Evening star., 1937-02-17
Has Style, Says Leonard.

"STLYE has Steele" continued Prof
Leonard. i mean, Steele has
style. He's a stylish performer"
Your correspondent waited eagerly
for Prof. Leonards next words. 1t
looked as though the professor were
about to 60 into one of those famous
psych-analytical spiels that have won
him the name of the Freud of Broad
way. 1t looked as though he were
about to discuss Mr.. Steele in terms
of dreams. When he gets in Freud
ian mood, there is no more faScinat-
ing converSationaliSt than Prof Ben
jamin Leonard.
Wasn't it the professor who created
the -corpuscle- confidence theory
to explain Max Baer? And didn't
the professor predict the result Of the
Louis-Schmeling fight by means Of
dream studies? Well, no, frankly. he
didn't. but he almost did. The
trouble was he couldn't get enough
data on what Schmeling was dream
ing about. He obtained all the dream
phenomena he needed from the Louis
camp, but the Schmeling mob held
out on him. 1t may safely be said
that if Prof. Leonard could have had
just one quick gander at Schmeling's
subconScious mind, he would have hit
the result on the nose.
Freddie Figures to Win.
60 YOUR correspondent waited
eagerly for a dream analysis of
Mr.. Freddie Steele, the middleweight
champion. He waited in vain. 1t
turned out that Prof. Leonard was
not in Freudian mood. After scan
ming Mr.. Steele couple times more.
the great brain specialist muttered
"a stylish fighter" and let it 60 at
that.
Well, it's true that Steele is a stylish
looking fighter in training. That's
aS much as any Of the Eastern critics
can say. They haven't had a chance
to survey Frederick in the throes of
genuine paid strife. The word is out
that the boy has class, but that's
one Of those things that you mustn't
believe till you see it. And even
when you see it, you can't be sure.
Take Joe Louis, for instance. All
right, then, I'll take him. But any
way, Louis is a case in point.
On past performance, Steele figures
to beat this Babe Risko, whose
square tag is Harry Pylkowski. He
has licked Mr.. Pylkowski twice before.
once in an over-the-weight affair and
once with the title at stake. He took
the title away from Mr.. Pylkowski,
alias Risko. and now Mr.. Risko, nee
Pylkowski, is trying to get it back.
Risko No Cream Puff"
r 1SKO Is no mans cream puff"
There used to be a disposition
among the boys to chuckle sardon-
tcally whenever the Babe stuck his
curly head in view, because they
thought he was, to put 1t mildly, a
bum. This belief reached a fever
pitch when the Babe ran chin-first
into a right-hand punch from Jock
McAvoy, the vertical Limey, and bit
the canvas with gusto, and finally
with permanence, in the first round.
But the Babe wasn't as bad as he
looked in that fight. 1t was Just his
night off. Since then he has been
coming along like a tentative ty-
phoon, if you know what I mean.
The Babe is a pretty fair workman.
He has experience and he uses it ef-
fectively. He can roll and weave
and slip and clutch with the best OF
them. He doesn't punch very hard,
but he's strong as a bull. He admits
1t.
I'm much stronger than Steele, and
I'm liable to wear him down." says
Risko coyly. THE last time we fought
I was stronger at the finish than he
was. You know what licked me? My
eyes. They were all cut to ribbons
in the first place, and all he had to do
was poke at them"