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...Gene Tunney was a hard man to hit around the head, but Tunney also had this fear. He was smart enough to know that one hard punch delivered at the right spot might leave a lasting effect...
...such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, "Battling" Joe Choynski. When the Illinois Athletic Club was opened in 1904 he took on Jack Johnson. At the end of the fight Johnson said, "I will back Lytton against anyone in the world." Merchant Lytton was a judge at the controversial Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago...
...address a Republican rally at the Elks Club. His audience consisted of two Elks and a newshawk. The Cagle speech went undelivered. ¶ "It will take the G. 0. P. about 14 years to recover from the blow on the chin it will get next Tuesday."-James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, at a rally in Bridgeport, Conn. The onetime heavyweight champion was barred from voting for Roosevelt because, ill in New York, he had failed, like Henry Ford and Mr. & Mrs. Norman Thomas, to register. ¶ After John Marrinan. onetime private secretary to Herbert Hoover at the Department of Commerce...
...boxing or of the "Post" should attempt it. It has ever the inescapable capital 'I' of the humble boy who has made good, of the self made man, and of the athlete who is also a scholar, that irritates; and yet it has much that is enjoyable. Unlike Gene Tunney, Eddie Eagan ever sets himself up as a demigod, he has his weaknesses; and he never parades his "culture" and education...
Both parties stumped the State as they never had in recent years. The Republicans imported Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The Democrats called in James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney and Massachusetts' Governor Joseph Buell Ely and Senator David Ignatius Walsh. Interested but helpless observers were 350 "paupers" of Lewiston, Me., disfranchised under an old law which denies the right to vote to those who accept State or municipal charity. These gave Senator Walsh a chance to say that the Republicans, "having brought misfortune to many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers...