Show I I NEVER ONE LIKE I BENNY LEONARD LEONARDI I James Jame Edward Britt Brut who is now a aBeau aBeau aBeau Beau the Ule perI performers performers per per- formers has stirred things up among I some of the old oM time fight fans and andI critics by declaring positively that Benny I Leonard Is the best lightweight the has ever had Jeems despite the fact that he has I fought the good ones and is ranked ed as one of the greatest of old timers himself hun him self seU deducted after seeing Leonard batI battie battle bat bat- tie tle that there ere has never been a more I capable mitt wielder in lightweight ranks and probably will not be another for ages to come who can claim anything on Leonard Leon Leon- ard d II But while Britt is entitled to his opinions ions Ions and and they are all In favor of Benny Patsy Hale Haley who was as one time re regarded regarded re- re re-I re as a remarkable boxer opines just the opposite Says Patsy Gans Cans would have hav picked Leonard off inside of ot ten rounds He was the daddy of em all and rightly named the old master Gans was deadly He lie dropped his men cold o in n their tracks a while i Leonard Leonard Leon Leon- e I II ard d has never e k knocked e an opponent n out t as cleanly as that They're either hangIng hang- hang I lag Ing helpless on the ropes or taking the count with 95 per cent of ot their wits gone I fth when Leonard e r sta ta takes decisions s from them i I It was a always s curtains when Gans hit you Then theres there's Kid Lavigne continued Pat The Kid would have torn Leonard Leonard Leonard Leon Leon- ard in two The Lavigne that BrItt whipped was only enly a shell sheli that's all He wasn't the Lavigne who battered the heart t out of Joe Walcott not by a n. whole lot Here are the opinions of two old tim Um- ers l Everybody has his opinion and a perfect right to It and if everybody agreed there wouldn't be any Interest in I boxing or any other sport But the opinIons opinions opinions ions of ot these two old scrappers do not detract from Leonards Leonard's glory glon What somebody else might have e done to him doesn't stand In comparison comparion with what he has be been n doing to the best of the aa day eay and age |