Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-05
TENDLER BY K. D.
PREDICTS O'KEEFE
Lewis Sparring Partner Says
Title Will Change Hands
Next Friday Night
so DOES BAT. LEVINSKY
BY LOUIS II. JAFFE

lt l may be permitted to speak a
little piece spoke up Eddie O'Kcefe
during flaming bee in one of the
bel estate, where Lew Tender is putting
IN his licks for the greatest battle of
his young life with Benny Leonard at
the Phils Ball Park next Friday night,
while the rain was pelting down on the
landscape the other afternoon, then
the battle is all over but the corona
ton. They tell me that Big Ben ism t
alarmed over the reports that Little
Lew will stop him in the ring, but
that's just what's going to happen.
"And any of the Leonard constituents
who think that l am conversing through
my bonnet continued the veteran
featherweight with a grin. will agree
with me IT they will slip on the mittens
with Tender. Tender has been socking
me around pretty much-he has hit me
with some mighty wallops. especially
mat left handler to the body, and Lew
didn have TO let me know every once
IN while that he was letting up. Sew
| "raI afternoons | was sure that | was
about to hear the cuckoos cuck ing.
Tender may be just little en-
| thuSlastlc about slowing away the
champion before the end Of the fourth
| round, but TO my way of thinking Lew
won't be more than round or two of
IN his prediction. And | ought TO know
for haven't | been stopping enough
punches TO knock out half a dozen
l.eonards if the gloves were the regula-
tion- sized ones instead of the fourteen.
ounce Variety"
Levinsty Picks Tender
Battling Levinsky. local light. heavy
weight, who has watched Tender in
several of his workouts at Delanco,
\. j.. also has placed himself on record
as predicting a kayo for the Philadel.
phian. Says the Battler:
Leonard has never been hit in the
body since ! have seen him fighting. and
Lew will sock him there. There never
was right forward guy like him.
Cant keep away from that fellow. He
hits. A glimpse at Tender hitting the
bag proves that. You've never seen a
fellow since kctChel who raped the
fast bag with double tattoo, have you +:
He S pretty. he is. and game as they
make 'em. I'll tell you this much. and
it'll be surprise. He'll knock Leonard
down with the first good punch he hits
him. and III make a bet that a left
wallop to the body will do it. They're
! not knocking 'cm down with body
punches these days unless you have
Dempsey on your mind If Tender
doesn't surprise them. III 60 bag my
head. a champion is only human, after
ALL"
10 Kidding
Just then Tender himself Joined the
orators, and Lew is no back scatter
when it comes to flinging phrases hither
and yon. He evidently got Levinsky' s
last line. for Lew repeated:
"a champion is only human after
ALL" Then, very quietly, Let me say
this. When ! knock Leonard down he
isn't going to get up and kid me. He
won't step back and fix up his hair on
me. Neither will he rcadjust his tights
while he is giving his head a chance
70 clear. When he gets up he'll ga
down again without any kidding or
primping. If he knocks me down he
must not expect any Eddie Foylng when
7 get up. I'll be just as serious groggy
as ] am normal. lie may whip me,
hut he won't kid me.