Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1926, Page 27

SPORTS. HIS SKILL MADE EVIDENT | BY SCRAPS “OVER THERE” Was Not Especially Interested in Boxing, But It Was Compulsory in Army—Winning of A. E. F. | r ) | Sent Him Up Pugilistic Ladder. i BY ED VANEVERY. | Two incidents stand out_in the life of Dempsey that show significantly. Bill and midde- Irish_gentluman, has inspiration and the realization of Gene Tunney's | cubitions. McCabe, who has been associated in a con- in the prison work of the State of New York and sec- | t~ ot Columbus in its work during the World War | became interested in a very serious-minded and | EW YOKK. September 29. the _conqueror of McCabe figured successiul fistic fidential capac retary to the as an athl rather id Live to Geng to placid Ky director oung buck private | as a man the same clean boy you are now.” said McCabe | one day over seven vears ago over in France. “and_you'll live the dav that vowll become the heavyweight champion of the a'istic » believed every word he spoke, and Gene knew that he be- | Tunney admits today that these words acted as his in- | were spoken on that afternoon in July of 1919 when | beat Jess Willard and became the King of the heavy- i They Dempees tt a Jack weig! An Murines as the he preferred, he plagards literally ht last was deciding on the branch of service simply took the when’ he read: ‘Re a Marine, be the first to fight.” Remains Buck Private. MeCabe was up under Tunne corner on Thursdsy night when Dempsey punched practically blind and passed into the long list of ex-champions. MeCabe was there in capi of Tu ney's official time-keeper, althou some ¢l that the watch 1 e As a matter of fact Gene never was | Tad s been zoine for SIX ents. | successtul in getting undor fire. Also. | e Teal Teason by Ao e wan i though helprobably ‘had opportuni- acquire a rank. despite his nothing on earth that could have kept | ties him away modest denfals to the contrary, he o : : remained a buck private all the many | RESits Mt M. months of his service - [ - the boy to-| Of course, he was in reality some- night,” said Mo “If he wins, |thing more than a mere buck private. weil aasbe 1 won't be around, but if | He was the boxing champion of the he loses, if he gets badly hurt or cut.|A F. Gene did not take kindly to then 1 want to be with him.” the boxing assignment at flest. He Decidedly there is something in @ |had Gene abroad to fight and not box boy who can inspire so deep a re-|for his country. He was little more gard In a man ike McCabe Decld-|than a “string bean” kid, and while edly, there ix somethin swth while | he had engaged in five preliminary A youth who can inspire the re-|houts professionally before joining the spect of men like Cant Marines, he had no special interest at the famous Princeton foot . the start in boxing while over there. and J. I. Thomson, famed as | Boxing. however, was a compulsory @round athiete. and that they should {part of the military training, and in travel respectively, all the way from |the company bouts Gene could not Florida and California. to meet again | disguise his nutural aptitude for the nt the ringside for first time in sport. These bouts led to intercom seven year s to be on hand | pany bouts and before he realized it. when t Gene Tunney's | Gene Tunney had gained real fame title bid had come. |among the forces in France for his| In fact, it was very much ability. E. 1. reunion in not a few And after the armistice had bheen the vingslde last Thursday night !signed Gene Tunney was called on to over in Philadelphfa. Though never present his battalion in the A. E. I meant as a stab at Jack Dempsey.|tournament. Then came the bouts §t seemed inevitable that a soldier of | with Bob Martin and Ted Jamison the World War was destined as the | that led to the winning of the A. B. I agency for his defeat. That inspira | light-heavyweight boxing title. Inci- flon was implanted in the soldier and | dentally, though it s not generaily 1t was carried right up into the train- | known, Gene came near to meeting fng of the fighter | Georges Carpentier while he was still Jimmy Bronson impressed this fact abroad in the serv Gus Wilson, | on Tunney one afternoon not so many | who trained Dempsey for his last fight Sys before the fight with Dempsey. |and who formerly acted as trainer for Only four other persons were in the | Georges, told me the story the other room with Gene at the time. One of [day them was @ priest, the others were friends who have been close to the new champlon in this bid for « title Molded by Fate” You o molded by the task that faces vou. said pny Bronson, who had also played his part in the big war and had referecd many of Genes bouts abroad. “Out of 2.000.000 men who responded to our conntry’s eall, you have been dele gated to wrest the title from sev. You can’t, you must no “1 don’t think I will Tunney soberly And not or room believed that he would though ‘Tunney prefers to his career In the service in the hack- ground. next to his religious faith his assoctation in the World War has had the most powerful influence on his life. It was not in a sense of vain- glory that he