New-York tribune., 1921-12-13
Lightweight Champion to
Oppose Joe yelling in
Bout at New Orleans
BY Fred Hawthorne

The old indoor sport of trying to
knock Benny Leonard, the lightweight
champion, loose from his brains will
begin again next week, when Benny
hooks up with Joe yelling in fifteen
round bout at New Orleans. Benjamin
has not been very busy with the gloves
for the last Few months, but for the
rest of the winter he evidently intends
to "do his stuff" let the chaps fall
where they may.
The last time yelling bumped into
Leonard, at the Garden, he set wicked
pace, and Benny, who had started the
muss confident Of flattening Joe in
four or five rounds, had all kinds of
misery in the ring with the Chicago
lightweight, and only knocked Yelling
out in the fourteenth round, and there
we're those who claimed yelling could
have continued but for the hasty action
of the referee.
Be that as 1t may, something tells
us that Joe Is not going to have much
to be thankful for on Christmas morn
ing. A bottle of arnica in his stocking
and roll of surgical tape would prob
ably be the most appropriate gifts that
Santa could bring Joe on Christmas
Day.
Will Then Tackle Mitchell
After milling with the wonderfully
willing" yelling on December %,
Benny will hop out to Milwaukee the
day after New Years and take on
Pinkie Mitchell, and here again the
psychic sense whispers to us that
Pinkie is going to wake up to discover
that he started the new year all wrong.
Benny's next move will be against
Jack Britton, the antique welterweight
champion, with whom he will prance
in twelve-round affair de glove. Jack
has reached that age where he would
bring fancy price at one Of those
cute. little "old curiosity" shops on
Madison Avenue that deal in objets
dart and prehistoric relics.
Although Jacks joints creak every
time he moves he can still scuttle
around ring and cover up skillfully
enough to avoid anything that looks
like sudden ruin in the way of punch.
If Benny wins he will cop Jacks well
terweight crown, and if he doesn't
Jack will probably chuckle into his
hoary whiskers and wait for the next
| youngster to come blithcly along.
More Punishment for Bike Riders
Poor Alf Goullet and Maurice Brocco,
partners in the recent six-day bike
race at the Garden, who went through
six days and nights Of torture on the
track, will suffer more punishment to-
night, when they will be the guests of
Sivey Burns, the matchmaker of the
| Broadway Exhibition Club, Of Brook
lyn. Silvey has invited All and Mau-
rice to occupy ringside chairs in the
arena when Italian Joe Cans and Phil
| HlOnn S1ncn l1oriprp ho1.n
a twelve-round bout Broccoli!
The semi-final bout at the Garden
on Friday night, when Tex Rickard will
offer Pepper Martin, Of Brooklyn, and
Harvey Bright, also from the unfortu-
nate end of Brooklyn Bridge, in ten
round soiree, is attracting almost as
much interest as the main go for fif-,
teen rounds between Lew Tender and
Sailor Friedman, the lightweights.
This young Martin person has been
creating "pandemonium," as our late
lamented old friend, John P. Dunn,
used to phrase it, in the ranks Of the
local featherweight during the last
few weeks, nor has Bright been dull
in the same period. Yes, you have
guessed it, breathless readers, both
bane of the featherweight champion
| ship.
Martin Has Fine Record
Pepper" has knocked most Of his
opponents in his last twenty bouts
sneezing, scoring knockdowns in every
case. Bright is medical student, who
does his boxing between study hours,
and in case he should fracture Peppers
lambdoidal sutures during Friday
! nights bout, he will be able to get out
his tools and repair the leak at once.
Bobby Michaels and Red Cap Wilson
and Young Pierce and Tony Lyons, q
flock of feathers, will flutter through
two scheduled eight-round affairs in
the preliminaries.
If there is not wreck and ruin in the
path Of the four star bouts at the
Lexington Opera House next Mon
day night it will not be the fault Of the
management. The matchmaker of the
club las apparently made it his aim to
bring together the eight boys who hate
each other most and tell them to "sic"
each other until death do us part"
Dutch Brandt and Charlie Beecher,
a pair of featherweights, will start on
a ten-round riot, and frankie Genaro
and Johnny Rosner and Charles Good
man and Jimmy Grande, bantams all,
will also being ten-round journeys.
Two lightweights, Archie Walker, late