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...James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, in Paris, following an operation for an ear abscess; Joe Walcott, 60, famed oldtime Negro prizefighter, in Manhattan, of arteriosclerosis, senile psychosis...
...colyum he aped the Brisbanal style, headlined it "Tomorrow." Excerpts : "Persons aboard this train are going to Los Angeles for the Olympic Games. 'Los Angeles' means 'the angels' in Spanish. Study Spanish. Plato said 'No man can know too much knowledge.' . . . "Gene Tunney, champion boxer, was talked of several days ago as a possibility for the United States Senate. Tunney in the ring would have been no match for a gorilla. The gorilla would have crushed him in ten seconds. But Tunney is more intelligent; he would be the gorilla's superior...
...nonchalant that it was seized upon afterwards as a significant item for the furious arguments that followed the fight. Four out of the last five heavyweight championship fights have had acrimonious aftermaths but last week's was based on something more tangible than a hypothetical poisoning (Dempsey- Tunney), a "long count" (Tunney-Dempsey), a questionable foul (by Sharkey in the fight which gave Schmeling the heavyweight championship two years ago"). Last week a large number of the spectators thought the decision went to the wrong man. While Sharkey leaned over Schmeling, Announcer Joe Humphreys collected three slips of paper...
...boxing and also about my life at Oxford. The Prince is a staunch Oxonian. . . ." Tex Rickard and many another pro moter invited Eddie Eagan to turn pro fessional. Unlike most good amateur fighters, Eddie Eagan did not do it. but he trained with famed prizefighters like Mike McTigue, Gene Tunney. Cat-footed, slow and soft of speech, gentle as a St. Bernard, he is recognized and received in social and sporting circles almost as though he had been the Champion...
...great part of the fight Sharkey was retreating. His admission that the ruling could be given to either man means that the most Sharkey deserved was a draw. Although the majority of lesser known Boston sports writers conclude that the Czeckoslovak gob was the rightful victor, such judges as Tunney, Vidmer, McGeehan, to name a few, agree in the feeling of the German's manager that the decision was a "robbery...