Word: mara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faculty of forgetting those who have been useful in the past, but sometimes a fighter's past catches up with him. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired heavyweight champion of the world, defended himself against a suit brought by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, sports promoter, for approximately $500.000 back pay. Day by day the testimony showed the intricate process by which champions are made...
...issue between Mara and Tunney was simple enough. Mara claimed 10% of Tunney's pay for fighting Dempsey in 1926, and 25% of all his earnings thereafter. He had proof that Tunney offered him the 25%, but was vague about what it was for. Tunney claimed that he hired Mara to arrange the fight in New York and that Mara failed. But the private altercation was of small interest compared to the figures, publicly detailed for the first time, of how much money an important heavyweight makes. Tunney, who had been a shipping clerk at $18 a week...
...champion was sick, weak, "full of boils," telling Dempsey that Tunney would be an easier match than Wills; telling both to keep quiet about what he told them. At last the Tunney-Dempsey fight was arranged in Philadelphia and Tunney won the title. Then came further services from Agent Mara ? the ballyhoo...