Jack Bernstein, who was born on the New York East Side, next door to Benny Leonard, was awarded the junior lightweight championship of the world after 15 furious rounds with Johnny Dundee at the New York Velodrome. Dundee scored the only knockdown of the fight and was indignant at the verdict. Popular opinion gave him only five rounds of the fight, three even, seven to Bernstein.
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