Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys. Just make sure Babe Ruth heard about them. Following Saturday, Passaic's small heroes met some of their big heroes at the circus in Manhattan. Clyde Beatty. tamer of lions and tigers, shook their hands and gave autographs. Hugo Zacchini, the human cannonball, greeted them. Gene Tunney came over to say hello. Max Schmeling invited them to his training camp at Oak Ridge, N. J. Babe Ruth, who sent each boy a telegram, will have them up to the Yankee Stadium soon, promises to try and knock a home-run in their honor...
...theory that a sincere national movement should enlist young blood to carry it through the years, and that it would excite U. S. schoolboys to be associated, even remotely, with characters like Gene Tunney (retired), Barry Wood (Harvard) and Mai Stevens (Yale), Com-mander Fred G. Clark of the Crusaders last week paid a visit to Lawrenceville School. Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott, bluff and hearty, was glad to call his boys together to hear Crusader Clark's story ^that the Crusaders were going to start a Junior Division and had picked Lawrenceville to be, among...
...Gene Tunney was a hard man to hit around the head, but Tunney also had this fear. He was smart enough to know that one hard punch delivered at the right spot might leave a lasting effect...
...such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, "Battling" Joe Choynski. When the Illinois Athletic Club was opened in 1904 he took on Jack Johnson. At the end of the fight Johnson said, "I will back Lytton against anyone in the world." Merchant Lytton was a judge at the controversial Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago...
...address a Republican rally at the Elks Club. His audience consisted of two Elks and a newshawk. The Cagle speech went undelivered. ¶ "It will take the G. 0. P. about 14 years to recover from the blow on the chin it will get next Tuesday."-James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, at a rally in Bridgeport, Conn. The onetime heavyweight champion was barred from voting for Roosevelt because, ill in New York, he had failed, like Henry Ford and Mr. & Mrs. Norman Thomas, to register. ¶ After John Marrinan. onetime private secretary to Herbert Hoover at the Department of Commerce...