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Show TENOLER READY TO MEET CHAMP BENNYLEONARD Champion Will Enter Roped Arena Thursday Heavy Favorite D BLANCO, In J . July 26. A bill of polishing up today and Lew Tendler Philadelphia challenger, will be in tip-top shape for what he hopes will bo victory over Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, in their world 's title bout In Jersey City tomorrow nig)it The only exercise he planned for 'today was some strenuous tapping of I tho punching bag to keep limbered ,up I He has been here nearly three I weeks, far from the crowd who can-: can-: not find the place. Several groups of ladmlren havo organized exploring 'parties but all that has reached the 'camp is a Utter of letters explaining ;how the cause was lost. A messenger boy found the house today Tendler Btrdle:i frequently but apparently ap-parently has his mind on something. ; When some one sas, "Lew, Louie, !what are you dreaming about?" Lew SUllles, sometimes broadly. 4 The challenger will bo the same sort of southpaw battler he always has been. He has spent long hours trying to crowd EQOre power Into his powerful left arm and he says he has succeeded succeed-ed Tendler Is bent on continuing with both arms his body -busting, rib-rip-ping tactics from close range. His pet diversion Is caving in somebody's aup icrstructure Tendler'f training quarters hern 'were not what he hud anticipated bui he la satisfied. He was prevented from occupying an Ideal mansion with a Ibusement gymnasium, sltuatsd on the nvep bank, by vandals who broke In and smashed mofd of the furniture a I few days before liis arrival. He has been favored with warm Iweathei and little rain and Is thoroughly thor-oughly tanned. He will remain here until tomorrow and then take a tram to Jersey City to weigh in at 3 o'clock CONCLUDES TRAINING. BUDDLAKE. N. J . Inly 26. Ligh'--welght Champion Benny Leonard laid 1 '- sr. i 1 ms-. pr. eti, . glows last night und went to sleep with the conviction con-viction that his two weeks of intensu training have put him at the pinnacle oC his form for his title tout with Lew Pendler, Thursday night at Jersey City. Rain, which fell nearly all day, disarranged dis-arranged his training schedule and he planned a llcht workout today, though it will be mainly a day of rest He will miako a short road run Thursday Thurs-day morning. Leonard has been rather testy th'' post few days In his brief sparring Tuesday he stopped several times 10 request smokers to stop puffing an 1 'kept up a running fire of admonition to thoso who insisted upon leaning against the ring and all but clamoring clamor-ing onto tho eanvas. Loonard and his trainers were enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the accurate hitting ho lias shown in his sparring matches. The three battered sparring partners, dlsl ed despite the leather guards that protected their heads, garrulously garrulous-ly attested tho drive behind the champion's cham-pion's punches Wrhat expert criticism has been advanced ad-vanced about the showing Leonard has made in his training bouts here cea-ters cea-ters on his footwork once universally . .1 oo fVi, f lovor..t tn ho soen. Leonard believes this criticism to be an exaggeration, but he has tak- en special exercises after each bout to limber his leg muscles. ENTER PROTKST. JERSEY CITY. N. J , July 26. A protest against the holding of the Benny Leonard-Lew Tendler lightweight light-weight boxing championship contest at Boyle's Thirty Acres Thursday night was made to Mayor Hague Tuesday bv the Rev. Harvey L, Wyatt, acting for the Skiclety of New Jersey for the Prevention of Crime, a newly organized organ-ized ministerial association. ' Dr. Wyatt told tho mayor that the Tendler-Lconard affair would bo de- 1 moralizing Ho asked the mayor to Isee to it that if the fight did actually jtake place, that tho law for the pun-jishment pun-jishment of crime was enforced. The mayor thanked me and said nothing more," Dr. Wyatt said later Counsel for the ministerial association associa-tion said the association had little hop., of preventing tho match, but that it was going to see, In tho next legisla-Ition, legisla-Ition, a revision of tho boxing law and wanted to show that It had left noth ing undone to prevent the Leonard-j Leonard-j Tendler fight |