VOL. LXI NO. 19,247
Entered at Portland (Oreeor
Poitoffice aa Second-class Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1922
26 PAGES
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TOT HELD FOR DEBT IgIRL, HAIR BOBBED,
WWW STRIKE
TRUCE HELD NEAR
Harding and Warring
Factions Confer.
GIRL CHANGES HER
MIND; WEDDING OFF
YOUNG PORTLAND COUPLE
PAUSE AT ALTAR.
S
PLASKETT.STAR
EX-OREGON WOMAN
IS SOLD AT AUCTION
t
CHILD IS "KNOCKED DOWN"
v WHEN $30 OFFERED.
' SUICIDE IN REMORSE
LOSS OF PRETTY LOCKS IS
CAVSE OB1 DESPONDENCY.
IS FRENCH COUNTESS
IH LEGION TARGET
MRS. TARTOUE TO MEET ROY
ALTY OF EUROPE.
RELIGIOUS
R OW
LEONARD REUS
GROWN 6Y SHADE
SENIORITY STILL OBSTACLE
Basis of Armistice Narrows
to Rehearing Plan.
ACTION IS KEPT SECRET
President and Representatives of
Shopmen and Railroads
Are Non-Committal.
!
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN
STRIKE OF RAILROAD
SHOPMEN.
' I A: tentative propos
t terminate the shopmen's
posal to
s strike
was drawn up at a conference
between President Harding
and B. M. Jewell, head of the
shopmen, and other shop crafts
officials.
Western railway executives
reiterated their intention' of
protecting seniority rights of
the shopmen who remained at
work and those that have been
hired since the strike started.
Railroads centering in Chi
.cago reported that transporta
tion conditions were prac
tically normal and that new
employes were being hired in
large numbers.
Shopmen of the Grand Trunk
railroad in Montreal threat
ened to strike because they
were asked to repair equip
ment of roads in the United
States where shopmen were
on strike.
BY ROBERT SMITH.,,
(By Chicago Tribune Leised wire.)
WASHINGTON, L. C, July 27.
Peace or a truce in the rail strike
was believed to be close at hand
following a day ot conferences, ex
tending far into the night, at the
White House between President
Harding and representatives of the
warring factions.
Although the utmost secrecy pre
vailed during the conference and
the statements at the close , were
non-committal, there is growing be-
lief that the end of the strike is
rot far off. In some optimistic
quarters the impression prevailed
that an order would go out to the
striking shopmen tomorrow to re
turn to work. B. M. Jewell de
clared tonight, however, that he had
no intention of issuing such an
order.
The attitude of the executives, it
was understood, was unchanged con
cerning the seniority rule, the chief
obstacle of peace, notwithstanding
.pressure brought to bear by the
president to induce them to abandon
this stand.
Rehearing Is Peace Basis.
The basis of an armistice, there
fore, has about narrowed down to
this: That the striking shopmen
return to work with the assurance
that the railroad labor board will
grant them a rehearing of their
grievances and assume "jurisdiction
over the much-disputed seniority
question. It was pointed out that
this plan might be followed without
the acquiescence of the railway ex
ecutives. The men would return to
work and if their old places, under
the seniority rule, were denied
them, they could carry the dispute
to the- labor board, whjch would
then proceed to deal with the senior
ity question.
Harding Opens Conferences.
President Harding began his con
ferences early this morning begin
ning with T. DeWitt Cuyler, presi
dent of the American Association
of Railway Executives. After Mr.
Cuyler had left the White House
Mr. Jewell, the shopmen's chief, and
the presidents of the various shop-
craft unions, arrived from Chicago
and went at once into conference
wun Mr. naraing. iney remained !tne night. The cause ot the fire Is
in session for a short while and ! not known.
then left the White House, but re- ! . .
turned in the afternoon andSspent j
more than three hours with the
president. Mr. Cuyler also returned
to the White House later In the
evening.
Only the most non-committal
statements were given out by the
shopmen and Mr. Cuyler after the
conferences and nothing was forth
coming from the White House,
i Mr. Jewell made this statement: .
