Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1926, Page 53

SPORTS - Tunney, Familiar GREAT INTEREST IN MUSIC IS PROFESSED BY CHAMP Ineffaceable Mémory of Younger Days Is Caruso in Pagliacci—Eager to Read French Philosophers in Original—Wanted to Be Lawyer. BY WILL IRWIN. (Copsright, 1926, . by North American Newspaper Alliance in the United States. Great Britain and all other countries.) PART 1L HE technicians in the corner wi ere back on the subject of the fight. ery one in Tunney’s retinue believes that a straight right delivered 40 seconds aiter th Sesquicentennial, that blow of 1 ship for Fitzsimmons—so much that vention to dress up history. If so, every on this punch won the fight—and especi truth, worked out by Tunney himseli from observation in the Tunney camp is a liar ¢ first gong won the battle of the We have heen hearing nearly as much about 1s about the solar plexus punch which won the champion- 1 had wondered if it was not an in- all believe that And it was, in of the movies. They ally Tunney himself. When he first conceived the idea of fighting Dempsey, he collected all the films of the champion in action, had them run off time after time, first fast, then slow, and his boxer’s eye noted the differnce between the Demp- sey who fought Willard and the Dempsey who all but took a draw with Gibbons. No more, in these later fights, did his crouching rush begin like the emergence of a shell from a gun. There was an instant of hesitation, with the face turned in profile. In- deed, that turn of the head was a signal for the Dempsey Wheth- er, as most think, he saving the face which he must in thel movies, or whether it w ing uncertainty ment which comes with probably not even Demp: Mind Works Logically. Methodleally, logically, slowly and =oundly— the: the Tunney mind works—the challenger formed his plan of action. That was the instant when the Dempsey jaw lay open for a straight overhand right, and the Dempsey rush could be stop. ped at its inception. Thereafter 14} wnonths of _monotonous practice—on | sparring partuers, on bags—to develop | that straight i, to perfect its range %o that Its maximum power | would coincide with the instant of | conact. | It was all they talked mecret conferences of the Stroudsburg training camp. And as Tunney left | his dressing room that night Jimmie | Bronson gave him his last word. | “Gene,” he said, “iod put a boy in uniform over in France and preserved; his life to bring the champlonship of the world to the A. E. . Your pair hands won't be the only hands in the ring tonight, Gene. The first time rushes. give him the right with | all you've i, if it breaks your arm.” seconds after the bell rang rushed. And Tunney gave had. It missed the juw and the “eye tooth” and landed on the che bone. Much discussion through the thick atmosphere of the smoking room r ding the effect of that punch. Some one had heard from Dempsey's ¢ 1p that he felt its &ftects for three rounds. And every} one recalled how, when he first went to his corner. his seconds began mas- saging him with bLysterical speed. Effect Was Psychological. The main was psychol al. You see it n his They betrayed him. [His 1 the only way he knew to f | Tt had been stopped in the fi nd | with a blow like that. What was he going to do next?” Fle rumbled his low laugh. “There was some Ds) v worked on me that night it wasn't intentional. 1 was taking| \ doze on the rubbing table when | they weke me up t official | instructions. The bi hle ex- | plained how the rabbit punch and the | ddney punch were barred in Phila- delpl and all the rules about | breaking away. I knew that already. ‘Then, he sai nd one thing more. This contest will be on the level, and when it's over, I don’t want to hear any squawk from the toser. * 1o peated move- | aturity knows. | out in the | | Dempsey him all 1 ffect cot me hard and re- that—any squak from the | Now understand me. I'm con-| d he hadn't the slightest thought | ving unfair. He'd rpnotized | elf, like nine-tenths of the ng world, into the ‘idee fixe™ hampion of the world said that v ting—that Dempsey couldn’t lose But T wasn't going into the ring +ith that thought in my mind. I had ) do something dramatic. 1 rose up 1 the rubbing table trying to 1ook as rmidable as 1 could, and said ‘As for the last insinuation, would you be <Ind enough to repeat it, in just those words, when you talk to Jack Demp- ey By assocfation, talk drifted at once 0 a more unpleasant topic. All the Tunney retinue belleves that a cer- tain man in a certain public relation to the fight behaved most unfairly. The talk grew pointed and profane. The king spoke, and the silence. | ‘Would e to Know Why “He wasn't fair. I don’t know why he behaved as he did. But I think that when this big rush is over, I'm ing to call on him"— Tie paused.. and his hand tightened slowly on his knee. You remembered suddenly that this was the champion of the world; that he could thrash any white man on the civilized globe with looked at Your OLD FELT MADE NEW Again Remodding 55" Fxoeris Vienna Hat Co. 435 11th Street Wallace Motor Co. NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 |or i soon his fists. As the French say, shuddered, “—and ask him if he was impelled any personal dislike for me, or was just stubborn about not admitting that he'd ‘made