Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney fought William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to defend his world's heavyweight championship in 1927, he got $990,000, Dempsey $425,000. Dempsey now prospers as the head of a big, bustling restaurant on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue. Tunney prospers in a different way. In 1928 he married Polly Lauder, a Greenwich, Conn, steel heiress, took up Shakespeare, began making friends with businessmen and bankers. Soon he was a corporation director sitting on the boards of companies like New York Shipbuilding Corp. Last week he was elected director of another-Morris Plan Industrial Bank...
...Sonny gave him cause for alarm. Sonny, with his Old Westbury team built around the other current U. S. 10-goaler, Stewart Iglehart, came through the summer with just as good a record. By the end of August Cousin Jock was sufficiently concerned to him Gene Tunney's oldtime trainer, Lou Fink, to give his teammates some pre-championship conditioning. When the Open tournament got underway, Old Westbury rode through its opposition, toppled Winston Guest's hard-hitting Templeton team in the semifinals. Undaunted, Greentree in the other semi-final disposed of Argentina...
...tracks. Madison Square Garden, prime barometer for new U. S. sporting crazes, held its first doodlebug race in its outdoor bowl last year. A midget race in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium last summer drew 53,000 customers, largest professional sport gate that city had enjoyed since the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1926. Today there are profitable tracks in scores of U. S. cities, fly-by-night ventures in a hundred more. The sport has been roughly organized into Midwest, Pacific and Atlantic associations, but as yet has no national championship...
Dempsey's willingness to take punishment while he forced his openings earned him more than the average fighter's quota of black eyes. In 1926 he cheerfully allowed his Tunney shiner to be photographed...
Whitney Museum. U. S. painting and sculpture only, with particular accent on contemporary work, is collected in Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's salmon stucco repository at No. 10 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. Best known pieces: Bellows' Dempsey-Tunney Fight and The Blue Clown by Walt Kuhn...