Show i loon r fi ChamPIon 1 nr JOHNME r rc Champion of ot the UK orld orl World C Copyright 1923 by Iy sFA FA N A Service Inc in III United l Slat States s and all foreign countries hint have Ive P la laws Rt I I I- I prohibited 1 e often orten h heard ard It saM sahl pf ft my my- my I elf that Johnny KIlbane hand hand- handpicked handpicked picked d Ins Ills opponent No 0 charel made against a boxer was everl more unjust I have ne er failed to m in meet et a real featherweight con con- II I tender In all my mv 11 sears pArA as AA hm pion plon and I have hav r repeatedly gone out of my roy because there were ere no logical featherweight feather te lett Ono One of th the 1 first times I 1 did this thi w was IlS s for tor Kid Williams In 1915 Hel was then bantam champ and hl hw IlS as s good In those days But I J made inadi weight for him and fought him a six round no decision match I I e c him Mm everything but a clout on the 1110 head with Ith th the Wool Wool- Woolworth orl worth orth h building and although I didn t knock him out out no nn news news- newspaper newspaper paper denied that I won Then cams came cam Welsh Practically Practically e e erv boxing critic In the countr country Ud s-Ud I m pride de Welsh look like a novice They Th were nerd right too I give riv Welsh elsh an awful teat eat log for ten rounds and would have hav won the lightweight ht championship had the fight bO been to a decIsion I mention all this merely to dis- dis dis prose pro the bolts bolt shot in mv my direr direction tion so long loner that I wouldn't meet anyone I didn t know kno to be he II a set I I up I Is I a II lightweight champion a up aset-up set up Three weeks necks eok after I r h bOat beat at Welsh Leonard met him hire Leonard won the tha th title but I have no doubt that It t was as the licking I isae In Fred Freadie die that weakened him and left Itt hima him a 11 marl mark for Leonard ronard 1 My tight fight with Leonard I-eonard told a different story ho however Lets Let's review the situation Innot not trying to establish e an alibi for forthe forthe the knockout Benny Renny It was ws t over meI me me- I m merely giving mv my side Ide of It as It never n Ter has been before I had licked Welsh W lb Benny had ha licked Welsh What then was caM caM- easIer easler Ier than for me to licks lick Benny Sounds l doesn't it It O CE COSTLY The same overconfidence that filled tilled George Gorge Chaney Chancy before his hi fight with me came oser Or me my JoI ny Leonard u-onard escapade e at nt Philadel Philadelphia phia I 1 elf elt eIe I had the th lightweight title in m in mi hands hand And 1 made the fatal mistake of entering the th ringi with that thought Leonard Leonnrd Is a II real tighter fighter maks no mistake about bout that He H known kno all the stock tricks and has s In Invented vented a few of his own And be- be besides be besides sides that h It had just ju t Won von the th title and W was JJ I 11 like lile a tiger to it Jt something he h has hu done admirably r rI f fI I made m-id m a rush ush at Benny and left m self unprotected I believed It would all b be over over soon oon Instead he crossed with a smash mash to the th heart hOart and nd jaw J w that left led me groggy The ve e e played a more careful car ful game In the th second round neither of us u did particular damage and when hen the third came I again was u L filled with the that loses o sticht fight I thought his first punch lunch In the th first round a 1 fluke fluk and so o I 1 waded In 11 again But once onee nee mor-Imet mor met a stone wall WIlli travelling tr ut t 75 an hour hout It hit lt it me m over theS the S left e 03 ese e 0 and left lett me dizzy U LOSES rIG FIGHT lIT I hun hung on and was clearing nu my head when the bell sounded We Ve W went to our corners I had been sit sit- sitting sitting tin lt-tin ting In mine min half a minute Dunn my thre threw in the towel In token of defeat at Iwas I Iwas was as not knocked nut out and easily easly could hR hae h ie recovered myself In the th time one gets pets between rounds But Benn got cot a knockout and that's that It Is the only time tn In my II life fe I In n the tho ring anyone has knocked me out and It took a a great treat fighter In a class mn many heavier hoovler he than I to do it It He weighed and I 14 It c certainly isn't anything to be b ashamed of My tight fight aith Leonard was WM the thelast thelast last big bil one ono before the war broke and what nhat hat I did then I 1 will 11 toil teU about In my next article TIle The between een 1 hot hot- hotin in md anti L Is told toM by Johnny la tn hIs bis neat article Ie |