The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-07-28
DENNY LEONARD
HARDPUT TO IT
Still Holds Worlds Light
weight Champions
ship
TENDLER NO SECOND
RATER NOR DUB
Bout Went Full IL Rounds
With Tender Crying
Come on and Fight

New York, July rs tBy the Asso-
ciated Press Benny Leonard still
holds the worlds lightweight boxing
championship but he realizes that Lew
Tender of Philadelphia, left handler,
is neither a second raterp nor a
dub.
Champion since 1917, when he bowled
over English Freddie Welsh, Leonard
walked out Of the great pine bowl in
Boyles' Thirty Acres last night with
the crown perched far back on his
head. Tender put it there. Had the
challenger tho stamina to hold the lead
he gained in the early rounds he would
have knocked it off. Leonard won by
the paIest Of shades.
The bout went the full twelve
rounds and under the law of New
Jersey there was no official decision.
The verdict is that 81 majority of
newspaper writer's at the ringside.
Silent throughout the arduous days
OF training to the belittling state
ments that Leonard made about him,
Tender gave his anwer last night
It came hard and straight from his
left shoulder. Leonard had predicted
that he would finish Tender within
seven rounds. In that period Leonard
brushed aside blood that trickled from
his brow, turned his head to one side,
spat out tooth and grunted dissat
isfaction
The champion of yesterday is the
champion of to-day because he had
the reserve strength to take the lead
when Tender faltered after beating
him all over the ring for four rounds.
Leonard was yisibly dazed until this
junctire--dazed and amazed. He said
afterwards that he was stunned BY
but" in the first round from the
challenger's head. Tender said ii
was from cuff from his left hand.
After the fourth Benny swept the cob
webs from his head with both hands
The rally of the titleholder in the
fifth, sixth and seventh rounds nettled
and ratified the Philadelphian, but in
the eighth Lefty Lew came back for a
spell. Leonard brought him back with
two right belts to the Jaw. Tender
blinked. They clinched. Tender then
shot left, another and then another,
all to the champions jaw. Leonard's
knees sagged and he clutched Tend
ler's shoulders, resting there.
There was almost as much converse
tion---bitter colloquy--as there was
fighting in the ninth. They were even
on both scores
Tender was annoyed in the tenth |
by the champions Fostering two |
hands So Leonard let up, then feint-
cd. Tender was fooled. He stepped |
back, away, turning from his antagon-
list. Leonard sprang like a hair-trig |
ger. Straight rights and lefts TO head
and body sent Tender hurting to the
ropes. Tender fought back, but the
gong stopped that.
They both missed often in the last
two rounds, but Leonard's sharp
right was the more accurate
Both tried for finishing blows and
though short uppercuts from each hit
their marks, they lacked power.
Tender, always a body crusher, en-
ployed style unexpected to him. Per
haps it was strategy. Anyway his
attack was diversified, especially after
he had been warned repeatedly for
striking dangerously near the line
Leonard's big failure was in his legs
Not until near the finish did he prance
'bout, as is his wont, striking and
iarting away. He would no more do
his than Tender could pound his
body. for the challenger was crowding
stepping upon him-forc-
ng the fight. And Leonard's reputed
light cross was only partially effec-
i've.
Not often Is Benny Leonard hard
nut. Occasions have been rare when
fighter, in the midst OF battle, has
aid to him, come on and fight"
rendler said ii repeatedly. Leonard
avs he is at the height of. his ca
eer. Tender frankly admits that
ell grow into better fighter.