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LEON marr .* “‘Best Fight of My Life,’’ Says Rocky, ‘“‘But It Wasn’t Good Enough to Win’’ ‘Buffalo Lightweight Who Has Been Boxing Fourteen Years, Says Benny Is Strong at Weight. times, and if I had only had the breaks of the game in my favor things might have been different." Dan Rogers, the manager of Kan- sas, was well pleased with the show- ing of his protege. “That boy Leonard is a wonder," said Rogers. ‘‘I don't think Dempsey more popular. What a reception he received when he was introduced. Let me tell you something. It will be a long time before another opponent fa. By Alex. Sullivan. 66 FOUGHT the best fight that I | ever fought in my fourteen years’ experience in the ring last night against Benny Leonard in the Garden,” said Rocky Kansas at the Pennsylvania Hotel to-day, “but | it wasn’t good enough to win. He is} the greatest fighter that ever fought in the lightweight class, which is say- ing something. “Benny had me so bewildered in that eleventh round when he dropped me on my back that I didn’t know what hit me. I think it must have been a one-two punch. I think he hooked with his left and then chot a straight right to my jaw. “At any rate I dropped like 2 log, tit I didn’t lose my senses com- pletely. I watched the referee moy- ing his hand up and down, but I didn’t hear the counting. My mind then was bent on how I could stal! to keep away from another hay- maker and last the round out. “Leonard was much faster when we met in Harrison last year. I was too. If Benny hadn't been in great shape I would have stopped him Somebody has been telling me that Benny can't stand body punishment Kansas did, I think Rocky put up the hardest fight against him possible for any lightweight at present. KANSAS ROOTERS WON $100,000 ON THE RESULT. Three hundred fans came down from Buffalo and most of them won the way from 8 to 5 to 3 to 1 against the chances of his staying the limit, I guess the boys must have cleaned up $100,000."" During the interviews with Kansas and Rogers the lad whom Leonard stripped of the title, Freddie Welsh, was present. Freddie now has a training camp at Bayside and he taught Rocky a lot of tricks that | helped him to make such a sensational fight against the champign “I think that Leonard has gone back a lot," said Freadie, “I think |he was even better when 1 outpointed him in our Brooklyn bout. He hasn't got the same speed or the snappy punehing ability that he had in those than ‘They can't tell me that now | days “{ planned my battle so as to, “L think that Kansas ded the weaken him with body puncius and| honors in the first six rounds, four wear him down so that | could put|of them by a shade and two of them over a winning punch. | cau t him | decisively He carried the battle to many a hard dlow in the midsection, | Benny forcing him backward a good but he didn't seem to mind them much such excellent condition was he in | “Another thing, Benny can make that 135 pounls at 2 as ¥ avired by the law, and be strong. He was better off fighting at this weight leat. I thought the seventh and ighth rounds were even. The ninth, | tenth and eleventh were Leonard's by a wide margin, as was nearly all the rest of the fight. “Kansas was always a dangerous than when we met last time, as then | factor. He fought like a worthy chal- he had too much flesh on and was|lenger, and I think the way he fought slow compared with last night ROCKY THINKS HE HAD BETTER | last night he would have beaten any- body else his weight. “With more coaching, such as he OF EARLY ROUNDS. | got at my plac I think Kansas “T thought I had the better of the | Would have a great chance to capture early part of the fight. It was that|the title. That left swing he used punch in the eleventh that turned the | Should have been shortened so it tide. I wish that it hadn't happened, | Would have been more of a hook, He as I think I might have had a chance to get a decision had T not run foul of that Dempsey-like smash. T lost all right, there is no question about that, but I'm not satisfied. I'd like to get another chance, after I get a good rest. I wish I could meet him over the twenty-round route, 1 think I have more endurance and more ability to absorb punishment."