New Britain herald., 1925-01-31
(BY JOE WILLIAMS)

When Frankie Genaro was win
 ming his amateur championships he spelled his name De Gennaro, which is the family style. After turning
 professional his name appeared in
 print so often and in so many diff
 ferent ways, it finally was boiled down to Genaro.
 Genaro is the smallest Of all champions. He does 110 pounds as naturally as q European statesman takes to an American loan. Genaro is smaller than Frankie Mason, who first brought the nyweight title into prominence in this country, and smaller than Jimmy Wilde, the Britisher who has been generally accepted as the greatest of all fly weights.
 To get matches the tiny New York Italian battles in three classes--ny- weight, bantamweight and feather weight. Genaro has the Indian sign on Pancho Villa. Three times he has beaten the Filipino, and if they meet again Genaro win be heavily backed to win again. l saw Genaro give Carl Tremaino, great little bantam, a boxing lesson in Madison Square Garden.
 Incidentally, Genaro probably kept Iremaine from winning the bantam weight title. Tex Rickard brought Tremaine on from the west with the idea of building him up into a card. He matched him with Villa but Villa sprang a fiat tire and Genaro was substituted. All Tremaine had to do 10 qualify for bout with the champion was to whip Genaro.
 Tremaine Would Have Won
 Winning from Genaro, Tremaine would have been q sure sliot to take Joe Lynch, the fast-fading title holder. But he didn't win and the match eventually went 10 another bantamweight, Abe Goldstein, who won the title in 15 rounds. Any one of three or four bantams could | have taken Lynch that night. It was simply case of the first one | to get crack at him.
 Genaro, now with Benny Leonard, | stands out as the smartest little ring general in the business. ! He is not q puncher, He has | knocked out but five opponents all i during his career. Mostly he wins with his noodle. q know 1 am not punchcr," Gcnaro tells you. but I have the kind of blows that win points. and points win titles"
 Genaro thinks his left hook to the | chin is the most telling blow he | lands. T knocked Villa down with | it, and I knocked out Bushy Gra- ham, Bobby Wolgast and Harry Leonard using the same hook"
 The retired Leonard has been Gcnaro's inspiration, and the mite 1 champion has seen the lightweight | fight most of his great battles. "One thing about Benny l always remembered is that he never started | punch without an idea behind it. | To me this always scemNl more i'm portant than putting power behind | a blow. Power is all right, but thought is better. A lot of the power punches miss their mark, the | thought punches never miss" Doesn't Think Villa Is Remarkable
 Genaro does not share the popular 1 opinion that Villa is a remarkable | fighter. "Ill agree he Is a good fighter but he has a serious weak | ness, and no fighter with a weak | ness deserves to be called remark 1 able.
 Villa has no defense for a left hand. That's why l always beat him. If Villa were a remarkable fighter he would have developed q defense against my left after our first fight. But he didn't. I found him just as easy to hit the second | time"
 Ganaro used to drive a butchers truck. If he hadn't taken LID amateur boxing for his health he l might still be in the trucking busi- | ness.
 Either that or he might have | joined out as a jockey. That was his first ambition. He rode and trained some horses and is still at | jockey weight.
 Fighting offered more fun, and now it is bringing in more money 1 than any sort of jockeys position could possibly command.