New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
Leonard Eseady
For Title Bout
With 'Tendler
Champion Training Will
Southpaw Partners r.
Meet Challengcr's Tac,;s.
By Jack Lawrence

Lew Tenders southpaw stvl. :,
grabbing off the lightweight crow, :,
going to get him nothing at all :.
cording to Benny Leonard's own wn.,
expressed in a rather emphatic
ner at Betzwood Farms, Pa, wbers !.
is conditioning himself against y.
latest drive for his title, wbich !;
scheduled to occur at the Nat;o,.,
League Ball Park in PHILADELPHIA ~.
Friday night.
According to Benny, the left-hauas,
manner of fsticuffs essayed by the Avn
bilious Lew will bring the l2.tor's hiss
pressure aspirations to a sudden ana
lugubrious close the very first lin.
that Lew misses with his left, which !.
supposed to be the hand that return.
the large dividends.
"When he misses with that left and
| cross with my right the bout will /.
over and we'll have nothing to worr
about except getting back to New
York." said the lightweight champion
yesterday.
Down in Philly they are already call.
ing this coming championship deba..
"the classic of the century" Whit
this phrase may be stealing sometime
closely associated with Boyles Thirty
Acres, there is no gainsaying a.
fact that this rumpus OF the leading
lightweights is creating Il widespread
stir in boxing circles.
There are old-timers up aroma
Forty-second Street and Broadway
where the primrose trail bloomed IA
better years, who are convinced that
Benny is making the once~too often trip
to the we'll on Friday night.
However this may be, IL seems to be
fact that the reigning sovereign Of
all lightweights is attaching consider
able Importance to his coming encoun
ter with the deft and dapper Tender.
He is even taking the matter seriously
and is putting in strenuous training
ticks at his Pennsylvania camp. The
champ is reported to be in splendid
shape at the present time. He has
worked a great deal with southpaw
training partners and declares that this
style of offense and defense is nov
"his meat"
There is something of a personal
grudge existing between Leonard and
Tender and there is a real row be-
/ tween their respective managers.
Billy Gibson, director general for
Benny, declares that he never knew
manager who had so much to say as
Phil Glassman, while Benny himself
says that Tender has gone up and
down the world shouting from the
housetops of what he would do to The
champ. when he got him in the ring.
of there is one fighter | want to
hang it on decisively it is Lew Ten
der" said Leonard yesterday Any
opportunity to do this will come on
Friday night, and all you have to do is
to watch me put it over. He has dodged
me repeatedly on the matter Of weight
and has tried to dictate to me, The
champion as to the conditions under
which we should meet. We are matched
new, and the result will tell a story Of
its own"
Leonard said he was practically a
the scheduled weight and could MAKE
it easily with twenty-four hours no
tice.
Two ether bouts that will have the
bearing on the destinies of boxing ar
scheduled to occur this week. One vii
see Mike Gibbons, the crafty and bat
t'e-scarred veteran of St. Paul, mixinl
matters with jeff Smith, the remark
ably touted middleweight of Bayonne
and the other will bring togethe
Johnny Dundee, the fiery and acrobati
lightweight, and Charley White, O
Chicago, who is said to pack lot o
championship caliber in his makeup
Gibbons and Smith will dabble witt
fate at the Armory A A in Jersey Git
on Tuesday night, while Dundee AM
White will entertain each other on tn
following evening at the Bronx Box
ing Drome, 167th Street and Westches
ter Avenue, the Bronx.