New York, May 10.
Young Lew Jenkins of New York won the lightweight championship of the world here tonight by scoring one of the most sensational upsets of the fistic season.
Jenkins conquered redoubtable Lew Ambers by a technical knockout in the third round of a bout at Madison Square Garden scheduled for 15 rounds. _It was the first sustained by Ambers since his initial setback at the flying fists of Henry Armstrong. Ambers hurricane attack of the negro sar] later reversed the decision over the
and went on to blast the myth of highly touted Al Davis of Brooklyn.
Jenkins, until the last few months, was relatively unknown, and his victory over Ambers, together with the manner in which it was achieved, has stunned the boxing world—United Press.
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