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James Maloney, one of South Boston's two contenders for champion Gene Tunney's heavyweight crown, found time between a series of strenuous three-round exhibition bouts at Loew's Orpheum Theatre, to divulge the innermost workings of the prizefighters' mind to a CRIMSON reporter...
...Either Sharkey or myself will meet Tunney next fall, that's a cinch", said Maloney. "I don't want to appear boastful, but I can't see any other way out of it." In connection with his last remark, he hurriedly added that he thought modesty was as necessary as any other quality in a prizefighter's makeup. "As soon as you get to thinking you're invincible you're bound to let up and then you're done in this game...
...published on the general subject of journalism. Not only is it being discussed with a vigor and an interest that for the first time approach the intensity of news itself, but in a public that has been fed for twelve months on such hors-d'oevres as the Dempsey-Tunney fight, the death of Rudolph Valentino, Queen Marie, the Hall-Mills case, Aimee McPherson, President Coolidge's sportive antics in the Adirondacks, and Peaches Browning, there must certainly appear symptoms that need the cear sort of diagnosis that Mr. Johnson has provided...
...lunchtime in St. Louis one day last week, Gene Tunney signed his name to a piece of paper giving Tex Rickard the privilege of arranging a fight for him, in Manhattan, next September, for a guarantee of $475,000 and half of the net gate receipts over $1,000,000 against any opponent Mr. Rickard picks out. To find the opponent there will be an elimination tournament involving Jack Sharkey, Jim Maloney, Jack Delaney, Paul Berlenbach and Michael Paolino. The winner of the tournament will fight Jack Dempsey (if Dempsey needs money badly enough to get in the ring...
...reading this statement, sniffed, spat, quoted a statement, issued to the press under similar circumstances by Mr. Tunney's predecessor, John L. Sullivan. "I'll fight any - of a - with two fists, any place, any time, for a good cigar. . . . All the training I need is a haircut and a shave...