Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-27
LEONARD WINNER
FROM YELLING
IN l4TH ROUND
Worlds Champion Light
weight Successfully De-
tends Title in Madison
Square Garden, N. Y.
tBy The Associated press)

Leonard, worlds champion light
weight, successfully defended his
title and won the $4,000 diamond
belt, emblematic of the title Of the
championship which was present
ed to him by Tex Richard when he
scored technical knockout over
Loe yelling of Chicago in the four
teenth round of what was TO have
been q fifteen round bout at Madi-
son Square Garden tonight Leon
ard did not show the effectiveness
of his punches until the thirteenth
round when he sent Wellington
down three times, Wellington go
ing through the ropes on one or
two Of these occasions and was
very groggy going to his corner.
Round OnC---Af ter some spar
ring, yelling landed right to the
body Leonard hooked a left TO the
head and after an exchange Leon
ard sent a right halfrarm uppercut
TO the chin. There was no damage
| done.
Round Two.--They exchanged
rights and let's to the body and
Leonard hooked a right to the face.
| Both landed left and rights to the
! head at close quarters. Leonard
kept jabbing lefts to the face ana
sent three hard lefts to the body,
| blocking Welling's right lead to
| the head. Leonard kept forcing
| the pace to the bell, doing nearly
all the leading.
Round Three.--Leonard hooked
a hard left to the ear and sent an
| other to the nose. yelling was
| strictly on the defensive, seeming
! tn be waiting for Leonard to tire
| from his efforts. yelling was eau
tionnd by the the referee for hit
! ting low on the body. At short
range yelling put two rights TO
! the body and Leonard hooked his
fright to the head. There was some
| infjghting with no damage. the
men exchanging light rights to the
| head.
Refund F'our.--At close quarters
| yelling sent three short rights toll
the body and then Leonard stepped
back and in again with left and
right to the head. yelling sent
back a hard right to the head |
Leonard jabbed left to face and |
! Yelling clinched. After the break !.
| Leonard sent a hard right to the |
head and missed a wicked left |
hook.
Round Five. Yelling tabled left |
to face and Leonard sent LETT !
to body and a right hook to head |
Leonard sent half a dozen lefts to
the body and Yelling hooked MS !
right to the head. After some |
sparring, Leonard missed right |
swing to the head at the bell
Round Six-Leohard kept jab-
bling, to the body and then sent |
his left hard to the body and head
without a return. Leonard put
more steam in his blows at this
stage and sent right and left to
the head following with three
vicious right uppercuts. yelling
hooked his left to the face and re-
ceived a vicious return right to
the chin.
Round straightforward jabbed
three let's to the body anu they
exchanged rights to the head
Then Leonard staggered yelling
with a left hook to the ear and
followed with a right to the body
forcing yelling into a neutral cor
ner and driving two rights to the
head before the gong sounded.
Round Eight--Leonard sent
three jabs to the body. After a
clinCh Leonard hooked a hard left
to the head yelling jabbed left
to the face and was driven back
with II stiff right to the head.
Benny swung right to head and
hooked right to Jaw Two hard
rights to the head from Leonard
made yelling vince.
Round Ten-I.eonard hooked his
left to the head three times and
drove a hard right to the stom-
ach. The champion was outlook
ing and outfighting his man but
his blows seemed to lack steam
although making weight had
weakened him. Leonard sent his
right to the head twice while
yelling did not land an effective
blow during the round.
Round Tcn-There was a lot of Il
fiddling in this round. which was
rather tame until Leonard sent his
left to the body and followed it
with a hard right to the face. II
Leonard hooked two lefls to the
face and they We're sparring at
the bell. '
Round Elevcn-I.eonard drove 1
his right over the heart and Well
ing countered right on the head.
Leonard hooked left to the body Il
and head. Leonard kept forcing
but there was good deal of
clinching. Leonard tried right i
swing for the head but it went wild
just before the bell.
Round Twelve -- Both landed i
rights to the head and Benny kept
boring in, sending lefts to the
body. yelling going into a clinch
frequently. Benny hooked a hard i
right to the ear. He jabbed left
three times and hooked his right
again to the head. At close quar-
tiers, Leonard sent two rights to the
body and followed it with short
half short arm upperout, yelling
going to his corner seemingly UNI
Round Thircen--Leonard sent
left and right to body and right
to the head, yelling still being on
the defensive. Leonard hooked
right to the jaw staggering yelling
who fell backward through the
ropes but was up again in q mo-
ment. Leonard rushed at him
again, sending yelling down again
for count of two, Then he bat
tered him all over the ring with
lefts and rights sending yelling
down once again for q count Of
four. yelling got up again very
groggy and he staggered into his
corner as the bell rang.
Round Fourteen--Welling was
In distress but game as he came
up Leonard hooked left to head
and sent two rights to the jaw,
yelling going down for a count of
seven. Benny was overanxious and
missed swinging right uppercut.
Leonard swung another right on 4