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Los Angeles Record
21st Year. WED. DEC. 1, 1915. No. 6485
2,000 HISS J. WILLARD.
CHAMPION DRIVEN FROM THEATER BY HOOTS AND CALLS
Boxing has been given its worst black eye here to-day by none other than Jess Willard, heavy-weight champion who was so badly worsted to a wordy clash with Harry Houdini, a performer at the Orpheum Theater, last night, that the audience hissed him from the house.
Nearly 2,000 persons were present at the dramatic scene and seemed unanimous in groaning, hooting and booing Willard.
The trouble was precipitated by Willard's gruff refusal to comply with a friendly request made by Houdini that he act on a committee to watch the performer's act from the stage.