"Our conference this afternoon
was a continuation of our confer
ence this .morning at which we con
tinued our statements of our views
of the situation. There can be no
statement now as to what has been
said at the conferences."
Executives' Viewpoint Presented.
Mr. Cuyler made a similar state
ment, merely saying that he had
presented the viewpoint of the ex
ecutives. Both Mr. Cuyler and Mr.
Jewell said, they would remain In
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License Partly Completed When
Hopes of Intending Bride
groom Are Dashed.
VANCOUVER, Wash., July 27.
(Special.) David E. Bowe, 23, of
Portland arrived here in haste last
night, for Miss Margie Bolton, 18, of
Seattle had consented to becjme his
wife and Mr. Bowe wished to strike
while the iron was hot. It was
after office hours, so Mr. Bowe went
to a telephone booth and called J.
L. Garrett, county auditor, at his
farm near Manor and asked him to
come In . at once and issue the li
cense. .
Mr. Garrett hurried to Vancouver
and proceeded to make out the
papers. Miss Bolton and her prospec
tive husband signing the necessary
affidavits in the meantime.
C W. Maxwell, also of Portland,
who was present as a witness, was
about to affix his name to the mar
riage register when Miss Bolton said
she had changed her mind. The
marriage had better be called off,
she added.
The near-bridegroom held con
feren'ce with the y buns' woman, and
agreed, toe said afterward, that they
had best call off the proposed
nuptials. It was just a change of
heart on the part of both, he ex
plained. Miss Bolt'fm then departed,
leaving Mr. Bowe to settle with the
astonished auditor. The license had
not been completed, so Mr. Bowe
was not required to pay for it, but
he compensated Mr. Garrett for his
services.
BOUND MAN IS DROWNED
Victim Also Beaten Before-Being
Thrown in River.
(By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO, July 27. Ostensibly
the victim of thugs "river rats,"
who haunt the wharves and live by
stealing and other crimes, the body
of Marianna Ferrella, 42, of San
dusky, O., was taken from the river
ioday.
He had been terribly beaten, his
hands and feet were tied with ropes
and telegTaph win and several
pieces of scrap iron were hung to
Ms body to weigh him down. All
his pockets were turned inside out.
He had received his month's pay last
Friday as a dredger for a Cleveland
company and in addition was carry
ing a large sum of money.-
ATTACK BY BULL FATAL
Frank Lendolt Dies of Wounds
Suffered Sunday.
Wountfs suffered Sunday when a
bull attacked and gored Frank Len
dolt, 40 years' old, at his home near
Mohler, Or., proved fatal to him last
night, when he died at 8 o'clock in
St. Vincent's hospital.
Mr. Lendolt was brought to Port-
lana ana P'acea " me nospitai
Tuesday. The attack occurred when
Mr- Lindolt was milking a cow. The
bul1 Bot loose and attacked him,
goring him in the neck and shoul
ders. He was practically paralyzed
and it was thought that the animal's
horns passed near the spinal column.
THRESHER CRUSHES LAD
Machine Passes Over Child, Aged
4, Breaking Arm and Leg.
QUINABY, Or., July 27. (Special.)
An arm and leg were broken and
possible internal injuries sustained
when his father's threshing machine
passed over the body of Homer Za
linskie, four-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Zalinskie. The lad, how
ever, was thought to have a chance
of recovery. The machine weighed
several tons.
The boy was riding from the
family home to a grain field when
he slipped under the wheels. He
was immediately taken to a Salem
hospital.
OLD SHIP BURNS, SINKS
Granite State, on Way to Be
Broken Up, Takes Fire.
BEVERLY, 'Mass., July 27. The
old frigate Granite State, a con
temporary ' of the Constitution,
fought her second losing battle with
Tire yesterday and today rested in
an ocean grave.
The vessel, which was badly
damaged by flames a year ago as
she lay at her pier in New York,
again caught fire yesterday as she
was being towed to Eastport, Me.,
to be broken up. Sjhe sank during
POLES BACK PRESIDENT
Move to Show AVant of Confidence
Fails, 205 to 167.
WARSAW, July 27. (By Asso
ciated Press.) Tne diet has rejected
a motion of want of confidence in
President Pilsudski. introduced by
the members of the right.
