, 1923-01-14

HNNs ~AA'-fSNAAs = AAnN BEOulllaI0. hlu
Scalcr. Otto Wallace. Johnny LustiE.
Joe Azeve q. Jimmy Duffy. johnny
Dundee. Shamus O'Brien, Ever Ham.
mer. Vic Moran. and Rocky Kansas
His brains (3J and punch (N were
apparent in dozens of battles; in none
moro so hat when he fought tough
Pete Scott in April. 1916. In Buffalo.
For eight and a half rounds Scott
kept his jaw covered so O'Deary's
right cross was useless. In several
clinches. each artfully engineered by
+. Johnnie in the seventh and eighth
rounds. O'Leary whispered h later
they would go to Johnnie's saloon
Ito see some chickens" Scott, suspl.
c!on lulled. agreed: and in the ninth,
O'Leary whispered as he came out
bof n clinch, "why, there's the one
I've got for you. Pete, about Jour
rows hack"
Scott turned his head-and woke
/ up four hours later in q Turkish bath
the left side of his law caved in.
An Eye for Distance.
Whore the ordinary boxer even
up to 145 mounds. has a reach (6) Of
about Sc inches. nature gave O'Lesry
10. precious fractions in his profcs.
I Sion AuuGu 10 inc TEST pl his tlulD-
ment was IAN eye for distance" az.
no mere bromide in the sporting writ
er's vocabulary. Nor can that quail
ity be ~o~vervalued. The boxer must
not on?v be able to see the blow
launched at him. so he MAJ avoid II
with the least waste OF motion and
strength. but he must know about
where his opponents face will be
when thai blow is spent. 80 that his
fist will be there 10 meet II.
He must be eble TO see" in his
opr9uent's brain and by the flexlng
of his muscles. the origin, course and
destination Of his next punch. o.,
Leary. like Cans. possessed amazing
ability to do this, his counter often
crashing into his enemy's face before
the l~atter's WALTON was under way
Johnnie vas n good kid S) ana
wrz fortunate in n natural weight
CD which did not require him to muir
DER himself on h road, or IN ms
workouts. or In drying out before
v-eiuhinE in time.
His ambition uo) Is shown by his
pleading. when a ragged ncwsooy'
with Seattle promoters to let him
fight IN the pre,iminartes-tor noth-
Ing.
Johnnie had three d2> in
his six years in the ring, Frank
purcell handled him from h start
20 April. 1914. Darby Kelly was with
him from February, 1915, to the
~rfadeout" about eighteen months
later. Between, he had another man
,rer who got him large earnings
iudiclous hatIes. all Of which he
won. and n chance at the champion
shlp-an Eny can do for MS
marin "a twelve round, no decision
bout with Welsh.
And with oil the foregoing IA
tagcs OLeary never became cham
, nIon-because he lacked ruthlessness
in the ring az. Unless a boxer Is a
dancing master who n watz ms
way 10 the title. he must be utterly
vicious. Dempsey. Lsvigne. Jeffrles'
Eetchell. Fitzsimmons, Mysterious
Buly Smith, Tommy Ryan-not one
~ them EVER felt one heart throb oil
nifty for a helpless opponent, or hes
itnted to smash home the knockout.
! Here o'Lenry fell Town. Satisfied
merely to outhox his opponent. II that
voulA win the decis'on, he failed 70
become n drawing IN a Knockout
nrtIst is. and he failed TO win the
title from the clever boys who reign
ell Ia his era.
Improper Guidance.
Toward the end OF his career, IN
discreet companlonship, addiction to