The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-08
-. ROBERT EpGREN


.uti mot be very long before the
ughtwc.ght crown Is tossed INTO tne
,rspa again Io be picked up oy some
new champion. Benny Lcoharu
,ror through as a fighter. phy-
s5cally. but II he has any ring am
hUjon now it Is TO collect cnaih-
Ujonsbip IN "a larger weight class.
psrnv rather likcs the notion OF
,ocominr a king OF al tho welter-
.'o,vbts. II he succeeds he will do
VISA ,o,v Great champions have done
% s,a,, him. ana drop the title In the
,,.b,o. n.iy riass Making weight is be-
lr,i,c difflcult for Leonard. II he
eooade56 money he might be salts
,i.d "a rick hls health by keeping
10, near the l35-pound notch, but
goT gonrv doesn't need money. He has
tI,rty right now. He has reached
~. noint whore good health means
o-d s"o N him than the championship
nr ANYTHING else. because he needs
S,od health to enjoy his good for
tune. -,
baspencd 20 Joe Jams. Packey NC
rsriand and other great little men
who tried TO keep down TO an un.
natural poundage by continual hard
Ioe Cans was forced 70 drop from
,vo- t4O pounds to 1873 pounds In
his ring costume, to fight Battling
Nelson at Goldfield. Shortly after
,bn Goldfield battle Cans developed
tuberculosis. from which he died
couple OF years later.
Look nc Packcy Mcfarland.
Packey Mcfarland trained hard
and fought in the lightweight class
FOR wears. anxious TO capture the
uvhiweight title, when he should
have been fighting as a welter-
WEIGHT As a result OF that long
struggle TO stay light. Mcfarland is
now so lat that his old friends have
10 look at him three times before
thew know him. He weighs over
two hundred pounds.
In nature. as We learned In school,
every action has its equal and op-
pcsite reaction" Packey trained Off
hundreds OF pounds during the
course OF four or five active years
and now It looks as V all that
weight is trying to come back.
Benny has a haunting fear Of
tuberculosis, and he doesn't want
to become fat. Hence l doubt that
ne will much longer make any ac-
tive attempt to defend his light
weight title at the lightweight limit
He may never make even l35
pounds at ? o'clock again. And OF
course he cant hoh a title indefi-
nitely unless he is willing to make
the weight for any decision bout.
Trying out as Wrestler.
I looked Leonard over carefully in
Madison Square Garden few nights
ago when he boxed six rounds with
Ward, the Jersey welterweight.
Ward Is very fast and clever, sew
&c! inches taller than Iennard. and
fairly hard hittt-. Leonard boxed
him. apparently. to see how 1t felt
to box such a big fellow. He han
died Ward pretty well, and had the
better Of Il In hard biting. Benny's
weight e not announced. He
looked a good $40 pounds. His legs
are thicker than they used to be,
and Leonard's legs always have been
his s,urdiest point.
Benny used to have n back wide
At the shoulders and sloping in
sharply at the waist. Now, while he
doesn't show any excess fat, his
waist has broadcned. so that his
hack is far less wedge-like in con-
tour. Altogether, Leonard looked
4 little smaller above and n little
heavier below than when he was
fighting often and keeping down
near the lightweight limit
As he had fought a lightweight
only a week before, this would seem
10 Indicate that he IL through WITH
taking of much weight for ring en-