a mistake. Talk it over with him reasonably—: We talked for two hous ‘There were those aboard who had business with the champion—mostly -reasons why he could not decline this or that invitation to a celebration in his hon- In decency, I yieided my place at the right of the throne, passed down ar to my own sea - The conversation flashed out to me . snatches. It bore a ridicu- smblance {o those first lines one play, which led up to the entrance of the star. All about Tunney—Tunney and the big fight. A rich man of the party was on the subject of the cham- pion’s vocabulary @ “Came back to the training camp after he'd played that trick. Gene backed him into a corner. And took down_ his_introductory remarks so I wouldn't forget them. “'Sir/ he said, ‘Apparently yvou have for vears built up about your- f an inpenetrable barrier of com- plicency and self-approbation. T pro- pose to show you to yourself exactly as you arel’ ™ “Self-approbation and complacency! Well. I'm a university man. but I'm free to confess that those two words aren’t in my working vocabulai Must Stop Parties. Over in the corner two of the older and wiser heads were close together. “——He's got to stop all thi 4 Here he is—no r smoked or drank will. You c count on that. control over him- aelf is more than iron. Its hig] steel. But there's other breaking down the nervous “You remember Blank came back from the war a hero? What the trenches couldn't do to him | entertaining did. He ended up with light stroke of para f warning. And ne weren't Gene. the smoki You noticed | how he introduced every one who | came in—took personal responsibility for making the whole party happy. “He has natural good manners, that's the trouble. FPeople will wear him out. Think of the round he’ been through—including two house parties on Long Island, and another coming next week end. And, Bill, vou and 1 know the strain of that when you go up against it for the first time. 1 shortened my life a year worrying about what fork to use next.” “House parties on Long Island and the champion of the world,” laughed the other, *Jim, do you remember those nights after Sullivan won a fight? I womder if John L. is looking down on Tunney from a pink cloud and calling this the better way- did he turn in his grave last nigh Subsequent events have no bearing on this story—the march to the sta- dium behind a Marine guard, the <hrill welcome from half the small boys on earth, the mili the conferring of Sioux Indian_chieftain- ship by no less than Crazy Horse, the speeches and presentations, the gap- ing, intenteyed crowds. Now we were on our way home. Tired, sated at last with talk about the big fight, and much absorbed in the first sporting extras with the world series score, the retinue flopped down into its seats. Gene Tunney sat Look at him in | in his life, | | But THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1926. alone on his throne. I sidled up to him, and we talked—books. He is a well read man. Reports to this effect are not “press. He has read omniveroysly, with a leaning to- ward heavy stuff. Readers, speaking generally, are mainly interested either in narrative, in facts or in ideas. Tun- ney belongs to the third class. ‘When we spoke of Hugg's “Les Mis- erables,” one of his engguslums, he glowed not over the story, but over the allegory In it—man caught in a wheel. “The Way of All Flesh” ap- pealed to him not for its story, but for its original philosophy. “I did read a good deal of Dumas when I was a young boy,” he sald, almost apologetically, as though he had been confessing to dime novels. In the face of all this, he did not try to explain his liking for Jeffrey Far- nol; we just let it go as inconsistency. azines and magazine fiction he ignores; ‘“there are too many books to read yet,” he said. On the history of a half a dozen eras, including the Roman Empire, he seems to have read everything standard. He has even his specialty—the hstory of re- ligions. Indeed, he began his serious reading after that. “—Down In Greenwich Village when I was a boy. The doctor in our row of houses had a big library. He used to lend me books, and I acquired the habit of going in evenings to hear him and his circle debate. The talk turned usually on religion. The doc- tor had been brought up a strict Methodist, but he'd drifted into ag- nosticism. His Faith in First Cause. ‘There was a chemist, too—a. very brilliant man. He belleved he was on his w to the secret of transmut- ing elements. He was a committed atheist. The third man was a good, devout ‘believer. They'd argue half the night, and I'd sit there never putting in a word, just listening. It struck me as curious that the chemist, who knew so much about the wonder of the elements couldn’t see that there must be a first cause. “But I felt it was important to understand what this was all about— the basis of things—see! I read every book the doctor had on the history of religions—and every book I could get out of the public library. But I stopped that, finally. I made up my mind that there were certain myster- fes, not intended for us to know—in this life at least. I believe that. And I believe in miracles.” Modern miracles? “Oh, yes; here and today. For ex- ample, there’s the case of a man with running sore. He prayed at the rine of St. Anne de Beaupre, and it up at once. I ha that from ician whom I know well. He ar a phy { examined the case before and after, and he isn't a llar. