The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-10
Battling Levinsky, Clever Jewish Boxer,
 24 Tomorrow

Battling Levinsky, the Jewish light heavyweight who at one time looked like a rising champion of the world, will pass his twenty+fourth milestone tomorrow. Not so very long ago Dumb Dan Morgan, the wen-known tongue tied milestone sphinx, was pro claiming the Hebrew battler the white heavyweight champion of the world and was offering to match him against Jack Johnson. AS for Jess Willard and Jim Cofey-weIl, take it from Dumb Dan, those fighters had cold cni1Is whenever the name of Levinsky was uttered in their pres ence. Since those halycon days of Ievinsky's career he has had much hard -sledding and has not lived up to his early promise. He has even been outpointed by George One-Round Davis, of Buffalo, who has been whip ped by most of the heavies in the Diff business Levinsl<y has also been out pointed by Tom McSarty, the Montana fighter, and other second-raters, and had travel his fastest to get a draw with Porky Flynn.
 Levinsky was born in Philadelphia on June 10, 1891, and, it is said his real name is Barney Lebaritz He first appeared in the ring in 1910, when he fought under the name of Barney Williams. The Hebrew took ; winning about a third of 'em by knockouts. In 1911 he defeated Leo Houck and Jeff Clark, among others. In 1912 the BattIer was a very busy boxer, participating in about thirty contests. He fought Eddie McGoorty to a draw in Philadelphia. outpointed Joe Grim in the same city, defeated Tony Caponi in Atlanta, outpointed Dick Gilbert four times in Jackson vile, Fla, and met many other good men,. He began the 1918 campaign by fighting One-Round Davis and Jack (Twin). Sullivan in Buffalo, and l it was in that year that the obscure Philadelphia middleweight began to be touted as a coming heavyweight champion. His bouts with Jim Coffey and Jim Flynn in New V ork showed 1 lots of class, and the sport writers Levinskys weight, which is around ITO pounds, was no bar to heavy weight championship aspirations. His victory over Gunboat Smith was hail. l ed as a great triumph, but since then | the Hebrew has been defeated by the l Gunboat in New Orleans.
 Levinsky is still young, and, in spite
 of recent reverses, he may yet attain
 the championship goal He is five feet eleven inches in height, is a na-
 tural fighter, thinks quickly, has a 1 fine Knowledge of the finer points of I I11e game a. SOOd Wdl1OPs speed and
 stamina, and is game. With those l qualities he ought to travel far, and, while a1ibis get a fighter nothing, ii must be remembered that a boxer is a yooman being and subject to off days 1 like the rest of
 | Levinsky was educated in the Phil
 adeIptia schools and started life as a
 clerk in a jewelry store. He became l interested in boxing through his l friendship with a pugilist to whom he sold a chunk of ice, and joined ar amateur club. One night Levinsky
 strayed by mistake into a, labor unior meeting, and came under suspicion o. l being a spy. The whole bunch lit or l him, but LeVinsky knocked down si1 l nen-Dan Morgan says so-and go
 away. That put the idea into his heac
 that maybe he could make nor, money by box-fghting than in the 1 jewelry business. He soon put tn,
 idea into effect, and made his rin,
 debut under the name of Barney VII
 Hams, which remained his fightin,
 monaker for three years, when h,
 adopted the name of Levinsky, which
 if not the name he was born with, a
 least indicated his racial origin.