Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-12
B. LEONARD HAS
TOUGH TWIN JOB
FOR THIS WEEK
Gotham X. O. Lad Meets
Dundee Tonight and Welsh
Friday in N. Y.
BROADWAY SHOW TONIGHT

Little Benny Leonard has n big Job on
his hands this week The Gotham knock
out walloper tackles two Of his leading RI
walls for lightweight honors. Johnny Dun
dee will take on the Hebrew idol In Madi-
| son Square Garden New York, tonight, and
Friday evening Freddy Welsh will hold up
| his title In the ring at Washington Park,
| Brooklyn, for Leonard TO punch at
Extra Significance attaches to tonlghts
| affair because OF the effect II may have on
| Leonard in either improving or hindering
his chances to best the champion. Looking
back through the record books not a single
case can be found where lightweight chal-
| lenEer has faced another opponent four
| days before his crack at the title.
II Is within the bounds of possibility that
Leonard will even derive benefit from the
encounter with Dundee in the line of get.
ting his judgment of distance and fighting
| instinct at keen edge.
Leonard Takes Big Chance
That will not be true however, II Dun
dee should manage to make Leonard exert
large part of his strength or administer
much punishment.
Either one of these eventualities would
impair the Harlemite's changes against
Welsh, just as his chances would be marred
in case he injured his hands by hitting
Dundee too hard
The kind of bout that would put Leon
ard on edge for Welsh would be a nice
pretty little boxing match in which neither
man landed any very hard punches.
Leonard has met both Dundee and Welsh
before He defeated the Scotch Italian by
slight margin in n contest full of action
and overwhelmed the champion on points.
The Englishman was able to do little but
protect himself from what seemed to be an
impending knockout.
Welshs Rally Missing
Even Welsh's customary tenth-inning
rally did not materialize against Leonard,
who set the pace early and carried 1t clear
through to the finish The New York youth
eXcelled The aging titlehoder so far that
there arc reasonable grounds for the belief
in some quarters that he may knock out the
champion next time
Welsh has been outpointed on many
casions within the last two years, but he
has proved mighty hard proposition to
stop. There is no doubt that Leonard will
have to be in his very best form in order
to score his hoped-for knockout. Whether
he is in his best form depends largely on
Dundee.
The last Leonard Dundee combat was
about as fierce affair lightweghts
have offered in a ring, according to specta-
tors Each man scored a knoclSdown which
made 1t an even thing on that score. but
Leonard had somewhat the better OF the
rest of the struggle.
one fact strongly In Leonards favor in
estimating his chances is his youth, which
makes It probable that he has improved
since his last starts He Is only 90 years
old, to Dundee's 23 and Welshs 80. He has
been boxing two years less than Dundee
and seven years less than Welsh.
Blackburn at Broadway
Tonight's the night for the first Monday
show at Muggsy Taylor's Broadway A. C.
during the summer campaign. Jack Black
burn, the negro boxer who was the greatest
fighting machine known to fstiana several
years ago, when he met ightweights, well |
terweights middleweights and heavyweights |
alike, is the big feature of tonights per-
formance.
Blackburn has not been seen in local
competition for more than two years, dur |
ing which time he has been boxing around |
indianapolis, his home town. His oppo- |
nent, Lengthy Joe Rosen, tonight will have |
decided advantage in weight, height and |
reach, but Blackburn probably will find this |
handicap no obstacle
Other numbers at the Broadway tonight |
follow Eddie Hinclle VS.. Jack Buchanan, |
Willie Benckert VS.. X o. Wagner, Johnny |
Earle VS.. Young Stinger and Johnny Adams |
VS.. Young Augatis
Pal Moore VS.. Mickey Gallagher and X.
o. Tommy Jamison VS., Danny Murphy are |
the respective feature trays at the Model |
and Ryan clubs for tomorrow night
frankie Sparks and Wally Nelson are
booked for the semi at Barney Fords club,
while Adam Ryan has Charley Rear and
Young Jack Toland paired off for the first
half of double windup.