Word: tunney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disdainfully at the top balcony. "Yaah," yelled the holder of a $3 balcony seat, "you look like a nickel's worth of holy mackerel." "Honest John" Risko, shifty, awkward, hard-to-hurt, who has beaten Paulino, Delaney and Berlen-bach, may now be matched with Champion James Joseph Tunney...
Godfrey-Paolino. For a long time George Godfrey, 240-pound black man has been giving people the impression that he could knock out Dempsey and Tunney the same night if he would only try. For a long time George Godfrey has demanded what he thinks he deserves-a match with Tunney. Only a few sharp-eyed critics have warned George Godfrey that the trouble with demanding what he deserves is that he might get it. Last week in Los Angeles George Godfrey met squatty Paolino Uzcudun, Basque, who still has to bring an interpreter to the ring so that...
...Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause. "And who" asked critics "will fight Tunney, now that Heeney has eliminated Delaney and failed to advance himself?" Answered some: "Bring back that old man, Dempsey...
...infallible sign of a really great murder is the appearance of the Western Union Co.'s giant portable electric switchboard, capable of despatching 20,000 words an hour over 180 wires. This behemoth is also used for such spectacles as Dempsey-Tunney fights, otherwise it sulks in storage...
...CRIMSON representative watched various near-great boxers punching the bag or each other, while men in all walks of life entered Kelley and Hayes' Gymnasium at $.25 a head of watch them. Sharkey returned to tape his hands and went on to give his opinion of the Dempsey-Tunney fight at Chicago. "If it hadn't been for the knockdown in the seventh round there wouldn't have been any fight at all. But I think that Tunney could have gotten up on the count of three." (in the seventh round Dempsey had protested a long count over the prostrate...