Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1925, Page 31

THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, '1925. SPORTS. Harris Awed When Given First Big League Chance : Leonard Retires From Ring JRIED OUT BY TIGERS, BUT FAILED TO STICK Bucky, Released by Manager Jen- nings as “Too Small,” Went Home With Heavy Heart. Chapter XII—A Big League Call. BY STANLEY (BUCKY) HARRIS. HE adverse report to Jennings d club, Attorney A. T. Walsh, nc Burk of Pittston were friends a great interest in had informed him too lawyer pointed out that I would shortstop, was no giant He argued a winnin snowy Sur early to the Tigers in Waxahachie, Tex, i the telegram before I could believe he arrange for my transportat as surprised and de- Together we gat out locate Waxahachie on asured t dis teton to the training camp by the scale and fo d 1 would | e to travel re than 1,000 iles other broke as if | future. \ I was all g case. Hea March r was ed as I atlas to te wn. She wept 1 break. 1 ha than S Waxah, ver | of the family leaves home lize vou are up ve us. ‘It seems as ¢ to the end of the wo ed me, too. I ht. When I Xt morning, word wmy | ad pre- 1 finished the superin- grown sleep a reached slecpy oppart ceded me, early the day's work tendent I would He knew the reas me the best of luc job wasn't a | hard one to fil | 1 Get » Good-Bye Party. as it was The next few days I busy mak- Ing plans to leav n. Most of the time was devoted to studying the route over and over. I was sure I would miss a connection and get on the wrong train somewhere in the long ride. The boys with whom I played basket ball gave me a fare- well party and predicted I'd soon have Donje Bush's job. They were kind friends When the train pulled out and I waved good-bye to mother and a| small group of friends I was a rather panic-stricken youngster. Never be- fore had I been on a Pullman. It didn't seem possible that I could sleep in a narrow berth. We had big feather beds at home. 1 don't sup- pose I slept five hours all the way from Pittston to Waxahachle. The long journey at last came to a welcome end. I took my shiny imi- tation leather suitcase and walked | to the hotel. 1 rather expected Hughey Jennings would welcome me. Such is the importance of youth. He was In bed at the time, nursing an injury received in teaching recruits how to slide. I reported to Jimmy Burke, the Detrolt coach. He hustle me into a uniform for fielding prac- tice. Attracts Little Attention. © Little attention was paid to me. I was a stringy kid, welghing a bare 115 pounds. Few less likely looking | prospecs ever have reported at a big league training camp. No wonder 1 was ignored. The veterans didn't| even bother trying to play pranks on | me. I was green enough for the| cows to eat and would have made a | fine subject for any of the time-worn Jests practiced on rookies. Burke started by putting me on third base and smashing grounders and line drives in my direction. I had never had balls hit so hard at me. I couldn't get down on them fast enough and my arm didn’t seem strong enough to whip the ball across to first. It was a discouraging debut. Jennings, probably because of his old friendship with my father, paid more attention to me than I reaily de- served. He put me in at third base for the second team in my first prac- tice game March 17. I batted against Lowdermilk and didn't get anything | sembling a hit. The ball had too much smoke for me. | When time came to break camp I| Was sent on a barnstorming trip with the Yannigans as their third base- man. Jimmy Burke acted as our man- ager. Harry Hellmann, who had been sent to the minors after a trial with the Tigers two years previous, was back again. He played first ba for the Yannigans and has been n' Detroit regular ever since. Oscar Vitt went along as a second base- man. He had a sore arm and| couldn’t throw from third to first.| He traveled with us to fill the club. Frank Fuller and George Maisel were our other inflelders. George Harper and a couple of pitchers made up| the outfield. | Bucky Gets the Gate, I managed to hit fairly well on the | trip, but couldn’t fleld a ljck. When | Wwe _met Jennings and the regulars | fn Kansas City I knew I had failed to make good. “You're too small, Stanley,” the Detroit manager told me. “I'm sorry. Go home and I'll try to land you with some minor league club. Don't get discouraged. Youre only a kid. When you get heavier you'll have another chance. Take good care of yourself and build your body up.” Then he gave me a grandstand seat for the opening game in Chicago. That was my first big league game. Idi'n't enjoy it much. My thoughts were wrapped up in the plavers on the hench. My hopes of making good in the big leagues were rudely jolted when I watched two real, finished ¢lubs play. That night I took a train for Pittston. 