Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
TENDLER FORCED TO USE
EIGHT-OUNCE GLOVES AND
CANNOT FINISH JACKSON
Lewo Arms Go Dead After Tenth Round and Hard
Blows Are Harmless: No One Knows
Who Substituted the Heavy Mitts
BY JAMES 5. CAROLYN

"CEE, rhl, what was wrong with
" me tonight? hit that fellow
often enough to drop him. dozens Of
times, but he simply wouldn't go down,
Have lost my wallop"'
Tired from his long fight. but stll
strong enough to go many more rounds,
Lew Tender addressed his manager.
Phil Glassman. in the dressing room OF
the Arena in New Haven at the conClu-
sion Of his hftecn-round triumph over
Willie jackson Monday night Glass
man glanced at his sad protege. passed
% fcw Consolng remarks, then started
To- remove the gloves.
Then IT. was that his attention was
attracted to The size Of the gloves Blood
covered ana water-soaked. the leather
mauiers looked more like pillows than
boEng gloves. When they were re-
moved Phil carefully examined them.
| then called i'm Jack MunrOe. the former
| bantam fighter. who is one Of the attend
! ants az the New Haven fight club. to
take a look. Before long it was disoov-
! cred and officially proclaimed that they
were ElGIT-OUNCE gloves.
Tendlcr Handicapped
Vas " any NonuCf lldl fnuIcI
couldn't stop the New Yorker. who was
| q ready target for Lcw's punches?
| When and where the substitution took
place GlasSman was unable to say
When the gloves were brought into the
dressing room before the fight Glassmau
recalled that they were Of a duh lead
! color. the los never had been opened
before and they still were wrapped i'm
tissue paper
I 40 more attention was paid TO gloves,
The maulers were adjusted in the ring,
but nothing was said. Even had Glass
man noted any change he would have
been powcrlcss to say anything, for the
, least sign Of argument in a New Haven
ring may force the calling off of the
battle. Even roofing Is barred.
Tender made no complaint, but was
aware that the gloves were larger than
the ones he had been using in the past.
He also noted that he was unable to
WELD the big mitts with the same ease
as the fivc-ouncc gloves.
Tender Speaks
II simply couldn't hurt that fellow"
said Tender in his room at the hotel
few hours after the battle. - hit
him hard and often but there was no
stopping him. noticed before the third
! round was over that my hands were
not working as smoothly as they should
b but thought ! could work it Off in a
/ few rounds. kept banging away for
/ twelve rounds but / did not begin to
| feel the strain until the thirteenth.
7 You know how it feels to carry a
couple Of heavy travelling bags for an
/ hour without a rest? Your arms go dead,
| that is. they become numb and seem
/ helpless. That is how mine felt. ]
! again blamed it on the distance OF the
! fight instead Of the gloves. I fought my
/ hardest and best i'm that thirteenth, and
| as Jackson was very tired 1 felt sure
! | could put him away.
Il clipped him on the jaw and nailed
/ him in the stomach with hard swings,
but all he would do is clinch, break
away then run If you noticed / kept
my hands very low in those last two
| rounds. I had a reason, My arms
were so tired it was Difficult tt hold them
up. but ] certainly would not have kept
/ them i'm that position il jackson was
strong. ! knew hc was through aud all
. | had to do was sdestep, box a little
I and punch.
But let me add right here, it's q good
( thing for jackson that they were eight
/ instead Of fiVe-ouuCe gloves concluded
/ Lew, as he turned his head in the di-
rection of "A chair on which were the
water-soaked pillows
Judge Imber Aroused
Judge Harry Imber. a great admirer
Of Tender, made the trip and saw the
battle from the ringside. The Judge
was much distressed when he saw Jack
son take one ON the chin and refuse to
. pass out He thought the distance had
weakened Lew, and that the newsboy
! king had lost his punch. When he was
/. informed Of the change in gloves he
| broke loose.
ITS an outrage! why, if Lew had
| on the dve-ounce gloves he would have
put away Jackson in fewer than eight
rounds He never hit better nor cleaner,
and he was on top of his man con-
. tinually. His generalship was perfect
and his punching accurate. We would
have been able to catch an earlier train
, home. | am sure, had 1t not been for
! the substitution. ] don't know who did
| il, but il was done.
This Tender is the greatest boy Of
his weight in the world. | say he is the
uncrOwned lightweight champion, and