| Show MITCHELL LEONARD MIT 1 FEATURE IS RECALLED 4 I t IIII L l 4 4 a ak k t Ic Lj o U I By Dy JOD WILLIAMS CHICAGO Jan Ritchie 6 3 16 i Mitchell a lean looking hungry hungry youngster with a 8 nose like a grap- grap grappling grappling grap grappling pling Iron and long arms that I waved like willows In a wind gave one of ot the most remarkable exhibitions of ring recovery r covery the boxing world had ever seen when after being floored three times In inless Inless less Jesa than a minute he le rose rosc to send Champion Benny Leonard crashing to the thc canvas with a II Je left t hook that came within a single second of crowning a 11 new light weight light weight champion Four clean knockdowns all as crammed full of drama as a play combined to tomake tomake tomake make that first round at old Mad Mad- Madison Mad Madison Ison ison Square Garden New liew York on the night of January 14 1921 as spectacular a thre three minutes all as you could find since John L L pull pull- pulled pull pulled ed Cd leather over his bis gnarled knuckles knuckles kles Ides The sleek-haired sleek Hebrew cham cham- champion cham- cham champion champion pion entered the ring with all the odds on him to defeat Hb l Milwaukee kee ko challenger Mitchell was to to be bo a hard bard puncher nd game but It was ts held his punches would be wanted through Bennys Benny's cleverness and his bis game game- gameness ness game ness utilized In recovering from Leonards Leonard's constant attack The battle had gone less than thana thana a minute when Leonard hooked a powerful left to o jaw and the challenger ed to the floor to take the count of r eight He arose groggy Leonard was wasat wasat wasat at him like a tiger with a II show show- shower shower show shower er of rights and It Barn Mitchell hit the canvas the second time and reclined there glassy glassy- glassy eyed eyed until the referee had reach reach- reached reached ed Cd nine Ills His was waa vas badly cut and he had difficulty keeping It open He Ho climbed back on tn his feet teet with with a dazed vacant look on his face Cace Leonard flew at him again Wham That was Willi embracing embracing ing the sheeting for tor the third time Twelve thousand fans tans were In an uproar Referee Johnny I right arm now begin begin- beginning beginning ning to waver from weariness be- be began began be began I gan Its checking oft ott of the see see- sec Seven niLe Seven eight nine And silly Billy but game to his tops shoe-tops rose roue aud and stag stag- staggered staggered back toward the champion champlon With his arms hanging banging at his sides from exhaustion Leonard looked at Mitchell In n astonish astonish- astonishment astonishment ment What manner of ot tIghter could this uncouth w westerner terner be who soaked up punches like a sponge Inhales water Benny fight tight cautiously I Mitchell l leaned a light left on Leonard Leonards Jaw the first blow he had struck since th the round be- be began be began gan His hopes rose Ho lie leaped forward His long left lect hand swung out In a swishing arc Before even the thc lightning champion could throw up his guard tha that left let had caught him squarely on n the point of the Jaw cracking the an- an angry angry an angry gry snap of a lash luh And Leonard for the first time lime since he had graduated from Crom the old Fairmont A C In the w nt bouncIng bouncing bouncing ing to the canvas the crowd sat silent and stunned Mitchell hardly knowing what he had done dance danced nervously ner around the ring thu referee began the strange spectacle of counting over the great grett Leonard The crowd found It Its voice and strained the rafters ratters with the tho roar of the pack that scents a kill Then rhen Leonard himself exhibited the gameness that marked him himas himas himas as a great champion Rising to toone toone toone one knee he motioned to his man man- manager manager manager ager and seconds that he was all allright allright allright right then thed calmly rested rest id d until the count reached nine Ie tie rose to his feet revived revl revved the c master ring general And that hair-breath hair of time that marks the difference between nine and ten with Benny down on the canvas can while 2000 per per- persons perSons per persons sons yelled for his fo toe to finIsh It was as near a as Leonard ever came to losing his crown lIe He recovered quickly held Mitchell through the I of the round and grew steadily bet bet- better better bet better ter finally winning the fight on ona ona II a technical knockout In the sixth round after atler flooring the l Milwaukee Milwaukee kee battler three more moru times |