1 felt my base ball garcer was at an end. I had been tried and found wanting. i (Copy 1925.) | Womorrow—“A Job at Last.” PERRY COMING BACK? CHICAGO, January 16.—Scott Perry, ormer pitcher of the Philadelphia mericans, has filed application with ommissioner Landis for reinstate- ent in organized base ball. Perry, ho came to the Athletics in June, 918, was suspended in June, 1921, Fause he left the club without per- ssion and played outlaw ball. The old National Commission reinstated Perry when he “Jumped” the Ath- letics In 1919. I OLD RIVALS TO CLASH. LEXINGTON, Va., January 16— ‘With two preliminary games out of the way V. M. I basket ball team Is Drepared to meet its first conference opponent here Saturday night, when the Cadets will entertain Virginla Poly. Last year V. M. L took both sames from thelr old rivals, but Tech is reperted to have a much stronger quint this season. tan't | ) lin | oot idn’t deprive me of a tryout with his » relation to Tony, and Dr. Joseph P. of the Detroit manager. Both took hen Jennings told Mr. Walsh his scout ever to succeed in the majors, the crow and that Donie Bush, the Detroit nd Dr. Burk came to my house on 3 h the gaod news that I was to report mmediately. They had .ta show me ch welcome tidings. Mr. Walsh said BAN DENIES URGING FEDERAL CONTROL Associated Press. CAGO, January 16 —President Johnson f American League responsibility for publisheg favored govern e ball. and sa; indorsed such CE Ban a wavement YORK, January owner of the has expressed dis plan to put base ent control, as Indi- E iton being clrculated n A. Heydler, president of National League said he must find out one thing” before comment- ng on the petition. He refused to Plain the “one thinz." Hevdler ndicated that he had little sympathy with the proposition. The proposal to pay salaries in ac- cordance with yeurs of service drew ridicule from base ball men, for un- der this plan Bob Shawkey, Yankee pitcher, would recelve more money than Babe Ruth President William F. Baker of the Philadelphia Nationals and Connie Mack, manager and part owner of the Philadelphia American League team, also oppose the proposition. “] fail to see where any move in the direction of Government control would benefit the sport,” Mack said. President Baker said the proposal ap- peared “foolish and asinine.” NEW J R: the | National | plavers 16.—Col. | 100 GAMES IS LIMIT FOR COBB THIS YEAR By the Associated Press. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, manager of the Detroit Americans, stopped in Atlanta today long enough to reaf- firm his declaration of a partial re- tirement from active play. He was en route to his Augusta home from & quail-hunting expedition in Arkan- sas. He will continue to play enough to be classed as a playing manager, but 100 games is the limit he has set for 1925. Admitting he still can hit a little, he said his eves are older than they were, With the same true of his legs. Benches In. the major league flelds are comfortable enough for a third of the campaign if he can take a more active part in the other two- thirds, he declared. Even without him as an active par- ticipant In all games he figured his Tygers very much in the running. John A. Heydler, president of the League, is opposed to the practice of the major league teams taking regular league umpires south with them during the tralning sea- son, due to the danger of too greay intimacy between the officials and During the regular play- ing season umpires are forbidden to stop at the same hotel with the play. ers. The National League head, how- | ever, has not actyally forbidden this practice. MANAGER TRIS SPEAKER MARRIES IN CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, Jgnuary 16—’ Speaker, manager of the Clevel and Miss Mary Frances v were married here late yes- The marriage was the cul- mination of a romance which had its inception in the Fall of 1919, The couple left immediately after the ceremony for Washington, from where they will go to Lakeland, Fla., the Indians' training camp, for briet stay. WESTERN POLOISTS TO CLASH IN FINAL CHICAGO, January 16—Western teams will decide the national indoor polo champlonship. The last Eastern teams were elimi- nated yesterday, when Chicago and Cincinnati, respectively, overcame New York, 13% to 10, and Brooklyn, 17 to 101 The players rested today for the final tomorrow night at the Chicage Riding Club. Consolation matches tomarrow will bring together Philadelphia and New- ark, Detroit and Cleveland and New York and Brooklyn. MUNN’S WIFE MADE HIM USE PLAY AS A BUSINESS By the Associated Press. C HICAGO, January 16.