New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-28
Title Holder Outboses Riual
In Eight of Tscelue Rounds
Challenger Fights Hard
and Camely; Has Benny
in Distress in the Eighth

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sent true to the mark. Either Tender
{ wonder at absorbing right-hand
drives with his chin or Leonard has
last much Of his old power.
Has Tender In Distress
In the fifth round the champion had
Tendler in bad way with a series of
.hsse hard right hooks to the jaw and
few was lucky 20 survive this session
BE cIinched and saved himself as Leon
sra did three rounds later when he was
n the same predicament. Both fight
srx were in superb condition and that
he battle went the full twelve rounds
an be attributed to this fact.
Tender had neither fear of Leonard
nor respect for his famous right hand.
Lew tore into the champion in the
rsry first round as though he expected
10 end the affair in punch. The
visiousness of the Philadelphian's at
.sck appeared 20 amaze the New Yorker
IN the early going, and his pride was
given a hard ]olt in the opening SEES
son wher Lefty Lewis port weapon
opened mean cash over Benny's right
are. This wound worried Leonard
throughout the fight. and although it
was patched up frequently between
rounds. it bled in almost cvery.session
Leonard pride took another rude
Jolt in the third round, when right
isb 10 the mouth knocked out the most
prominent tooth he possessed. The
Slow loosened the tooth and Benny
whipped it out with his gloved hand
and tossed it into the crowd He took
his unusual mishap with a smile and
lore into Lew with both hands.
Leonard gave the philadelphian a
terrific lacing in the siAth round. when
he blazed away at his jaw and body
and landed practically at will. In this
round he cut Lewis lip and this blod'
until the end of the fight In the sew
sath Leonardo landed five blows to
finders one, and lookedsat that time
nbe sure winner by knockout. The
AMAZING counter attack that Tender
aanched in the eighth round took
leonard completely by surprise and
vrtually carried him off his feet. The
challenger proved here that he can hit
as hard as any lightweight in the di-
vision, and it seems highly probably
aat any other man in the class but
leonard would have gone down before
aat eighth round onslaught.
While Leonard's victory seems to
have been won by a decisive margin
bhcIC ID q EiNdL NGal VI QOQDG as 70
what the result would be in a fifteen
round fight in New York where deci-
sion could be rendered Tender proved
himself g worthy challenger and a
great lightweight. He left the ring
With the distinction of having given
Benny Leonard the toughest battle Of
his career. and if it had not been for
those low punches that marked several
Of the rounds he would have had the
huge crowd with him to man.
There seemed to be little real bet
ting although there were more wagers
talked about than for any other fight.
What little betting was done was at the
price of / to that Benny would win.
There was some betting at Pc to /
that Tender would go the limit.
The Tendler-Leonard bout was put
on before the semi-fnal in order to
leave an opportunity for the huge
crowd 10 dispense in two sections. This
system was followed in the Dempsey
Carpenter battle, and it worked last
sght as we'll as it did then. By the
tine the last fight was over the great
pine area was empty. In the final bout
Pete Hartley outpointed Mickey Donley
IN twelve rounds