BOXING.
LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE. SEARCH FOR NEW CHAMPION. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. The U.S. Boxing Commission is for the lightweight championship. For a year Benny Leonard, the holder, has been almost unable to make the weight, and lately has been dodging serious fights, especially since the poor showing he made against Pal Moron. In his prime Benny was compared with Joe Gans, but in the last eighteen months he has gone back. iWth a full purse, and health not too good, he has decided against any further chance of a knockout. Mendell, Terris, and Bernstein, are natural contenders for the title. ONE MORE FIGHT. TAKING CARE OF DEMPSEY. CHICAGO, Jan. 17. The announcement of Jack Dempsey'i approaching marriage was accompanied by a great "ballyhoo" for a last great iif.ht before the wedding, because his fiancee, Miss Estelle Taylor, does not want him to enter the Ting afterwards. He is being urged to fight Gibbons before June. Tex Rickard, the promoter, says that Dempsey will fight Gibbons, and possibly Wills; but that this will be his last fight.
"All nonsense," Bays Jack Reams, Deuipsey's manager, who sees further years of partnership with the world-beater, fighting many more fights, married or single. Out of it all the champion is getting tine advertising.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 57, 6 February 1925, Page 12
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209BOXING. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 57, 6 February 1925, Page 12
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