The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-18
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BARRETT TOUTED
LOGICAL MAN TO
MEET LIGHT KING
Young Fighter Has Record
fox Knockouts; Shows
Up Beside Tender
Nv ROBERT EDGREN.

Ry ROBERT EDGREN.
ono ~ tho most sensational light
wclEhiH coming mp 10 challenge
Benny Leonard is Bobby Barrett, the
Pennsylvania y0ungstor who knocked
out Hynle Gold recently In. three
rounds. In his home town they call
him cone Punch Robbie" James
bougheriy, who never misses seeing
u championship bout. makes some
strong claims for Barrett
Here Is n real fighter" Fnys
roughcrty. "rhe type ~ old Bob
Tho best lightweight
in tho world In my opinion. is Lew
Tender Of Philadelphia and Bar
rctt did more 10 Gold than Tender
could. 1 think this entities him 10 n
fight with Leonard.
"llo will fight Leonard at 1875 At
3 o'clock Tor the lightweight cham
p!oushlp OF the world. and Leonard
can make his own terms.
Sure About Barrett
- am as suro Barrett can stop
him as ! was Dempsey would stop
jess willard Barrett is the hardest
biting lightweight that ever entered
"A ring Outside Of Dempsey there
Isn't heavyweight who hits as
hard ag This little fellow That's
what Jack kearus admitted after
seeing Barrett knock out his light
weight
Barrett doesn't show much class
M boxer. but knock him down n
couple ~ times or sting h,m with n
hard punch and II starts him fight
ing at his best. IIe doesn't win on
points. and there may be lots of
lightWcights who could on. oint him
N they could stay with him. He
knocks them out TO win, and when
he finds his opening he only needs
ono sock"
Barrett was born I'm England and
came 10 America at two years OF age.
lis father taught him boxing as
soon as he could llft his hands. and
took him TO see many fights when
he was small hoy. Ills grand
father was sparring partner for
EngllFh Champion Tom Sayres when
Snyres fought John G. Heonan. the
Tonocia Roy. for the worlds heavy
weight championship In England,
1860.
A Record of knOCkOuts.
Asan amateur Barrett didn't show
any punch. In his first professional
bout, against fellow known AZ
Russian Bear" he was given bad
beating. Coming up groggy from
the fourth knockdown no stopped
trying to spar and swung his right
winning with "A clean Onc-punCh
knockout. Barrett has been tip
ring 'em over" regularly ever since.
lie Ia 2t years old, married. has rcd
hair, frscklcs, and knock knees like
those OF old Rob Fi,zsimmons.
In 1921 he had 10 fights and won
12 OF them with knockout in "a
rounds. Less than "a, in fact. for
he won four In the first round. four
~ the second, four I'm the third.
None went over three. Last year he
won seven out OF nine with knock
outs
Great fighter though Benny Leon
ard Is. some youngster will come
along and put over n championship
punch one of these days. All cham
pions go that way II they stay IN the
game. There's n bit OF luck in it,
perhaps. A champion may be Just a
little better than the best OF his
rivals, and sometimes he will relax
his caution for an instant. or the
other fellow will drive home an eX-
ceptionable good punch. Then there's
new title holder and tho world
thinks tho new champ must be one
Of the greatest fighters known in his
class.
Benny probably has the chance OF
each rival carefully figured out.
Otherwise why should he dodge
meeting Tendler--Rn Inferior boxer.
but always dangerous? Possibly Bar
rett could get on with Tender. IL
he beat LoOnard's most annoying
challenger. the champion could hard
ly avoid meeting him. Or Barrett
might scrap It out with Johnny
Dundee. who Is willing to give any
Of them n chance any time there's
good purse offered,
with the news that Jack Dempsey
was sailing for Europe Georges Car
! penticr miraculously recovered his
| health.
Georges has invited the champ "a
visit him at his country home I'm
France and shoot golf match
Can't afford 10 be sick with any
thing as important as that comlnG
orr.
Norman Ross wanted TO establish
complete set of worlds swimming
records that would last Ross was
n phenomenally big man, whale
among swimmers. Now along comes
an 1S-year-old boy, John Weismul,
Ter OF the Illinois A. c., crackinl
records nearly every time no com,
petes and making all the Older
4. a a
OF catfish compared TO a rainbow
trout,
Tommy Milton II making n grea
start to win the American auto rae
ing championship again this year
lle has been winning big events OF
the coast this spring, breaking
worlds records for 20 and 90 miles
and looks a likely winner OF tn,
indianapolis race on May 80,