Former Baker Has Good Chance Now To Handle Dough Of Much Better Class

NEW YORK, March 20.—Johnny Risko of Cleveland, who pulled his hands out of the dough pan and pushed them into a pair of boxing gloves not so long ago, today has a good chance to put his hands on dough of another kind.

The former baker last night battered the light heavyweight boxing champion, Paul Berlenbach almost into insensibility in a 10-round scuffle at Madison Square Garden. No championship was at stake, but Berlenbach was trying his art on the heavyweight ranks for the first time with the intention of reaching for Jack Dempsey’s crown.

Berlenbach lasted through the fight with difficulty. He hit the canvas in the first and second rounds but held his feet for the remainder of the bout, a very weary man. Often he scored to his adversary’s head but there was no damage.

A pile-driving left was flung at Berlenbach time and again and several times it landed, carrying everything before it. But after the flurry of the opening rounds it lost its direction.

Berlenbach, by state commission rules, had to make the weight of his class. He weighed 174 1/2 and Risko 190.

The Key West Citizen, Key West, FL, March 20, 1926