—An indomitable preference for play over business and the sanctioning of his four-foot-two-inch wife led Wayne (“Big”) Munn to thrust his eighth of a ton of massiveness into professional competition and wrestle his way to a world champion- ship after 30 mat contests. The conqueror of Ed (“Strangler”) Lewis today told of his meta- morphosis from a Sioux City, Iowa, oil salesman to professional pugilist and then champion wrestler. INDOOR POLO PLAY BECOMING POPULAR Indoor polo teams representing not clubs, but the cities of Chicago. Cleveland, Cincinnat!, Detroit, New vork, Brooklyn, Philadelphla and ewark, are now involved in a four- day tournament at the new Chicago Riding Club. Teams were formed only after a thorough tryout of the candidates for places. In New York 16 high handicap players were candidates for Gotham's team. Cincinnati is represented by two Regular Army officers and one civilian, while Chicago's outfit ia made up of Army officers. But on form New York or Brooklyn should win the tourney. Indoor polo continues to grow. There is no doubt that in time it will be played in every city in the coun- try that has a riding ring of any size, or a cavalry armory. It serves with the game of squash to provide a sport that can be played indoors in the closed season; it is better than squash, because it is a team game. It is always possible to get up a scratch match at any club that goes for the game, and because of the fewer and shorter periods several matches may be played in the course of an evening or afternoon. Moreover, the game s not a dan- gerous one, nor in any remote way as hazardous as the outdoor game. The footing of tanbark never becomes cuppy or otherwise precarious and thus falls are minimized. The ball, which is 4 inches in diameter and bears some resemblance to a soccer ball, s not at all a perilous missile as’ it flies through the afr. Great skill may be developed in the short turns that are necessary and in the quick, sharp passing and playing of angles. In fact, Indoor polo is so definitely a sport with qualities and characteristics all Its own that the great outdoor players do not show up very well in com- parison with the leading indoor experts. In 1919, after Munn returned from miltary service, he embarked in the busidess of representing an ol refin- ing company, but the desire for play, Instead of grinding his nose on the business stone, was too great. In his University of Nebraska days he had revelled in playing foot ball, basket ball and track and field sports and was “plumb daffy,” as he express- ed it, about wrestling. “That's where my wife comes in,” Munn sald. “She coumseled in this way: ‘Well, If you like athletics bet- ter than you do business, get your- self a job in athletics. You can't do both—play when you are supposed to work." “What she advised was the truth. Whenever there was a basket ball game or a foot ball game anywhere near Sloux City I was off to com- pete, instead of attending to business. Finally, taking her advice, I quit buasiness and went in for athletics.” Munn refused to admit it was his wife who advised him to take up a career as a boxer. The records say Munn, in the ringsiders' language, was a “flop” as a fighter. In his very first professional engagement he was knocked out by a third-rater. When hia dizgzy brain ceased swim- ming Munn automatically decided fighting was no business for him. Wrestling has not been financially remunerative and Munn is starting his championship reign “flat broke. The wrestling king put it this way: “I never felt better, but I never had less. After taking up proiassional wrestUng he was a preliminary per- former until his big shot came when he engaged Lewis In Kansas City. The gate nearly hit the $40,000 mark, but Munn's share, after paying train- ing expenses, wrestling partners, splitting with his manager and what not, was reduced to a small roll with no ‘crinkling fifties or hundreds in the middle, WINS DOG CLASSIC. GRAND JUNCTION, Tenn., January 16.—Seaview Rex, sterling voung pointer owned by Dr. O. D. Stickney of Atlantic City, N. J., won the all-age stake of the United States fleld trial THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, ) President, Izaak Walton League of Americe. A RE the elk of Jackson Hole, Wyo, worth saving? The sportsmen of America evidently think they are. A campaign to raise funds to purchase additional hay lands in the famous valley instituted by Outdoor America, under the direction of the Izaak Walton League, has met with National response. Jackson Hole is simply ‘a river val- ley lying between mountain ranges south of Yellowstone Park. On either side’ of the river itself, or rather of the Immediate valley of the river, foothills and ridges rise in succeed- ing “layers” until they develop Into real mountains. These ridges, usual- ly swept bare 6f snow in the early Winter by the winds, provide good teed. But these are used by cattle, and heavy snows bury them, and the elk, along in February and March, have to g0 down In the valley of the Snake River. Now this river is flanked by meadows, where the wild hay grows in rank profusion. For centuries the elk have gone