The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-13
Leonard Should
 Glue Chas. White A Return Match
BY JAMES J. coRBETT

It's rather singular that Charlie White . is entirely overlooked when eastern promoters look around for logical foeman of Benny Leonard. | If any lightweight in America seems entitled to another crack at the cham pion, it's the westerner who gave Leonard one of the toughest fights of his career last July. He showed more against Leonard in that clash in Ben I-ton Harbor than any man has shown since Benny dethroned Freddie Welsh in 1917.
 Leonard has announced his willing ness to fight anybody" Tex Rick ard, under whose auspices Leonard will appear in his first fight under the new boxing law in New York, has been searching for someone who can give Benny real, enough battle. The names of a half-dozen different light weights have been mentioned, but Whites has not been discussed pub licly.
 Maybe Rickard is considering White seriously-but in secret-and at the proper time will make White an offer to battle the champion of the light 1 weights. If so, he's genuinely certain Of putting over mighty fistic suc- cess, for no lightweight battle con ceivable would attract more interest than. another between Leonard and the terrific hitting veteran from Chicago. For nearly three years after Leon ard won the championship. White trailed the king of the 135-ponnders and begged match. Leonard ignored him until last spring. Then he hark- ened to the pleas of the fight public to I"give White a chaneen--and a wonder full battle in Benton Harbor was the result.
 Leonard went into that fight lack ing somewhat in superlative physical condition. Several months of loafing. while at work in the movies" in Cali fornia, had slowed him a trifIe White, fully aware of that fact. carried the battle to Leonard with cyclonic rush.
 GIVES BENNY GREAT BATTLE
 White, according to newspaper &C., counts of that affair, hammered Leon ard industriously for more than four rounds, scored heavily in each and had Leonard in bad way. In the fifth, White unlimbered his far-famed left hook--and it landed solidly on Leonard's chin. Tho champion was driven against the ropes with such force that he fell through them and into the press box.
 It so happened that Leonard's brother was right where he landed. He quickly gathered Benny together and showed him back into the ring an action which beat the count which the referee had already started. Many of Whites adherents have since claimed that Leonard was out of the ring longer than the fatal 10 seconds, but that the referee lost his count at the same moment he lost his temper.
 BROTHER SAVES HIM
 Ed Smith of ChfcaOo ,.yoc +ha rh; trator. Stories have 1t that he had reached the count of five" when he saw. Leonard's brother helping Ben
 back into the ring. This incensed Smith. who figured that such an ac- tiopNwas. in certain way a foul. and he swung his fist at Leonard's brother. He lost several seoonds---some say 6 or 1--by his action. and when he re- sumed the count Leonard was back in the ring and on his feet.
 From then on 1t was terrific mill with honors belonging to White. But in the eighth round Benny got to Char lie with a pile driver smash and hurt him considerably. So eager was White to finish Leonard that he tossed science. and caution to the four withstand instead of stalling until he had recov- cred from that stiff punch he sailed right into Leonard again.
 Leonard landed once more on the wobbly White-and White went down. That marked the beginning of the end for White He was a knockout vic- Nm in the ninth. But in defeat White Was not disgraced. He fought a great fight--a wonderful one--and he cer- tainly deserves another crack at I.eon- ard
 Here's the hope he gets it--a hope in which I feel pugilistic fandom jsins me to the limit. For fights between men like Leonard and White are the fights that make pugilism the splendid sport that it is.
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