Benny Leonard vs. Lew Tendler (1st meeting)

Benny Leonard 134 lbs beat Lew Tendler 135 lbs by NWS in round 12 of 12

• Date: 1922-07-27
• Location: Boyle's Thirty Acres, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
• Referee: Harry Ertle

• Photo #2, Photo #3
• Bout preview: [1]

Notes

• Referee Harry Ertle in post-fight interview, given to a reporter of New York Morning World, voiced his opinion that "It was Leonard all the way."
• Newspaper decision for Leonard from Jersey Journal, Damon Runyon (New York American), Igoe (New York Morning World), Heywood Broun (New York Morning World), W. O. McGeehan (New York Herald), Jack Lawrence (New York Tribune), W. J. Macbeth (New York Tribune), Harry Newman (New York Daily News), New York Times, W. H. Hicks (New York Evening Journal), Sam Taub (New York Morning Telegraph), Fred Keats (New York Evening Sun), Frank O’Connell (New York Evening Telegram), Dan Lyons (New York Globe), Alfred W. M’Cann (New York Globe), New York Evening Mail, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, P.T. Knox (Cleveland Plain Dealer), James W. Gantz (Philadelphia North American), Philadelphia Record, Perry Lewis (Philadelphia Inquirer), Cullen Cain (Philadelphia Public Ledger), Louis H. Jaffe (Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger), Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, C. Edward Sparrow (Baltimore Sun), Ringsider (Trenton Evening Times), AP, Davis J. Walsh (INS), Westbrook Pegler (United News), Henry L. Farrell (UP)
• Newspaper decision for Tendler from James J. Corbett (Universal Service), Philadelphia Bulletin
• Newspaper draw from Vincent Treanor (New York Evening World), George B. Underwood (New York Evening Telegram), James K. McGuinness (New York Evening Telegram), Grantland Rice (New York Tribune), Sam P. Hall (Chicago Herald-Examiner), F. J. Collins (Springfield Daily Republican)
• "Benny Leonard won by a shade" The Ring magazine
• YouTube film
• Tendler worked Leonard over in round eight, but could not put him down. Only a KO would have taken the title from Leonard. (citation needed)
• Washington Times: [2]
• "July 27, 1922: Leonard vs Tendler I" by Michael Carbert (July 27, 2022): [3]