Benny Still King! Crowd Acclaims Wonder Fighter After Tendler Is Bested

Leonard Never In Finer Form Than In Whipping His Toughest Enemy

Just as much a champion as he ever was, safer than he has been, Benny Leonard, the idol of Harlem, is still the ruling monarch of the lightweights. By a margin wide enough to convince a blind man and so wide that his opponent was the first to admit to defeat, Leonard won a 15-round decision from Lew Tendler, the Philadelphia challenger, in the Yankee stadium last night.

While 70,000 spectators were on their feet shouting a din of "long live the king, " Tendler, his face puffed and swollen, his mouth releasing little crimson tricklets from the corner, walked wearily to the champion and gave him "you sure did win."

-Beloit Daily News. July 24, 1923

Vintage Original News Service Poster

Price: $ 245.00

Size: 13 X 15 inches Poster has been trimmed of margin, but is as pictured.

Condition: Excellent. Slight surface scuffing.

Shipping and Handling $20.00 in the United States. $30.00 to Foreign Destinations.

2000-1979

Click Here for Other Payment Options