Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner which has attracted more interest than any previous annual gathering of H men. The dinner has been arranged by Richard C. Floyd '11, president of the Club, who has named Leo H. Leary '05 as the toastmaster and has arranged for an excellent list of speakers including Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion; William J. Bingham, Richard C. Harlow, and Thomas Bolles, newly appointed head coach of Harvard rowing...
Announcing the death of Life after a valiant fight, Mr. Maxwell declared: "We cannot claim, like Mr. Tunney, that we resigned our championship undefeated in our prime. But at least we hope to retire gracefully from a world still friendly...
...last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying to rebuild the reputation as a superfighter that was destroyed by Max Schmeling last June. Last week, 24 hours before the tenth anniversary of the rainy night that Gene Tunney beat Jack Dempsey there for the championship of the world, Ettore and Louis crawled into a ring in the Municipal Stadium. The fight, which drew a crowd of 50,000, lasted five lively rounds. In the first, two rights put Ettore down for a short count. In the second and third...
Died. Dave Barry, 47, the referee whose notorious long-count helped Gene Tunney successfully defend his championship against Jack Dempsey in 1927, and who was convicted in 1934 of swindling Chicago's Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank of $54,000 (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934); after long illness; in Chicago...
...years after Tunney's retirement, Sharkey and Schmeling, final survivors of a prolonged elimination tournament, fought for the title. Schmeling won on a foul. In 1932 Schmeling lost the title to Sharkey on points. In 1933 Sharkey lost it to Camera. In 1934 Camera lost it to Baer. In 1935 Baer lost it to James J. Braddock who, of his preceding 25 fights, had contrived to win only ten. To enable Braddock, whose shortcomings were increased by the unanimous if somewhat unreasonable sports-page definition of his character as "colorless," to gain a living from the title...