* Rocky didn't look much beaten fighter. After the battle he hurried to the Pennsylvania Hotel, where his wife was awaiting him, | hasn't quite got the knack of using it. “Rocky is clever in his own way. He is what is known as awkwardly clever. Ho surprises by the manner jhe scores with his left. “Benny is a wonderful ring gen- Jeral. His headwork saved him per- haps from the loss of his title. He could outthink Rocky all the time. Rocky never knew when he did any damage. It was a great fight, and Leonard deserves all the credit in the world for winning. “It's the champion like a with the punch “I didn’t let my wife see the bout,""| that is the hit with the crowd. I said Rocky, “‘as I feared there would| didn't have the kick and was not be too much of a jam at the Garden| popular. Benny now has three times and that she might get hurt. I sent her to a musical show. seen me box often, but best that she should not night's bout. “I had Benny going a Instead, She has I thought it attend last successfully defended his title in de- cision bouts, which is a great record, considering that he has stopped Joe Welling and Richie Mitchell and out- pointed that human battering ram, Rocky Kansas." Ralph Shinners Signs ' Contract With Giants & Wisconsin Lad May (Wit) tiie “ahinners int exchange tee ont Berth in Centrefield With World’s Champions. couple of wily move the Reds would @ man worth two Roushes, and younger, sald the writer, “I have released Joe Connally, pur- chased {rom Ban Antonio, to the Little Rock Club,” said Mr, Tierney. No one seems to remember Connally, Not startling. He played in the last game of the season in Philadelphia and only the men on the contesting teams and the official scorekeeper saw him. Brother Ralph Shinners, the Wiscon- ®in Whizzer, sent the New York Giants his signed contract yesterday afternoon and served notice on Bill Cunningham, ike Boone, Casey Stengel and other as- pirants for the centre field position on the Giants to move out of his way. Somebody in Kansas City thinks well makes the showing against Benny that | |plenty of money, as they received all | of Shinners, A clipping exhibited by Bill Ryan dropped in to eay goodby. The Holy Cross star left at 5 o'clock THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUA RY Wyiood ‘Champion and His Rival Square Off In Ring Just Before First Gong | — DunomRweeD & UNORR Wee”, HY. LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’ Hara. i vening World) by Press Publishing Compat rd for any amateur football player to turn down the call of | uma, | “Pro football is a cancerous growth,” says a Western coach. Mean- | ing, probably, that it's hard to eut out Tom Gibbons's fist has given the smelling salts business its biggest boom since 1907, es 8 6 With Hoyt s, Bush, Jones and Shawkey in the box, the shower bath privilege Yank clubhouse this year won't be worth a nickel. Clark Griffith considers his team is all set, but he’s going to with it just the same, S 6 4 Rumor is denied that Frazee fered to trade two comedies and volume a of minstrel jokes for Nick Itrock, “Barring Faber and I Mt haven't a dependable pitch: ays a baseball expert, “the White Sox | And barring Lloyd George and Balfour, England is short of tirst- | class diplomats se 8 Johnny Wilson has cancelled his trip to Burope. Johnny figured he might find himself barred from forty-eight States by the time he wanted to return, . of view, the From a nasal point A's have staff in either league. STECHER OFFERED BOUT WITH WLADEK ZBYSZKO. Dill Wellman, promoter of the wrest~ ling bouts in Madison Square Garden, last night telegraphed an offer to Joe Stecher to mect Wladek Zhyszko in a match to be held in the Garden on Tuesday night, Feb, 21. Wellman said in the telegram that unless he had an the str st pitching SHOEMAKER AND GARDNER WIN “POOL” MATCHES. CLEVELAND, Feb, 11.—~J. Shoemaker and Gus Gardner, New York, were the winners of afternoon games in the national teur pocket billiard tournament maker defeated C. Earl Patt: Howard both of the m acceptance within twenty-four hours he| Chicago, 125 to 58, in thirt | would make the same offer to Strangler|nings, and Gardner won from Carl A Lewis. This will be the first of a series] Vaughn, also of Chicago, 125 to 99, in of contests to decide the American] forty innings. Shoemaker and Gardner heavyweight — wr champion, aslhad high runs of 24; Vaughn a clust suggested by the ny Commiss of 19, and Patterson 6. for Hot Springs. He will meet Toney, Douglas and others there, “What They're Saying To-Day” “The happicst moment of the fight to me was the nois: M4 sy approval o the crowd when I knocked Rocky Kansas down in the cleventn htieg It pleased me to know they were with me.’—Benny Leonard, after his bout with Rocky Kansas, to the Sporting Editor of The Evening World. Mr, Tierney entreated Garry Hermann Ralph Shinners is the fastest spiked baby that ever came up to th major leagues.’’—James Tierney, 8 a : retary of the New York “I have received no proposition from the Yankees about an . out- felder.”’—Harry Frazee, President of the Boston Red Sox, “There is no doubt but that some high school bo; y ’ e § vs of exceptional athletic ability are being paid to attend certain schools in order to play some sport.”’