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Born. To Boxer James Joseph Tunney, 36, and Polly Lauder Tunney, their third son; in Manhattan. Brothers: James Joseph Jr., 4, John Varick...
...Duke Nalon, Chicago midget-auto driver: a five-mile race that inaugurated the Philadelphia Municipal Stadium as a midget track, drew the biggest crowd for a professional sport event in Philadelphia since the Dempsey-Tunney fight...
...Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead: "You are now listening to the most reassuring sound...
...others: Dempsey v. Tunney in 1926 Dempsey v. Sharkey, Dempsey. v. Firpo, Dempsey v. Carpentier...
Statements like these last week, two weeks before Max Baer and Joe Louis come to blows in New York, were a fair sample of the ballyhoo which has for the last month preceded the most exciting prizefight since Dempsey met Tunney in 1927. Whether newspapers publicize prizefights because the public likes fights or whether the public likes fights because the newspapers publicize them is one of the many riddles of pugilism. No riddle is the fact that while newspaper readers were last week absorbing the details of Negro Louis' romance with a dusky Chicago stenographer named Marva Trotter, whom...