New Britain herald., 1926-07-07
FEA 7lHERWEIGHT CHAMP
 ABDICAZES HIS TYRONE
Inability to Make 126 Pounds Without Iniuring Health
 Given As Reason - Announcement Comes AS Shock to Sporting World - Defended His Title Three Times Successfully-To Make Campaign For Lightweight HOn0rs-EIeven Eligibes in the Game

The featbcrWcisht boxing crown
 has pag e. from Connecticut!
 So the startling news resounds i from one end of the Nutmeg State
 to the other today following the an
 nouucomcnt of Daun. McMahon. ImcnaEer of Louis CKid) Kaplan Of 1 Noridcu. holder of the title. that j kaplan was ahdic ting his throne { because he could no longer torture
 his little body in the weight making process and still retain his health. ! Ii was only q week ago last Mon | day night in tho new cycledrome in i Hartford that kaplan. the pride of Connecticut nstic fans. entered the ring against his 1oughc , opponent. Bobby Garcia of Maryland, and in lo rounds, fou. of which were hec- 1 tic with excitement finished the dushy youjh from the Southland and 1 eliminate him from any more chances at the coveted honors which Louis had won and retained twice before.
 "rhe spirit is willing but the flesh is Woak,' applies distinctly to kaplan because as McMahon. the i Damon Of that wonderful friend ship which has existed between . lighter and manager, says, the Kid has been lighting on his heart 1 alonc.' Stout heart but weakened body through the long days of iErucling tr".ning wherein pound by pound and then ounce by ounce. the precious health giving blood cor pusclcs were contracted and the more precious hrawn was shaved down 10 ;dherc 10 inc rules which keeps boxing on a level plane. No Shylock ever was more exact ing than the ruling which states 1 that a feathorweiEht champion must weigh l26 pounds or under and the pound Of flesh" had to be given or else the honors thrown aside. Trur kaplan has found that Ma tuTr. the mother of life, was too great an opponent for him. Never complaining but always working to make the weight, the champion has come 10 that turn in the road where he must sacrifice his health flor money and glory and he has chosen his health rather than an early grave, II was no opponent that laid him low because hc has stood up against the best of them land has proved himself champion
 in every way.
 His title passes, but he is not through. Rather be seeks more worlds 10 conquer and now he starts 10 make conquest Of the lightweight ranks and his followers
 and friends in this state will be with him just as much in the fu-
 turc as they have been in the past and ii is inc fond hope Of all that with one world conquered, another day may dawn ,hen the colors Of the lightweight champion of the world will be gracing the Silver City through the prowcss of It's great lt- tie gladiator, Louis GIiD Kaplan. kaplan gained his honors in a
 tournament conducted by the New York state athletic commission after the veteran Johnny Dundee announced his retirement and he has held them well. A wccl; ago
 Monday he scored a technical knockout over Garcia at Hartford Conn. Last winter he deciSjvcly outpointcd Herman at Madison
 Square Garden, after receiving
 draw in 6 15-round test with the
 same man at Waterbury, Conn, in the summer.
 The Waterbury engagement, in
 the opinion of many newspaper
 men at the ringsde, should have
 been awarded to Herman and box