—Prof. Thomas BE. French of Ohio State Untwersit and President of the Western Conference. id , wv this summer and do some house building the dest thing that could happen.’’—Judge inion labor was planning a boycott of orgun- “Tf they would stay awa; here in Chicago it would be Landis, when informed that wu ized baseball, “What the ordinary mortal desires drives appear more puny, ‘Vox Populi. ts not a golf dall that makea his but one that will bring flattery to his sowl,”’— “Iam willing right now to sign with Rickard to let Jack Sight the winner of the Greb-Gibbons bout,’’—Jack Kearns, manager of Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world. “I have started training for the Greb match and will be as ftase fididle on the night o/ March 18, I expect to stop Greb."’—Tom Gibbons. J Sport News At a Glance Riders from Australia, Italy, Belgium, Poland and American stars will participate in the six-day bicycle race which starts at Chicago to morrow night. John P. Carleton of Dartmouth set a record for the eight-mile cross country ski race, when he made the distance in 46 minutes, 44 3-5 sec- onds in the intercollegiate meet at Hanover, N. H. Outfielder Jack Smith has signed his contract to play with the Louis Cardinals next season, Yale lost two of its hockey stars through the illness with influenza of Jack Speiden, and the temporary indisposition of Vogel. All members of the Brooklyn Robins have been ordered by Man- ager Robinson to report to him at Jacksonville, Fla., for spring training on Sunday, Feb. 26. Tex Rickard won his appeal to have the receivership of Madison Square Garden set aside. Frank C, Armstrong, who claims a partner ship in the property, bases hia claim on an alleged oral agreement Seven hundred and twenty-eight entries in seven terrier breeds, is the record of the Seven Terrier Clut's dog show to-day at the 1st Field Artillery Armory. This will be the largest one-day dog show ever held in this city. Mrs. John D. Champman of Greenwich and Mrs. Donald Parson of Youngstown, two of the favorites in the St. Valentine golf tournament for women at Pinehurst, N. C., were defeated in the semicfinal matches. Mrs, George Harrison of Cleveland has been retained by the new Canterbury Golf Club of Cleveland, and is believed to be the first woman golf professional in this country, The Athletic Board of Control at Yale University voted to donate the proceeds of the Yale-St. Nicholas game fh Washington's Birth- day to the Hockey Rink Memorial which Princeton is raising for “Hobey"” Baker, the Tiger star, who was killed in the World War. Robert Marsh and C. Paser were the winners in the English bi! liards tournament now ourrent at Jack Doyle's Billiard Academy Marsh defeated Charles Sheppard 200 to 171, while Paser won from Fugazy, 200 to 177. Two more games remain to be played for the championship of the world between Robert Stewart of Glasgow and Newell W. Banks of Detroit, To become champion, Banks must win both gam St. LEONARD AND ROCKY KANSAS IN RING LAST NIGHT. ARD AND KANSAS GIVE THEIR VERSIONS OF GREAT By Vincent Treanor. “L fought wrong, I heTd back my I should body punches too long. have used my left hooks to the body hook, left hook,’ and I tried to follow | I burt my right hand| early hitting Rocky on the elbow and I used it on his body toward the end, but shot it for his advice I had to save it. | the jaw only when I got clear range.” Thus did Benny Leonard try to ex- cuse himself, strangely, after going through perhaps his hardest and best fight of his rarcer, when he got back | to his mother, sisters and brothers} BASKETBALL SCHEDULE. Jast night for the open house cele- bration that always follows his bal- tles. He had telephoned his mother from his dressing room at the Garden the first hand news of his victory, as he never fails to do, whether in New York, California or any other place | in the country, He couldn't shed his} fighting togs too quickly to get out to « waiting automobile, which! | whisked him to his home on upper Seventh Avenue, There he had to sub- mit to the motherly inspection, and | with only a swollen left eye, which he had reduced with hot towels in his rnom, mother wouldn't alarmed, he passed the materna: muster. Crowds jammed the streets front of the door, While many of the neighbors and neighbors’ chil- dren crowded into the modest apart- ment, Mother had prepared the usual dressiog 80 in coff nd cake repast, an agrenab! Powers Bros. vs. Knights of st,| feature of Benny's return from the Antony (Metropolitan League), Pat-| battle ground, and everybody was erson. partaking. Mrs. Leonard had eyes Danbury Separates vs. Original! for no one but Benny for several min- Speedways, Perth Amboy Parsons Big Kill, Catskill, N SUNDAY AFTERNOON. utes