South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-08-06


Benny Leonard. lightweight leath-
~ pusher OF the world did not have
his hair mussed up through TO-
rounds OF boxing with Ever Ham
H.er the blonde tiger" Of Chicago
iu The defense Of his crown a. Floyd
Eitzs.mmons' fight arena at Mlchi-
gan City yesterday afternoon.
The crowd estimated al ten thou
sand took the affair calmly until
the last three rounds when the
champion opened up and had Ever
Hammer a trlfe grOggy and hanging
on 20 save himself from further
punishment and a possible knockout
After the opening stanZa IL was
evident that Leonard had his man
measured and tented and nit him
almost as ne wanted 10. Hammer
continually clinched. which slowed
up the fight and kept Leonard from
Furnishing him more. At several
stages of the combat Hammer ac-
tualiy chased Benny around the ring
IN his efforts 10 clinch with him
after Leonard had crashed him with
his driving right
However, Hammer fought a brave
force the fighting. but Leonard had
too much on him in every depart
ment Of the game He was simply
outclassed by a far better man
Leonard came into the ring with
mis- much discussed optic patched up
with adhesive tape. Along about
the middle OF the fourth round.
which ia probably the only round
that Ever Hammer could claim a
shade the contender lead with
left that knocked the tape off the
champions eye and started it bleed
ing a little. Between rounds his
seconds continually doctored the eye
and il failed 10 bother Leonard.
Leonard fought carefully and at
no time displayed any desire TO hur-
~ the fight He also kept his chin
out OF the way OF Hammers left
which is rated as carrying a kick.
Several times in the early rounds
Leonard would batter Hammer with
a flock OF jabs that would apparently
bewilder him for a moment and he
would begin TO swing wild. on two
Of these occasions Leonard aimed
carefully and let fly a right hook
that carried at least thiray minutest
sleep In IL for Hammer, but for
tunately for Hammer and through
no cleverness on his part they mis-
sed their target. on one of the wal
Tops Leonard turned ar almost com
plete circle in the air when he
missed
on both occasions the champion
smiled as a wild full swing wallop
is not his style OF ring work and it
appeared as though he figured he
would try 10 get in a haymaker and
get the fracus over Those were the
only two times that Leonard tried
10 hurry matters The rest of the
time he kept Hammer at the end Of
his gloves an iabbed and pushed and
chopped at him until the challenger
would rush into a clinch
Hammer took a lot OF punching
and took it we'll He fought hard.
but his efforts at landing damaging
blows were fruitiess as Leonard saw
most of them as they started and
was wei out of harms way when
they arrived
Ia the eighth ninth and tenth
rounds Leonard opened mp his real
attack and Hammer must have
thought someone was throwing
gloves into his face. He saw a lot
of them lie was busy trying 20
keep them out OF his face and he
had no time 10 return any and seved
himself continually by falling on
Leonard's neck for a clirch. He was
still eating leather and hanging on
Benry's neck when the last gong
sounded
T.: the opening prelim mary Jack
Eli Of Chicago and Charlie Glazet
fought six fast rounds ia draw In
the second prelim sammy FVacger
OF Chicago scored a technical knock
ou- over Irish" Patsy clayton ol
PtJsburg. I'm the second preliminary
when the contest was stopped by
the referee after Clayton had been
floored in the fourth round They
weighed 40 pounds.
In the semi-wind-up Harold Smith
Chicago bantam. scored a tech
1icai Knockout over Eddie O'Cou-
nor. Grand Rapids. Mich. In the
STR round OF the scheduled eight
round contest The referee waved
the loser 10 his corner when Smith
had him on the verge or a knockout
The crowd was estimated roughly
at about 10000 and the receipts be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 Davy
Miller Of Chicago was the third man
IN the ring and handled all the bouts
IN good shape