The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-10
LEONARD MAY BE
 FINALLY SENT UP
 AGAINST TENDLER
Chanpion's Bout With Kansas To- night May Be Warm-Up for
 Big Time.

DE IAAC.
 After playing the Tank Circuit for nearly year, Benny Leonard, boss of the lightweights, will be back Tn the Big Time within another month. A truce has been declared by the Leonard, Gibson & Tex Rickard Company.
 The trio has ceased Patrick Henry fire at each other through the medium of the columns of the press. Every thing now is rosy.
 The best indication that the truce is not hokum was had the other day, when Leonard agreed to meet three opponents in Madison Square Garden for Tex Rickard. First of the trio already has been selected. Grasp the right of Rocky Kansas, who may be built along the lines of a George Cook, but he has proved his skill as fighter, every inch of him.
 Wish Kansas all the luck in the world for tonight, when he will bold ly step forth and essay to knock the crown from the roof of Leonard. He will need all these well wishes
 Kansas has been selected as the first challenger for Leonard i'll a I5- round titular bout because he caught Lew Tendler off form several months ago and outpointed him over the 15- round route.
 At the peace meeting with Rickard Leonard agreed to allow the New York impressario to select his foe men. First came Kansas. At the present writing Jack Britton, daddy of the welterweights, is Richards second choice.
 A Leonard-Britton match has been hanging fire for many months, but the Rickard-Leonard feud prevented it, because Tex was the only hstic land lord with a playground big enough to stage so important contest. a
 Lew Tender unquestionably will be one of the lightweights to accom- modate Leonard with ascrap. Con- siderable diplomatic work, however, must be done before the New York and Philadelphia rivals will be brought together Relations between Leonard and Tendler and their mana gers have been anything but friendly,
 Gibson and Rickard were about as far separated as Portland, Me, and Miami, Fla, several months ago, but they managed to get together and set tie their differences, so there is hope for Leonard and Tendler to shake hands before they start throwing punches at each other This is the most attractive match in sight at the present time. Even a contest for the heavyweight title would not surpass it for interest, at least in this neck of the woods.
 Leonard has agreed to make the lightweight limit of I35 pounds at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the bout, The champion evidently Is satisfied that he has fought his way back into top form, though he did not indicate that he was punching as we'll as ever in his last appearance, which was in an eight-round tilt with Tim Droney.
 Kansas should not prove a very hard man for Leonard to bowl over. The champion met the rugged Buffalo backhand puncher in a I2-round tilt at Harrison, N. J., last June. Leonard won the popular verdict in this bout by a wide margin. He asserted so great superiority over Kansas that many ringsiders volunteered that he could have knocked out the Rocky one had he elected to take a chance with his hands.
 At any rate, the Kansas bout should prove a great warm-up con- test to the tilt with Tendler Though Rickard has not named Tender as one of the champions three oppon- ents, it is generally understood that he is holding this bout in reserve It is possible that Rickard is keeping this contest under cover to fall back on in the event that suitable op- ponent is not found for Jack Demp- sey to defend his heavyweight title on July in the Jersey City arena on Boyle's 30 acres