New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26


.sferee and judges after fifteen rou1
avery one of the thirty thousand pre-
IKE mad almost every second of the
Lynch was badly heatea boy ats
,he esd. His left eye was streaming
Mood. his lips were pulled and cut, his
,srs we're wabbly and his punch had
hst its sting. The last three times
Ia went to his corner the former
ssbampion could scarcely drag one tired
d. after the other. His eyes we're
aslassy and his arms heavy as lead. He
xas lucky young man indeed to save
Hh,mself the humiliation of knock
out.
That he was able to do so was due
entirely to a strategy which. while it
4 a,a mot fool Peter Herman for mo-
+ Gsnt, made for Lynch a rowing target
i, which it was almost impossible to
Asot fatal punch. Throughout the
! is three rounds Joe pursued such
Enping jack tactics as had made
iohnny Dundee famous. He danced in
! and out and round about, feinting and
iooling, but only tapping whenever he
/ lid lead.
Among Few to Come Back
Herman is one of the few worlds
Champions who ever effected sue
eesdul comeback. The names that
| come quickly to mind are Stanley
Ke.chel, who knocked out Billy
pspke, who had laid him out, and Jack
Br;tton and Ted Lewis, who have
\ saved hide-and-seek with the welter-
4 weight title, 10, these many years.
. This bantam championship bout
. rived a fitting climax for the high
class entertainment of the Internation-
i Sporting Club, for it was a fight in
very sense of the word from the first
% the final bell.
Herman maintained the mastery
I almost from the start He was the acme
4 ii confidence, the personification of
gsee and mastery. His hitting was
4 clean, his blocking superb, his general
shin the last word in art. His was an
4 sxhibition of the old school; the
4 visardry of making an opponent miss
While ever remaining in position to
4 land damaging return.
a In the more or less humble opinion
a Of the writer, Lynch was so badly
4 beaten at the end of the eighth round
8 that nothing but knockout could have
4 saved the championship to him. Lynch
4 had but the second and eleventh rounds,
rest all fell to Herman, most of them
BY a city block
In Danger Only Once
Only once was the challenger of the
i light in danger. That was in the sec
md, when Lynch caught Pete flush on
/ the Sutton, with right, behind which
he pat every ounce of energy. The
| How hurt, and hurt badly. 1t rocked
Herman up against the ropes and left
lin momentarily dazed. But Pete
i quickly covered the vital spots and
! Eeatkered everything Lynch shot his
3|vay-and shoot Joe did a-plenty.
n II is probable this fusillade took
more out of the former champion than
it took out Of his challenger, for never
4 He fought himself out-fought himself
cut futilely against the arms and
gloves of a perfectly covered foeman.
Herman's mitigating was thing of
iauty. And this work went far to
wear his man down. He would rip
both hands to the body with the rhythm
Of engine pistons. For a time at long
range Lynch held his own; Herman
had to depend upon work at close
warters to maintain the mastery.
But as Joe began to wilt under the
Ibody pummeling Herman, with the
mastery of Joe Cans, changed his
line of campaign.
He began to fight more and moresat
long range, for he knew he could beat
lynch to the punch. He reserved the
n.fghting for such times as the tir-
Ing Lynch sought close quarters in
he hope of haven. And then, too,
herman began to use his wicked right
4 deadly earnest.
Near Finish in Ninth
Three times in the ninth round Her
nan crashed his right to Joe's jaw
nth telling effect. Each rocked the
hen champion to his heels. 1t was
this right witch decided Lynch's han
Hers to send Joe out for possible
Knockout. But the steam had gone
i'om his punches. 1t was too late to
ntrleve the day.
4 And then Lynch began his jumping
jsek tactics which really made him
Hdisulous, but which doubtless saved
hin the humiliation of stretching his
\ ength on the canvas. It was course
ast action that fast Slapped his ebbing
Vitality. He gagged his reserve
strength to nicely, for had the last
mund gone minute more knock
sut was inevitable. Had he fallen IN
the last minute, it is doubtful II Joe
lynch could ever have arisen.
twas worth ones life to try to fight
ais way into Ebbets Field.
The beautiful marble rotunda, the
pride Of Squire Ebbets's heart, was
lacked with a jam Of humanity such as
had not seen since that Saturday
afternoon, long ago, when the Giants