The vote was 205 for the presi
dent; against, 187.
GERMAN TREATY IS UP
Portugal Preparing to Negotiate
on Reparations.
LISBON; July 27. The Portuguese
government is preparing to negoti
ate a special agreement with Ger
many for the payment of war rep
arations In kind.
The payments will amount to 990,
000,000 sold marks.
Department Comman
der Issues Warning. x
THE DALLES CONVENTION ON
Women's Auxiliary Begins
1922 Session Also.
1000 MEN ARE EXPECTED
Hanford MacNider Due to Arrive
From Idaho Today In
stead of Tomorrow.
-THE DALLES, Or., July 27. (Spe
cial.) Solemn warning against al
lowing religious differences to split
the American Legion into factions
was issued today" by Lane Goodell,
department commander, in an ad
dress at the opening session of the
Oregon department of the legion.
Mr. Goodell did not mention any
organization specifically. .
"One thing ..that I am going to
touch on is very, delicate," Mr.
Goodell began. "Some of our posts
have been split, possibly not open
ly. Lifelong friends will hardly
speak. We more or less look askance
at each other wondering is he or
isn't he. It strikes me as a ter
rible thing in our organization, an
organization whose membership has
the fellowship of service to our
country. We had no religious lens
and we had no lines oT birth in the
army.
Issue Declared New.
"We did not have until a year ago.
Now we seem to have. I am sure
it will not live, for I know that the
legion will live. To me my buddy
means much more than some one
who was not a buddy, and who hap
pens to belong to the same church
that I do. 1 cannot believe that a
true legionnaire would belong to
any organization which would in
fluence him to put his buddy of a
different religion on the other side."
After Mr. Goodell had finished,
committee reports were heard.
About 50 posts in the state were
not represented at the convention
today. Dr. F. H. Hoskins, who spoke
for the credentials committee, said.
Delegates and alternates were given
until 4 o'clock Friday afternoon in
which to register.
The race for state commander of
the legion,' which will be decided
Saturday, the last day of the con
vention, will be between George A
Codding of. Medford and George
Wilbur of Hood River, so far as Is
known at the present time the only
candidates for' the position. Many
legionnaires from eastern Oregon
Lare reported to be lining up behind
The Dalles' delegation, which is
instructed to vote for Wilbur.
Portland Stand Secret.
Portland is the unknown quantity
which may decide the issue. Dele-.
gates from that city, 23 in number,
are said to be uninstructed, but un-
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IT SEEMS IN THfS CASE THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO HAVE IT EXTRACTED.
SEVETltfVV- Tire:Sj.ByLi:
Little Girl, Mother Dead, Father
in House of Correction, Is
Awarded to Aunt.
(By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO, July 27. Held for, ran
som to satisfy a $405 board and doc
tor's bill incurred by her father,
now serving a term In the house of
correction, Marie Baker, aged 5, to
day was sold at auction by Judge
Adams in the court of domestic re
lations to the highest and best
bidder.
The child was "knocked down"
to Mr. and Mrs. John Kenney,
wealthy , residents of R'entville,
Minn., who had journeyed to Chi
cago to attend the sale. Their bid
was $30.
When Marie's mother died a year
ago her father took her and him
self to board at the home of Mrs.
A. Stolpman. He fell behind in
his payments and Mrs. Stolpman
brought him into court. When he
could not pay the judge sent him
to the house of correction.
Mrs. Kinney, sister of the child's
dead mother, heard of these con
ditions and sought to have the child
added to her flock of eight, but the
Stolpmans blocked her efforts.
They finally agreed that the Ken
neys might take Marie if they would
pay up all back indebtedness. Judge
Adams arbitrated .the claims and
allowed them but $30, the board of
the child since her father .went to
jail. ,
EX-CAPTAIN FOUND DEAD
Circumstances Point to Murder
of Harry C. Lott.
JUNEAU, July 27. The body of
Captain Harry C. Lott, 69, formerly
of Port Townsend, Wash., and a
well-known ex-Puget sound navi
gator, was found near his chicken
ranch three miles below Juneau to
day under circumstances1 indicating
that he had been murdered. Author
ities declared two holes in the head
had evidently been dealt by blows
from a miner's pick. There was no
other clew to' the slayer.
