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Critics retaliated, picking cobb's worst, such as: "I've just learned that that distinguished bookworm, Mr. Gene Tunney, reads my stuff, so now I am moved more strongly than ever to predict that, in the event of a third meeting between him and Mr. Dempsey, the result will be another triumph for clean literature...
Sidewalks of New York. The mysterious Eddie Dowling to whom Graham McNamee referred, irrelevantly, in his broadcasting to 50,- 000,000 people from the ringside of the Tunney-Dempsey fight and to whom the same Mr. McNamee referred equally irrelevantly through the press box microphone at the first World's Series baseball game, is now revealed. All Broadway and showbusiness knew him anyway as actor and producer of Sally, Irene, and Mary and Honeymoon Lane. To the public at large he is just another theatrical producer, fortunate in his word-of-mouth advertising. His show is much like...
Another voice (Gene Tunney...
...Jack, JACK. ... we wanted Jack to say hello, too . . . boxed a real good fight . . . Tunney managed to master...
...Announcer Graham McNamee could scarcely be expected to grasp immediately the technical detail here involved, through which Dempsey protested to the Illinois Boxing Commission that he had won the fight. Dempsey knocked Tunney down. By the rules of the contest he should have walked immediately to a neutral corner and waited until his antagonist arose or was counted out. Instead he stood over him; went to the wrong corner. Thus five seconds were lost before he reached the neutral corner and the actual count began over the prostrate Tunney. Tunney rose after the ninth second. A boxer is knocked...