The New York herald., 1922-07-28
S SEE LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE BATTLE IN JERSEY ARENA

| walked away. Leonard swung with his
right, but Tender beat him to it with a
hard left to the body. Tender brought
his right to Leonard's head as the ball
| rang.
Leonard landed right to the stomach
as bell rang for the fifth, and shot a right
to Tenders mouth. drawing little
/ blood.
| Leonard ripped three hard lefts 70
| Tenders head . Leonard then landed
/ two stiff rights to the body. Tender
/ pressed Leonard into corner and shot
| two rights to the champions body.
Leonard began to reach Tenders head
with the right Leonard landed right
over Tenders heart and Tender missed.
Leonard rolled his head az Tender
swung for 1t.
Tender sent~a low left to the body at
the start of the sixth. Leonard pressed
in and drove Tender back with stiff
right to tie head. AS Leonard swung
his right to the head Tender ducked
away. The cut over Leonard's eye
opened again as Tender landed on 1t
with his eft. Tender pressed Leonard
into neutral corner and landed with
left to the head
endler missed left swing and Leon
ard landed left and right to the jaw.
lie, ;ard came In and landed hard a
right to the body but took in return a
stiff left to the jaw. Leonard began
to score accurately with his right to
Tenders jaw. Tender was bleeding
profusely as the bell rang.
Leonard stepped around for an OPEN
ing in the seventh and landed right to
the head. Leonard landed a stiff left to
the head. Tender ripped a right to
the body, which seemed to annoy
Leonard a little. The champion came
back with two stiff lefts Tender
pressed Leonard to the ropes and landed
two lefts. Referee Ertle warned him.
Tender landed left to the head and
left to the body. Leonard landed
three rights in succession to Tenders
jaw, but the Philadelphia boy took them
with the stoicism of Battling Nelson.
Leonard Is Staggered.
They went into clinch at the start
OF the eighth and Leonard scored with
uppercuts. Leonard seemed to be using
much more caution and his confidence
seemed to be decreasing. They went into
clinch again. Sud denly Tender shot
over a terrific left to Leonard's jaw and
the champion staggered. 1t looked al
most as though Leonard would drop. but
he came back quickly.
Tender swung another right to the
side OF Leonard's head then landed
to the jaw with another left swing
Leonard's face was bruised and bleeding,
but he laughed back. Again Tender
pressed close and land ed his left to the
head and body. Tender laughed through
bleeding mouth at the champion be-
fore he went to his corner.
AS the ninth round opened a girl at
the ringside shouted Come on, Lew,
make him fight" Leonard again began
to complain that Tender was hitting
low with the left. Suddenly the cham
pion brought over a hard right hook to
Tenders jaw, but 1t only shook the
contender trifle as Tender shot low
to the body. Leonard again scored a
left to the body. Leonard had lost a
pivot tooth in the second round and the
crowd, discovering It for the first time
In the ninth. thought Tender had
knocked 1t out then.
At the opening of the tenth Leonard
landed right to the jaw and planted
the same fist to Tenders stomach. The
men up to this time had fought at
pretty earnest clip and both were fairly
tired. Tender forced Leonard into his
own corner and banged with rights and
lefts to the head. The champion pressed
Tender back with iefts to the Jaw.
Leonard battered Tender to the ropes
and shot two hard rights to the Jaw.
Tender lifted the left to Leonard's Jaw.
Leonard shot hard right to the jaw as
the bell rang 1t was as hard as Leonard
could punch apparently, but 1t did not
upset Tender.
AT the opening Of the eleventh round
Tender landed with left to the head.
Leonard missed with two rights. then
scored with left and right to the head.
Leonard landed twd right uppercuts that
drove Tender back. Leonard landed
accurately, but Tender showed no signs
OF weakness. Leonard. boxing cleyerly.
landed three rights to the head. then
caught Tender around the neck with
his left arm in a clinch. Tender scored
with left as the bell rang.
Leonard Scores with Right.
At the opening of the twelfth round
Leonard scored with a right to the
mouth. Tender retorted with a left to
the head. Leonard ducked. making Ten
dler miss and sent in a right. Leonard
ciinched and scored two right uppercuts
as Tender continued to use his left TO
the body. Leonard ducked and landed
his right to the body and to the head.
Leonard was showing a willingness to
mix 1t now and was scoring repeatedly
with the right. Leonard's hand seemed
to snap as the round ended.
At the close Of the fight Leonard ran
over to Tender and whipped one arm
around his neck. Tender patted Leon
ard on the shoulder
The final bout of the night brought in
Mickey Donley Of Newark and pete
Hartley Of New York. Hartley and
Donley pummeled each other entbusi-
astically for ten rounds. and the veteran
Hartley had all the best of sne encoun-
ter. He had Donley bleeding at the nose
and very tired at the close
When the men arrived at the arena at
O'Clock in the afternoon to be weighed
In Leonard claimed the prerogative of
tie champion and demanded the dress
Ing room occupied by Jack Dempsey
during the Dempsey Carpenter bout.
The contender's followers did not demur.
There was quite gathering around for
the weighing in.
Leonard came out of mis- dressing room
first. and throwing OK his bathrobe
stepped on the scales which were
balanced at 135 pounds. He did not
raise the beat. His exact weight was
given as being 1874 rounds and Is
ounces Tender did not oulge the scales
at the public Weighing IN either. He
was exactly three ounces lighter than
the champion.
1t was whispered that Tender had
more trouble making the weight than
Leonard did. In fact. at private
a few hours before the formal
one Tender was found to be slightly
ever the poundage demanded. He had
to do some sweating 20 get down to the
Fight weight
This was told to RiIv Cibson rna,