New-York tribune., 1919-12-11
Brooklyn Boy
Reaten Down
In 2 Rounds
lightweight Champion Has
Easy Time; Reich Victor
in I'd, Benjamin in 5th

Kenny Leonard celebrated his last
..,. Of the current year by knocking
us, Ccosan, the Flathush aspirant,
.;..,nr in the second round of the
s,seduied eignu-ro~nd fight, ut the
,xpa A. A. IN Jersey City last night.
r,cssn's seconds started to throw
cater on the PROSTATE gladiator in an
.sort to revive him and Referee Ertle
stopped the bout.
there were two other kncckouts on
.ha card. Billy Glbson's new light
.s;rht protegd from California, knocked
-. Tommy Tuorey IL the 18th round
n most workman.ike fashion. Al
pe,cn came back and scored technical
srockout over Al Roberts, The pride of
Ssaten Island. Roberts was groggy and
helpless against the ropes after beng
foored for tAe fourth time, when the
referee stopped the tight in the second
round.
there were more than 10000 inside
The 4th Regiment Armory Building
vhen the bouts began. and something
ike 600 were turned away. Under
The direction of Promoter Dave Dris-
,el the Jersey police. aided by Ma
,,onal Guardsmen, kept some semblance
Il order. in spite of atterpfs to rush
the gates OF the armory.
For the frst round Leonard seemed
to be taking hing easily. while Coogan
xas making some Wild rushes and de-
liverlng some vicious swings, which
Leonard duched. y the galleries they
we're clamoring for leonard to knock
him o. but the charpion paid no
heed.
With the opening of the second round
Leonard proceeded TO show just what
he could 90 when he set his mind on 1t.
Feinting with tie left, he crossed
Coogan On the jaw and dropped him.
Coosan was up again only 10 be met
with another right that sent him to the
mat and rolled nim over.
1t this Coogan's corner went wild.
Scotty Monteith, his manager, screamed
IN Highland dialect and one OF the
SECONDS. seizing sponge, sprayed the
fallen Coogsn in an effort to revive
hin. AT this Referee Ertle stepped
over ard pushed Leonard to his cor
ner, signifying that tie bout was over
and that the fallen Coogan had been
disqualified.
IL was decisive enough at that.
Coogan probably could not have risep,
and II ne had he would have encoun-
iered another right and taken another
dive.
Leonard, vho had been i'll from
aeavy cod q few weeks ago, certainly
sAowed that he had recovered COM
pletely. After fddli e through tn
a.st round ard studying Coogan with
azy celebration he went ont 70 finish
n.m in The second round and certainly
did it. The punch that Coogan re-
esived from "Pinky" Mitchell out in
Milwaukee certainly did not do him
any good
fIoorcd Four Times
Fou. times IN less than five minutes
q milling Roberts Kissed the canvas.
Gameness he had, but not much else to
carry him along against his heavier
rival
Reich scored his first knockdown in
:he o-e1ing ro-nd, when q fierce right
uppercut sent Roberts down for nine.
The Staten island heavy came back
sanely after getting to his feet, and
got home two or three lefts and rights
70 Reich's Jaw. The "Adon.s" looked
Bit hustered at such treatment, but
survived.
In the second round Reich shot
ever left nook 20 the jaw, and down
aopped Roberts for a nine count A
few seconds later he was on the floor
again from a crushing right hook to
the jaw, and then Reich beat him down
Si.h furry OF rights and lcfts.
Exit Robe rs from the squared circle,
nut Jack Dempsey's crown is sill safe
benjamin and Touhey were the next
par OF lnerry little entertainers. Ben
lsm:r scaled in al 133 IL pounds ard
lolhey at 1885, Phil Erhardt was the
-efaree. Beria settled T'ommy's
case n tn fifth round, the Paterson
Sec" going down three times in this
session.
The fir. trip to the nat came about
Jew and partly as 4 result Of Tonhey's
slipping, bit there was no mistake
ABOUT the second knookdown. Joe shot
over beautiful right-hand straight to
NE Jaw md Tommy tumbled over
oa'kward. He refused to stay put"
however, and rushed right into &
clnch. Benjamin wrestled himself
iFee, and again toppled Tommy with
hail of blows to tie jaw.
Fouhev got up at eve" but Benia-
mn appealed to the referee to stop
me bout and Erhardt pushed Touhey
70 his corner, and it was all over.
benlamin looked very good last
Algnt. he showed wicked right hand
70 the Jaw and laid Touhey low with
ms punch in the first round.
iomm. came back strong in the sec
ond session and staggered Joe with
"llt left swing to the jaw. Red
was at his best in the intiehting. l.
me next two rounds Tommy held his
V.wn, but Benjamin was biding his
tst, eme ard let loose that INT in til :
18th set to.
After the ring had been cleared and
swo OF Touhey's gold molars, which
nau BEEN dislodged by Benjamin. j
mauiers. swert up by the ianitot they
got ready for the main 20.
ne program began at $50 o'clock
WIN an overture in four scenes be-
s~een Tommy Goodwin, of New York.
ana Barr Norton. ''the Idol Of Wall
street" 1he bankers and brokers evi-
ee At,y worship idols with feet of CLAW.
ior harry was appointed receiver of
eveFythinr IN the Goodwin firm. and
NJ 4 the position of trust we'll He
aidn't miss thing during the four
ROUNDS. The boys are ligntweights.