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Show BENNY LEONARD'S STYLE By Wood Cowan HE IS fct-WVS. EErAtN&UN 60tNi ASN.V WITH Uli oct&f!6Mn bONtH. xJ?fi U5 "iO v'-.ST IT li Mtftb TO UOCATtTriUA JKS I - T (F6& AOLlO SWOT TIPS IZM'j H'S gr1 k. -.-r-D ABOUT ""WE KtNt WCTi-tOUT rA-KlN( 'Vi ITU IKPlNlTS PATIEMCE. "TO POT OMli. r.0. When Li'tiny I.iona-d tiiepjied or, the scales and registered 143 in one of hie recerft iout., hie demonstrated th;.t the weight did not weaken him and that he was ln truth a real lightweight. light-weight. Just how good Is oBnny Leonard, as Dinpared with great lightweights Of the past ? We don't know what Leonard's limit Is compared to Joe Cans', for Instance. Benny hasn't the class of opponents to wade through that Cans had. for the present hnmpiou seems to have things about nil his own way. If Leonard had a Battling Nelson, a Jltnmj Britt or a Kid .ict'artlanQ to contend With, instead of the rather poor lot of UghtWelghtS who are with us- now, he would ; no doubt he a greater fighter for he has the ability abil-ity If ho was forced to extend himself. So we find the name of Joe Cans popping up every time Benny is com- pared to an old-timer Ye: the style of fighting employed by Cans wan i nothing like Leonard's. Is Benny as good as was Joe Cans at his best? They are so different that it is impossible im-possible to determine on paper. Like most negroes, Gans was a flat-fooled flat-fooled fighter. He glided about the ring without making a false move or I wasting any energy. He waited with ! infinite patience lor thi- right kind of an opening, and when he found Lt one blow was sufficient in most cases Leonard Is an "in-and-outer." His footwork Is dazzling. He moves bo fast, this way ami that, that his opponent op-ponent cannot locale bins to put over a solid punch. Ho is seemingly always al-ways moving away from his opponent's oppo-nent's blow. ; The weakness of' Leonard's style is I that so much dancing takes something some-thing out of him and in a twenty-live I round flrrht. such ns Cans often went. ihe might tire. With his shifty st lo, I his hands are left free, however, to deliver a blow with either glove Gans did a great deal of blocking and a ii". i- cannot block and hit at tho 1 samo time. No doubt Cans would attempt to 1 time one of Benny's leads and cross him with a right and ii would be all over, but the men Cans met and ii f( ated were not the caliber of the fasl moving Leonard. Leonard i. a very heady fighter he ! has the knack of winning whenever he meets a man tho second time, shoe ing that he must put thought and Study Into his mode of attack and hi:--. , oppom nt's weaknesses, lb took a hard beating from Willie Ritchie out ln J San Francisco, but when they met ; the second time, he disposed of Ritchie i in eight rounds. He defeated Welsh I the third time they met. Leonard vs. Gans it would be ' SOME flRht! |