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Show LEONARD MAKES BIG MONEY Lightweight Champion Grabbed Off $C5,O0O In Past Year Flno Future Fu-ture Is Before Him. Many n bank president would consider con-sider that ho had achieved tho height of his ambition It ho could grab SO.",-000 SO.",-000 n year, ns Ilenny Leonard hns dono during the past twelve months In tho ring. Ilenny got about $000 for beating Treddlo Welsh, nnd tho $11,001 ho earned when ho met Johnny Kllbnno nt Philadelphia Is u small part of his total earnings for tho year. Hut Leon-nrd Leon-nrd has kept busy In thu ring. His manager, Hilly Olbscn, hns always had It I in well booked and hns always managed man-aged to get him falr-slzcd purses. So Benny Leonard, Leonard' earnings havo piled up fns-ter fns-ter than those of many a shrowd-hend-cd business man. Ilcfuro another year has passed Leonard will havo moro than doubled his eurnlngs of tho past twelvo months, for the lightweight championship champion-ship Is certainly worth Its weight in gold. |