The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-23
JENKINS EASY WINNER OVER
 LELLOIN 7TH
Texan Keeps l35=POund Title With Sensational
 TWO=ROund K. 0.
BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports EditOr)

NeW YOrK, NOVemDer Z5-(UP)- The clock was ready to strike mid night for the Cinderella kid, but he threw one whistling right hand punch and smashed the works. Lew Jenkins did it last night be- fore 11,000 persons in Madison Square Garden, retaining his world lightweight championship with a technical knockout in the second round over Pete Lello of Gary, Ind. That punch did more than win the fight for Jenkins. It rammed 1 lot of words down the throats of the wise boys who said the Texas killer-diller was washed up after a brief flight to fame.
 Everything seemed stack d against Jenkins, who was rattling around the country looking for coffee and cake money a little over a year ago, when he climbed through the ropes last night. Hymie Caplin, his manager, was absent the guest of the district attorneys office which got curiou sabout some high-Stake card games in which Hymie allegedly had hand, maybe two hands
 Lew Wasn't Lost
 Whatever else Hymie may be, he is Shrewd man to have in your corner when the bell rings and the wise boys said Jenkins would be lost without him. But that was only part of Jenkins troubles. He was fighting before a hostil audi ence which gave him round boo ing when he appeared in the ring. The stigma of knockout at the hands of Henry Armstrong in a non-title fight was vivid on Jenkins record. And Lello, in the other corner, is popular, punching crowd pleaser.
 So the wise boys figured all those things would be too much for the Cinderella Kid, who went from rags to riches so fast that he still gets belt out of buying a long, shiny automobile and driving it like a streak down the highways.
 This Lello is a dean pan French Pole out of Gary, Ind, who put the lethal snore on Jenkins in March a year ago.
 This was before Jenkins had climbed into the headlines and gained championship distinction. T wasn't eating regularly in those days" explained Jenkins, land that's how he came to stop me-"
 Of late the Spider from Sweet water, Texas, has been answering front and center for the dining room chimes with glowing punctuality and apparently this is the difference be- tween the Jenkins who was knocked out by Lello and the Jenkins who came back last night to knock out his conqueror.
 Before getting away from the sub ject of vitamins and their relation ship to violence we'd like to add that no amount of banqueting seems to have any effect on the physical out lines of the lightweight champion. He still looks like a fugitive from a mummy collection.
 Lello was all right until Jenkins hit him good solid belt to the jaw; after that he didn't know where he was. He was down four times in the second round before Referee Arthur Donovan sounded the all clear and led the dazed battler back to his corner.
 Calm Before storm.
 The finish came after mild first round marked by tentative jabbing and strategical jigging. If either had an edge it was the champion who got over a few robust clouts near the bell. There was certainly nothing in the round to prepare the Garden crowd for the cyclone which struck few minutes later.
 They were over near the ropes in | front of the time keeper when Jen- kins suddenly fired left hook which caught Lello flush on the po- tato cruncher and upended him in- stantly. He dropped with crash not knowing exactly what had hap pened to him and took nine count. It was plain he was severely hurt.
 Jenkins rushed back to the attack, waited just long enough to be sure he had clear, open shot at his victim and let him have it again. Lello took another nine count. By now punch drunk smile had come over his flushed face and he was beginning to look like a caricature.
 Sensing that Lello wasn't going to tarry around much longer, Ref cree Donovan blocked Jenkins out of the next play as he helped the Indianian to tidy up his red mittens which had become frosted with ring dust
 This was merely prolonging the inevitable. A left, right and left, sent Lello bouncing for the third time and once again he stayed down as long as the law allows. Present. 1 ly he was down again, this time in Jenkins own corner, and the ref eree's charitable nature was touched. He closed up shop for the night.
 Thus Jenkins rode back to glory vindicated his loyal supporters and sent the writing gents racing to their dictionaries for the superlatives they had used when the skin and bones Texan punched large, gaping holes in the qulvering anatomy of Lou Ambers to annex the title.
 There didn't seem to be any doubt that night that he was an extraordinary puncher for little, frail man. There certainly can be no doubt after his smashing per- formance against Lello, who. good or bad, came into the ring a top ranking challenger.
 Tn the light of past events it is also evident now that Jenkins was over matched when they sent him against Henry Armstrong, a powerful and relentless body ptncher. Jenkins simply isn't built to take 1t in the bomb cellar. Ills ribs stick out clear to here. That's how Armstrong beat