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Show TENDLER MAY ! MEET LEONARD IN RETURN GO Champion Appeared To Be Off Form in Thursday Scrap, Says McGann BY SPARROW M'GABTN. Special Corn-pondent of The Stand-aid Stand-aid Examines1 Copyright, 192U, by T Stand-'ird-i Sxamlner, NEW STORK, July J9 Bver since the I.vonard-Tendlr battle the critics crit-ics June, been arguing owr the future fu-ture of the light weigh hainplon ;' the world Not oven bis friends i Claim 'hat his showing against Ten- I dler was satlsfattor . What -veryonc now is trying to detcrmini is whether, Tendler is right up in the class of! Benny at his best, or wbeihor tho! hampion is ceelng the end of nlu days as a legitimate ifghtWolghl His showing 'against Rocky Kanaac at Michigan Clt7 wh'n po was not required to make weight defined him '. as A-l Hut lact Thu:sd ". nigh', he looked frail r.nd it Is an 6V4B gUCSS w hether his fatal right lacked Steam or whether Tendlcr's ability m luke wallops ic equal to that Ol tb- a . l ! , reniembeTed Battling Nelson, if tht.-? is the ca.se, it is a new qu ility ac- j quired by Lew, who In the part has, been known to go to ' ho floor when I hit by men inferior to himself. Insiders are freely predicting hat If Benny has it in him to stow away Tendler it will have to be in a match at catchweighta At the same time It has not escaped notice that at the , lightweight limit Leonard has not lost tie capacity to weather hard wallops, i Yet he might not the next time the j two no n meet In tai t, some of Tendlcr's Ten-dlcr's friends are suggeptlng that hoi wait a year before tackling Lenny1 again Age is on Lew's side and in a i, nod Of 1- months It Is argued that Benny's hitting at the lightweight I limit would show further deterioration, deteriora-tion, while all the chances arc he would not be able to absorb all the blows he accepted in this week's bat-tie. bat-tie. wo n; i .h TOUGH ONE Leonard by the way, is likely to run op against another stiff proposltlo next Saturday in Floyd FltMimmons' big Michigan City arena when he iocs againt E er hammer, the blonde lightweight who gave Leonard a hard battle out West two or three years ago. Hammer is the Harry' Grcb type of maubr and has gained strength and skill since last he met the champion cham-pion Hafhmi r says that his motto Is "box a fighter and fight a boxer " Putting Leonard in the boxer i luss Hammer says he Intends to keep on top of him every minute and make him look like- Harry Oreb made Tommy Tom-my Gibbons look. Since July of lan ear he has fought 14 battles and won them all three via the knockout route. Good as Hammer may bo, however, tho chances are that with no necessity of tipping the beam at 135 pounds Ioonard will be In overy way liis old seit. RETURN TILT PLANNED. Getting back to the battle of Leonard Leon-ard and Tendler, the question may be asked whether Leonard would again consent to meet Tendler at the limit Of the class. Those who answer this question in the negative ar,- talking on the assumption that Penny was not holding back his punches Thuri-day Thuri-day night If he wasn't then It Is perfectly per-fectly near a cinch that Leonard will shortly retire from the lightweight division and go after Jack Rrinon for the welter title Out If ho was Wi arlng handcuffs with Tendler then we may look for a fall battle at the New York velodrome, this time with the manacles resting borne In the famllj trunk. |