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Last week began the long-winded process of arranging a fight for the contemporary strongboy James J. ("Gene") Tunney. The champion, returning from a camp in Maine, gave an interview on literature to a reporter in the train and stated that he had spent his last evening in camp reading Richard III. In Manhattan, one Humbert J. Fugazy approached him with an offer to fight "the outstanding heavyweight contender" (Jack Delaney or possibly Jack Sharkey) at the Polo Grounds, Tunney to receive 37½% of an estimated $1,500,000 gate...
...Said Tunney: "There are many angles to consider before I make a decision on my next fight...
...starving after 40 and 50 years of incessant toil, squeezed dry and cast aside, no good for anything but this sideshow. Case 56 is pretty: 'chuckle-voiced, hat-doffing Charlie the Iceman.' Now 'Charlie's on the shelf. Old and sick and done for. And forgotten.' Listen to Gene Tunney himself on the superb specimen in case 46: Mr. and Mrs. Pat Malloy, 74 years old, worked all their lives, k.o.'d by a taxicab going home from work. Now 'the grey end. . . . They are slaves of a social system. . . . Nothing they did or neglected to do was the cause...
These are lively days for the triumphant Mr. Tunney--first Bernard Shaw and now the New York police force, neither of which is easily ignored. The beau ideal of the Marines turned, as champions and ex-champions always have turned, to the vaudeville stage where he was scheduled to give "fistic exhibitions". But when he attempted to appear the first night, at one of the Loew palaces in New York, he was arrested for breaking a statute against boxing. Brute strength had to yield to respect for legal restrictions and the philosopher of the gloves was forced to remain...
Sympathy is due Mr. Tunney why should he be prevented from capitalizing his fame? Others have had no trouble in performing in front of footlights--and many were less adroit boxers than Gene. There is, of course, a law, but there are manifold ways, of avoiding it: wearing evening clothes over boxing tights is one method, and Mr. Tunney found that constant use has dulled its aptitude. Doubtless he will new get a more supple lawyer, one versed in such acrobatics as getting away with an improper thing in a perfectly proper manner. But in the interim there...