Captain Lott came to Alaska In
1S87.
FRENCH WRITER IS DEAD
Author of 50 Novels SUtcumb
in Paris.
PARIS. July 2T. Jules . Mary,
novelist and dramatist, died here
today at the age of 71.
He was an author of numerous
plays among which were "The I
Swordsman's Daughter" and "A
Man's Shadow," as wetl as about
50 novels. '
He was a member of numerous
French societies of men of letters
and knight of the Legion of Honor.
AYALA GOES, TO FRONT
Successful Advance Reported of
Regular Paraguayan Troops.
BUENOS AIRES, July 27. A suc
cessful advance of the regular Para
guayan troops was reported today In
a government communique, accord
ing to La Nacion's Asuncion cor
respondent. President Ayala has gone to the
front to direct operations.
Body of Attractive Blonde Miss
Found in Gas-Filled Room;
Three Letters Left.
(By Chicago Tribune Leaded Wire.)
NEW YORK, July 27. Two weeks
ago Miss Ruth Evans, attractive
private stenographer for an ex
ecutive of the American Telephone
& Telegraph company at 10s
Broadway "bobbed" her hair in the
prevailing mode. " , '
Almost immediately, according
to Mr. and Mrs. John Brown, with
whom she lived, she regretted the
act and grew increasingly depressed
over the loss. ,
Today she failed to appear at
the table for breakfast or lunch-
eon. Brown tried the door of her .
room, smelted gas and summoned
a policeman. They broke in the
door. The girl's body, fully
clothed, was found stretched out on
the bed in a gas-filled room. Three
letters left no doubt of her suicidal
intention. '
One addressed to Mr. and Mrs.
Brown gave no hint of her rea
sons, but the Browns said, that Miss
Evans bad seemed to go from re
gret to depression, to despondency
in the two weeks since she had her
hair cut. She had, they said, beau
tiful blonde hair reaching to her
waist.
NEWS GRATIFIES WILSON
Augustus Thomas Felicitated on
Recent Appointment.
NEW YORK, July 27. Woodrow
Wilson was among the first to
lelicitate Augustus Thomas,: play
wright, upon his appointment by the
jroducing managers' association . to
a position In the theater comparable
tOcthat of Commissioner Landis in
baseball and of Will H. Hays in the
movies.
"I am heartily glad to learn of
the well-deserved honor that has
come to you," said the message from
the former president, made public
today. x-
HEROIC NURSE INJURED
Mrs. R. W. Moyer Breaks Back in
Leap From Burning' Hospital.'
GROVELAND, Cai.Juiy J7. After
carrying a patient to safety, Mrs.
R. W. Moyer, San Francisco 'nurse,
jumped from the second story of the
burning Hetch Hetchy hospital, near
here, today and suffered a broken
back which may result inher death.
The hospital operated by the city
of San Francisco on its water-power
project at Hetch Hetchy was dam
aged to the extent of $20,000. All
patients were saved.
PREACHER IS SUSPENDED
Rev. Thomas 3. Irwin Ousted
by Presbyterians.
LAWTON, Okl'a,, July 28: (By the
Associated . Press.) The Rev.
Thomas J.' Irwin, ex-pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Law-
ton, Okla., on trial here before the
judicial commission of the El Reno
presbytery on ecclesiastical charges.
was found guilty early today on
thee counts.
He was indefinitely suspended
from the Presbyterian church.
Discovery ot Huge Suns
Wins Canadian Fame.
NAME IS MADE IMMORTAL
Son of Farmer Triumphant
After Years of Toil.
GIGANTIC BODIES APPALL
AH Other Modern Astronomical
Feats Pale Before! Recent
Revelation Binary.
