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Billy Conn had outboxed the champ for 12 rounds last spring. Nova spent three years in college (at California College of Agriculture) and was serious-minded in a way that reminded some people of Arch-Boxer Gene Tunney. This slender analogy had forced the odds on Louis down to 13 to 5 last week. Nova's studies in yoga also made him something of an unknown quantity, since fight fans do not know how seriously to take yoga, or how seriously Lou took it himself...
...furlough to fight now & then during the next 18 months, as Bummy Davis, Fred Apostoli, Steve Belloise and other enlisted men have done. But Broadway fightmongers last week predicted that Joe will do what he has always hoped to do: retire undefeated champion of the world-as Gene Tunney did, but without benefit of Shakespeare...
...Louis is not only the Gene Tunney but the Bobby Jones of his race. He has done more than any other person to popularize golf among Negroes. But on the fairway, Joe is no Jones. Aided by his mighty right, he can sock a ball nearly 300 yards. "But," he moans, "I have trouble with my left hook and just ain't got that delicate touch around the greens." Still, under the private instruction of Bermudian Pro Louis Corbin and Washingtonian Clyde Martin, his present tutor, Louis has become a better than average golfer, has often chalked up scores...
...Gene Tunney's Manhattan detective brother, Tom, floored a rebellious captive with one punch. It took 20 minutes to bring the captive to. ∙∙ Richard Whitney will run a dairy at Barnstable, Mass., when he leaves Sing Sing on parole Aug. 11. The farm belongs to the family of the ex-New York Stock Exchange president's brother's wife. ∙∙ Dizzy Dean began a new job as sports announcer for a St. Louis radio station. ∙∙ Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends, etc.) bobbed up in a cigaret ad, telling...
...midshipmen training in Manhattan, enthusiast James Joseph Tunney, the Navy's new physical director, demonstrated his new setting-up exercises, swore that after 60 days a man would rather go without breakfast than them. To officers, Director Tunney demonstrated his special new rope-&-pulley exerciser, designed for the liquidation of naval corporations...