Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1927, Page 25

- EEm—— 'SPORTS 'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1927. SPORTS Tunney Set Back by Training Let-Down : Champ and Dempsey Both Veil Training. WILL HAVE NO EASY JOB WITH DEMPSEY THIS TIME Gene Finds Change in Climate at Bad ew Camp i for Him—Champion Practicing Straight Left Under Heart That Is Proving Effective. BY JIMMY DE FOREST, Famous fight conditioner and former tralner of Jack Dempsey i (Copyright, 1627 in all countries by North | Ametican Newspaper ) EDARCR COUNTRY CLUB, LAKE VILLA, 1. September 12.—The more 1 Jook at Gene Tunney in train- ing here, the more I feel the ehampion is going to have no easy job defending the championship. The shoe is on the Whereas last year Dempsey a long lay-off and Tunney had been fighting frequently. now it is Tunney who has been resting while Dempse has at least one good fight under his belt. 1 realize Tunney has been traming —not hard. but training--for som time up at Speculator, N. Y. visited him there a few days before he started for this in fine physical condition. 1 warned him then that continued hard trainin result routine mizht his stald. 1 up. did, but he eased up quite a lot. When he came here he took his own in soing He had had | with a When I | amp 1 found him | ney's living accommodations are llent, and he appears thoroughly isfied. But his ring is in a spot here on a hot day the heat seems to exc collect and hang arvound, and it _re. | minds me of a Turkish bath. Tve trained some fighters that way when 1 had to trim them down below their normal fighting welght, and the process is enervating to the fighter | Tunney is practicin | under the heart. He to er foot now. | this blow with more deliberation and seems use than his more studied movement lany of the others he shoots at | spavring pe Tt is a_good blow. | I saw him make Billy Vidabeck wince and ¥ gives Gene quite a good workout.” Tunney Guards New Blow. But Tunney doesn’t use the blow frequently. He seems content to put it over once or twice in a whole noon, ravely more than three or times in a day's work. He appes be guarding the punch—appears fact, to fear some one may find out about it. It looks to me as if it might prove a very effective wallop. veet time getting down to hard work | Tunnev declares at overy opportu He's going all right now, but | 1Y . S i i b A e f e A and that he is only boxing allowed Dempsey to overtake |y, hig wpa-ring partners, not fight in conditioni When Gene | ;10 s Fhe ot went through his first workout here| "R ER MO, L he bhoxed before a crowd, and al though he cut the rounds to two min- utes and had two minutes’ rest after each round, he was sweating pr fusely and hreathing heavily the end of the sparrin Bothered by Acclimatiz There was some excuse for this per. haps, for on that day it was very hot a compared with the cool of Specu- | | remarked to me. here to beat them up. to help train me. 1 hurt them. Nevertheles They're here don’t want to when T see him erack | over that straight blow under the {heart 1 can't help wondering what | | would happen to “these fellaws™ if Gene weren't using hig for loves and if this blow should land “right” on the s - plexus. “I haven't got them | BASS-CHAPMAN BOUT FOR TITLE TONIGHT By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, September 12— Ed Chapman of Boston and Benny Bass of this city will meet in a 10- round bout at the Municipal Stadium tonight for the world featherweight championship. The title may pass by pound throne has not had an occupant since Lou (Kid) Kaplan abdicated nearly two years ago be- cause he could no longer make the weight limit T-to-5 favorite. started his professional ¢ in 1920 and Bass a vear iladelphian has fought 114 contests, against 90 for his Bos- | ton rival has 39 knockouts to Chapman 2 Neither heen knocked out. his will be their second meeting. ass won in New York last Januar on_a foul in the first round. Their physical measurements are: Ch, 1.3 4 inches H41a mches inches (expanded ) 10 ‘inche arm E I3 o Biceps. . . {150 20 inches rex inches mches fnches ches inches inches College will compete tomorrow in the first of a series of weekly miniature handicap tourneys Nine holes will he played for the low medal score each Tuesday morning, to be followed by luncheon at_the Officers’ Club. Entries will be recefved at the tee Mrs, Charles Bundel, who is in charge of entries and reservations for luncheon. Each player is requested to notify Mrs. Bundel at the time of entry if she expects to attend the luncheon. Mrs. Everett Hughes will be match official and Mrs. Condon McCornack will handle the finances. A nominal fee will be charged in order to have prizes for low net