Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1914 — JESS WILLARD AFTER SMITH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JESS WILLARD AFTER SMITH

Efforts Being Made to Arrange Match With Gunboat Figher to Settle Heavyweight Title. It is a hard matter to dig up a white hope who is worth while. Jess Willard and Gunboat Smith are the two leading candidates for the championship in this class, but neither stands very high -in the estimation of the fight fans. Willard has recently beaten Carl Morris and One Round Davis, but did not show anything startling. His bout with Morris was a very tame affair. A match between Willard and

Smith will be pulled off, in all probability, before long and this may settle the question of supremacy- They met once before, but the battle was a very ' unsatisfactory one. Willard towers up into the air for something like Bix feet and. a half and if size and strength count for anything should be able to take down the championship without any trouble.

Jest Willard.