The Washington herald., 1921-12-14
LEONARD TO START
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
IN RING NEXT WEEK
Lightweight Champ and
Joe yelling in Bout
At New Orleans.

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 Welling in a
ffteen-round bout at New Orleans.
Benjamin has not been very busy
with the gloves for the past few
months, but for the rest Of the win
ter he evidently intends to do his
stuff" let the chips fall where they
may.
The last time yelling bumped
into Leonard. at the Garden, he set
a wicked pace, and Benny. who had
started the muss confident of nat
teninG Joe in four or nve rounds,
had all kinds Of misery in the ring
with the Chicago lightweight, and
only knocked yelling out in the
fourteenth round. and there were
those who claimed yelling could
have continued but for the hasty
action of the referee.
Be that as il may, something
tells us that Joe Is not go
ing to have much to be thank
for on Christmas morning. bot
tie OF arnica in his stocking and
a roll of surgical tape would prob
ably be the most appropriate gifts
that Santa could bring Joe on
Christmas Day.
After milling with the wonder
fully 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 welter-
weight champion. with whom he
will prance in a twelve-round af-
fair de glove. Jack has reached
that age where he would bring a
fancy price at one Of those cute
little "oId curiosity" shops on Madi-
son avenue that deal in objects
dart and prehistoric relics.
Although Jacks joints creak
every time he moves he can still
scuttle around a ring and cover up
'skillfully enough to avoid anything
that looks like sudden ruin in the
way of a punch. II Benny wins
he will cop Jacks welterweight
crown. and II he doesn't Jack will
probab chuckle into his hoary
whiskers and wait for the next
youngster to come blithely along
NEW YORK. Dec. 1870 anxious
is Promoter Tex Rickard TO have
Benr< Leonard defend his light
weight title in Madison Square
Garden that he today released an
offer to Benjamin to split the gate
receipts $3.50 with the titleholder.
This offer has the string of a
fifteen-rapnd decision fight attached
to II. provision also being made
that Benny meet the winner OF the
Sailor Friedman-Lew Tender bat
tie, which is scheduled for Friday
night at the Garden. Rickard has
previously offered $4,000 to Leon
ard to defend his laurels. The
champion is also asked to make
weight of 1876 pounds on the day
Of the fight.
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division, today re-
ceived a handsome Christmas pres
ent from Tex Rickard in the form
OF check for $4,000. the long
DELAYED wages for his battle with
Bryan Downey in Jersey City last
September The New Jersey boxing
had held up Johnny's
pay check, it being alleged that he
didn't give of his best in that sad
exhibition. Wilson was so glad to
get the ducats that he at once reck-
Iessly promised Rickard to fight any
middleweight. Harry Greb, of Pitts
burgh. will probably be his next
opponent sometime in January,
As Pete Herman is anxious to get
back to his home in New Orleans so
that he can spend Christmas Day
with his family, Tex Rickard has
granted Pete's request to shift
ahead his 15-round bout with Mid
den on December %. Rickard had
al first banked on holding the show
on the night of December %, but
changed it to December 90.
Although Dan Morgan has been
a guarantee of $4,000 from
Charley Murray, the Buffalo hght
promoter, for Champion Jack Brit
ton to fight frankie Schoell, the
Buffalo fighter. in a Is round go at
Buffalo for the welterweight title
next month, Morgan will not take
any offers for Britton until after
Jack fights Benny Leonard at