down out of the hills in Midwinter to feed there. But the ranchers have fenced off and cut most of this hay, < and there is little left for the elk. The Biological Survey has reserved a certaln portion of these hay mead- ows, and each year it cuts the hay and stores it until the elk come down. Then the Government men feed the elk, But the amount of hay they have {s not nearly enough for all of the elk. The result is that by Spring the herds have been cut down ter- ribly by starvation. It is the plan of the Izaak Walton League to purchase from tHe ranch- ers additional hay grounds to hé added to those now used by the Gov- ernment, so that the entire herd of elk can be kept from starvation each Winter, The result of the campaign, which has been running less than a month, indicates that publio subscription soon will save the elk of Jackson Hele, al With the Sporting Edit i a real champion, after all. This is indicated, at least, by the for a tour in vaudeville at $2,500 a week. their titles without risking them. elevating the stage as long as the curious public can be induced to pay a comfortably high level he will first confine his activities to the tank than most of the pachyderms he will encounter. sians, Gigantic Greeks and Tubby Teutons. If Munn proves as success- BY DENMAN THOMPSON. WAYNE MUNN, most recently crowned king of wrestlers, may be fact that just a few days after heaving Ed Lewis out of a ring and into 3 Kansas City hospital the new monarch of the mat signed up By contracting to appear before the footlights the mastodonic Munn is merely following the usual program for champions of capitalizing If the former Nebraska varsity foot ball star adheres strictly to the course now expected of most all titleholders he will confine himself to good money for a squint at him. When he finally does have to resume “fass'in” to keep his income at towns, where he will flop the pork and bean boys and perhaps set new records in tossing for distance, Lewis having been considerably heavier After the sticks have been thoroughly raked the larger centers will be visited for matches against a variety of Terrible Turks, Ruthless Rus- ful in sidestepping dangerous opponents and ignoring “outsiders” as his predecessor he should keep his mint in operation for five or six years. However, this may not be the program for Munn, Quoting no less an authority than Old Farmer Burns, there are at least 50 men in the United States that he can name who can throw “Big” Muan hout any trouble. CCORDING to sportsmen in Omaha, where Burns lives and where Munn frequently has appeared, a grappler named Charley Hansen, whose fame never has spread beyond the corn belt, can throw Lewis and Munn in the same ring in the same evening. One Omaha pro- moter already has posted $1,000 forfeit for a match between Hansen and Munn on a winner-take-all basis and with half the purse going to charity if the challenger wins, which offer, of course, will be completely ignored. If the grappling game were one that merited the unwavering confi- dence of the sporting world there would be sufficient cause for universal chortles of glee over the dethroning of a champion such as Lewis has been, but as it is the news of Munn's spectacular victory last week has caused merely an epidemic of elevated eyebrows. : : It is pointed out by those familiar with conditions in the Middle West, where the bugs still cheerfully pay real money to see the matmen tug, pull and make faces, that Munn’s manager is Gabe Kauiman, who always has been regarded as a close business associate of ‘Bnly Sandow, Lewis’ booking agent. Sandow makes his home in Kansas City, where last week’s “big upset” in wrestling took place, and Kaufman is the only promoter of professional sports in that municipality who can engage, for wrestling, Convention Hall, the most desirable place to operate. Mebbe Munn will be unable to hold his title. Mebbe, after crushing a few challengers, the big boy will be mo'iuced to give Lewis a return match, and the “Strangler” will win his crown back again. UT there is no way of accurately forecasting what the future may B unfold, regardless of plans or agreements, as witness the wail ofljoe Stecher of Dodge, Nebr,, one of the numerous world heavyweight wrestling “champions™ of recent years. Stecher, whose “body-scissors” hold gained world-wide fame, just couldn’t keep silent after hearing that Munn had copped Lewis’ title and opened fire on the “wrestling trust,” either unmindful or not caring that his shots were boomerangs. Stecher is said to have declared that while he was the titleholder he “laid down” at the request of the “trust” when he lost his crown to Stanislaus Zbyszko, agreeing to this arrangement only when promised a return go with the giant Pole within three months, and that he was forced to deposit $10,000 forfeit money so he would not back out. “After 