Word: heeney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Joseph Tunney, world's heavyweight champion, will meet Thomas Heeney, challenger, in a 15-round boxing match at the Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, N. Y., on the evening of July 26, under the auspices of George L. Rickard...
Last week, Tunney paused in his training at Speculator, N. Y., to say that he expects to administer a knock-out to Heeney. Word flew, as it often does, to Heeney at Rumson Farm Kennels in Fairhaven, N. J. The Irishman from New Zealand snorted: "Well, blime me if that doesn't take the royal cake for gall. . . . The papers are the only place Tunney knocks out anybody. Why, he couldn't stop Dempsey when the old Manassa...
Good though the Tunney-Heeney exchange of pleasantries was, people debated whether Promoter Rickard would get another million-dollar gate. Said Tunney: "Rickard is a nice fellow and a capable man, but I think sometimes he has gone million-dollar daffy. ... I think he could do something for the business if he would reduce prices and purses...
...Heeney is 29 years old, expects to weigh 200 pounds for the fight. Details of training make him sulky; he does not like the tea in the U. S. He is happy when dressed up in quietly tailored clothes and when friends are spoofing him. He delights in boasting about his healthy tribe back in New Zealand-his mother who can do a full day's milking at 80, his sister who has "possibly 20 children." He is a hard man to knockout, but his defense is clumsy. If he becomes champion, he will have a good time...
World's Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, training in New York for a title bout with Thomas Heeney of New Zealand at Promoter Rickard's Madison Square Garden in July, was reported vexed at Mr. Rickard's Houston visit. Tunney was said to have said: "Why doesn't he stay here and mind his own business? I need him worse than the Democrats...