VICTORIA, B. C, July 27. (Spe
cial.) Two enormous suns 55,000,000
miles apart, yet discernible only as
a eingle faint star to the most pow
erful telescope; brighter many thou
sands of times than our sun, yet in
visible to the naked eye; greater in
mass four times than the heaviest
body heretofore determined in the
heavens; burning at 30,000 degrees
Fahrenheit as they whirl about each
other at tremendous velocity, 52
quadrillions of miles from the earth
these are the Piaskett star, newly
determined and named, which will
commemorate the farmer's son who
tolled his way from the broad farm
lands of Canada to the great field
of the universe, and leave his name
among the foremost of his time in
ttie ahnals of astronomy.
Rise to Fame Arduous.
The life of Dr. John Stanley
Piaskett, whose discovery of the
extraordinary properties of the
Piaskett star, ' announced a few
days ago, is hailed by the scientific
world as the outstanding astronomic
achievement of recent times, is a
tale of the triumph of talent and
grit over adversity. Remarkable
from his earliest years as a math
thematician, at the age of 12 he
was, through his highischool and'at
the steps of the university.
But it was the drudgery of the
farm that then bound the ardent
scholar, and it was only after nine
long years of toil in the fields ot
Ontario that he began his student
days at the University of Toronto.
Now the farmer's boy is one of the
world's noted astronomers.
Discoverer Is Modest.
Here in'Victoria, since the com
pletion In 1918 of the big Canadian
government astrophysical observa
tory, he has been installed director
of the great 72-inch telescope, than
which there is one only larger in
the world. So colossal is the tube
that a small motorcar can be driven
through It.
"Marvelous that a little matter
like that should create such inter
est," said Dr. Piaskett, of his dis
covery. "It was only chance that
was responsible; or, rather, steady
adherence to our routine work. We
have determined about 100 of these
binaries, or double stars, but never
before one like this."
Remarkable Properties Important.
The discovery, points out the doc
tor, is scarcely of the star itself,
but of its remarkable properties.
It had" been known to exist, but that
was alL
"Observed visually or photo
graphed, the star exhibits no par
ticular properties to distinguish it
from the 2000 other stars of the
same brightness," said the doctor.
"It was only when analyzed by the
spectroscope, in the course of "our
regular work, that we got a won
dereful fund of Information concern
ing It.
"The star is situated in the con
stellation Monereos, eastward and
adjacent to the familiar Orion group.
It is about 10 degrees from the
bright-red star Betelgeuse.
Visibility Almost Obscured.
' "It is on a line drawn between
Betelgeuse and Procyon, nearly
midway between the two, actually
about two-fifths of the distance
from Betelgeuse. It is just beyond
naked eye visibility except to the
keenest sight on the clearest night.
"The popular conception of the
work of an astronomer is that he
spends his time in desultory search
ing after new planets and the like,
or in examining .the details of the
moon and the stars. Such work
with a telescope of the size of the
72-inch instrument would be a great
waste of time. Such a statement
seems especially desirable at this
time on account of the -near ap
proach of Mars to the earth and
the apparent general belief that
astronomers are devoting most of
their energy to observations of this
planet with a view to the deter
mination of the perennial question
of its habitation by human beings.
Interest In Mars Wanes.
"While I do not Venture to deny
that the question of life on Mars is
of great human interest, and, if it
,were possible of definite solution,
would be worth considerable effort,
nevertheless it is a matter in which
most astronomers have little inter
est. "They realize the hopelessness of
obtaining data of scientific value on :
such a question and prefer to bend
their energies toward some research I
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Papers Making Aristocrat of Ex-
wife of Artist Formally Ap
proved by Court.
NEW YORK, July 27. The former
Claudia Windsor of Oregon, es
tranged wife of Pierre Tartoue, fa
mous French portrait painter, today
became the Conntess Claudia Wind
sor de Ram pan de Chaquetot, through
her adoption by the countess Clerel
de Tocqueville de Rampan de Cha
quetot, gray haired, buxom French
noblewoman.
The adoption papers were signed
this morntng in the offices of Berg
man & Hartman, attorneys for the
countess deChaquetot and were im
mediately taken to the surrogate's
office and completed. '
"I was a long time to persuade
Claudia to let me adopt her," said
the countess, widow of the grandson
of Bonaventure Clerel, the Comte de
Tocqueville, a peer of France and
prefect of Versailles. "She was not
treated well by her husband and she
must give up those terrible people
she has been knowing. I lost a
daughter who would be about Clau
dia's age 25 years old .had she
lived." t
She said she would take her
adopted daughter to her Glencove,
L. I., summer home, and later pre
sent her to various royal courts of
Europe.
