d not get any blows|
|to Willard's face. |
| |
| =Second Round= |
| |
|Willard met Moran three-quarters of the way over the|
|ring and they clinched. Moran landed a left to |
|Willard's head after they broke and then they milled|
|in the center of the ring, neither doing any |
|particular damage. They were chary of doing work for|
|the next several seconds, Willard waiting to have |
|Moran lead. Willard pushed aside Moran's guard and |
|led with a left to the head which was blocked. |
|Willard forced Moran around the ring and battered |
|him on the head with rights and lefts. The |
|challenger was almost pushed through the ropes. |
|Moran missed a left lead that was blocked by |
|Willard. Moran feinted and made a wild hay-making |
|swing that missed. He then struck one blow to |
|Willard's chest that had little force behind it. |
|Moran led with his left and reached Willard's |
|stomach, but the champion did not mind the blow |
|seriously. Two right swings by Moran pounded on |
|Willard's shoulders and the champion retaliated with|
|a light left jab to the face. Both were perspiring |
|from the intense heat of the big arc lights. Willard|
|seemed to toy with Moran in this round, not exerting|
|himself to take the aggressive....[32] |

[32] _New York Times_, March 26, 1916.

=245. The Unwholesome in Boxing Matches.=--One caution should be given
in writing about boxing contests,--the need of presenting the wholesome
rather than the unwholesome side. A report of a bout may be written in
such a way as to appeal to the barbaric nature of one's readers, to make
them revel in the mere drawing of blood rather than in the skill, the
dexterity, the generalship of the contestants. The difference is in the
reporter's point of view and depends not so much upon accuracy of
presentation as upon his purpose to choose those wholesome details that
have been successful in retaining pugilism as an American sport despite
its many undoubted accompanying evils. In the following extract, for
instance, the appeal is unhealthful; it savors rather of the Spanish
bull-ring than of