joined the Marines. He was actuated hy a profound sense of duty. He decided it was the thing | he <houjd do, and he did, quietly and unhesitating |y was that same v 0 e got to A at sig rey | Carpentier Declines Bout. A match was proposed to Georges with the American champion.” Gus. “It was a_much sma different looking Tunney than the one that 1 saw climb into the ring against | Dempsey. But Georges couldn’t see | the meeting at that time. He sald he {had fought long enough for nothing.” Some five years later Carpentier was to meet Tunney. Georges got a lot of money for that fight, while Gene !zt only $6,800 for his end. Still it { et him on the rond to a match with | | Dempsey. So maybe it was all for | the best. Ior maybe Father Duffy, though he muy never have seen the Tew cham- pion while in France, Knew best whereof he spoke when he said, “Gene Tunney, as champion boxer of the world, you have it in your power to do more good for the youth of our land than all the preachers in the world, | nd the task has not fallen into the rong hands. Conyright. . Sophie Seymour is the first woman zolf professional In England. She il Al R 1926.) in 1 - Ocean Steamship Co one knew the t No | { comfor | League | Three Eye League pennant winners. | three and | Gene's intent until the enlistment had been accon- | He hiad no special reason for | pair deed of plished ac is experienced in the making and re of clubs ight on the counter/ Right in the Best Condition Right in Tobacco Right in Price Daniel Loughran Company, Washington Dis E. Popper & Co., Inc., Manufacturers 1347 PENNA. AVE. N POPPER'S EIGHT 8 CENTER THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TOMMY CONNOLLY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. 1926. ere Displayed During World War TUNNEY TO LET RICKARD PICK NEXT OPPONENT By the Associated Press IW YORK. September Gene Tunney, while not secking new worlds to conquer at the moment, is holding himself in readincss | to meet any opponent selected by Tex Rickard. He looks with | favor on Rickard's plan to have a series of elimination contests |among the heavyweights during the Winter, to pave the way for a | championship battle in the Summer Jack Dempsey can have a return bout le Tunney does not regard Tommy Gibbons, whose prostr him a step upward in his march to the title, as a likely opponent wants another bout with Tunney. 1 “If I had been in the shape [ was | against Dempsey when 1 met Gib | bone, I think my defeat of Tommy | fight, I had to | would have been even more crush- |1 never forgot | ing.” Tunney told interviewers yes- ) loaded with terday. thiuk it is Tunney plans t Dempsey has lost Suturday to appea hit you as he hit of thousands of boys me when you wake senting a dozen organizations at the | that Demj as lost his punch | stadiumm where he won the title. ‘1 do blame the many people \While Gene shakes hands with the | Who thoughi 1 had no chance to win | voungster: Jack will be at the fMany of my own friends conceded me | Yankee fum watching the first | litte, if any. chance. In my | world series game Both the cham '“l“;' wWere persons :\!:n counted e | pion and former champion are to see | refore | was in D. C 29, “any time he says the word.” n gave (ibbons | had practiced this blow for mere than |a vear “Always. to of aly it do think him teil do the very end atch that d instant tha TNT. It yo dynamite, if his punch me and then up, if vou 2o to Philadelphia 1ot at w gathering nd girls. repre- | HANK O0'DAY, N. L. ILL. AFTER BOUT, NOT BEFORE, JACK STATES By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 26— was | sick after the fight. but not before: I don’t want sympathy. and 1 have no albi,” said Jack Dempsey on arriving in New York from Atlantic City. he former heavyweight champion was replying to a query i’ he was sick when he lost his title to Gene Tunney last Thursday night Announcing he had no plans for the future and could not say if he would box again, the deposed king proceeded to justify the cl tion ‘“‘game sportsman® applied ne Tunney in speaking of the man from whom he wrested the title “Xo, the wet ring was no handicap: the only handicap 1 had was ‘myself. I lost to a better man and that's all there s to it.’ Dempsey adde: ained, he will remain in New York a month: | As if 1 don't have enough trouble | the ftch now. He described it as ble skin ir the seven-vear v he was contracted during his for the championship bout SERIES IS CALLED OFF. SPRINGFIELD, [l September 29 () —The inter-league series hetween Des Moines, winner of the Western | pennant, and Springfield, but un- “It's not d. Tt | ining a slight tation. tr been called off due to continued weather. Springfleld has won lost one game N FRONT. September 20 | A owned by Henry B. Rea of Pittsburgh and driven by Nat Ray, won the thirty-fourth re-| newal of the Kentucky futurity. The track was slow and the time. 207 and 2:06%, was the slowest trotted in the event since 1912, Wallace Motor Co. means NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 has rainy GUY McKINNEY I LEXI K ibutors W PHONE MAIN 391 s eEERegses: (TS ALL RIGHT m With the Bowlers HI F t i Shippi ond game. after other