Show Mental Hazard I Goes Hard Ha d With P Prize ze Fighters By JOE WILLIAMS The hazard exists in 11 the prize ring too Only the dont don't call it that it-that that Tough egg comes come clos closer cal to i the phraseology used A tough l egg Is Is Isan an inferior Interior battler batter who always m manages nages to make some part particular particular par par- s star r look k bad t Most of the champions hive have at ci least i one tough egg on their list Benny Leonards Leonard's tough egg i is Johnny Dundee Considering the difference in weights and the added fact that thai Leonard is accepted as a the greatest lightweight since the tue days of Cans Gans and Lavigne v Dundee e baa haa no license 1 even to give f him an en interesting n sn gl fight I t Dundee however always gives him hima a great fight They have fought a doz geat n times or or so Leonard has yet vet vetto i ito to knock him out Only once has he da d a. a knockdown Usually at the I finish Dundee is fighting on even terms witH wiH his heavier and more gifted gift gUt ed Cd foeman A A. suspicion exists in some quarters that Leonard Leonad carries caries Dundee This Is untrue Dundee is Leonards Leonard's mental mental men men- tal tat hazard and the the- champion campion cant can't shake shalie him off of GREBS GREB'S MENTAL HAZARD HAZARD 1 i inar nar Harry Greb Oreb champion of time the tle middIes middles mid mid- i dIes has an active two fisted two mental menta hazard In the person of oC Soldier Jones of Canada Very Ver likely you never neve heard of Soldier Jones before You dont don't hear her his name mentioned when the the parlor chit-chat chit concerns fife tle big leaguers of ot 1 Jones i. i Is pastry for tot some middleweights middleweights middle middle- weights and poison polson for Greb Gre-b Greb The Canadian came within a wink of knocking out Greb when the PiUs Pitts- Pitt- Pitt the light heavyweight burger held tl title fe I Jones a wild wid swinger who who starts his J punches from from the sub cellar sub sub-celar caught Greb on the chin with a right right- hander and and- the titleholder went down don with a a. resonant boom A few few minutes later Jones caught him with another whizzing wallop and amI him across the middle Grebs Greb's amazing lv powers and fine courage alone enabled him hm to escape serious trouble Some several days ago Greb Gleb and Jones lones met in a r return turn bout bouVat at Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg This tim time Greb Knew what to expect He knew Jones was a wild wid swinger and a hitter hiter Greb adopted cautionary methods but back deep cheep in his memory named flamed pictures of his first firt fight against Jones and the knockdowns I IMORE MORE TOUGH EGGS I Greb couldn't get them out of his mind and Jn in less time than it takes takes' to tell tel Jones had him on the floor foor I again the result of another swe sweeping right hander bander As soon as Greb got up Jones ip-Jones Jones knocked him kicking again agam thus rewriting in almost Identical i terms a chapter from the first right fight Greb reassembled his' his addled wits wis and end came on to win after a sensational sensa sensa- tonal hill up-hill up-hi up fight but he ont wont won't forget forget forret for for- get ret soon the second narrow escape ha he had ad at the hands lands of a battler batter of mediocre med med- Ocro ea talent a t Other champions have had their mental hazards Jack Jacl Dempsey next to Bob I mons none the greatest of all al heavies could could never do much against Willie Meehan the tIme Pacific coast roly poly Meehan on the ot oth other r hand could win wirt from rom nobody else I Pancho Villa who knocked the great Jimmy Wilde into retirement has thrice been beaten Jy y Frankie Genaro a L New York Italian of o negative skill Easy Basy for others Genaro in some manner or other finds Villa an ap appetizing I dish Pete Herman in his purple pUle days of of greatness was always alwa a sucker foral for Pal al Moores Moore's freak style I Johnny ha had his hardest fights against Tommy Kilbane a fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low ow Tommy was never I particularly hard for other featherweights feather weights but Johnny Johnn obviously su superior suo smi- smi I perlor crier had to fight his greatest fights fights' in a order to beat him I |