Word: heeney
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...Attorney-General Ottinger of New York, who aspires to succeed Governor Smith; Mrs. Worthington Scranton, dashing National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania; Louis B. Mayer, politically ambitious cine-man; Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation; Howard Heinz, Pittsburgh pickle man; and many another. ¶ The night of the Tunney-Heeney fight, the newest of six new radio sets (sent on approval) was in operation at the Hoover abode. The end of the week saw the Nominee headed north, for "complete relaxation," on a 1,000-mile motor trip to the headwaters of the Klamath River. With him, in eleven cars...
...Expenses Tunney................................. $525,000* Heeney................................... 100,000 Yankee Stadium rent..............52,142 General expenses...
...public can be damned, that he is the cleverest heavyweight boxer since "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, that he also has a punch which might well dispute Dempsey's reputation as peerless killer. Henry Ford, 65, who had a good time and whom few people noticed. Also present was Thomas Heeney, 29, hairy-chested blacksmith from New Zealand, who had never before been knocked out by a man's fist. He was beaten, that night last week at the Yankee Stadium, by terrific punches to his heart, by jabs and hooks which made a bloody mush of his nose...
...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...
...been for the Rofa incident, the public would scarcely have known that the sporting little schooners were racing. Even the five big schooners - Atlantic, Azara, Elena, Guinevere, Zodiac - racing for the King Alfonso Cup, were nearly wiped off U. S. sport pages by Tunney-Heeney, baseball, Olympics...