New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-11
Reggaiins
Title as Buff
Yields i'm 18th
Scores Technical Knockout
When Bantam Champions
Second Rushes Into Ring
and Halts Rain of Blows
Manager Throws i'm Towel
Winner From I'd Round /;
Adversary Outpunched,
but Game to the Finish
By Jack Lawrence

Joe Lynch Joined the immorta's last
night when he regained his lost ban
tamweight championship of the world
by scoring technical knockout over
Johnny Buff, holder of the title, in the
fourteenth round of what was to have
oeen fifteen-round fight at the New
YORK Velodrome. The end was not
sudden. That the fight could end in
only the way it did was plain to every
one of the $4,000 spectators from the
second round until Doc Bagley, one of
Buff's seconds, rushed into the ring
after six seconds of the fourteenth
round had passed and. throwing his
arms about Bluffs shoulders, shielded
him from further and useless punish
ment. AT the same time Lew Diamond
Buff's manager, tossed a towel into the
ring
Lynch was supreme from the second
round on. He enjoyed weight ad-
vantage Of only four pounds, but it
looked like twenty to the spectators
His greater reach, his advantage in
height and. most important of all, his
devastating hitting powers were the
factors that ruined Buff and restored
Joe Lynch to the throne from which
ne was unseated by Pete Herman on
July 25, 1921.
retrospect of last nights affair at
the Velodrome shows a wonderfully
game fyweight fighting the best ban
tamweight in the business-for that is
exactly what Joe Lynch was in this
fight. He was never in better physical
condition and never fought fight in
which he used HIS brain to greater ad-
vantage. He fought exactly the fight
chat was calculated to beat Buff. 1t
beat the champion and beat him badly
1t made a chopping block of his
wizened old face and splashed the
lighters with blood. 1t was all Bluffs
blood. Lynch retired to his corner re-
crowned as bantamweight champion of
the world without a mark on him.
The story of how Joe Lynch broke
into the haloed circle of the immortals
who also have "come back" can be told
briefly. 1t might be told in the phrase
which says that a good little man can
never beat good big man. That &C
tually was the case last night.
Lynchs Two Weapons
Lynch's business in the ring of the
Velodrome last night was carried out
with cold and uncompromising preci-
sion. He had two weapons and he used
them both with deadly effect. One was
left jab-a long, cutting stab to the
face-and the other was his deadly
right, the blow that usually brings q
fatal count from the referees lips
when it lands.
Buff weathered the deadly right-the
Knockout punch. But that murderous
what little chance Buff had to con
quer the Lynch who faced him last
night 1t blinded HIM and coated his
face with gore.
Gamo to the core, Buff fought to ths
last, keeping his fee. unisr a deadl!
rain Of blows until the thirteenth
round, when this right, following 8
series Of stabbing lefts, caught hin
|. squarely on his game little jaw and
sent him sprawling on his back. He
took a momentary view of the myriad
stars overhead and hoppea T. his feet
to continue the losing battle.
| There can be no doubt that Buff
would have finished. He seems to BIZ
one of those fighters who refuse to &c
| down to stay. 1t was the timely and
humane arrival of Doc Bagley in tn
| fourteenth that put stop to a fgn'
| that could have had but one end.
Joe Lynch first won the title from
| Pete Herman, December 23, 1920, anc
! lost it back to Herman the following
year in July. Buff won the title from
Herman in Madison Square Garden or
September 81 Of the same year.
Lynch went into the ring last night
a, 8 to favorite in the betting, but
/ earlier in the day in Wall Streets Buff
I had ruled to favorite and late in
the evening many bets were placed al
even money. A half hour before the
bantamweights entered the ring a great
volume of Lynch money appeared about
the Velodrome and quickly made the
West Slider the favorite at odds of
to 5. Fifteen minutes before the mer
bell sounded the betting commissioners
| were hustling about offering 9 to 5.
Buff, followed by Lew Diamond, his
manager, and small army of camera
men, was the first to enter the ring
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