Judge — August 19, 1922 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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s distinetions, and 2ORT has its els most of them are wrong headed. Golf, for instance, has been set down intellectualized games while boxing is low-brow. In such conceptions there is no strength. The problems of the boxer are not only far more profound than those of the golfer, but much more immediate. Tn a big match one may sce a Hagen or a Hutchinson studying the line of a putt, calculating all the elements S among the of deflection and at last. after mature deliberation, smacking the ball on the journey to the hole, ‘The problem of a Benny Leonard is) somewhat similar. He. Loo. aims an object at a definite spot. The tis his fist and ats proper des- tinalion a spot on his opponent's jaw. But Leonard may not rest upon his stomach as the golfers do in order to cide upon the line. Tf he tries to squint Jong and earnestly at) the object. for which he is shooting he will end up by finding that it is not there The cup waits for Hagen and Hutchin- but Leonard's target one. Tf you wish to understand mere fully the manifold problems of the fighter, as opposed to the golfer, introduce a minor son, is a moving change into the rules the next time you play an eighteen-hole match. Let it be understood. between you and) your. op- ponent that either onc may throw off the a niblick swing of the other landing to the point of the j stor of fast boxing the sport with I UT it is not wholly the fe which most highly-intellectualized the possible exception of college football. After all. it: is concerned with character and personality: almost more than any other form of athletic endeavor, Benny Leonard, gr from a hard swing Lew ‘Tendler aved himself in the ring at Boyle's Thirty Acres. by his opponent into an argument talked Benny reeupera decisions makes Such highly intellectual strategy is also rred from golf. Much potential me nt is lost out of the game bees forbidden to shout at his opponent “at the particular moment it have power for con- fusion. Indeed, as we remember this s rules, the golfer is never allowed “You big bum!” 3 He doesn’t have to say anything. Walter J. ‘Travis went through to victory in a British am teur championship using only one word. bout. the semi-finals one of his opponents said, “It's a braw Mr. Walter J. Travis answered one is You big bum when words mi Lo say C INVERSATION makes an excellent hazard for golf, and it is a pity that nted nd grass Some inanimate id water. years ago I it has been by things such as se Jam not theorizi Heywood Broun’s “The Learned Mr. 4 ay with a man who was accus- half a stroke a hole. the handicap was the half stroke I hook” a hole or rather a “Booh!" T could shout at any moment T felt it would do the most T did not exceed my ound that “Boohs!* Much may be a full swing by Booh” privik used toy tomed to give At suggestion 1 of my vd of cour It w were best on the done to the smooth a sudden shout. The tees. golf at least twice the game it is Then it was a test of and was no end of bringing the “Booh!" into in play at just the proper moment. All these considerations have been over- looked by the ruling powers of golf, and the game has been allowed to remain mecha IROBABLY Benny — Leonard brought as good a mind to boxing as functions in the entire field of competitive sport. He is always ready to learn, and he is able to pursue his studies under the most difficult, conditions. Against) Lew Tendler in the recent fight’ Benny began an obvious disadvantage. ‘Tendler is a southpaw and stands with his right hand out and in other respects as well behaves in an unorthodox manner, The Leonard lition is that of the old mas- has: te He been trained from his youth to emulate the great) technicians of th t. Among fighters he is a stylist, a Pater among pugilists. But there is nothing narrow-minded about Benny. When’ things began to happen to hit in the Tendler fight he did nol say, may is an uncultured barbarian. I will pay no attention.” No indeed. Benny lost no time in taking up fendlerism: in a serious way. He con- centrated on it and for the better part of cight rounds gave his attention to nothing else. Unlike most students, Leonard was: by no means cloistered away from the world. ‘Tendler kept punching him in the ho but that was all*part of the After eight rounds Benny knew t and was able to go out and stom course, practice on his own account. He was ble to show that for all its) seeming mour the left-handed philosophy of life msound, In the closing round Leonard was demonstrating to the satisfaction of everybody that the right hand is mig and shall’ pr WE DON’T know whether it is evolu- tion, or vitamines, or the return of the Republican party, or what, but there is no doubt that lightweights are not so light as they used to be. In the old days there were numerous first-rate men who had no difficulty at all in making 1 pounds ringside. Now practically all the s Sport Page Leonard” best men in the division would be welter weights except for the most severe bant- ing. Leonard called upon to do no more than make 135 pounds at two o'clock in the afternoon, Fifteen thousand dol- lars depended upon it, and yet Benny was under the mark by only a He did not fight until eight: hours later and by that time he was probably over 140. Nevertheless, he seemed somewhat below his parity in strength andy KB. McGeehan tells us that in the « days weight-making was accomplished Without Turkish baths or any new-fangled notions, He has a tale of a rugged light- weight of the Coast who found sims If two pounds above the limit on the of the fight. He had posted a insure his weighing not more than 1: the ring. His manager solved the diffi- culty without much trouble. By using a little influence he managed to induce the engine crew on the | 33 at crossing the Francisco to include his LEO! the stokers. At the end of the journey the pugilist had again become a legitimate lightweight. ACK DEMPSEY is hardly as scholarly s Bemny I rd and yet he becomes a fast and coherent thinker the instant he steps into the ring. Jack may seem no very brilliant person as a vaude- ville performer or when subjected to the questioni the press, but he has boxing brains. Nobody has to tell him that a ight line is the shortest distance en two points. He understands physical problems concerning © way in which to bring the gre possible number of foot pounds of ene at a given spot in the fastest possible tim Mathematics are also in his equipment. He knows every number from one to ten. Y a person be- the test \ ATHEMATICS is beginning to be- 22 come increasingly important in the life of the fight In the old days he never had to worry about such. things. The sums he received were small enough to be figured out by the meanest intelli- gence, Now the percentage system pre- vails largely in the business activities of a champion. ‘The thing has crept up into long division, There is the tax to the Government to be considered, and the lawyer's fee for fighting the ormers, and the tickets for the aldermen and their friends and relatives. Indeed, after the Leonard-Tendler go the real issue of the battle remained undecided for almost twenty-four hours while expert account- ants were going over the books. When they at last arrived at a total they found Benny was there ahead of them. — Leonard has a keen eye for distance, but an even better one for figures. Come to think of it, (Continued on payc sport is tending