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. That Tennyson doesn’t et credit in his day for the poet he was—not the highest poetry, perhaps, but very clean and musical. . . { It's like that disposition in the sophi: ticated younger set to laugh at Shakespeare.” Wants to Learn French Well. It was history after that. Tunney ppears to be one of the few moderns who has read_Gibbons’ “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” clear through. He didn't like it; in his mood of a renewed faith, it struck him as grossly unfair to Christianity. it was a jumping-off place. Through the ponderous tomes of his- |tory we rambled to the French au- thors of the eighteenth century, stop- ping for an arzument on Rousseau. Tunney maintained that it had been bettar for the world if Jean Jacques had never lived and written. I con- tended that, inasmuch as he helped bring on the French Revolution, he served his age. Tunney couldn’t see that—his mental vision was focused on the excesses of the guillotine and the “‘[east of Reason.” “If you read French, yow'll forgive him for his style,” T said. “I don't read French, well” he id, “but when my championship is gone, that's the thing I intend to do—go to France for a year and per- fect myself in the language so that 1 may enjoy the literature.” We rambled to art. He spent most of his Paris leaves in the Louvre, and calls Leolardo da Vinci his favorite painter. Music—as a young clerk he used to stand in line from 4 o'clock Saturday afternoons in order to get a ent seat in the front row of the gallery. His ineffaceable memory of days.is Caruso in “Pagliacel.” s even taken a wirl at sym veered to_cotempo TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F BY BEN A. OSWALT, Late Coach of the Champion Mooseheart High School. ERE we are in the last zone—within the 20-yard line of the oppos- ing team. What will we do Hurry! If the quarter! opposing team now is the time to make use of it. Save your weak spots until you are within scoring distance and then pound them hard. This is where it is of greatest If you hammer at that weak spot. In the middle of the field you will cause the other team to send in a substitute and perhaps repalr the damage. Then you won't have it to score through when you reach this zone. 2 k= SCORING ZONE - HURRY ! USE SPECIAL SCORING PLAYS now? Listen closely. : back has found a weak spot in the advantage to you. If you have a play that is essentially built as a scoring play, try it here. If there is no weak spot in the team facing you and you have no special scoring play, then call on your best ball carrfer and let him carry the ball most of the time. If this is the first time you have reached the goal line in the game you might try a forward pass on fourth down, if you have considerable yardage to make. But on the second time you reach the scoring zone you had better kick for three points on fourth down if you have much yardage to make. Quite often, too, it is good policy to let your opponents take the ball on downs in this zone rather than to pass or kick over the goal line on fourth down, for thén they can bring the ball out to the 20-yard line and put it in play. It is out of danger there. Next, a general summing up on foot ball strategy by Coach Oswalt. (Cobyright. 1926.) MANY D. C. NET FANS WILL SEE SUZANNE Many Washington tennis fans will go over to Baltimore tonight to see Suzanne Lenglen and the other pro- fessionals play_in the 5th Regiment Armory. The matches will start at 8:30 o’'clock. Suzanne will oppose Mary Browne in the singles and also will appear in mixed doubles. Vincent Richards will be the most notable male racketer to show his wares. A tennis player’s greatness, to the average sports follower, depends on his or her success in accurately stroking the ball. Even some cham- pions say so. Bill Tilden declared recently he wins more matches by merely keeping the ball in play than by any other metho However, Suzanne's greatness rests on other than stroking the ball, Suzanne’s secret of her Yvincible game can be told in one word—foot- work. She’s always on her toes, an- ticipating shots and moving to the right spot with a fast springy stride. ‘When a ball comes high, Suzanne goes after it spectacularly by com- pletely leaving the ground. Her re- markable footwork is simply the pivot for the execution of her shots. Inexhausitible speed has made it possible for the French wonder to continue her extraordinary foot work. Now, at the age of 28, the tempera- mental marvel still is a whirlwind on the court, so impetuously fast that no woman rival has been able to defeat her. Van Loon’s “Tolerance” and of Mankind” interested him res but most of all, perhaps, Well's “Outdine of History.” “How do you reconcile that with your religion?” I asked suddenly. Awed by Thought of Writing. “I don't try to. You see, certain brilliant men are blind on the spiritual side. Well though he believes in God, is practically an agnostic. He doesn’t perceive spiritual values. But he ties up history for me—puts one era in relation to another as no one has ever done before. And then there’s the vivid style. He makes me see things.” We rhapsodized a little over that