The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-22
CHAMPION BENNY TO FACE PORTSIDE BATTER WHEN HE MEETS "LEFTIE LEWIE"
Philadelphia NeWsboy Worked His Way Up Through The Ranks, From Preliminary Kid To Near Champion

NEW YORK, July 21,-Elghty thousand people will toll dawn the high stairs of the IT., or over the harlem hump and down the long bridge to the Yankees ball yard Monday night to see a young Phila- delphian do something the wrong way better than most men do it the right way. They will pay about half a million dollars to watch leftie Lewie Tendler fight Benny Leonard for Leonard's lightweight champion ship, title worth more today than any given dozen of the German Bal kan, Austrian, or Russian titles which used to hook so high in the American marriage market a few years ago.
 Leftie 'Lewie is cock-eye. That is, Leftie Lewis stands with his right hand forward, which is the wrong way to stand in a fist fight. Left handed fighters and pitchers are known as cock-eyeS because Valen- tine Braun, a lightweight of the early Freddie Welsh era, better known IS Knockout Brown, was one of the first left flanders to win more than neighborhood note in the ring. Val entine Braun was cock-eyed. They used to say he could count the freck les on the back of his own neck d tine Braun and George something or other, a middleweight Greek who fought out of Chicago at about the same time, used to get themselves in print by squabbling over their respective claims to the name of Knockout Brown, which both of them used.
 His Only Contribution.
 Neither one ever did anything to hhl but the first man who thought of that prefix Knockout" contributed to ring nomencla ture the first origi- nal idea in & decade. Everybody was "I<id" this, after Kid Mccoy; Bat Young" something, after young Corbet, up to that time. Thereafter and ever since, the Knockout" fam fly has, contrived to keep at least a dozen boys in the swat service here and there about the country. Most of them. however, couln't knock off your hat with a hockey stick. Knockout Bill Brennan, the human bulls-eye. was one of that sort.
 This Tender was a newsboy on downtown corner in Philadelphia un- til about ten years ago, working busy pitch in a boyish but very otaer kid named Phil Glassman, Ten dler did the fighting for the firm when fighting was unavoidable, which was rather often, and he al- ways sailed in sideways, saving the air with an up-and down wave of his right arm until he saw some sort of hole and then banging away with his left. Cilassman,' being altogether business man, thought it shame to give those punches away to other neWsboys and looked into the pros- pecrs of selling them in the ring.
 He got Leftie Lewie some prelim! nary matches, and to swell their purses little he used to sell tickets to their customers at the news stand, taking a small brokers per centage.
 Lcwie Owns Flat Buildings.
 Their career is quite d long story. Now they own flat buildings all over Philadelphia. Last year Leftie Lewie and Leonard divided something over S15O.000 for their 12round, mo- decision fight in the Rickard bowl at Jersey City. Tendler has had dozens of purses running from $3,000 to SS.O0O. If the receipts Monday night should run as high as they threaten to. Srendler's share should run to $75, 900 and perhaps beyond that. Phil Glassman is still the manager of Lefte LeWie and, of course, is rich man, also.
 Leftie Lewie is the only cock-eye who ever went very far in the ring. II is true that Johnny Wilson, the middl eWelght champion, IS leIt- lender, but Wilson himself is the first to admit that he's q poor cham pion of an awful class.
 Eddie F'itzsimmons of New York left q trall of stiffened beginners when he was coming up along the preliminary tour. but when they Tipped him into the ring against fast. hard hitting righthander, Will lie Jackson, FitZsimmons took mur- Gerous beating and was stopped in Il rounds.
 One Real Cock-Eye Heavy.
 There is only one real cock-eye among the heavyweights now. His name is Ed Keeley and he fights out of Bridgeport Conn, keeley is fast and hits hard, but Jack Dempsey probably would block his right lead with d left elbow and bang him on the chin with a right cross before Keeley could get under way. Tiny Herman of Omaha is an ambideX- trous heavy. switching glibly from right style to wrong and back to the right way again in a manner which puzzles some of the second-raters. But he is too chunky and has too little class to go far at his trade.
 So Leftie Lewie Tender is the best of the cock-eyes. He is a rich young man because he learned to do it the wrong way best.