sentences:  In three previous meetings that year, on September 13, August 24, and February 28, Tendler won in newspaper decisions in Milwaukee, and Philadelphia.Tendler defeated reigning world light heavyweight champion Pinky Mitchell in their last meeting on February 18, 1924 in a close ten round newspaper decision in Milwaukee.The "Wisconsin State Journal" considered the non-title bout slow and wrote that Tendler's blows lacked steam.