right eye. Moran Takes Third Round. The third and only round In which Moran had the advantage opened with the Pittsburger landing a hard left on the body. Willard sent his right with full force to Moran's ribs and put a. straight left on the latter's nose. Frank rushed in again with three swings, landing his right three times overhand on the head, but he did not seem to be hurting the cowboy. Moran then swung his right to the body. and. rush ing in again with his head down, swung his left to the head, following with a right to the other side of the head. This was Moran's best round, and af ter the bout was over his advantage was explained by Willard's manager, who declared that the champion had broken some bones in his right hand during this round. Willard used his right occasionally, but not forcibly, during the next three rounds. Moran RailieM in Seventh. In the seventh, after Willard had in flicted a good deal of punishment on the challenger, Moran in a wonderful rally landed his left and four rights in suc cession on Willard's head and forced the champion to the ropes at the bell. Moran's face was covered with blood from his eye and nose in the eighth round, but he withstood several hard Jabs and doggedy kept on boring in on Willard. Moran persistently rushed in the ninth, but several of his swings were blocked. Jess kept jabbing with his left, but Moran tore in with a. swinging right to the body and swung with his left to the head. Then Willard Jabbed him at will, but Frank rushed again and landed two right swings before he was met with a right uppercut which forced him against the ropes, from which he sprang with a high right swing on the head, finishing the round, the honors of which again were even. In the final session the champion kept working left Jabs to the face, planting six of these without a return, although Moran was trying hard to land an overhand blow. Willard blocked another rush' and jolted with right and left as Moran bored in. At. close quarters Willard sent-a hard right to the wind and two short lefts and two rights to the head. Before the round ended he planted a half-dozen short-arm blows on Moran's face. Experts Unanimous In Decision. The awarding of the bout to Wil lard on points was virtually unanimous among the experts about the ringside, although all gave Moran credit for his gameness and continual efforts to land a punch that would bring down his gigantic opponent. Among the papers whose representa tives gave Willard the bout .on points were the following: New York Herald, Times, Tribune. World. Sun. American, Press, Evening Telegram, Evening Mail. Evening Jour nal, Telegraph and Philadelphia En quirer. Promoter Tex Rickard announced that the gate receipts amounted to $151,254. Of this amount the state re ceived 7Vi per cent of the gross re ceipts, which amounted to $11,344.05. Willard's share was J 17,500, and Moran's $23,750. Tex Rickard and his partner in the enterprise, Sam McCracken, will clear close to $50,000 profit on the bout. Dr. Lewis Morris, who attended the champion at his hotel, said that Wil lard had suffered a slight fracture of the joint at the Index finger of his right hand early in the fight. He added, however, that the big fellow otherwise was in good condition, and that the Injury to the finger would not trouble him more than a day or two. Waverley Club to Hold Tourney. The first golf tournament of the Waverley Country Club for the 1916 season will be held next Saturday on the club's links. This is the first of a series of five tourneys arranged for April by Harry Davis, chairman of the handicap committee. Saturday's com petition will be known as a kicker's tournament. Clielialis Quint 1Yins Six Out of Ten. CENTRAL1A, Wash., March 25. (Spe cial.) WinninK six out of ten games. the Winloek H.irh School Sasketball team has cloued its 11'IS season. The quintet started ifcj season with, only;