1 lost _the title Zbyszko refused to give me a return match and signed with ‘Strangler’ Lewis,” Stecher is quoted. “When I protested ‘the trust’ told me that after Lewis took the title away from Zbyszko 3 would get the first chance at Lewis and would be permitted to win it back. This was two years ago, and Lewis still refuses to meet me. T am through with ‘the trust' and will bet $25000 that I can throw Lewis, Zbyszko or Wayne Munn.” Boy, turn on the fan. BY WILLIE HOPPE ‘World Champion at 18.2 Balkline and Greatest Billiard Player of All Time HERE are various thrills in sport. There is the keenly pleasant sort that comes when you snatch victory from the slavering jaws of de- feat, and there is the heart-numbing kind that stabs when your opponent unexpectedly turns the trick on you. 1 have been rather fortunate in that most of my § thrills have been pleasant. In 20 years of competi- E. T. APPLEBY FIRST IN BILLIARD RANKING NEW YORK, January 16.—Edgar T. Appleby of the New York Athletic Club heads the triple class ranking at 18.2 balkline in the annual rating of the National Association of Amateur Billlard Players. Edgar Appleby, the older of the brothers, is now the holder of the international, natiopal and eastern class A championship titles. He held these honors in 1922 only to be de- posed by Percy N. Collins of the Iili- nois Athletic Club, Chicago, in the national class A of 1923, and by his younger brother, Francis S., in the Eastern champlonship of the same year. Collins, who was No. 1 a year ago, drops to fourth place. Joseph R. Johann, the national class B champion, heads his division with J. E. Druckenmiller of the Union League Club, Philadely hia, who was runner-up for the laurels, at No. 2. James A. Murphy, winner of the New England class A, Boston, is No 7 in this division. George H. Crooks- ton of Pittsburgh is No. 4. Ferdinand A. Unger of Verona, N. J., heads the class C group because of his regain- ing the national Class C crown. The first 12 in class A follows: 1—Edgar T. Appleby, New Yorl —John A. Clinton, jr., Pittsburgh. H \ ¢ £ New York. n Dr. Richard tobert Campbell, Chicugo. o—Roy Fesscuden, Chicago. 10—Robert M. Lord, Chicago. 11 —Jucob Klinger, New York 12—Julisn Rice, New York U. OF M. RIFLE TEAM EASILY WINS MATCH COLL PARK, Md., January 16.—Riflemen of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps of the University of Maryland scored an easy victory over ¢ R. O. T. C. of Northwestern, 3,446 to 3,257, in a telegraphic match Topping the old Line shots was Ninas, former Washington Central | High star, who got 367, Sergt. Willlam H: McManus, war- rant officer, U. S. A, is tutoring the College Park rifiemen Scores made by the Marylanders were: Sfelchoir ... Togers Lyons Totals ....734 WILLS’ INJIIE.ED HANDS PREVENT HIS FIGHTING NEW YORK, January 16.-—Harry Wills' brittle hands, which handicap- ped a good share of his fistic program last year, again stand in the way of the big negro's ring activity. He has turned down an offer to fight Quintin Romero, Chilean heavy- welght, at Madison Square Garden, because of the damage to his hands suffered in his bout with Luis Firpo at Boyle's Thirty Acres last Septem- ber. It will be three months before Wills is able to resume ring work, accord- ing to his doctor. — McTIGUE WILL UNDERGO AN OPERATION ON HAND By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 16.—Mike McTigue, world light heavywelght champion, will undergo an operation today for the removal of a small bone from his right hand. As a result he will be on the fistic shelf for three monthi Then he will be ready to meet Paul Eerlenbach, Tom Gibbons or Gene Tunney, he says. GIBBONS ASKS $75,000 FOR BATTLE IN LONDON NEW YORK, January 16—Tom Gibbons, St. Paul heavyweight, has demanded a flat guarantee of not less than $75,000, with an additional $3,000 for expenses, to box Luis Angel Firpo under the auspices of the National tive playing I have defeated some brilliant men and set quite a few new records, and all of them brought the warm glow that victory always does. 'WILLIE HOPPE. There was a big ome whem I won my first champlonship. There was another fine thrill when I re- watned it by defeating Jake Schaefer. It's hard to pick the best, but it might not be amiss to mention the kick I gained out of sctting a mew record at the 18.1 balkline game. It was 14 years ago—in November, FLOWERS AND DELANEY : TRADE BLOWS TONIGHT NEW YORK, January 16.—Jack Delaney of Bridgeport, Conn, con- queror of Paul Berlenbach, and Tiger Flowers, negro {rom Atlanta, who re- cently defeated the former middle- champlon, Johnny Wilson, 1910, to be exact—that 1 made the first high mark of 155. 