Show Delaney's elaney's Knockout Punch I T Caused 4 l to Become Aggressive Fighter I By NEA Service NEW YORK Feb 26 Mike 26 was w a defensive tighter fighter from Irom the the- beginning of o his career carer He H probably would 1 ave remained a defensive tighter fighter to the last last If Jack Jack Delane Delaney Delaney h hadn't d t bounced a right baud haDd ort off ot hi his bis chin and sent ent him bouncing g In the th r i When Wh n the th Delaney rIght landed MIKE Ts was o Coverlet up P ann and 1 1 away way aY as wa wa a his C Invariable custom In tn in moments moment of ot stress But Dul somehow or other that right right hand popped SAYS through and aud found Its Us mark and I S haunches found the th floor causing hIM hilt widespread wide wide- S spread pain and embarrassment lt This Incident had a profound and Important effect on MIkes MIke's future It If Ha a guy cuy can get let knocked out being he reasoned Whal the use of ot being care careful Cui 1 Thus Thu fortified with a new a new courage count Mike on his bis return to the tb rIng threw care car and caution to the th assorted breezes breezee he h swung swung an n aggressIve leg over ovel a white charger charter un unsheathed sheathed h d a glistening s sword and galloped forth to slay slay tl the th e dragonI dragon dracon I I should hould be b mentioned at this point that dikes Mike success success at at busIness of slaying dragons dr toos was was considerable from the tho tb moment he resolved that discretion after arter all wa wa was not the better part ot or ring v valor o In what might be b called celled speedy succession MIke Mik turne turned l the sheets back for tor KIng ICing Solomon Soldier KIng I and Paul Berlenbach administering the sleep producer wIth with II a fine e and ferocity that made nade tho the clients client gasp sp The Tb knockout that put Mike In Sn the h ht tourney and qualified him for tor the lh time being belne at t least lat U as a a Tunney Threat at was the theone theone th thone one over Berlenbach But It U you yott look oo enough that knockout had extenuating cir clr circumstances es Berlenbach softened up by numerous wallops like Dat Bat Nelson of old he h took I plenty plenty- of punishment In every fight he ha h fought and softened d uJ up still more by sl six lx months month of languorous lan orous almost amot loose loos Ios I living In H well Hollywood Hollywood well ho wasn't exactly th most formIdable foeman In the th world the night Mike Mik coaled him Mike did no more mor than most mot of the th other oth r Tunney Threats probably probably of ably would have hav done don the th night he he h faced Berlenbach Berenbach Dut But that Is Inot not Important The Th Important thing thine In Mikes Mike's case was the waY w y he assaulted Berlenbach from the start which was alt all fury tury and action the way or of o the th new nw as they are ar now calling him MIke Miko had no way of ot knowing that Berlenbach had slumped to 10 dozen dime that be h longer the assas assas- assassin assassin the status of ot a II fighter was no sin of o old that he be was as READY to be b taken All Mike knew was that he be h was facing the th man who had bad dethroned him as light heavy weight champion two years before beCore No Dempsey Dempse no McGovern no Ketchel ever over went to the wars with greater rester spirit or greater determination than Mike Mik brought Into i play In crushing Berlenbach down and out There was not a symptom of the th old care car and caution about him as he h drove rights and lefts Into Inlo th the the the-Dutchman's Dutchman Dutchman's puffy body You could almost hear pear him mutterIng to himself It If If a a a guy tan an get ft knocked out being belne careful what's the th use us of being careful tOO Unconsciously Jack Delaney D taught Mike Mik the th greatest greated lesson of his car career er as a fighter fighter-a a lesson leeson that changed him from a aI I gingham apron fighter to a silk robe rob fighter r |