Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-23
OTHERS COOKING REASON FOR
LEONARD TRAINING IN NEW WORK.
! INSTEAD OF AT ATLANTIC CIV
mess of Bennys Sister Necessitates Mrs. Leiner's
Nursing, So Champion Sacrifices Shore
Camp for Meals at Home
BY LOUIS H. JAFFE

superintendent of Police Robinson,
IA 4 squad of detectives, will be at
v;neside of the Benny Leonard
S.srny Kilbane bout Wednesday night
. ~ that spectators are given run
I. their money. The least inclination
I .t,ll by either champion or any move
"a. by the boxers that would lead
4. detectives to believe the bout was
s,.me.up will result in an order from
Ssbiuson to stop the bout.
[S,rNNY LEONARD, lightweight entry in
,he intra-championship combat with j.
v,lbane, featherweight, at Shibe Park
.snesday night will arrive here for the
sds record twenty ou'-eighteen-mnute
rre on the morning of the scheduled con-
IN The conqueror OF Fred Welsh is
xr,sb,ng training preparations in New York
sstsad of Atlantic City which spot has
wed a good omen in the Gotham glove.
rsus important bouts.
4 n was at the A. c. resort that Leonard
s,snared for his seven.round Ritchie
Evtchell knockout and it also was there
4 mai Benny got in shape for the nine-round
nyo that carried with 1t the lightweight
Illness on the part of Leonard's young
/ {ader sadye shot Benny Leonards Atlantic
ryty plans to bits. Mrs. Leiner was unable
h leave the child's bedside, and as his
mother is Benny's chief and only chef while
n Is in training, the lightweight king also
4 ia to remain in little old New York
|1ief Cook
Mrs Leiner's cooking gives him great in.
piration for boxing. Leonard says. He
wouldn't eat meals prepared by the best
def in the world only those by mother
4 dmr, while getting into condition. Then
bo by going to the shore Leonard would
have found the pleasant motherly smile
anong the missing, and that wouldn't be
4 nsht, is Benny's perfectly good way Of
nnkng.
Il with mother's eats and her smile in
iuded in his training, Leonard could get
Z no perfect shape whether in the country,
IN the ocean orsin the city. and when Kill
kns endeavors to knock off the New
Yorker and vice versa, the Irishman will
IA his, Hebrew antagonist in the same
uaditon as the night Welsh was forced to
rlinqulsh his death grip on the 133-pouEd
'epwr.
ofeatest Of All
Klbane will be accomplishing the greatest
1T In history of pugilism II he succeeds in
|nting the skids under Leonard. In buck
n up against Benjamin Leiner, J. Patrick
nfkles the superior of preceding lightweight
AAmplons, il we are to believe an old.
timer who has seen 'em all since the days
~ Jack McAullffe.
Fans who remember holders of the title
~ the last twenty years may be surprised
niek the assertion that Leonard has un-
sksedented class both as a boxer and
Inter; not oply surprised, but really
tEked vet the old-timer in question will
( init that Leonard Is one modern fisticuf-
Z n who is equal II not superior, to the
4 tWs gladiators Of the past.
leonard excels any Of his predecessors
Ahe championship" says this o. T., land ]
have closely watched the former lightweight
kings In important contests. This statement
u made after studying Leonard at close
nnr
Cosders All
7 have in mind Jack McAuliffe. an ag-
rtsive, hard-h hitting battler, but with only
modlcum Of the scientific attainments Of
Leonard.
George Lavigne was youngster OF tre-
mendous power, combativeness and punch
Ing ability, but entirely lacked in defen-
1--WE skill and powerless to reach clever
boxers, as witness his unsuccessful efforts
70 land on Kid Mcfarland, Griffo and
Frank Erne.
Frank Erne, a clever boxer and fair
hitter, lacked the generalship and aggres-
eveness of Leonard.
Joe Cans. the greatest lightweight of his