The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
GOTHAM TO GET 2 TITLE BOUTS IN| NEXT TWO WEEKS
Tender To Meet Leonard July 23 And Criqui Meets
 Dundee

NEW YORK, July 16.-Twice more within the next two weeks the night air of New York will be filled with knuckles and shouts. with first-crop s.raw hats and the jangle of cash as two more champions carry their titles into the ring and fight for the right to carry them out again.
 Two world champions. Johnny Kill bane and Jimmy Wilde. have fought here since fighting began in the open air where the receipts attain much greater growth. and both left the inn print of their shoulder blades in the resin as they reeled down the steps after a few swift minutes, murmur- ing confusedly: What did he hit me with?"
 Thus the law of precedent lends further power to the left hand of Lew Tender, left that has signaled Knock cut" to many a good light weight along Leftis Lewies way from a street corner news stand ln Philadelphia to his present high posi- ton in the national rankings on file with the Income tax department.
 Lefty Lewie is to box Benny Leon ard again. And if Leftie Lewie was spread on his back in PhiladeIpnla ring by Tim Droney few weeks ago and made to look silly as he loIIed about the carpet, so also was Leon ard exposed as a pretty poor cham nion when he met Alex Hart in Philadelphia not long afterward. The nuncb that put Tender down may have been accidental, for Tim Droney is only one of the dollar-a-day toilers in the cauliflower gardens ana he got quite a humping oefore ne left that ring for being so orasn wi.H his hands. In the Hart fight. Leon ard however, appeared to be fairly well advanced In general decline even though he won from the new boy.
 p. por+ of New York Season.
 This Tendler-Leonard bout. the biqgest championship promotion of the New York season, will be home to A great crowd of customers ou ,July 23, one week from today. IL will be followed on Thursday of that week by Eugene Criqui's flfst de- cision fight in defense of the feather weight championship which ne took away from Johnny Kilbane by casual nudge on the chin back Tn May. Criqui meets Johnny Dundee. one of the oldest boxers still m serV- ice. who used to be Benny Leonards Wednesday, night opponent in long series of o-decision bickerlngs
 Dundee nearly tainted on top of Danny Brush when he saw Danny flop to the canvas in the Booklyn ball yard one night last summer. u was Dundee's first knockout in about seven years and they had to giN" him restoratives when the full shock of realization struck him.
 "Oh, my Gawd, you've gone and stopped him.. exclaimed Dundee's No. l towel swinger.
 Say it isn't true, Guiseppi." were Johnny's very words at the unnerv- ing news. Nevertheless. Brus> was stopped and Dundee at last had dis covered a punch in his famous left powder puff. Later on he proved that this had been no accident by ts)orina the durable Elino Flores, the Filipino featherweight several times. Dun dee could have put Flores away. put the little brunette had made such courageous fight that Johnny eased up and let him finish on his feet.
 Criqui, however, is generally ex- pected to beat Dundee and keep the featherweight championship. Per haps that Is because Dundee. after 10 some title, is now considered too old. He fought a 20-round draw with Kilbane 10 years ago and after that kilbane would never give him an other chance. while Leonard. glad to gallop 10 rounds to no decision with Johnny at any time, never would risk a referees decision in a ring where champions have to stand or fall by what they can do at the lime.