1929-01-29 — Page 9

TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1929.

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ICE BREAKS

STAMPEDE AT RACE

MEETING

NO CASUAL TIES.

Swavesey Fen, (Cambs), Yesterday,

The British amateur ice skating championships over 1 miles re- sulted as follows:-

C. Horn (holder) 5 min. 43 sec. G. Martin

min. 1 sec. 6 min. 15 sec.

J. Beba...... 22 competed As a rapid thaw set in the race was decided on water-covered ice, which later began to break. The spectators stampeded and many were immersed.

All were rescued. Reuter.

BRILLIANT TENNIS

TOURIST WINS IN SOUTH · AUSTRALIA

Adelaide, Yesterday. In the Australasian lawn tennis

championship Beal J. Gregory of the British touring team beat R. Schlesinger (Victoria) 6-2, 6-2, 5-7, 7-5. Gregory gave the most brilliant exhibition ever seen in South Australia.-Reuter.

BENNY LEONARD

HOW HE ROSE TO FAME

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the next show. After a couple of other bouts in which Benny show ed some natural ability Gibson suggested that he come around afternoons and train with the boys in the gym, and learn a little more. Mot long after that Benny began to work up towards the final bouts. Gibson became interested and suggested that he'd personally do Benny's match-making and help him along. Benny agreed. That agreement was the only contract the two ever had. In a few months Benny was a favourite in the Bronx, where they liked to see him dance around and tap the other follows without being hit They called him "the feather duster puncher." And then one day Gibson called Benny into the office for a conference.

•

Learned to Punch "You've gone as far as you can To go this way," said Gibson. any farther you'll have to learn how to punch. There never was a champion yet who didn't have a knock-out punch.”

Benny went to work learning the trick of slipping over the punch that wins. His next bout was the

New Orleans Mandot, a famous light-weight-very clever-a good

fighter. Benny little

knocked Mandot out, most unexpectedly. The crowd thought it was a cident. But Benny went right along knocking out better and bet- ter fighters, until he got Freddy Twice Freddy was too Welsh. clever to

Then the be caught. third time Benny hung him on the ropes and Kid McPartland count- ed Welsh out and passed the world's light-weight title along to

Leonard.

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ANOTHER RECORD FOR BRITISH MUSEUM

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The collection of gramophone records of famous people preserved for posterity in the British Museum has been enriched by the gift of the matrix from which the record of the King's speech at the opening of the now Tyne bridge at Newcastle was mande.

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(By Robert Edgren) Billy Gibzon tells a story about

This is the second record of a how Benny, Leonard became

speech by the King which the fighter. Billy ran the old Fair-

museum possesses, the other one 'mont A. C. in the Bronx for many Bonny became one of the clever-being his speech at the opening of

hobbyest of the champions, made a for- the Wembley Exhibition. years. It Was more than an incume proposition, for tane and retired. Bill. He liked boxing, and the · All because someone left a ven- club provided jobs for some oftilating window open at the old Billy's friends. All the kids in the Fairmont late one afternoon. But neighbourhood were boxing and for that Benny Leinert might ba when any of them went on in a fearning -25 dollars Д week show thoir pais

couldn't selling who

ribbons over someone's ruise the necessary fty cents counter, and the ring might for A seat tried nll sorts have lacked one of its most of tricks to get in. Some interesting and cleverest box- times they slipped in during the ers. afternoon training and hid under the ring pntil night, when they crawled out and found seats. Or they climbed through a window. One show night Billy saw a watch man corner & small bunch of boys who couldn't show tickets. Billy stopped and looked them over, Не was too soft hearted to have them thrown out.

First-Ring Experience **You want to see the show do you ?" he asked. "Want to very much, do you?"

Bill was assured that the boys certainly did want to see the show. Otherwise why, had they climbed in through an open ventilator?

"Well," said Bill, temporising. I don't see how I can let you all in for nothing. Can any

Benny Leonard has been a model for all light-weights for the past fifteen years. And he al ways. was a clean, fair fighter, a student of boxing, a game fighter when he needed gameness, and with intelligence that enabled him to weather a knockdown in an early round and come right back winning.

J

Benny Leonard set a new model He for lightweight champions. combined

3 lot of skill with plenty of hard hitting. When he came in, the old rough house styles of Nelson and Wolgast went out of fashion. But there hasn't been

Benny Leonard another

since

Benny dropped out.

Lest We Forget Kid Lavigne, a of you

great light- weight champion long before "This kid can box," eagerly Benny Leonard's time, died a few volunteered the bunch, pushing out months ago and is buried in an

box ?"

Michigan cemetery. Some of the

a small, dark-eyed boy who looked unmarked grave in a Saginaw, almost too seraphic to be a fighter.

"Can you 7" asked Gib. "Not very much.”

Would you box four rounds if

I let the other guys have seats to look on?" asked Gib. The small,

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THURSDAY

ever was a fighter who deserved a What a fight Lavigne was! Heniche in some Hall of Fame it was smooth-faced boy said he'd try, went to England

to fight Burge, jold Bob. Gibson went down into the dres-the British lightweight champion, Jeffries Still a Drawing Card B. Ind. G. Bonds Kill:663⁄41⁄2% ¤ sing-rooms and looking over the and when Burge refused to weigh Jim Jeffries, former heavy-H.K. Govt. Loans 2.5% b Prom. bunch, picked out a young boxer in, having far out-grown the class, weight champion, has been on the who wasn't too tough and told the Lavigne laughed and said he didn't road with a sbow for several seconds to put him on with the want Burge's weight forfeit and months and is soon going for a smooth-faced boy in the first pre- didn't want the match cailed off. tour of Europe, Jim's brother Jack liminary. Then Gibson forgot about it until, standing up in the He'd fight Burgo if Burge weigh-apara with him in the show, just as he did in the days when Jim back near the office as usual, heed a ton. He knocked Burge out.

was champion, and the greatest of. them all. The world seems still He whipped Joe Walcoth; the to be interested in the old-timers. "Giant Killer" who could knock Perhaps if Jack Dempsey will wait out men of

double Lavigne's until he has been out of the ring weight, and did it.

as long as Jeffries he will be as There's a stone over the Non-great a drawing card on pareil's grave the original Jack

boards. be yelled. That's how Benny got Dempsey-up in Portland, Oregon." the ring name that was to become Perhaps it may keep his memory

The monthly meeting of the Re- famous.

alive when the generation that ferees Association will be held at Benny won that frat fight with-saw him is gone. The same the Chaplain's Hat, Scandal Point, out even having his hair mussed. should be done for Kid Lavigne on Friday, February 1, at 6.00 Gibson told him to come back for And it seems to me the world

Enw the bout. The announcer asked the smoth-faced boy bis

name.

"Benny Leinert," he said.. The turned around and waved his hand to the crowd.

announcer

"In this corner-Benny Leonard,"

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