The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-21
LOOKS AS IF LEWIS
| IS CROWN T0TER OF
| LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS
BY FRANK G. MENKE

All lH0 WOTlu HANS NCAc uiihSy 40
the American light heavyweight
champion.
But it seems that he isn't.
No one connects Ted "(Kid)" Lewis
with the title-but it looks as II Ted
is the crown toter just the same.
Everyone assumes that Battling Lee
light heavy champs. But the record
books are rather clear on the point
that it was Boy Mccormick.
Dipping into history:
Levinsky was the light heavy
champ of the entire universe until
Oct. II, 1920. Then he was beaten
by Georges, the Carp, who immediate
ly grabbed himself the crown, shined
it up and has been wearing it ever
since. Which is fair enough-for
Georges is the king of kings in the
under IT'S division"
What happened to Levinsky after
ward?
Well, he sauntered out to Portland,
Ore, and agreed to swap punches with
Boy Mccormick, on Dec. 8, 1920. AT
the time Levinsky, even though shorn
of his worlds championship laurels,
was still chieftain of the American di-
vision of light heavies.
Both Under Limit.
Levinsky weighed in under the re-
CURED limit. So did Mccormick. That
made it championship tussle. And
Mccormick won the fight in the sew
enth round because Levinsky commit
ted foul and was disqualified.
Under all existing ring rules, that
defeat of Levinsky gave to Mccormick
/ each and every title which Levinsky
might have owned at the, time-which
/ happened to be the light heavyweight
championship of America
Yet, more than a year later Levin
sky, parading as the light heavy
champ, was matched to meet Tunney
in bout which was advertised to be
for "the light heavyweight champion
ship of America" Nothing was said
about the defeat which Levinsky had
sustained at the hands of Mccormick
in Portland, On Dec. 8, 1920. If any,
thing had been, it perhaps would have
had crab-apple effect upon the Lee
vinsky-Tunney match, as regards
drawing power
| How Can He Be Champ.
Tunney won-outpointed the He
| brew battler in Is rounds. He got
! the decision--and ever since Tunney
has been acclaimed as the American
champion But how can be he the light
heavyweight champion if Mccormick
was champion-and Levinsky lust an
ex-champ?
Meanwhile. the unsung champ-Mc-
Cormick-decided that he'd jaunt over
to Europe and see how things stacked
up in those parts. Not so very long
tago he contracted a quarelsome mood
and picked out Ted Lewis as his par
ticular form of aversion The result
was that the two boys were sliced
onto each other in battle where both
weighed under the It's limit.
AND Lewis knocked out Mccormick
in the fourteenth round.
| That would indicate that Lewis is
the American champion of the light
| heaVies.
Discover True Facts.
A peculiality about who's who il,
the championship business is that the
/ true facts, as shown by the records.
were discovered not so long ago in
/ a casual perusal of the record. What
| those records show perhaps will prove
| to be sad blow for Tunney-and a
mess of joyfulness to the wholly un,
suspecting Lewis.
| Perhaps Dan Morgan, pilot of LIE.
whisky, and Bagley, boss of Tunney,
may be able to prove that someway,
! somehow, the ACCOMPLISHMENTS
fracas was not a simon pure, bona
fide 100 per cent affair involving a
! title-or that somebody gummed up
the records which are regarded as
authentic.
/ Ii so than Tunney can still cali
! himself the American champ of the
under IT'S Founders" Otehrwise-
hail, hail to Kid Lewis, who won a
mpionship-and didn't know he
was doing it.
Copyright 1921 BY King Features
| Syndicate, IDc.)