Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-02
BOXER RET|RES TO REST
FOR APPROACHING BOUT
Lew Tender TO Have Peace AMI
Quiet Before Meeting
Leonard
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NEW YORK. Aug mir. Low
Tender. the prominent Philadelphia
ncwsboy has retired to his country
place for peace and meditation to
prepare himself for what's going TO
happen on the night OF August -.
Nathan Hale had only few hours.
ana al he got was a statue in CIV
Hall Park. Lew Tender will re,
the small end OF Il very thick wedge
Of change. Benny Leonard gets the
rest. This VIII be another o. those
biE-mon"y fights "a distinguished
from the Nttic-mon"y things such
as the Lynch Herman bout. for which
Lynch got mere $4,000
Tender is tho last Of the Leonard
challcnGers who Were yelling VA,
fa: why don't yuu nEht?" about a
year ago. Leonard first took Joe
WeiiinS and knocked him next door
to the corcncrs Office. Then he
chcwcd up Hitch.c Mitchell. OF Mil
waukce. and turned 10 look for Tend
Ter. But although Lew kept yelling
for trouble. he wanted Leonard to
cut of leg to make 1873 pounds.
ringsilc. Leonard Ignored these rude
sallicS. being a refined young man.
himself. and always parting his hair
in the middle. These wa. no ono
lief; FOR Leonard to fight when op-
pOrtunely. Rocky Kansas Knocked off
the same Ritchic Mitchell and hogan
clamorng for some OF Mr.. Lconard's
company.
Well with the opposition running
low, Benny took Kansas over To New
Jersey. whore they stand FOR any
thing IL you arrange IL beforehand.
and saved him along through a
twclvcround fantasy entitled. Com
radcs. Comrades. Since We Were
Roys." Leonard made Kansas last
the distance. but the challenger had
to be spread on pretty thin To cover
twelve rounds.
Since that time Tender has be-
riblc and he doesn't much care
whether he ilops in the ring or in
bed. now or next ycHr. So he's going
to LoN Benny at 80 pounds ut .
o'clock
There is no way OF telling Just Vet
how much money the boys VIII take
away Thcy are lighting OH a per-
ccntag. basis and the advance racket
indicates 5000, 600 house at least.
Amy ponderinr paipy with a nine
ycarold nuisance, playing fire engine
around the family iivc-and bath. can
do worse than study this fight With
view To the future OF his up-and
coming progeny Tender is no
lie even fights with his right hand
ont Yet he'll make more out OF this
one fight than most fathers in this
land make in five or six years
Thee there's the career of Mike
Gibbons to study Mike has made
about 100000 in a few easy fights
here since returning from his retire
,ncnt. He's not much good any more
just Il slappcr. Yet he expects to
makc--and probably wili-$Go.000 This
year. Jack SharEcy was just a tough
kid and hc got about $4,000 out Of
the ring in tn" little run OF popu-
larity that he had after heating
Jimmy Wilde. Charley White. never
n champion nad fatcd never To he one,
made big money in his regular career
and now here hc is To fight Johnny
Dundee in New York. He Will make
more in his second childhood around
here than n skilled workman makes
- a DECADE. provided charlcy's feet
don't freeze up on him again. Dun
dee himself has always been n clown
IN the ring ana he has made about
100000 at it. He used to pcddle the
fragrant fioundcr from II cart on III"
West Side. bur even with the snort
scale he couldn't have made that
noIcy In Tile fish business.
The law may he all right and
medicine. too. The cloth may still
ct I some youngsters But for Il
profession. What about Fighting?
Second ratcrs own racing stables in
ms part Of the country.