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Show IFARRELL IS OF BELIEF LEONARD REIGNS supp No Lightweight Ready to Take on Fighting Hebrew By Henry L. Farrell United Praaa Staff Correspondent. NKW YORK. Jan. 31. Many a moon will roll around before Benny Leonard is forced to vaeate the lightweight throne-room. throne-room. In fact. New Yorkers believe that through lark of good foe to conquer Benny will be forced eventually to mingle with welterweight or Join Jack McAuliffe aa a retired underrated champion. BEAT HARD MAN. When the champion recently dtanoaed of Kltcnte Mitchell, the claaay Milwau- 1 gj kee contender, he awrpt aairte the laat and only dangerou contender In the claa. 1 W W Mitchell la fnr uperlor to Willie Jack- , J aon and l-ew Tendler. the "vocal cham- I much aa he agree) to meet Leonard for J a sum less than one-h.ilr or what the I ' moat logic.il contenders" wanted. Mitchell is good enough to be within a hair's breath of the championship. In any other day but Leonard's he would be king of the class. PROVED SUPREME. So. in knocking out Mitchell. Leonard proved his greatnenv. A veteran of nine years experience at ?S yeara of age, Ieonard in the opinion of many old timers is the peer of Joe Oans. considered the greatest of all lightweights. light-weights. A great boxer, a urn.irt and crafty general gen-eral and a hard hitter, the champion possesses all the "class" befitting his rank. He showed that a wise head rests on his shoulders In the Mitchell bout when after having knocked the Milwaukee bov down three times he was felled for a fuil count by a wild swing of the desperate boy. USES HEAD. The champion's pride was hurl, he was amaxed at finding himself on the floor fr the first time since he won the title. A less crafty boxer would have jumped to his feet with a forced smile to dhow t hat it was an accident or something. Preddy Welsh did that in his fight with I-eonarU and he lost the title. Perhaps Ionard thought of that when he went down. At any rate he stayed down for the count of nine and came up recovered. ADMITS WALLOP. After the bout, the champion denied that li was a fluke fall. "I went down before an awful wallop wal-lop and It taught me something." he said. "It never does to get thinking that you're too good. Misjudgment of Mitchell's ability might have cost me the title. Confidence Con-fidence Is all right but too much confidence con-fidence Is dangerous. I ll never be caught the same way again." |