and low gross scores each week. Play will begin at 9:30 and con- testants are urged to report promptly as it is desired to complete the round in_time for a 12:30 luncheon. Handicaps for the initial event will be based largely upon the perform- ance of the golfers in the Army-Navy event last week, these ratings to be subject to change from time to time, of course, as the players demonstrate their average ability Chevy Chase Club was to be the scene of another miniature tourney today when the fair stick-wielders of the Women's District Golf Associa- WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER AIR golfers of the Army War tion teed off for their monthly handi- cap medal play. A large field was expected to compete, including most of the ranking players of this vicin- ity, all of whom are grooming for the approaching Middle Atlantic event, which is to be played at the Congres- sional Club early in October. The ruling of the Middle Atlantic Golf Assoclation that no one shall compete in the sectional classic who is not a member of a club belonging to the association may cut out one of the District’s most promising golfers. Winifred Faunce, who has figured prominently in local events, probably will be barred from competition at the Congressional next month, as she ls‘ ’nnt affiliated with any “member club.” While the ruling undoubtedly does work a hardskip upon occasional in- | dividual golfers who are otherwise eligible to compete for sectional laurels, still it is a provision consid- ered recessary by the association to protect the rights of their members. Running golf tournaments i3 an ex- pensive proposition, and why, say offi- cials, should those who do not con- tribute to the support of these affairs by joining clubs in the association he permitted to play in the events and probably carry off the trophies pro- vided by those who are members? The logic is unquestionable. TUNNEY TO RECEIVE | RECORD RING PURSE A By the neiated Press. 1 CHICAGO, September 12.—The week | end visits of Tex Rickard to the train- ing camps of Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey arve helieved by the boxing experts to relate to the division of the $3.000.000 zate for the Soldier Field | {battle of September | The Herald and miner sayvs to- | a an |day that it learns Rickard h 300, with | sured Dempsey of $4 CHESS TITLE MATCH TO START THURSDAY By the Associated Pres: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Sep- tember 12.—Next Thursday has heen officially set for the inauguration of the world championship chess match between the present champion, Jose R. Capablanca of Cuba, and his Rus- sian challenger, Alexandre Alekhine. Play will continue from 7 p.m. to midnight. Tt is estimated that two months will be required to decide the winner. The championship will to the player winning six games, with po ) lator. “Gene should have gotten here| Tunney's left jab i8 not as good as | o ouoerss '3 bonony e Sate reaches | aoer, s Dempsey did. for he has|when he fought Tom Gibbons. His| The ticket sale already has crossed | difficulty acclimatizing himself. |vight swing, or long hook, is ver 000,000, Ricl 1 have looked over both of the good, but he doesn't -appear to be| The champion's share, It is said he training camps carefully, and Demp-|putting all the vim and vigor into his [ has been assured, will certainly cross | sy has much the better quarters. He|blows he will have to use against|the milliondoliar’ figure. the highest | 1 prac ly situated for get-| Dempsey. But Tunney showed in a|pay for a hoxer in all ring history. | ting into condition. Dempsey’s work- | few flashes that he can cut loose with | The original Tunney contract was | outs are out in the open, with the|a vengeance if he has a mind to, and |said to call for $300.000. with 30 and | wind blowing, whereas Tunney's ring, | I'm heginning to suspect that this |25 per cent shares of the second and | the outdoor one, is away from the clubhouse proper place where Tunney has his quart tched in a hollow | talk about “being a hoxer” the | to camouflag living | is, is merely his real intention: that to go in and try to knock out Dempsey as quickly as possible. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE ND: en's District Golf Assacia- tion, women players about the city are competing today in a_miniature tournament at th> Chevy Chase Club. one of the'last of the exten: ule arranged by the associ e sched- ation. Dorothy White of the Washington Golf Dist Countiy Club, holder of the ct women’s title, has decided not ompete in the women's ipionship at Cherry Valley next Miss White has reconsidered arlier decision to play in the na- i will devote her efforts to anncxing the women'’s Middle Atlantic tourney to be played at Congressional Octoher 4, 5. 