PRODUCERS SEEK LOANS
Grain Growers' Representatives
to Visit Capital Soon.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D: C, July 27. The
war finance corporation today an
nounced that representatives of
Washington, Idaho, Montana and
North Dakota wheat growers' as
sociations would appear before the
board August 9 in connection with
pending applications from these as
sociations as follows:
Washington Wheat Growers' as
sociation, $2,000,000.
Idaho Wheat Growers' association,
$1,000,000.
Montana 'Wheat Growers' associa
tion, $3,000,000.
North Dakota Wheat Growers' as
sociation, $3,000,000 to $5,000,000.
INSANE MAN SURRENDERS
Barricaded Maniac Throws Up
Hands and Asks for Water.
HINTON, W. Va., July 27.Tohn
Fredsking, an insane man who bar
ricades himself in his house and
for 13 days resisted the efforts of
deputy sheriffs and state police to
arrest him after he had killed one
mait and wounded four others, this
morning appeared at the front door,
threw up his hands and asked for
a drink of water.
Two troopers, who with other of
ficers, have resorted to every known
means, short of firing the house, to
dislodge Fredsking, stepped up to
the door, got him the water he
craved and then led him to the
county jail. He refused to answer
their questions.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Highest temperature, 76
decrees; lowest, Gj degrees.
TODAY'S Fair: northwesterly winds.
National.
wove on 10 prevent sealing or Kian can -
delates elected to congress, rage z.
Railroad strike truce held near. Page 1.
Republican party faces menace of strikes:
Page 4.
Domestic. .
Goldfish declared deadly enemy of mos
quitoes. Page 3.
Child held for debt sold at auction in do
mestic relations court. Page 1.
Two-year moratorium for Germany fa
vored by economic survey Investiga
tor. Page 2.
Girl, hair bobbed, suicide in remorse.
Page 1. '
Dr.' Prank B. Wynn. mountain climber,
killed in fall. Page 8.
Labor message to Harding held fictitious.-
Page 4.
Defense springs surprise in Chicago mur
der trial. Sage 13.
Alleged affinity on witness stand Page 5.
Etc -Oregon woman is made Freiich coun
tless. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Piaskett star brings immortal fame to
Canadian astronomer. Page 1.
Two witnesses summoned by grand Jury
at Medford. Or., reported missing.
Page 17.-
Young woman, while license is being
made out, oalls wedding off. Page 3.
Religious rows in legion target. Page 1.
Contest trial to open Monday. Page H.
, Sports.
Pacific Coast league results: At Port
land 8. Seattle 7, 10 innings; at Lob
Angeles, Vernon 2, San Francisco 0;
at Oakland 0. Los Angeles 3: at Salt
Lake 2, Sacramento 15. Page 14.
Boston defeats Chicago, 8-7. In swatfest.
Page 14.
Leonard' retains crown by shade. Page 1.
Barnstorming ban lifted by American
league. Page 15.
Commercial and Marine. J
Boston wool trade believes this will be
woolen goods year. Page 24. ,
Sales and production increase on coast.
Page 24.
Co-operative societies are factor in Brit
ish trade. Page 25.
Local hide market higher with better de
mand. Page 24.
Export buying strengthens Chicago wheat
market. Page 24.
Steamer Calista sunk off Seattle in fog
by Japanese liner Hawaii Maru.
Page 32.
Easy money rates cause active bond
market. Page 25.
Weakness of oils due to price cut. Page 24.
American-Hawaiian company establishes
fortnightlyv service to Baltimore.
Page 12.
Portland and Vicinity.
Dredge captain sued for divorce. Page 10.
Lumbermen want timber standard.
Page 18.
Chiet of United States forestry service in
Portland for conference. Page 28.
Weather report, data and forecast.
I Page 12.
,' Liquor informer held for slaying. Pae 3.
Tendler and Champion
Fight Bitter Battle.