m of gam Fugett 365 set, with D game n twice: € two froi tion, ant Parks Goldsmith trophy to be awarded the season’s best bowler was on view. Thorpe of Cornell Lunch rolled game ¢ games League. best. In the Junior Order loop last night Liberty to J. M toppled , Tunney said he had bee o Sunday's game. ~ Tunney said he een exploited | e Roaee takih of s igenla in talk- 128 & TailWRy checker who becam | ing to newspaper men vesterday. iilenger for the heavyweight cham | ""“Tnis championship gives me the op portunity to put into realization some ideals I have had since long before I dreamed of being champion,” he said. | “I have no plans, for there will be no haphazard schedule mapped out in i my behalf. T do not propose to have this title demeaned by any cheap pub- licity. T shall remain here at home for the present and at the moment my boxing activities are in the laps of | the gods and hands of Tex Rickard I will meet any one Rickard names. He gave me my chance at the cham- plonship and 1 would be ungrateful ir 1 did not do all that T can to re ciprocate. Short Right Tells. A short right won the chimpion- ship bout with Dempsey in the first round. he said. “A boxing authority than there is no greater,” he said. to Stroudsburg and told me Dempsey would unquestionably change -~ his tactics in this bout. He assured me the champion would not charge at me as he had done at other opponents, but would hesitate 10 or 20 seconds. He advised me then to rush to him and attempt to get in a decisive blow. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR | ROLLERS REORGANIZE corganization of the Union Chris- avor Bowling League of the District was effected at a meeting last night with the election of these offi- cers: Charles L. Jones, Park View Chri ident; D. W. Kline, r a checker.” he sail rapher and rate cleri not command a large was paid §15 o week, and when 1 asked for a raise 1 wa creased to $13.50. I think I can say in all modesty that I earned it FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Associated Press DE; MOINES Pinkey Omaha flyweight, won over George. Des Moines (8) PORTLAND, Oreg.--Eddie Rober! | Tacoma welterweight, scored technical | knockout over Morris Schlaffe | Omaha (4) JACKSONVILL Louisville, Chicago Ohio sonville | e | [PPING BOARD maple-smashers “stepped out” last night in the | “ederal League when they toppled the pins for a count of 559 in the hird game of their set against Agriculture. It was the best mark 1 the league this season. i ‘d also copped the sec. | Ring won a pair from E. J. Ross and | tlan Church, pre losing the first, In | Reno landed two from Liberty, No. 2. | Cavalry Buptist, vice president and G, pat in the hest match of the evenink. |treasurer: Fulton Davis. Grace Re- ommerce took a trio | Campbell’s game of 118 jor Capitals | formed. secretary, and Theodore Bie- State, during which | was high. orgetown Lutheran, official victors turned in a the season: Marines, unavent setting a new high- park of 137. downed Interior ieneral Accounting office got | m Emergency Fleet Corpora- | d Public Buildings and Public ! conquered Nav ing Rige Pinkie natches ( es from for the high for — seorer. Kann's took Wallace Motors over| The lea the bumps all three games in Wallace | 9, with th Motor League. and 1. Kaufman, Inc., jan ever won w match by forfeit from Wilkins Coffee Co. Ilaney of Kaufman rang | up a 118 game, the evening's hest. | las | National Capital event ;ANOTHER TUNNEY BOUT IS SOUGHT BY GIBBONS Columbus scored twice | Revenue: Browns took | Indians swept their | and Reds twice | A game | PAUL, September 29 high | ().~ Another L Gene Tun- ney, heavyweight champion. i de sired hy Tommy Gibbons of St. Paul. bbons has just returned from Phil- adelphia, where he saw Jack Demp- sey lose his heavywelght crown to ‘Tunney. ‘Tunney is the only hoxer to ever|home the short out Gibbon: opinfon, really w | | | 10 play will open October prospect that it will enjo; ason than last year. 7. Fla.— T outpointed “Chick™ Miller (10); Roy Potter, Marletta, knocked ont Jack Baker @), O Dowd 2 wds champion Jack for the world of Herman Wecke of the St. Louls b Dispatch has leen selected by . locul chapter of the Rase Ball Writers' Association as official St. Louis scorer for the world series. Approval of the selection was received Monda 1 told my friend something t from Kenesaw M. Landis. base bail had never told any one during my | commissioner. aining. that his advice coincided | RADIATORS, FENDERS with my plan of fighting. It worked | out that way. In the second rush I BOBESMAVE AND REPATRED SEW _RADIATORS FOR ALTOS WITTST. found the opening I sought and got TTS R. & F. WKS. D 13th ht which, in my me the fight. I W PR series. Approval the Knights of over Internal two from Cubs: set against Cardinal made Pirates walk the plank f 165 by Mischou was easily - the eveni twice sl o f 1 1« his team won twc last night in the Distri Supplea’s 132 affort was next I the of in for couple night Counting 1,667 pins to 1 | losers, Nationals won games from Arlington the Athletic League. ame, last Bell, No. 1. pointed the way . 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