description of primitive man in the squatting place, thut picture of the first Greek looking out over the Mediterranean. And suddenly I put a question which I had been turning in my mind for some time, and which it secemed almost impudent to ask a champion of the world. “Mr. Tunney, have you thought of trying to write?” “Oh, sure, I take a great deal of pleasure out of my letters to people— writing and rewriting them to get just the proper shade of expression.” I don’t mean just letters. ever “Well, why not? You have a real instinct for literature and for the use of words. You're living now through a unique experience. You must have something to say. The rest is ju practice—like your 14 months perfect- ing that blow to stop Dempsey’s rush. “That's a new idea,” said Tunney. He sat forward, wrinkled his brows, and seemed to think aloud. ‘Wanted to be Lawyer. “Maybe. When I was a boy I wanted to be a lawyer. But that was impossible. T had to go to work too early.” He meditated a moment. “And yet I've thing and wondered about it. Young When you start for the .s‘h}alck mme}{z“zer : 3 ‘i\? noticed a peculiar | fellows with no better education than mine would get positions in news- paper offices. And bye and bye you'd find them writing for the newspaper and writing very well. I've known one or two who develop2d a really vivid style and yet—talk to them, they were still mere dullards I quote this last phrase literally. Tt is one of those pieces of “fine speech” which Tunney is perpetually using in conversation, because he got his in- tellectual expression mnot from the mouths of men but from books. “I suppose there is practice. Well, perha sign the championship or ki vas. In the meantime—" hurry of feet outisde and the | train stopped. We had pulled into | the Pennsylvania station. Came tap- | ping at theavindow. Outside, a group of smiling young men were waving black boxes and making gestures— the news photographers. Tunney rose, put on his coat, shook off the intellpctual life, and resumed the business of being champion of the world, the can- WILL LEAD GRID STARS. %AN FRANCISCO, October 14 (#).— Crine (Babe) Hollingberry, foot ball coach of Washington State College, \has been appointed chairman of the Western fteam coaching committee, which will train an eleven to meet an all-star Eastern team in the annual East-West game here January 1. Navy Bill Ingram, Annapolis Naval Academy coach, headed the Eastern team which lost by a 6-t0-0 score when the East-West contest was inaugurat- ed here last y He will again pilot the Eastern sq "STROMBERG CARBURETOR Distributors and Official Service CREEL BROS. 1811-17 14th St. N.W. Potomac 473 GASOLINE Vv one fact is supreme CELLO is the largest selling 105 CIGAR in the world y? 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MARTIN’S basket ball sextet romped on St. Peter's tossers yes- terday afternoon in the opening game of the Girls’ Catholic Basket Ball League, played on the winner’s court. The score was 58 to 7. Despite the avalanche of points under which they were buried St. Peter's youngsters put up a good fight, showing promise of becoming adept at the game when they have had more time for practice and when a few more inches are added to their height. They have had only one week of coaching—under Ruth Curran, their new instructor—and are much smaller than the team they faced yesterday. St. Martin's, coached by Mary that |1h‘e neceseary cmn:es in by-laws ads | Would be taken up with the board of Murphy, is one of the crack squads | Gt L SR MR R FE it in the league and started off its|view to determining the feasibility of season with a snap that ought to put | effecting them. it well in the front ranks for league honors if this pace is sus- tained. St. Martin's Virginia Avenue playground basket ball tossers will open the court sea son next Tuesday when Lenox and Buchanan teams meet in the first game of the elementary school schlaz ball league for that division. line-up included M Sheehy, right forward; M. Murph left forward; R, Learles, center; . Espey, side center; G. Gauvreau, right 'guard; D. Underwood, left guard and A. Whelan, substitute at center for Learles. St. Peter’s was represented by M. Dellar, captain H. Lynch, left forward; center; S. Bergling, side center; Carey, right guard: P. Galligher, left guard; E. Zier, substitute center for Evans, and M. O'Connor, substitute side center for Bergling. Miss Curran refereed. Washington, Princess and Capital Athletic Clubs, members of the new District of Columbia Girls' Basket League, are considering an ion with the Washington Rec- reation League, as a result of a meeting of representatives of the two groups last night. If it is found practical to revamp the b 3 the Women's Recreation Lea order to suit the needs of the Buren vs. [ Randle High vs. Ki Lenox: 9. plands’ ve, Lenox vs. Buchanan: Brent vs, Buren 12, 16 B i Ketcham-V Randle Highlands. Washington Polo Team practi which was to have been held thi evening at the Riding and Hunt Club. has been postponed and will be helid tomorrow evening at $:30. Postpone. ment was thought advisable in_order that the players might have this eve ning free to attend the I ) Brown tennis matches in ‘Baltimore tonight, according to Elizabeth Jack son, captain. 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