CHALLENGER ROCKS BENNY
Quaker Lad Nearly Stows
New Yorker Away in 8th.
TITLEH0LDER IS KIDDED
Taunts of Southpaw Have Cham
pion in Frenzy, Causing Many
Swings to Go Wild
RINGSIDE, JERSEY CITY, JS3m
July 27. Benny Leonard, world's
lightweight boxing champion, sue"
cessfully defended his. title against
Lew Tendler of Philadelphia in a
12-round no-decision contest to
night, earning, in the opinion of a
majority of sports writers at the
ringside, a narrow shade in ths
great struggle.
The challenger, a left-hander, fur
nished the champion the most inter
esting combat Leonard has had since
he turned back Willie Ritchie some
years ago.
FiKht Carried to Champion.
Tendler, starting with great con
fidence and skill, carried the fight
to the 1 champion. He pummeled
Leonard with stiff lefts to the body
and sharp rights to the 'head and
jaw and brought blood to the cham
pion's nose early. It appeared in
the first of the rounds that Tendler
was to have things all his own way.
Then "Leonard steadied himself
and began to find a mark. He car
ried the fifth, sixth and seventh
rounds In a burst of speed. In the
seventh his mouth bumped Tend
ler's shoulder and he lost a false
tooth. The eighth found Tendler
on the aggressive again. After tak
ing a hard right to the jaw and
another under the heart he fought
Leonard at close quarters and
swung a number of hard lefts to
the Jaw. Leonard's knees sagged
and he clinched to save himself.
From then on the champion took
few chances.
Ninth Even Round.
The ninth was an even round and
in the last three Leonard appeared
to have a shade. When it was over
the champion, battered more per
haps than he has been in any bout
since he won the title from Freddie
Welsh In 1917, said:
"These southpaws are hard to
solve."
All during his training he had be
littled Tendler's pugilistic record
and predicted that he would finish
the Phlladelphian within seven
rounds. Tendler, too, had aaid that
he would win by a knockout, but
he had nothing to say of this to
night. He said he was satisfied
with his showing and would seek an
engagement with Leonard In a de
cis'on match.
Leonard's Claim Denied.
On the way to his dressing room.
Leonard made this statement to his
. brother Joe, wno gave
who
it to the
I Associated Press:
t a stunned- in the first round
I . m ., . . , l
'when Tendler butted me in the eye
I with his head. rne Diow -nan me
stunned for four rounds. I am anx
ious for a lo-round decision bout
with Tendler."
When Tendler was shown this
statement .he smiled and said that
his manager, Philip Glassman. would
speak for him.
Glassman said:
"Everyone who saw the fight is
satisfied that Tendler pounded
Leonard's eye wtfh a. punch- Why
didn't he squawk when he claimed
Tendler butted him In the eye, as
that is the only round in which he
did not squawk.
'Tendler will gladly box Leonard
for a decision, for I am sure he can
do much better, as he did not do as
he expected knock him out."
Hands Heavily Bandaged.
It was 9:13 o'clock when Tendler,
escorted by a squad of police, made
his way down the aisle from his
dressing quarters and entered the
ring. He was clad in a greenish
gray bathrobe and was accompanies
by his seconds, Philip Glassman,
Morris Tendler, his brother, and
Jack Reinfell.
Champion Leonard entered the
ring a moment later and both con-.
tenders for the title received a great
ovation.
Leonard's seconds were Billy Gib
son, Mannie Seaman and Charlie
Leonard, his brother. Both Leonard
and Tendler were called to the cen
ter of the ring, where the commis
sion physicians examined their
hearts, lungs and announced them'
to be in perfect cori3it'.c.
Both boxers had . their, hands
heavily bandaged with soft tape.
The rival managers examined the
bandages and the new gloves were
taken from boxes and given to the
rival seconds. The weights as an
nounced from the ringside were,
Leonard 134 pounds 15 ounces; Tend
ler 134 pounds 12 ounces, the
weights being taken at 2 o'clock
this afternoon. Charley White of
Chicago challenged the winner, and
Rocky Kansas of Buffalo, recently
(Concluded on Page 15, Column 1.)