after the young champion en- | tered the door, My boy, you've been working hard 1s vs, Visitation (Metro. | gain,” she said, as tears came into ague), Palm Garden her eyes. “Just think, fifteen long Five ys. Dodgers (Metro. | puonds ague), Prospect Hall |) -Serothen: hints {tite roun@e tan College Point Big Five vs. Lough-| terribly long time,’ explained Benny lin Lycoum, American House |to the gathered friends, “and she al Ascension Aces vs. St. Jerome ©. | ways cries that y Benny put his} ., Ascension Parish House, arm around his mother and patted Parsons Big Five vs. Hudson Five, | hey shoulder affectionately. He was Hudson, N. Y. then rushed into the bathroom hy | Veronica Five vs. Original Italian | Manny Seaman, vithful trainer Club Five, Tammany Hall \for a bath and a rubdown as a pre- | Danbury Separates vs. Olinville| ventative of possible cold. A | parates, Moose Hall as possible he was outsile 1 Starling Grey Five vs. Col-|with his friends w ronged th iate Ble F Hoffman's Casino. — | ho Van Nest Five vs. St. Alphonsus} “Do you know, I enjoyed one of t Five, Hoffman's Casino |happiest moments of my lite at the] St. Agnes Triangles vs. Corrigan | Garden,” he began say t was in Separates, Corrigan Casey Hall that eleventh round, when 1 knocked SUNDAY NIGHT. — Rocky down and the crowd ot up and | Dodgers vs. Knights (Metropolitan |Cheered. I don’t think I ever heard so) League), Greenpoint. much noise hefara. 1 had ig funny; MacDowalls ve. Visitation (Metro. | dea that perhaps they thought T was politan League), Prospect Hall. champion long enough and wanted te Powers Boys vs. Brooklyns (Metro- |e me beaten, but when ope aoe Original Spartan va. Maroon | or ould have been slut Big Five, Bronx Jewish Institute Fluky Five ys. Allerton live, Hay- erstraw, N. Y, Ramblers vs. Five, Haverstraw, N Original ¥ Maple Leaf Fistic News and Gossip By John Pollock MAKES SHORT WORK of Pain. Sloans for rheumatism lumbago Sciatica | | ‘I Fought Wrong, ’ Says Ben, Excusing Himself Because He Didn’t Score ee Little Champion Returns Triumphantly to Mother After Battie, and Tells of Happiest Moment of Big Night in the Garden. |1 was too deliberate or slow to finish a Knockout ng his opponent, | was thinking only the approval of my work shown by the crowd." The little champion then went back to talk about Kansas. “The weight didn’t bother me in the least, I never of tremendous ciaily when he gets in clinches, think Zbyszko had you. whatever brains I had all the time, for there never is a minute when he tsn't dangerous, When I fought Rocky in Buffalo in 1917 I knocked him down} nine times and couldn't finish him, | Hoe gets stronger It seems instead of You'a T had to use weaker, L think I did well againt him last night “You know, the public expect too much of me walk out They think 1 ought to and knock a man out in a fifty. Tough fellows like Kansas can't be licked that way. | Ip to the eleventh round he was} like a bull, and when he wound his} arms around his hoad when he got| up L couldn't hit him, At that, maybe him, “In the twelfth, thirteenth, four- teenth and fifteenth Rocky's punches weren't worth a dime, In the last round I think he was worse than in ihe eleventh, [feel that T might have put him away in another round or two." lenny explained his bleeding nose ying he is just getting over a Under that condition, he says, it doesn't take much to start the ertm- son from his nose ee eines TERRY M’HUGH WINNER OF JUDGES’ DECISION. by BUPPALO t crow Feb, 11. —Refore the blg- seen a bout here tn McHugh, the erack won the Judges’ de- Lrown of § long thm Allentown ban Danny claion over racuse. , being ninth round hard-hitting t flying Hrown was beaten the the the Is y nearly put away when a panel MeHugh sent from his mo from of SNEEZE!! There is influenza near ‘you. Germs in every sneeze. 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In the ninth round Walker cut loose with a series of swings to the boay which weakened earlier, but ‘Gib.’ kept yelling, ‘Left|felt any weakness, but I know that Griffiths and suddenly a right to the | Rocky is a good, strong fellow, espe- jaw dropped the Akron welterweight for count of nine, When he arose Griffiths was met with a right to the Jaw which knocked him completely out of the ring. He was unable to regain his feet and !t was several seconds before he was ri vived by his handlers. piranlinanni~-che Any (For complete stock quotations and market review and news, see Wall Street Final Edition of The Evening World.) Two twelve-round feature houts| . hicocnoh mene cea neuraleia || Use Cuticura and the Ridgewood Grove Sporting Club Sprains, strains OHOLY lites ta te wi” | Have Lustrous Hair f Brook! to- ‘ht. 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