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Show "Bennah" Has Good Right m m m m y m m m Earns Him Huge Fortune i JEamingr i id7 4 j-i $145,000 f " 1916 - .t.-'l-f -. ; I $QS.OOO '. $171,000 ; , U Total X ' ..y . $541,000 S" - 36aooo f - ':jl i"' " ' f ' Kr . v. I l c s , -. . s - - v - ' Benny Leonard His Right Hand and His Bank Roll. By Dean Snyder BKNN Y f.KCXAF.! has knot ked out niory thi-n $,on.'Oo in fo'ir yeara with htn right hand. Henry la a two-haiifed champion, but his right la the main ao-ker. The $ fio. 000 purae he received for kayo-Ing kayo-Ing Richie Mitchell at Ann Morgan's benefit show was the biggest he'd ever gut ho red. Kver since lie won the title from Freddie Fred-die Welsh in 1917 he haa been one of the ring'a beat money makers. The year he won the title he earned $14'.. 00 in twenty-four fights. Fifteen bouts brought in $P5,000 In 191K. BIGGEST KILLING. In he made his b gates t killing. Proceeds of twenty-two fif,'hta put $171,-oou $171,-oou in the cash register. Int year his rtrawing ftoa-era In thirteen thir-teen fight a totnled $!.!u,'if0. He was fightlns less often but getting Ukkt cuts. Leonard doesn't p"" on a glove any I mote for lean than $10,000 or $15,t00. Thta year he'a got a good It-ad In breaking- his paat purse recorda. Ieonurd haa paid out about a. third of his i u ruii iga for i a f a and a mna ger. P.igiit now he topa the light weights e. ilh n c'oae coritcntleia except lew Tend'T. Before he reaches the down grade he ll probably earn tK.uMi more. He haa been fighting since 1912. OLD AS FIGHTER. Although he la but ?". he la old so far in ring years go. And ring years really determine a fighier'a age. Carpentier at 27 is an old fiphter. He's been boxing since he was 12. Willnrd is clone to 40. But he was 29 when he begat) to fight. No other boxer began as late aa Big Jcaa and won a championship. ABROAD NEXT. About the only big league boxing Leonard Leon-ard hasn't tried la in Ku rope. ' And Utily tiihaon hit a been teaching Benny K reach and atudying the steamship steam-ship timetable . Neither Kngland nor Krance has any f. gate, a of J.ei.nard'e caliber, but he could hwoll that $K),000 tuink roll h doing exhibition work. They d like h.m. too. Leonard ia a real champion the most perfect fiahtmg mechan.ain.n the morld. |