Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I taua wā, i rapu ngā kaiwhakatairanga whawhai i ngā huarahi hei whakapai ake i te ahua o tō rātou hākinakina, hei whakanui i tōna rongonui. I te marama o Hanuere 1921, he whawhai i waenga i a Benny Leonard me Richie Mitchell i te Madison Square Garden
I whakahaeretia a Arena i New York City hei painga mo te American Committee for Devastated France, e mahi tahi ana me te tangata aroha a Anne Morgan, ko ia te tumuaki o te komiti whakahaere o taua mahi atawhai. Ko Julius Hopp, kaiwhakahaere o ngā konohete o Madison Square Garden, nāna i āwhina ki te whakarite i te tukinga atawhai, i te rapu i ētahi atu whai wāhitanga. I te Poutu-te-rangi 1921 i whakauruhia ia ki te reo irirangi, i muri i tana "whakamoemiti ki te pukenga o nga tangata reo irirangi amateur o New York i whakaaturia i te Tuarua o te Huihuinga Rohe", i tu ki te Hotel Pennsylvania i New York City. Ko tētahi āhuatanga o tēnei huihuinga ko "te waiata i tukuna mai i te Bedloe Island Signal Corps Station [WVP] mā te reo irirangi i rongo tonu".