New-York tribune., 1918-09-24

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The principals. Benny Leonard and
Ted (kid) Lewis, entered the ring at
l0:4o. 1t was announced that both
weighed at 3 o'clock. Leonard weighed d
1852 pounds and Lewis 141. Freddie
Welsh, of the army; Johnny Dundee
and number of other ring celebrities s
were introduced. Patsy Cline was the
referee
The boys were cautious at the start.
Lewis rushed, to be met with Leon
ards straight left. They fddled and
spared for minute. Then Lewis
planted a wild right swing to Leon
ards face. Leonard put two light lefts
to the face. Lewis held Leonard's glove
and then tried to draw Benny into a
right swing. but the lightweight cham
plon ducked. Lewis put hard right
to Bennys ear at the bele
They mixed it in the second fast and
furiously. Lewis swung a left to the
ear and jabbed Leonard's face with the
left. Leonard then hung a wicked left
hook in Ted's eye that almost closed
the optic. He put the left right hack
there before the bell.
In the third Leonard placed hard
right swing to Lewis's face but the
blow landed too high to do serious dam
age. Leonard then jabbed Lewis four
times lightly in rapid succession.
Lewis put "a stiff LEFT TO the face and a
night to the ear. Leonard placed a
straight lcf. j&h e Ted's Jaw and "A
left swing to the face at the bell.
There was plenty of action in the
fourth also. Leonard planted two lefts
to the face and right swing to the
jaw. He followed with two light lefts
to the face. Lewis landed hard swing
to the chest. Leonard jabhed with his
lett three times to the face Just as the
round ended
The fifth saw Lewis deliver some Of
ms dead!iest execution. To start with
Leonard landed three straight left labs
TO Lewls's face, but Lewis came back
with heavy right hand smash to
Eenny's Ger. He followed with a hard
right to the face. Benny twice stabbed
Lcwls's face with his right, and then
swune the right to the jaw. but landed
on, the side OF the head. A furious
miX-up cnsued, in which Lewis planted
jaw. j. w. = '''' '"" q nara ''s"' TO '"s
Lewis rushed, to start the sixth lefts
and rights to I.eonard's law, but Benny
stopped him with left labs.
The seventh was one whirlwind of
action. Leonard rocked Ted with a
left hook that opened an old cut over
the right eye. Lewis, however. rushed
III and handed out some stiff body pun
ishment. Leonard put hard right
hook to Lewis's face as the round
ended.
The eighth was a fitting climax to
the mill. The first half of it Leonard
orove Ted before him with snappy left
'abs and straight rights Ted came
back and evened up the round through
the second half
Lewis was perhaps the flasher of the
two. He did more dancing than Leon
ara, but Benny was the surer puncher.
Leonard did not appear to have the
oldtlmc speed of the night when he
conquered Freddie Welsh, but then he
was not 50 finely drawn. The light
weight title will be safe in his hands
tor some time 10 come.
Scenes of good natured disorder ran
rampant in the vicinity of Weden-
mayer Park as the hosts of fstianos
from the big town began to arrive,
shortly after I O'clock
Monsieur jacques Curley, who
watched the dense multitude gather,
reflected what a sucker he had been to
pull the Fulton-Dcmpsey battle in the
carly evening, only to be caught nan
ping onc~of the few times in his career.
Jacques had not provided adequate
policing for the mob outside nor
enough ticket sellers to take care Of
the ever increasing numbers that came
by tube, trolley, train, auto and bus.
a handful of traffic cops struggled
manfully to maintain some show of
order, but they We're brushed aside like
stubbie before ploughshare. Nobody
knew just how to go about finding the
various entrances. The attendants were
not properly labelled to begin with
and the handful of volunteer ushers
and directors, themselves beyond the
pale and struggling 20 get in, were
often as vague and sdirecting by
design as through ignorance. The re-
suit was that every entrance soon be-
came clogged.
invariably found themselves before the
81 booths. Then they would organize
a regular old football, rush against the
sedate aud leisurely holders of reserved
seats saunterlng up. The wonder is
that there were no ribs broken. The
big crowd, however. took it all as a
necessary evil and joshed throughout
the most spirited scuffiing and jostlirg.
Once one was in the park however.
he was satisfied that his struggle had
not been in vain. For everybody of
consequence in the sporting world was
there-the high lights of the broad
and easy way in the most promscuous
vantage points in the immediate vicin-
ity Of the ringside boxes
Unlike the late lamented accident be
tween Jack Dempsey and Fred Fulton,
law and order reigned supreme within
the charmed circle of the stadium.
which was we'll lighted and prettily dec
Grated for the auspicious OCCASION
Monsieur Curley saw to it that the
hoOdlum element attracted to every fs-
tic entertainment of consequence was
kept in its proper place. The arena
proper was adequately policed both by
special cops and strong arm ushers.
There was no mooching allowed and no
rushing of reserved sections by the hoi-
poii.
BY the time the first preliminary was
called, sharply at $3.50, the main grand
stand and the bleachers within decent
,yesght of the scene of hostilities were
comfortably filled. There were many
vacancies in the ringside boxes and
held seats. which had all been sold but
this was because the holders of the
coveted pasteboards were late of design
or had been caught in the blockade OF
the entrances. Loag before Leonard
and Lewis made their appearance it