New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-23
Chance of Knockout
Lures Boxing Fans

The ten-round no-deeision game has
reduced boxing TO a profitable exercise.
There probably will never be another
boxer of the Battling Nelson type. The
Durable Dane, if he were just break
ing into the game at this time, would
never be heard of. Any Of the second
raters could outpoint him in a ten
round bout The Battler could not get
warmed up TO the point Of mild per-
spiration in ten rounds. His type be-
longs to the past, when champions and
near-champions risked their all every
time they signed for bout.
In these days a champion could box
every week under the rules and not
risk his title to any perceptible extent.
That is why the fact that title holder
is engaged in a bout exctes no ex-
traordinary interest
II often starts us TO wondering what
q ten-round fighter would do II he were
engaged In a forty-five round bout,
which Is practically fight to finish.
We wonder how Welsh or Leonard
would map their campaigns if each
knew that either he or the other man
had TO take the count. 1t is a specula-
tion which will never be decided for US.
Leonard's chances to annex the light
weight championship at Washington
Park Friday night will depend entirely
upon his condition. When he fought
Welsh at Madison Square Garden
Leonard was as trim a young athlete
as ever crawled through the ropes.
Welsh, too, was at his best and deter
mined to "show up the pretender"
But with Welsh trained 70 the min
ute and using every ring trick he had
acquired in his long experience, Leon
ard just walked away with him. He
made the champion look like a novice,
and once or twice IL seemed as though
the younger man would win tho title
before the ten rounds were over.
Welsh was sore in mind and body
when il was over.
But shortly after this fight Leonard
engaged in q bout with Johnny Dundee
and fought as though his shoes were
filed with lead. He was over weight,
pasty-faced and out Of condtion. II
he is in that condition when he faces
Welsh Friday night the champion will
make him pay dearly for il, for Welsh
dislikes Leonard intensely. 1t is the
hatred of the elder gladiator for the
younger man who is beginning to force
the pace.
Leonard's friends claim that he has
worked himself out Of his slump. But
a boxer and his friends are the poorest
judges of his condition. Frank Moran
and his trainers were confident that
Francis Charles was in shape for the
Dillon fight. II Leonard is not at his
best when he faces Welsh Friday night
he will be given a decided lesson on
the tragedy OF unprepsredness.
Frank Moran is preparing TO fit 20
Tulsa, Oklahoma, with Ike Dorgan and
staff. about the first of the monuth.
He believes that the trip and the mild
exercise which he will receive In box
ing Carl Morris, the Sapulpa Giant,
will put him back in shape for a return
match with Dillon.
That last affair with Ernest Cutler
Price cost Moran thousands in pres
tige. and he will not hold the sorrel-
topped head erect again until he has
made the Giant Killer suffer for it,.
When Moran trains TO the condition he
showed when he stepped into the ring
with Jess Willard, Ernest Cutler Price
will spend an anxious and interesting
evening.