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...inside Tunney's guard, a panther striking. Then an amazing thing happened. Tunney held his terrible arms. The referee parted their shoulders and Tunney, with a right and left to the head, backed Dempsey against the ropes, pounded his face, made him shelter himself with wrapping elbows. The gong rang for the end of the first round. A gentleman who sat between Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Tex Rickard in an aisle by the ring put down his flask and stretched himself. "Tunney's got it, . . ." he said...
...Moon Is a Gong. John Dos Passos wrote this. As usual, he was annoyed at the time-annoyed because no matter how high a steeple you climb you never can strike the moon like a gong. Mr. Dos Passos' hero was not able to climb above convention either. The play is loud, violent, incoherent, with a character called "Third Young Man with a Cold-Cream Face...
...Massey '13 has announced his intention of producing the Dramatic Club venture of last spring. "The Moon is a Gong," with practically no changes at all. The play will open in the Cherry Lane Theatre in about two weeks...
...smash came two minutes after the opening gong. It knocked Munn out. It knocked all idea of boxing from his stout head. When he recovered consciousness he gasped: "I'll stick to wrestling hereafter. I'll do no more boxing...
...sent across his sock. Wham! With all the leverage of his springy body behind it, his right fist encountered the other's jaw. Rocky did not waver. Oof! Again the big right-hand sock. Rocky came tearing in. ... He was flogging Goodrich's red ribs when the gong clanged for the end of the 15th round and the referee stepped forward to indicate that he-Rocky ("Bleeding") Kansas-was the world's new lightweight champion...