Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-27
PUBLIC WORKED
UP OVER FIGHT
At JERSEY CITY
Leonard Tender Bout To-
night for the Worlds
y Lightweight Title Is At
tracing Keen Interest.
lBy The Associated Press,

! New York, SuIy 26.--Not since
| tb1 Dempsey Carpenter fight has
| the public been so worked up over
a boxing match as it appears to be
Iover the encounter tomorrow even
| ing in Jersey City between Cham i.
lpion Benny Leonard, New York,
and Challenger Lew Tender, Phil
iadelphia, for the worlds light
weight title.
| Hardly since Leonard took the
title from the Englishman, FreddJ'
Welsh, at the old Manhattan Casino,
has there been so much pre-fighf
discIssion over a lightweighesson'
test. though in the intervening time
Benny has met every contender who
iasked for a chance. Tender has
fought an uphill battle for recognl-
ltion all this time.
| BY almost every one except the
| champion himself, Tender is ac-
iknowledged the most dangerous OPP
ponent Leonard has hazarded his
crown with since ascending the
throne. To newspaper men at his
training camp at Budd Lake, N. j.,
Leonard has belittled Tender,
jt1ll ISttI1tu nm % ubp oha N'e"0-
fled him as a second rater."
Usually Leonard is less garrulous.
He has trained hard and carefully,
which Tender cites as ample re-
futation of the champions utter
ances. Leonard says he is at the
peak of his manhood, that he never
Twill be better boxer.
Tender, too, has trained dill-
gently at his quarters at Delanco,
N. j., an aristocratic suburb about
Twenty miles from Philadelphia on
the Delaware river The challenger
has declined to make a prediction
and only says I'm going to do my
best"
For the last few days Leonard
has been irritable, but gay. He
claims utter sincerity in hls ap-
praisal of Tender. The challenger
appears genuinely hurt and quietIy
angered. He radiates grim deter
mination, but makes it plain that
too much talking might jeopardize
his levelness of head.
1t will be the first meeting Of the
two, though they were matched tor
/ the championship bout last year.
IAN episode occurred at that time
! that caused i'll feeling, Tender 5
manager, Phil Glassman, taking
the $4,000 forfeit Leonard had ten
dered for appearance, which he was
unable to make because of broken
hand, suffered several days before
the fight.
| Boxing experts are divided en-
| haYIaSt h1rn
is the most aggressive and Whlch
can absorb the most punishment
but there is a clear difference IN
their fighting style. Tender is a
left -hander and Leonard uses his
fright to greatest advantage; TEND
| Ter is a body puncher and Leonard
devotes more time to the chin ana
jaw.
| or the two records Leonard's is
far the best. He has been in nearly
| 200 ring battles since he became
Saturday night preliminary boy ten
lyears ago, knocking out sixty-three'
or about one-third of his opponents
gaining seven decisions on points
and finishing 11S other no-decision
affairs, in most of which he had
d cledTt JHdIBlH.
Tender has been two years less
in the ring and has been in about
half as many bouts, seventy-siX, or
more than three-fourths of them
being no decision affairs, in a ma
jority of which he was the unoffi'
cial victor. He has nineteen knock
out to his credit. He has lost few
decisions, notably one to Rocky
Kansas, who fell an easy victim to
Leonard less than u month ago.
Furthermore, the names of the
mighty are not as prominent in
Tenders record as in Leonard's.
His biggest victory was decision
over Johnny Dundee, though Lefty
Lew" had no decision mixups with
Willie Jackson, Pinkie Mitchell
Pitchie Mitchell and Sailor Fried
man, all top notchers. He gained
| ififteen-round decision over Dundee
this year and one over Friedman
last fall. and another previously
over George CLANCY, Of Baltimore.
In physical qualifications matters
lare nearer equal. If Tender. who
lis rs, can be said to have youth on
lis side, then Leonard, who Is rs.
lean claim age, but each Is near to
1.-THE summit of boxers development.
Leonard is by far the more expert
lenced. though Tender is a great
jdistance away from the tyro class.
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