The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-22
BAGLEY TELLS OF JACKSON -TENDLER BATTLE IN PHILLY
Doc" Claims Peruvian Count" Saved TendIen
 From Knockout
Ny JAMES T. CoRBETT Copyright, 1922, by King Feature
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 Ever hear of the Peruvian count?
 They give 1t 10 you in Philadel- phia," explains Frank ("Doc'D Bag ley. who pilots the fistic destinies of Gene Tunney, Willie Jackson and a sundry collection of fist wigglers.
 And then Bagley explained:
 Back in August, 1920, I chased Jackson into Philadelphia to take on that Man-eating, fearfully fero- cious Lew Tendler. The affair was put on in the ball park. It was antiei- pated that a pleasant time was going to be had by all-except my Willie. It was the general concensus of opinion around Quaker Town that my return to New York would be with crepe around my hat and arm and that Willie's journey would be in newly made pine box
 Loses No Time
 The dear old gong had hardly done it's gonging before terrible surprise was delt out to Philadelphia in general and Tendler in particular, My hero did nothing more nor less than step forth, swing right handler and plunk the said Tendler full and square upon nlS HoDle cnlIl.
 And down went Tender
 "The referee was Frank CPop0 OBrien, who right then and there won the worlds championship in the matter of Peruvian counting, for oBrien that day in Philadelphia gave the greatest exhibition of the art that I've ever witnessed.
 With the speed of q man attacked suddenly by locemoter ataxis. O'Brien walked over to the prostrate Tender. l figured that lie would start count ing. immediately. But OBrien did nothing of the sort. He seemed to be standing there. looking at Lew much in the critical way a doctor does who has come to examine q patient and who is studying him for symptoms Somebody finally yelled 'count' which awakened oBrien to the fact that he was q referee, not a physi- clan or an oniooker.
 The Peruvian Count
 "So Pop started about his Peru vian count. Slowly. carefully and in dignified fashion. he lifted his right flipper, lowered it-and then chanted one He paused, as though wearicd by his exertions. Then, after a long lapse of time. he lifted the arm agan, slowly. carefully, lowered 1t in the same fashion and said 'two.'
 Just how many real, honest-to- gosh seconds elapsed between the time Tender hit the floor and when he got up is in dispute between timers. Some folks say it was IA sec onds others 20 secondhand some ruled that it was longer. But, anv- way, the Peruvian counting MT oBrien tolied off seven or eight, at which time Tender. having had a nice. refreshing sleep, picked up his little self and faced Willie once more.
 "Thereupon, Willie maneuvered around bit and belted the Tender boy again. And Lew once more Lit the floor with very bumpish bump.
 Threw Water on Lew
 His seconds decided right then and there that they needed even more than q Peruvian count to help Lew get up. So they tossed bucket of water upon Lew--a fragrant violation of the ring rules. But the Peruvian counter ignored the trick. He was too busily engaged in his work of count iiig, which consisted of counting one for the lapse of about every four or five seconds.
 Some folks say Lew was down that time for over 20 seconds, but O'Brien wasn't one of that group. The way he counted, accompanied by the fall and rise of his arm, made a lot of people think that he had paralysis in the particular wing which he was using. Anyway, he counted slowly enough to enable Lew to beat ten again--and thus the great and wonderful Tender was twice saved from being knocked out
 What great thing that Peruvian count is--if you have a fighter llv ing in Philadelphia and he's fighting there. Aided by the Peruvian count. could send Jackson against Jack