New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
Champion Hits
Rival ait Will
Before 10000
Challenger Lands Few Tell
ing Blows i'm Contest at
Harrison Baseball Park
BY w. J. Macbeth

pion of the world, successfully de-
Tended his title in twelve round bout
with Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. at the
old Federal League Baseball Park at
Harrison, n. j., last night The crowd
was variously estimated at between
$4,000 and $4,000.
The bout went the limit and the Ser
sey law does not permit the referee to
render a decision, but every one was
well satisfied that the titleholder clear
ly established his superiority over the
challenger from start to finish.
While Kansas did not come off with
i. flying colors he proved to everybody's
satisfaction that he is q tough young
customer and one who can stand up
under stiff beating. Leonard hit
Rocky almost at will and seemed to be
throwing all he had in every punch.
But until the last two rounds the blows
seemed to leave little impression on
the Bison City lad
Leonard gave a wonderful exhibition
Of blocking. He had little difficulty in
avoiding Rocky's left hand (Which is
his best one, by the way), while the
title-holder himself found little din
Guilty in reaching the challenger's Jaw
with his own right hand.
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Leonard was by far the faster of the
two ana landed the cleanest punches.
In longer fight he probably wouId
wearing down Kansas rapidly toward
the end.
Benny evidently underestimate
RockyS strength, FOR in the early
rounds he made the jaw his target.
Leonard rained enough solid smashes
to this Jaw to knock out half dozen
ordinary lightweights. Kansas only
came back for more after each assault.
Toward the end of the bout Benny
shifted his attack to the body, and
with good results. Wicked left hooks
and a Furnishing uppercut took more
sSarch out or Kansas in one round than
all the wallops to the jaw had done in
the first seven or eight.
As early as the third round Leonard
had Kansas groggy from right upper
cuts to the jaw In the sixth round
the champion knocked out several of
Rocky's false teeth with a hard right
cross.
Kansas landed only three good rights
during the engagement. One of these
in the second round shook up Benny
considerably. but Rocky paid dearly for
his presumption, for in the next two or
all over the ring with his left.
In the fifth round Kansas again con-
rected solidly with the right and Leon
are again rotaliated this time with his
own good right. After scoring with it,
both to the jaw and body. he had
Rocky looking the part of his nick
name at the bell
Through the last three rounds Leon
ard made chopping block of the chal-
enger, He rained tattoo of lefts
On Roeky's face and jaw which had the
played the left for the wind and at
close range shot in many hard and
damaging right jolts to the body. Kan
sas several times hit low, but each
time apologized.
Hundreds of Women Present
Estimates of the crowd ran all the
way from $4,000 to around 100000,
the latter figure being the guess of
those hapless one who came late and
arrived, buffeted and dishabile, as "sur-
vivors" in the ringside seats. Cold.
calculating mathematics placed the at
tendance at about $4,000. Hundreds of
women were present.
A squad of newspaper photographers
mad their cameras set up and waiting
long before either of the princinals
4SSASh viz ing UOC IluIUpHI1cS, mas
ter OF ceremonies, announcd to the
rIngslde patrons that Leonard and Kan
sas had weighed before the commission
at 9:15 o'clock. Leonard weighed 1856
and Kansas 1874 pounds.
Willie jackson from the ringside
challenged the winner. Danny Sullivan
refereed the main event
The opening four-rounder was
somewhat tame and probably would
have been called draw had the
referee been allowed to give a de-
gether couple of eights-Battling
Red and Matty Forgoine, both of New
ark, and each weighing 112h pounds.
In the second preliminary of six
rounds Freddie Lux, of McKeesport,
Pa, had the better of Bunt Fofer.
Lux weighed 139 and Fofer 141 pounds.
IN the fifth round Lux foored Fofer
with left chop to the jaw.
Sam Mosberg, of New York, got the
popular verdict over Bert Spencer. of
brooklyn, in another eight-round pre-
urinary. Mosberrg showed good left
hand, which he played well to the body.
He also used his right to good ad-
vantage when in close. Both boys
seemed fresh and strong at the end
and neither was seriously s1nussed UP.
Mosberg weighed 138hs and Spencer
1879.
Latzo outpoints Logan
Pete Latzo. of Sranton, Pa, out
pointed BUD Logan, of San Antonio,
Tex, in another elght-round prelimi-
nary. They were welterweights, Latzo
weighing 143 and Logan LA pounds.
Benny Valgar, 1870, and Phil Logan,
lS5, of Jamestown, Pa, met in the
elght-round semi-final. The first round
was somewhat tame, each being content
to fiddle away with some light left
labs. Logan rushed matters <in the
second and scored heavily to the face
with his right several times. Valgar
kept using light left top to keep
Logan off, and tried right uppercut
Whenever he found Logan rushing ins
put ne WAS unable to score effectively
with the latter blow.
In the third round Valgar rocked
Logan with several hard righ hooks to
the chin. The crowd cheered frantic
ally, for it seemed the Frenchman had
the Jamestown boy on the road to
knockout. Valgar was using a one, two
punch prettily. Through the fourth
salgar continued to jab Logan's face
with the left almost at will. He got in
some stiff right uppercuts to the jaw
and body, and he'd Logan shaky at the
knees before the bell rang. 1t was
much the same in the fifth. Valgar
was too shifty and fast for Logan, and
made him miss continually. In the
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