Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tunney-Dempsey bout at Chicago...
Even before he made much money. Tunney wrote of "the battle you fellows are having back there trying to overcome certain angles." Letters from Billy Gibson, Tunney's manager, also spoke of "straightening out angles"; of getting people, many of them well known in Manhattan and national politics, "lined up" or "in our corner" and of "working on" others...
...trouble was that certain Manhattan politicians owned shares in Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight contender. The New York State Boxing Commission had decreed that Dempsey must fight Wills before fighting anyone else. Meanwhile the late Tex Rickard was trying to arrange for Tunney to fight Dempsey. He was telling Tunney that the 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...
...arranged to have Tunney received at the City Hall. That was to help build him up. Then I arranged a banquet in Tunney's honor at the Biltmore, attended by newspaper writers and officials. That was a promotion proposition. I arranged it and I paid...
...Tunney got "tied ... up for in Philadelphia" was sued for in 1927 by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, potent Philadelphia racketeer. Hoff is reputed to have been promised $200,000 for supplying Tunney with a mysterious sort of "protection." That suit never went to trial...