The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-01-25
PAL MORAN BEGGING
FOR ANOTHER CRACK
AT BENNY LEONARD
BY FRANK G. MENKE


Down below the Mason and Dixon
line they poke stocky, youthful Ital-
ian at you and remark:
Here's a bird that will take Benny
Leonard if the lightweight champion
ever will give him just one more out
ing"
In that way they introduce Pal Nor
an, slugging descendant of Italy, now
| the pride of the Southland and the
| particular joy of New Orleans.
Moran, they insist down that way,
| has improved remarkably in the past
! year or so. He is pleading with Fred
Digby, who pilots his pugilistic des-
tiny:
Get Leonard for me-"
| Digby's trying to do that-but in a
way little different than most man
ayers use.
! pal got a shot at Leonard a year
and half ago and wasn't able to put
the championship away" he explains
Il told him that the only way he'd ever
be sure of getting another crack at the
title was to beat UP everybody else
that wanted to fight Leonard, by
which simple process he would force
a public demand for another Leonard
/ Moran meeting"
And Moran has been operating along
those particular lines. Through more
than year of fisticuffing he has TAX
en- on and dubbed into the defeat col
umn nearly score of foemen.
| Never Sent to Floor
I Moran, whose real name is Paul
| Miorana, is New Orleans product
| His father was quite a bare knuckle
battler in the long gone days. The
youngster has inherited the iron law
and the concrete stomach of his faith
er. In six years of ring warfare, al
though opposed by the hardest hitters
IN the game-including Leonard. Jack
son, Mandot, Dundee, Hartley, Fitz-
simmons, Cline and Hanhan-no man
ever was able to send him to the floor.
! The Italian began his career in a
four round preliminary to the Dundee
Mandot affair in the Crescent City sly
years ago. 1t was only three years
later that Moran, who had gone along
IN meteor1c fashion, was sent against
the same Dundee in 90 rounder.
| Moran's fight against Dundee that
night proved his greatness. He be-
came the best card in the South He
finally fought himself to ranking
among Leonard's toughest rivals.
The champion gave him a fight in
East Chicago-and won it, But Leon
ard tried with everything he had to
drop Moran-and Moran took the
Leonard wallops, grinned-and tore
in harder
Afterward Moran went back to New
Orleans and decided to do some loaf
ing. He became a bit rusty from lack
of action.
Comes Back with Hurrah.
/ But Moran has come back-with a
hurrah. Around the New Orleans dis
trict they claim that he is at least
a so per cent greater fighter than
he ever was before-more aggressive,
a master in the art of sluggery. faster,
an improved ring general-"and sure
thing to beat Leonard"
Digby says:
IF Leonard doesn't think that Mo
ran has quite achieved the point
where he is entitled to a return match,
all Leonard needs to do is to name
the fellow Pal should whip TO get the
final polish on his reputation. Pal
will do it. And that goes for the fe-
rocious Lew Tender, the rushing
Rocky Kansas, the walloping Charlie
White and all others.
Moran will make 1876 Tingside al
2 p. m. for any of the outfit. Ard
, if Dundee will be SO nice and kind as
} to give Pal a real smack at the junior
! lightweight champion, Pal will do $50
, at 2 D. m. for him. Could anything be
, fairer?"
Copyright 1921 BY King Features
, Syndicate, IDc.)