The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02

1 New York-I want to find Johnny l Dundee
 "whats Dundee@g got to do about
 it asked
 What's he got to do with it.
 what's he got to do with it?' beloved Ad, still splitting out blood and pieces of teeth. He's got everything to do
 wop couldn't hit-the damned liar. Wait till I get that Dundee" The treatment which Kansas accord ] ed to Wolgast, however, wasn't un- usual for Kansas. For a study of his record indicates that the little Italian boy ranks as one of the greatest light weights in the game.
 | But Fate has been rather unkind to | the kid. Twice he had a championship
 in his grasp--and twice an unwilling ness to punish his foeman further kept 1 h;m from achieving the heights. , Rocky Kansas, who was Rocco Tozze l before he began a prize ring career. fseems to be one of those rare pugil- istic ls-tender-hearted just l when a real show of savagery would bring him to the goal he strives to reach.
 Kansas fought Freddie Welsh in l Buffalo two months before the Briton was knocked out by Benny Leonard. 1 Those who saw that fight claim that if Kansas had only gone out to fin- i ish Welsh that night he would have succeeded. Through the early rounds he hammered Welsh all around the ring. In the seventh he had the cham pion in a terrible way. The champion
 ship was in his grasp. fury of blows avagery-merciless pounding, and Welsh was through.
 But at that moment Kansas let up.
 And Welsh weathered the final rounds
 of the ten session clash, only to be
 hammered into the scrap heap two
 months later by Leonard.
 It has been contended by many that
 Kansas paved the way for Leonard by
 beating Welsh so savagely that night
 in Buffalo lacing from which Welsh
 had not recovered up to the time he met Leonard
 Kansas fought Johhny Kilbane and
 floored the champ with a wicked left
 handers And then instead of follow
 ing it up he contented himself with
 tapping, while the crowd shrieked to
 him to finish the Irishman.
 Kansas fought Benny Leonard a
 year or so ago in Buffalo. In the sec
 ond he caught Leonard on the Adams
 apple with a left hook The blow drove
 eonard back to the ropes and the | spectators claim that Benny stalled | not only through that round but for
 three or four more. After the fight Leonard admitted that the punch was about the hardest he had ever taken It seemed to drive my Adams apple against the back of my neck and couldn't draw a long breath for fivt rounds"
 Kansas has battled the best of then zszand he either has knocked out ol floored the bulk of his opponents. Ht knocked down George Clancy twice in 1917 fight and won the decision by a mile. He floored Willie Jackson for the count of mine" in two differ ent fights. He held Lew Tender to 6 draw, fought Johhny Dundee twice
 whipped Jimmy Duffy and a host oi others.
 Rocco Tozze was a Buffalo news. boy until he was 16 One night he heard there was to be battle royar and the winner was to get 50 cents That was "big money" to the kid back in 1911, So he entered the affair and found himself tossed into the same ring with four negroes.
 It was to be the survival of the fit test. The man who was on his feet after the other four were down was to be acclaimed the winner. The negro boys resented the intrusion of Rocco Tozze into their private quarrel. Sc they attacked him in a group. The kid fought them off. whipped the four
 after 30 minutes of fighting-and ever since he's been a ringman