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...other was a 196-pounder of Lithuanian descent, Jack Sharkey,* aged 25. Heavily good-looking, bright-eyed, garrulous, he was to prove himself formidable enough to deserve a chance at overpowering the man that whipped Dempsey last autumn, World's Champion Gene Tunney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Opinion | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...meet Mike McTigue (TIME, March 14); from whom he won the right to meet his fellow Bostonian, Edward James Maloney; from whom he won the right to meet onetime Champion Jack Dempsey; from whom, last week, he was getting ready to try to win the right to meet Gene Tunney, actual champion du monde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Uzcudun v. Wills | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

James Joseph Tunney, champion fisticuffer, reading the newspapers last week, came upon a great mockery. A Tunney, his second cousin William, had been beaten insensible in a fair Manhattan fist fight. William Tunney had squared off at Policeman Paul Smith; Officer Smith had hit William, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

What to Do? Inhabitants of the U. S. have not been slow to outline Captain Lindbergh's future for him. James Joseph Tunney, fighter, suggests that he make a fortune in cinema or vaudeville, while the making is good. Following this course, Captain Lindbergh could easily put away a nest egg of $1,000,000 within a year. Will Rogers, funnyman and newspaper philosopher, suggests that the U. S. Government give him a life pension and a high position in the aviation service. Others believe that he should glorify the U. S. by new exploits, flights to Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Dewey, Lindbergh | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...Rickenbach, R. P. Reichenbach, E. P. Renouf, R. H. Ryan, R. E. Sargent, R. H. Sarger, H. W. Sayles, R. N. Sawyer, F. P. Spreul, William Stephens, H. G. Swann, Corcoran Thom, B. T. Thompson, B. C. Tripp, H. B. Tower, H. D. Tucker, R. W. Turner, C. R. Tunney, William Washington, H. I. Watson, P. S. Watson, F. P. White, Moses Williams, H. P. Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAGIE GIVES NAMES OF MEN TO USHER CLASSDAY | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

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