6, 7 and 8. The leading plavers of the Middle Atlantic section will enter the tourne: Shenvalee Golf Club of New Market, Va.. announced today that the tourney postponed from last week will be held at the club September 21, 23 and 24. A qualifying round will be held September 21, followed by match play rounds the next two days and a mixed foursome ou September 24, Entries for the Bannockburn Golf Club tourney closed last night with the tournament committee of the club, but the committee held the list open until tonicht to permit filing of post entries. The pairings will be made to- night. The entry list so far assures a successful tourney, for a large field, includi many of the prominent amateurs alout Washington. has en- tered. The tourney is the last of the club invitation affairs about Washing- ton for the season. The District championship at Indian Spring late in September will close the open com- petitive season. The annual handicap tourney of the Town and Country Club was won ves- terday by Howard Nordlinger, former holder of the club championship, who gave Ralph Goldsmith six strokes in the final round and defeated him 5 and 4. Nordlinger defeated Isaac T. Behrend in the semi-final, 6 and 5, while Goldsmith won from Walter Nordlinger, 2 and 1. Golfers of the Town and Country Club will compete . Jess’ Eagle Scores Over Bobby’s Birdie BY SOL METZGER. Without question the second hole of the match between Jess Sweet- ser and Bobby Jones at Brookline in 19! TS, amateur cham- pionship brought forth the great- est pair of xhots ever played in a single hole in a natios tourna- ment. That sccond was slightly up- hill, and a healthy par 4. Jones outdrove Jess and the latter was some 90 yards from home. Sweet- ser had been going at a terrific pace and Jones looked like the one opponent able to stop him. Where- upon Jess turned loose the fireworks with his spade-mashie, the club of which he is complete master. Tak- ing it on this occasion he lofted one mear the pin and had the sat- fsfaction of hearing the crowd around the green break into an up- roar. He had holed out No one ever got a harder jolt than Bobby Jones, or was more entitled to crack. Instead Jones carefully studied his shot, took a similar club and had his ball come to rest 6 inches from the pin. It was tough to Jose a hole with a birdie 3, but that was the break Jones got that day, a blow that did more than all else to put him out «f that title event. The event is | national | the banner of the Wom- | next Sunday in the qualifying round for the club cl mpionship. Indian Spring golfers vesterday be. gan qualifying for the club champion- ship, for which scores may be turned in at any time this weel the same time the club titular airs of Ar- 8yle, Beaver Dam and Bannockburn are scheduled for competition thi: week, Watts Gunn of Atlanta, the intercollegiate championship and runner-up in the 1925 national ama- will be in Washington all this v as a guest of Roland R. Mac- Kenzie and will play with the star amateur of Columbia in informal matches at several Washington courses, Gunn was here 10 days ago and played several matches at Co- lumbia and Burning Tree. Beaver Dam Club’s course has he- come so popular on Saturdays, Sun- days and holidays that Henry Miller, professional, has found it necessary to install a ball rack at the starting tee to see that the golfers get off in their right order. Yesterday some players had to wait almost an hour to_make their start. Work on the new 18 holes is pro- gressing rapidly and there will be no holder of congestion after the new layout i thrown open next May. Then, it is probable, that the old nine will he |turned over to the fair sex on the big day | “Fivesomes,” which were once per- |mitted, now are under the han at Beaver Dam over the week ends. One :’g(‘t by” last Saturday, but a meet- ing of the greens committee speedily { followed and the law was laid down a nst such a pi tice in the future. Argyle, it is understood, may not have to remove from its present property at Four Corners, Md., which was taken under option recently for real estate development. The option, according to information given mem. bers of the club, has been allowed to expire and the club probably will be able to retain its present layout for at least another year. W. P. Di Este, cross handed star of Argyle, broke the course record for nine holes last week, registering a 32 to shatter by one shot the mark he {made several months ago. He was | Pl in a_four-ball match paired | with Harry Peacock against R. CIiff | McKimmie and Emmery Heitmuller, |and finished out the round for an 18. | hole card of 70—exactly par. His card |0f 32 betters the hest