• Another thing is that no man is going to heat Dempsey with a lett
iab. Get that, because it’s important.
GENE AND JACK LAUD
LEONARD AS A CRITIC
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ATLANTIC CITY, September
13.—Jack Dempsey today paid a
glowing tribute to Benny Leonard,
undefeated lightweight champion
of tlie world, who will cover the
fight for The Star and associated
members of the North American
Newspaper Alliance.
“Leonard is one man wlto knows
the game from A to Z,’’ said Demp
sey. “He has proven to the world
that there is nobody who knows
the fine points of tlie game as well
as lie does. There is no man in the
world better qualified to cover
this fight than Benny Leonard.
l’in awfully glad lie’K doing this
and, believe me, his stuff is going
to be read by me. As a matter of
fact I'm going to clip his stuff and
keep it. I’ll be very interested In
what he says about Gene Tunney.”
STROUDSBURG, Pa., September
13.—“ The Star lias done a clever
thing in putting Benny Leonard
on the training camp job, and I am
quite certain his intelligent ob
servance will be wortli while,” said.
Tunney today.
“Benny Leonard is the undefeat
ed lightweight champion of tlie
world. It is natural, then, that he
would he just the man for a fair
and technical weighing up on my
chances against Dempsey and
Dempsey’s chances against me.
“I have my faults, and so has
Dempsey. Benny will be brave
enough to point them all out. Who
could be a better judge?”
GIANTS BUY THOMPSON.