1 was a youngster then and it was a wonder- ful feeling to know that I had done something that no one else in the world ever had equaled. Probably the gratification was even keener because the 13.3 game s the one I have specialized in during most of my career, and there is & real dif- ference between that and the 18.1 game, as any one who has played bil- liards will readily understand. But even that did net quite mateh the thrill I had 11 years later ‘when I ran 303 at 14.1. I had been a champion for a long time and had gained many succesacs, but } atill had the capacity of emjoy- ment at any unusual feat that I was able to accomplish, Probably these things stand out most keenly in my memory as hu-' 3 ‘were the rarest things in that career. Champlonships are nothing new, 1 Bave won so many of them, but setting these records were things apart. Other men had beaten those whom I hind outscered to win by championship, but no other men had cqualed these reeords I met. Perhaps that i why they gave me the greatest satiafaction and the keenest thrill of my life. Sunday—Earl McNeely. (Copyright, 1928.) SHOOT AT BENNING. A trapshooting tournament regls- tered with the American Trapshoat- ing Association will be held on the Benning_range tomarrow by Wash- ington Gun Club. Four eventa will be contested, the first starting at 12:30 o'cloak. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F welght meet tonight in a 12-round bout in Madison Square Garden. ‘The match will present two far different styles of boxing. Delaney, a “sharp-shooter,” will face one of the most aggressive men in the ring. Flowers possesses speed and wields a terrific punch. B HAINES IS REINSTATED. CHICAGO, ° January 16.—H. L. Halnes, former outfielder of the New York Americans, has been reinstated by Base Ball Commissioner Landis and placed - on the roster of the Yankees. Haines had been sent to the Louisville American Association club last year, but was placed on the ineligible list when he refused to re- maln with the club, the deal falling through. require occasional repairs, and in such cases it Is good to know Just where to send your ma- chine for expert treatment, where it will easily and quickly get the necessary attention without having to pay exor- bitantly for the service. We are noted for giving good serv- ice. Sheridan Garage, Inc. A. A. A, Bervice Statien 2516 Q Street N.W. (Q Streat Bridge) Sporting Club in London. ROPER TO FIGHT RENAULT. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, January 16.—Capt. Bob Roper, heavywelght, has announced he has signed to meet Jack Renault at Omaha January 29. OQur January Clearance Sale means the savings of many dollars on our perfect custom tailored to order suits and overcoats. YOUR CHOICE OF MANY PATTERNS AT D Your garment will be hand- tallored as you want it by- Omohundro's master union tailors and designers. Omohundro Custom Tailors Since 1907 § 514 12th St. %o F ST, L3 % GIVES UP LIGHTWEIGHT LAURELS EARNED IN 1917 Benny, After Long Reign as Champion, Quits Game to Please His Mother—Beat Formidable Boxers After Capturing Title From Welsh. By the Assoclated Press N EW YORK, January 16.—A dozen years ag Leiner volunteered to take the place of a defaul old Fairmont Athletic Club in the Bronx. I from the ring, where he is known as Benny Leonard pion of the world. 5 In a statement announcing his retirement Leonard was actuated solely by the wishes of his mothe fighting, Leonard said, his mother had re ed her the ring, and that the condition of her health made accede to her wishes. After a family council, the decided that he retire permanent! Leonard, who has not been active in the ring present title for nearly seven years After fighting his way through the ranks for five years following his first appearanoe, he faced, on May 28, 1917, that king of defen boxing from Great Britain, Freddy Welsh. The bout took place at the Manhattan Atnletic Club. A few months previously the cham- plon, Welsh, had made Leonard pear amateurish in a Brooklyn con- test, and Leonard had outpointed Welsh in a battle in Madison Square Garden. This was the decisive contest. | For elght rounds Welsh kept his head well covered, but in the ninth the man who was to become and re- main champlon of the lightweights | for seven rs sent his right to a point behind the Britisher's left ear Welsh staggered, but guarded in his excellent style. Driven to a corner, the Britisher was forced to lower his hands, and a stinging left sent him tottering. weak to raise the arms that had pro- teoted his crown since he won it from Willle Ritchie, he was powerless be- fore a terrific offensive and Benny Leonard came into fame. Kid Lavigne captured the world title from Dick Burge, the English champion, and brought it to Americ in 1896. It soon became the prope: of Ad Wolgast, who later bowed w0 Willie Ritchie. Ritchie made the take of going to England to fight Welsh, and lost After winning the title more than seven years ago Leonard met all com- ers and defeated them. 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