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...disdainfully at the top balcony. "Yaah," yelled the holder of a $3 balcony seat, "you look like a nickel's worth of holy mackerel." "Honest John" Risko, shifty, awkward, hard-to-hurt, who has beaten Paulino, Delaney and Berlen-bach, may now be matched with Champion James Joseph Tunney...
James Joseph Tunney (champion fisticuffer) said: "Miss Bishop is one of the loveliest girls I have ever known, but it is decidedly premature and unfair to her to suggest that we are betrothed." Cinemactress Caroline Bishop said on the same day in the same place, Miami Beach, Fla.: "I think Mr. Tunney one of the most admirable men of today, but it seems an unfair strain on our friendship for newspapers to have us engaged every time we are seen together." The New York Daily News (tabloid) said...
...Tunney and Girl Stage...
Godfrey-Paolino. For a long time George Godfrey, 240-pound black man has been giving people the impression that he could knock out Dempsey and Tunney the same night if he would only try. For a long time George Godfrey has demanded what he thinks he deserves-a match with Tunney. Only a few sharp-eyed critics have warned George Godfrey that the trouble with demanding what he deserves is that he might get it. Last week in Los Angeles George Godfrey met squatty Paolino Uzcudun, Basque, who still has to bring an interpreter to the ring so that...
...Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause. "And who" asked critics "will fight Tunney, now that Heeney has eliminated Delaney and failed to advance himself?" Answered some: "Bring back that old man, Dempsey...