The New York herald., 1922-07-22
REFEREE ERTLE TO-
DEFINE THE RULES K
Will Visit Quarters Of Leonard
and Tender and Lay oT
Down Law,
BY cHARLEssF. MATHrsoN.


Henry Ert,e. who has been appolntci
referee of the bout between Benny Leon-
ard and Lew Tender in Boyle's Thlriy,
Acres July 81, intends to have a thor-
ough understanding with the boxers in
advance of the contest. Ertle does ppt
intend to leave anything to guesswabil
or conjecture, and he will interpret the
rules to the principals in manner, so
thorough that neither can misunder-
stand. Ertlo will visit Leonard at his
Budd Lake training quarters next Mon
day and have a long conference With
the champion regarding the rules. On
the following day Ertlo Will go To
Delanco. n. r., where Tender has been
getting into fighting condition and win
point out to the Quaker the lscatfoA
of the bolt on a boxer with o suggestd6n
that he refrain from hitting below The
band.
In explaining the object of his visits
to the boxers Er;le said: y %
THE contest is too important to war-
rant overlooking any detail, and wien
I get through with them they will ba
able to call off the rules without c6lf-
sulting the book. In Jersey there are
several clauses in tho rules that differ
from the New York regulations. lar
instance, the rabbit and kidney
puIiCucS are nOt III JeTsey,
and either man who offcnds will be 7eiS-
qualified after one warning. li,L
"The Boxing Commission viii per-
sonally look after the bandaging of the
boxers hands and give them the GLOVES
after they get in the ring. Both boys
are smart enough to know wrong from
right. and don't anticipate any trouble.
think Benny was bit excited In .hfs
bout with Britton. after Jack gave him
a boxing lesson. but there is no reason,
why he should repeat the same thing
in Jersey. Once is enough. The boxers :
will. have to break at my order. and I
wilr not tolerate any pulling. tuggipg
or anything that may mar the contest.
They will have to box clean from the
start or they will hear from me-. $50
Ertle is mistaken in 'one particular
and that is as to the kidney punch.
which Is. under the Walker law. foul.
The rabbit punch. blow delivered 70
the back Of the neck when boxeTHis
bending forward. is not referred to IN
the Walker law. noH
Ertle can be relied upon to watch the
bout carefully, and there will be- no
danger of any misunderstanding he
tween boxers and referee. 49,,
Reports received yesterday from Tend
ler's training quarters at Delanco. n.
j.. set forth that the Quaker southpaw
gave an exhibition of hard hitting that
astonished his trainers as we'll as the
onlookers. He was boxing with a'~26n
FOUNDER named Scoodles Reinfeldt and
suddenly cut loose with a series Of left
handed shoots that reached the jaw and
dumped Scoodles three times in quick
succession. Reinfeldt thought he had
done something to anger Tender, but
the boxer laughed heartily after each
L.. @n1rA 4 o. Jx~>t% 81
that the joke was on him and knocked
off work for the day. S.A
Joe Tiplitz and Harry Brown are
sbearing the brunt OF battle with Tendirr
and are seriously battered and bruised.
It will take lot of courage on their
part to last till the final day OF prepara-
tory work..
William Nruldoon. chairman of The
New York State Athletic Commission.
yesterday said that a determined at
tempt was being made by the Massa-
chusetts Boxing Commission to induce
the New York board to raise the sus-
pension of Johnny Wilson. Mr. Muldoon
said he had received letters from judges
and Congressman OF the Bay state. ask
ing for the reinstatement of Wilson? To
all these appeals Muldoon replied thAt
when Wilson fulfilled his contract u
meet Greb. the former middlewetght
champion would be reinstated
81
The cluster Of ,clergymen who made
an Intellectual attempt to prevent the
issuance of a license for the Leonard
Tender bout are ready for another
sortie They filed in Jersey City yes
terday g. certificate of incorporationNof
the Society Of New Jersey for the Pre-
vention of Crime and for the Promotion
Of Morals" While 1t was not admitted
that the prime object Of the new as
ISOLATION was anti-boxing. It is so uai-
derstood. f5f.l
MA
Phil Krug. the Newark middleweight
who boxes Soldier Bartfield at the
Broadway Exhibition Association fisxt
Monday night. may be selected by the
State Athletic Commission as the op-
ponent of Dave Rosenberg I'm q bout
for the middleweight title. Johnny Will
son and Harry Greb have been sile-
pended for failure to defend the title,t,