The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-24

chance.
Luis vincentini, the Chilean,
gained considerable fame the other
night by goaling the venerable
Rocky Kansas. thereby accomplish.
ing something that no other light
weight had ever been able to do.
Benny Leonard was credited with a
technical knockout over Kansas in
1922 when Rocky broke his arm,
but Vincentini is the first to put
Rocky down for the count and
keep him there.
Sammy Mandell, marvelously
clever boxer, Is probably the best
Of the fourteen candidates at this
time, and getting better. His man.
ager, Eddie Long, In discussing a
prospective tilt with Leonard, takes
sly dig at Benny's supposed in.
ability to make 1856 pounds by say.
ing: ''MandelI will fight for the
title as soon as there is a cham.
pton who can make the weight"
MandeII would find more hit
ting power OF advantage in q
clash with Leonard. Otherwise
he fits the requirements Of .
challenger.
Next to Mandell, the best quail.
fled Of the candidates, and Vim.
centini, the best publicity getter,
must be rated Alex Hart, Of Phila.
delphia.
The young man had one engage.
ment with Leonard last summer
and did not fare so badly. In fact,
his manager. Jimmy Daugherty,
did not stretch the truth great
deal when he wired all the New
York papers that in his opinion
Alex had the better of the cham.
pion in the eight rounds, no de-
cision, that they fought.
The only catch about this one
Il that Leonard in the no decisions
and Leonard in the decision bouts
are not the same person at all.
Harris fellow townsman, Lew Tend.
Ter, can tell him that.
Jack Bernstein, defeated by
Johnny Dundee and Sammy Man.
dell; Pal Moran, also defeated by
Dundee, among others; Charley
White, the Health Professor:
Johnny Mendelsohn Of Milwaukee,
do not offer any possibilities.
White can punch, but was him.
self punched out Of the way by
Moran. All have seen their best
days In the ring and Of the four
only White ever Classed as q real
opponent for Leonard.
Also on the list are Archie
Walker, the former amateur cham.
pion, whose professional venture has
not been entirely satisfying; Mel
Coogan, who has been flattened al.
ready by Leonard; Jack Zivic, whose
most recent bid for fame was a
win over the awkward Sid Bar.
harlan, who, listed himself among
the fourteen, must work heroically
now to get back in the struggle;
Joe Dundee, Of Baltimore, has had
some success with warriors around
his native Baltimore, but hardly
enough to put him ahead of that
other Dundee--Jo hnny-for pub
lictty-getting purposes.
Charlie O'Connell, Of Cleveland,
and Ray Mitchell, Of Philadelphia,
complete the list.
Out of the elimination process
there may emerge one who win
eventually fight Leonard for the
championship.
II that is the purpose of the con.
test, then the New York commits.
sion has accomplished something,
II the commission seriously be.
Meves that there is, among the
fourteen, one who can smash his
way so thoroughly through the rest
Of the field that he will be given
chance by the public to win from
Leonard in q decision contest, un.
der championship conditions-tfen
the commission, as they say in Tin
Eared Row, is "all wet"
Leonard, hid away in his camp
ut Tannersville, N. Y, checking
over the list Of fourteen eIigibles.
must wish that he hadn't been so
rough with Lew Tender last sum.
mer. That engagement might have
been put on again. But when a
champion defeats his foremost chal.
lenger, when and how he pleases,
there is seldom any reason why he
should have to do 1t over again.
For we discuss boxing novv-.Ih0%