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Show In ill ' 1 MEET tM ILL I Champion Says He Will Mix I With Any Man in Country at His Weight. ! Resuming ring operations July oln I ! a bout scheduled for Benton Harbor, H Mich., with Charlie White of Chicago as his opponent. Benny Leonard, H , world's lightweight champion, will in- H , augurate a cajnpalgn In, Ahlch he sa3 i ho will meet every man In tho country, H at 135 pounds. Benny Is getting eager H to break into the headlines on te-r sport pages again. H For the past four, month? Leonard H 1 has been on the Pacific coast playing H hero roles in' celluloid, dramas. He H I says he la tired of it all and wants to H I get to business in the ring. He denies H ' emphatically that ho craves additional H publicity as a boost for his movie Vert- H i ture, but his denial is accompanied H I with a suppressed smile. ' H ! Leonard is a real fighter, but he loves the publicity end of Lift gamo H perhaps a little better than most of H the pug6 who have held titles In the" H past quarter of a century. During tho H time ho was engaged In making his H now famous knockout list, Leonard H was as happy as a kid with a new toy, H and Invariably after each of his bat- H tics in which he scored a knockout he would search all of the papers and read each account of his triumph -as H eagerly as a lad of 15 reads his first H i "Diamond Dick." H It was his Insatiable desire for -a H record In the slumber punch business? H that spurred him on to greater efforts H in this line than most battlers care to H put forth. And he made an unique H showing with the kayo, too. H H stoppotl Packey Hommey on Maroh H ; 22, 1917. then startled tho fans with I a kayo over llltchio Mitcliell of Mil- ' waukee. Two second rated were the H next victims Charley Thomas pd ' Eddlo Shannon then Freddie Welsh got his in Just seven stanzas. Joe H Welch 'Of Philadelphia stuck for sbc rounds, but got an awful lacing, but I Johnny Nelson tried It and took the count. Johnny Kilbano was next, and H he was followed by Young Rector. I Jimmy Paul stayed for six rounds In i H an exhibition, butjhil Bloom was put H away. Kayoes over Leo Johnson, Ed- , jH die Dorsey and Vic Moran followed, ' and Leonard earned a great reputation ) H as a, puncher. He says he plans tb j make Charley White his first victim. |