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Show LEONARD LOSES MOM TEETH Won't Fight Until He Returns Re-turns From His European Trip MICHIGAN CITY, Iud . Aug. 7 Benny Leonard, world's lightweight chumplon, departed for v VorU Sunday with $20,000 in bis pockets, but with a new dental bill to pay as a result of his ten round championship match with Emm Hammer, the Chicago Chi-cago lightweight in Floyd Fltzslm-mons' Fltzslm-mons' arena here. The champion was suffering from 0 bruised and a split chin as H rsuit 01 haying another tooth looetoned In the front of his mouth in his mutch With lew Tendler ten days ago. Leonard Leo-nard lost a front pivot tooth and the gums were sore as a result of efforts to extract the rootg. HAMMER LOOSENS UVOTHEB Hammer loos.-tie.l ,,, a I Joi n l n I-. molar Saturday with a sharp i-ft h.n' so that the tooth Instead of pointing downward wop knocked vldewlse Two dental surgeons operated in sn attempt to save it. 1-reonurd will not engage n any more contests until after his return from Europe late in October. He had two matches pending, one With Too Tlplitl In Philadelphia and another in Milwaukee, but called off all negotiations nego-tiations last night INSISTED ON BOI T Billy Gibson, manager of the title holder, asserted that he wanted in call off the Hammer match last Thursday when ho saw it would be impossible to do an boxing. The ' bamplon. howerCr, Insisted upon protecting pro-tecting Promoter Ifitsalmmona who hsd Rone to heavy expense and refused re-fused the advice of his handlers noi to engage in the contest, |