Word: tunney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boxing and also about my life at Oxford. The Prince is a staunch Oxonian. . . ." Tex Rickard and many another pro moter invited Eddie Eagan to turn pro fessional. Unlike most good amateur fighters, Eddie Eagan did not do it. but he trained with famed prizefighters like Mike McTigue, Gene Tunney. Cat-footed, slow and soft of speech, gentle as a St. Bernard, he is recognized and received in social and sporting circles almost as though he had been the Champion...
...great part of the fight Sharkey was retreating. His admission that the ruling could be given to either man means that the most Sharkey deserved was a draw. Although the majority of lesser known Boston sports writers conclude that the Czeckoslovak gob was the rightful victor, such judges as Tunney, Vidmer, McGeehan, to name a few, agree in the feeling of the German's manager that the decision was a "robbery...
This was not the Depression's last paradox. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney was similarly begging uptown on the steps of the Public Library. Over the radio, trim Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, wife of the board chairman of potent Guaranty Trust Co., was exhorting a national audience,. So was intense little Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt. Out on Long Island and up in the fashionable suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, scores and scores of well-dressed ladies, wives of substantial, responsible businessmen, were earnestly parading the streets and highways in their family automobiles, blaring their horns steadily with large blue & white banners...
...autobiography in Cottier's, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney wrote of meeting Jack Dempsey in the ring before the start of their 1926 championship fight in Philadelphia. "I said, 'Hello, Champion." He answered, 'Hello, Gene.' 'May the better man win,' I said. 'Yeh-yeh,' he muttered as he went to his corner." After dodging and feinting to make Dempsey think he was afraid, Tunney finally found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey...
...Charlie Cope of Two Rivers. Wis. wrote his wartime friend James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney to ask if he had once taken part in a brawl in a bistro in Romorantin, France. Wrote Fighter Tunney: "How nice of you to send me such a charming letter! It must have been another Marine...