The Alaska citizen., 1916-08-07
BATTLING lEVINSkY
 BUSIEST OF BOXERS

BUSIEST OF BOXERS
 NEW YORK To our mind one Of the most amazing figures in the fstic game today or m any other line of sport, for that matter. is Barney Lebrowitz. better fnown in linear circles as Battling Levinsky
 Be Y understood that this is not one Of those pugilstic press notices IL was not written for the purpose of promoting interest in any Levin. sky match. Up to the moment ot typewriting. We had not heard of Levinsky being booked for a local engagement. and to further disarm suspicion that We may be ballyhOo- ing the Battler for publicity pur- poses, We might add that were he booked We could not conscientiously advise anyone to walk further than around the corner to see it
 Not if they were seeking fistic thrills. anyway. and certainly not If they had seen Levinsky before. If you have seen one of Levin sky's fights you have seen them all, or nearly all. They are of a piece. There is rarely any pros pect of the unexpected occurring in his battles. He will be there al the finish, but so will the other fellow More often than not, Le- vinsky will be away out in front in the matter of points, too, for Le- whisky, despite the lack of variety in his contests. is a pretty good fighter.
 He is not as good a fighter as his voluble manager would have you believe, perhaps, but he is away above the average. If one likes to see cleyerness, speed and ring generalship exploited to an unusual degree, Levinsky will always give them good show, but there is sel- dom anything blood-curdling about his exhibition. Some very ridicu- lous cla ms are made in Levnsky's S behalf. but, disregardng those claims, the fact remains that the Battler is today remarkable young man in more ways than one.
 In six years Levinsky has had nearly 150 battles. It is believed that he is pretty close to ring SiS he has established a modern day mark There are quite number of other fighters who have registered more than 150 battles, but not in six years Sam Langford Is beyond that figure, but Samuel has been laborln2 in the vineyard of pugilistic endeayOr for nearly fourteen years and in no six years did he get in as much work as Levinsky
 Some may contend that the Bat tier is an example of managerial greed rather than a lesson in ring industry. But We take it there IS no law compelling him to fight any oftener than he desires, and from the fact that he is taking them on bigger and tougher every fight, and still winning, We judge that he rather thrives on the game,
 Levinsky was 25 years old in June. He is native of Philadelphia, and began his ring career in 1910, start ing at the age of 19. He is one inch short of six feet tall and his weight is around ITO to 175 pounds, which puts him in the light-heavy class. He does not gives an observ- CT the impression of unusual rug gedness by any means; on the con, trary, when compared to other fight CTS who weigh no more than Le- whisky, the Battler looks rather frail.
 His record indicates that he must be possessed of unusual physical powers, however. Figuring ten rounds per battle as fair average he has gone through nearly 1500 rounds, which Is coniderable strain one way and another, especially when 1t Is remembered that those rounds were piled up in a few years. He has fought in cities all over the Unit ed States, from Boston to Butte, and south to New Orleans, and his fights have gone from one to twen- ty rounds
 Philadelphia Jack OBrien. who was about the same size as Levinsky got in an enormous amount of work before he quit the ring, but in no six years of his career did he meet as many men as the Battler. Even among the little fellows, who seem to fight much oftener than their big brothers, Levinskys record has not been surpassed.
 AS Levinsky is not the type of fighter that burns out quickly, 1t Is fair to asume that he has at least six years more of fighting before him, and at the rate he has been going, he will probably have over 300 battles behind him when he retires
 Jim Flynn. at 37 years of age. and