New Britain herald., 1915-02-12
 B H Manchester
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BY "GRANT.

Since the three fighting Wards gained fame and shekels in the ring nearly century ago there have been
 many brother acts in pugilism. but the Wallach clan takes the lead. Dr. Louis c. Wallach, New York's fight ing dentist, who is known in pugllls- tic literachoor as Leach Cross. is the
 best known of the bunch, but he has
 four brothers identified with the fight game. Leach, the patriarch of the scrapping Hebrew clan, will begin his
 thirtieth year today. having been
 born Feb. 12, 1886 in New ork city.
 The last of the Wallachs to take
 up the Diff sport is is Marty Cross. who
 made his debut a few months ago. 1t
 was memorable occasion on the
 East Side of New York, and for
 days before the Cross "baby" made
 his first public appearance the event was heralded by sandwich men who paraded the streets of the Jewish
 quarter. bearing banners printed in
 Yiddish Marty didn't show much science but he proved that he had
 mighty right hand wallop, very much like brother Leach's favorite punch
 Phil and Dave Cross have made fair records in the ring, although not in I1eachs class. Sam Wallach also had brief experience in the ring,
 but he soon quit the game and is now the manager of the Cross stable of fighters. As a boxer Sam is first class business man, and he and his brothers have prospered nightly.
 Leach Cross is a practicing dentist
 but he has found the fight game much more profitable than extracting the jumping molars of his Jewish f,.1n tln oaf fexxr I C1, has made as much as $3o,o00 a year from his ring activities. In his last few bouts he hasn't been up to his old form. He has twice been defeated by Gilbert Gallant, the French Canadian ligh htweight, and Joe Shu- grue had the best of him in ten- round bout in New York last month. Leachie insists that the twenty round game is his pie and his ring record indicates that he is right. It usually takes Leach several rounds to get warmed up to the work, but he has plenty of endurance, and is undoubt- edly at his best over the long route.
 Although fight fans are accustomed to think of Johnny Coulon, the form CT bantam champion, as Whiskered and venerable, he will pass his LW city IIllGSLOHG LOudy, ndVlnS been born Feb. 12, 1889, in Toronto 1 A boxer who has taken good care of 1 himself-and Johnny has done that ought not to be in the sere~and yell l low leaf at twenty-six. After Kid l Williams knocked him out in the l third round at Vernon last June the ex-champion announced that he was 1 through with the game, and that in l the future he would devote his whole 1 time to his cigar bushes Since then | he has had a hunch that maybe he's 1 not a dead one after all and at his age he ought to stand a chance to pull the comeback stuff. Coulon de- clares that he has saved about $75,- 900 during his ten years in the ring. All the fans who knew Johnny will wish him luck, for he was always a credit to the padded mitt game. There have been better fighters than Johnny, but the French-Irish-Canad an Yankee scrapper demonstrated that l 1t is possible to be both boxer and gentleman Such demonstrations are 1 all too few in these days when the boxing game is fighting for its exis- tence. Champions like Johnny held l to keep the game alive, and help to take the cuss off the activities of l such fighters as Jack Johnson.