Show Makeshift Rings Not ot Fists Sent Many Champions s Sailing By Joe Williams Three years tan ago Benny L Leonard onard champion cham chant t pion Ien of the tha lightweights If t battled Charley white t Chicago's rc perennial iA challenger In Inan Inan an outdoor show at Benton Harbor oUch Midi Leonard vonard had been out on the coast in the films filma and while he was Inline physical condition he was some some- whit ht handicapped on account of ot an extended extended ex ex- tended period of inactivity White gave him a thrilling r fight be before be to sore fore l losing ln t In the n ninth n round In nt one I Io champion of the earlier across rounds o the ring White h and d rushed nailed g him the r I to the ropes with a a. left Iett f hook A mo moment nio- nio meat ment e later ete Leonard da f found dh himself c clear I outside the ring ln mingling on n neighborly o I i n r If It somewhat e a ia terms s with the cash customers After the he fight tight a picture wa 11 sent r broadcast through the country showing I Leonard's Leonards bod body flying through space and nd White completing a 11 swing awing with his left hand Upon this one episode was built a clamorous demand for tor a return fight tight between be be- teen tween the two 11 lightweights though Le Leonard had c Scored r 8 a. a cl cleao knockout OC and had d clearly proved pro his superiority What ot of it it the asked White knock him out of ot th tb ring As a matter of truth White did not I knock Leonard out or of the ring Th The Tb out champion being wept went hit bit through The u the was ropes a makeshift makeshift make make- without with shift and the ropes were loosely strung Leonard backed Into them Intending in intending In In- tending to support himself and fight oft off Whites White's attack But the roped sagged sagred and he fell tell out of ot the ring I lt It di did look as it if tt the champion l had bad hadeen g U be been een knocked e out o of the ring I a and enough o I capital bring r about was a made return of bout the which Incident would to I have attracted a a. house That i this return bout was not held was vas due I to Mr Whites White's l te indiscretion in get getting himself knocked out by Pal Pat Moran Jack Dempsey and anti Luis Lute Firpo will undoubtedly un on- battle hattie again next summer ummer for forthe forthe forthe I I the second time despite the fact that un-I un the good bUt bat g gawky senor I Is not many dt degrees degres removed from the ham class I g II fought a r rash fight t agans against Firpo last summer almost It alt an rt u thID t V t I log In ng one yet he won by a knockout In II two rounds I What of ot It T the again ask Firpo knock him out o othe of ot the he ring I On the night nl-ht of the fl fight ht It U may have hye looked to some as It if Firpo's rIght hand had sent ent th the th champion flying over the ropes but it BI Blame me that on the th man who built th the ring commented Billy Gibson Leonards Leonard's Leon Leon- ards ard's manager That ThaVa the same that happened to Benny In Michigan Dempsey would never have gone OUt of I the ring It IC the ropes had been properly strung strung- Its virtually Impossible for tor a a. fighter g to be but ot f a a. ring that thatis t f ec t is well and anu II carefully r I bulit t Dempsey himself says he ho tell felt out oot of or the ring without being hit nit and adds adds' that Firpo connected with a S short right Tight band hand punch at the start of th the that all but I him The fans fan didn't are ace that punch but they all thought they saw aw the punch that sent ent the champion out of Or the ring You cant can't tell them different And air Mr Richard Rickard presumably doesn't Care t to l tare S r |