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IN GAME OF BIFFBenny Yanger One of the Best ^ of the Dago Boys Who Have Made Bing History.]clt;\ m on if the Italians who have helpedto make ring hiatorv Hugo Kelly,Tony Caponl. Jim Flynn. Johnny Dun- 01dee. t'asper l**on. Joe Horrell, Frankielt;'onlay, Patsy Kline and Al Delmont.to mention but * few one of the starswan Benny Yanger. Benny waa nick- .rained Tipton Hlnsher because of a ** fitnlt; led resemblance to Bill Perry, the original “Tipton fUaaher, who beheavyweight champion of Kngtand In heHi* MPa. acYanger waa born In New York mthirty-four year* ago today, February It, Ittl, and hts career in the ring ex-t*'tided over ten ve.tfa, beginning in tiW. The Washer waa never a cham- wlt; ion. he licked a number of aing and coming champa. In ItO® he stopped Harry Forbes In the fifth •* round of a Chicago bout. Harry be- ^ »ame bantam champion the following | year. The same year Benny licked ! Young Corbett, only a metter of i montha before the Denver boy took the featherweight crown from McGovern.Me also fought a draw with Georg* Dixon. the ex-champion. one of YangeCa beat flghta that year waa I with Tommy Mowatt, the Fighting I «t t’ondurtor” of Chicago. In the fourth ! la round the Italian waa knocked down | repeatedly, but he waa game to the ji ore. utul in the sixth chapter Benny nailed Into the conductor anil gave him the tieutlng of hia career. Kddte Han-try. who waa In Mowatf’s lt;ofner, loaned hi the aponge, but Mowatt re-fuaed to atop fighting until GeorgefIIIfMtl+r, th* rfftnr, fpnMid him to do no.Yanger waa credited with a knockout. I j, although Mowatt waa atlll on hia feet ' clt; when the affair waa atopped. A little M later Yanger rnef Mowatt again and J* a draw resulted. ®In 1WI Yanger whipped George luton in * 15-round bout In Ht. Louia, ., • otnpletely out* laealng the clever black m t*oy. who had ao tong ruled the ji f* dlirrweight roost lie alan defeated b* Jo*' Bernaleln. one of the heat feathers ^ of that period. JAbe At tell ana the Italian's next im- M portaat vlmm. The little Hebrew, j, who claimed the featherweight honor * -a couple of yeara later, waa atopped in the nineteenth round bjr the Washe*-Yanger alan knocked out Auatln Kloe ni«l Kid Herman and (imght another v •Iraw with tils *dd enemy, Tommy -Mowatt. in ills H*ej campaign Yanger ' -whipped Kid Broad in a 20-round bout in bmiivillr, took the measure of t'tarenee Fngtiah In Kansas City and © outfought Hugh McPadUen In Iletrolt. M Benny (hep went to the Pacific coast Ji and was matched with Kddie llanlon. k the young Han Francisco phenoni. who had made a great reputation by flaht-ing long draws with Abe At tell and Young Corbett* Benny and Kddl* fought twenty rounds to a draw, but In ,a return match llanlon had the '•eat of It. This was the first time *n ■, his career that the Italtan had been defeated, although he had mixed It M with the heat boys of hie weight. After that Yanger began to go back.He took Ids first knockout from the Mexican. Aureiio Herrera, at Butte In IM4 The following year he again fought Tommy Mowatt over the 30-rowtl route In Knlamasoo, but It waa even thing. In 1»0« he waa knocked'«t by Tommy Murphy, and the fol-awing year Packet Mr Parian •eated the til
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Lincoln Sunday Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Feb 20, 1916
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