FROM THE BOOKS

    Benny, indeed, hit people. No fighter in ring history could shift his attack from the head to the body and then back to the head again quite like the lightweight champion. The Leonard "book" might well be titled, "The Complete Master Guide To Boxing." With every bout, no matter what the competition, he learned something new. And in the gym he practiced what he learned. He slipped and blocked punches, he improved his head weave, he polished that left jab that had the wallop of a right-hand smash, and he rehearsed the jab to the face followed instantly by a hook to the jaw.
    He made his sparring partners tear into him. If he could duck under the blows and land a couple of hooks, he felt he was getting somewhere.
    "That's what a training camp is for," he'd explain. "You gotta get used to fighting so you can work on weaknesses."
    His sparring crew loved Benny.
    "Boy, oh Boy," one of them chuckled after a go-round with the Professor. "I got the greatest job in the world. I get fifteen bucks a day for beatin' hell out of my boss."

John D. McCallum-The Encyclopedia Of World Boxing Champions