professional {mark for the course—a 33 made by George Diffenbaugh last year. i The card follows: Par Di Este 344 24 43 43532 ext Sunday club wielders of the Washington Golf and Country will journey over to the Congressional Country Club, where they will meet {the team of the Mont nization in a | 1t won on July 30, by th {ington team. The match will {promptly at 1:30 and the two te i Will be made up of virtually the s: {Players who competed in the {match | Argyle, by frouncing team on August 21, won permanent | possession of the intérclub golf trophy, {having won the championship three ; of the four years the trophy has been {in competition. This cup was put up I_'xuw two clubs. Argyle also has m | tween that club, Mano 1 Indian Spring. | Withdrew from the ma i | i ms me July Beaver Dam The last named atches this year. Washington Golf and Countr wyers will compete Octobes 6 7 nd 8 for the club championship now | held by Frank K. Roeseh, "0 NOW |D. C. FIGHTERS CHOSEN FOR INTERCITY BOUT Al Richter, light heavyweight; Tom Barry, lightweight, and Phil Jacobs, featherweight, have been picked by Jim M, . Jewish Community Center director of athletics, to repre- sent Washington in amatour houts with representatives of Philadelphia {and Baltimore in the latter city Thurs. jday night. The bouts will be the first of a series v Club 1to select a team to represent the |South Atlantie Association in the Olympic tryouts. BEBLENBACfi COMING BACK. W YORK, Scptember 12 (#).— Paul Berlenbach, who lost the ligh heavyweight crown to Jack Delan plans to re-enter the ring during a tour to Los Angeles, which he plans to make his home in the future. 4—35 | Club the Manor: wnother trophy for matches be- | | third millions taken in at the hox | office. Dempsey's $450,000. it his share | reaches that figure, will be more than | Ihe received for his end of the first | million-dollar te in ring annals, the | | Dempsey-Carpentier battle at Boyle's' | | Thirty Acr For that four-round [\:u(m_ v received $300,000. 'D. C. JUNIOR RACKETERS | LOSE TO BALTIMOREANS | Baltimore junior tennis plavers easily disposed of the local team in the first intercity junior matches held | on Henery Park courts yesterday,| taking seven of nine contests. ummaries: ~ Gurland | shore 3. | feated Shepa | (Baltimora) d | Po | | (Baltimore) _defeated ha Doubles- il Shepard | (Washing- ton) “defeated Kairys and - Sribush. 2—G, H— Kurland and Shapiro Simon_and Halstead, nkirl and Polan SMITH AND BOERNER, D. C. PLAYERS, GO TO TOLEDO Two Washington sandlot products will report to the Toledo, American Association, team next season. They are Larry Boerner and Jack Smith, both of whom will go up from the Norfolk team of the Virgini; League. Boerner is a pitcher an Smith a first baseman. INTERNATIONAL BODY FOR LACROSSE PLANNED DBALTIMORE, Md., September 12 () The formation of an international { lacrosse federation for the purpose of codifying a set of rules, will be the task of W. Caspari Wylie, president of the intercollegiate lacrosse associa- { tion, it has been learned. ‘Wylie will go to Europe as ambassa- {dor from the Amateur Athletic Union to the Olympic committees of France, Germany, Holland and England, with the object of forming an international body in direct affiliation with the A. AU Commenting on his task, Wylie said it would be the object of the pro- posed federation to reach a compro- mise on certain discrepancies in the | American, Canadian and British rules of play. TULSA TAKES PENNANT. DES MOI | ®).—Tuls Towa, September 12 . With a 10-game lead over its nearest rival, Wichita, is the 1927 champion of the Western League, whose season_ended yesterday. Des Moines, the 1926 champion, finished {in th Denver, Oklahoma Cit Omaha and Lincoln | fini the three leaders in | that_orde; Wonder | 1t Say Today the of the Moon Prior to Our Fall Opening i | lished 1898 Dayvs More | of This | Special Sale | —choice woolens in such weight that [ may be worn the year around. Individual Requirements Up to Other Grades Mertz & Mertz Co. Inc. - SuITS 52750 Advance Showing of 1342 G St. N.W. Tailored to Meet Your Value Proportionate Reductions in Fall Styles )imit fixed as to the number of games to he played. An account of the play will be broadcast by radio for the benefit of the Argentine chess fans, A purse of $10,000 has been pro- vided. Of this amount the champion will receive a guarantee of $2,000 and the remaining $8,000 will be divided. 60 per cent to the winner and 40 per cent to the loser. MARYLAND A. C. BETTERS LEAD IN COUNTY SERIES Maryland A. C. added to its lead .n the Prince Geopges County title se- ries vesterday, overcoming District Heights, 5 to 3, in an interesting game on the M. A. C. diamond. Triangles bested Croome, 3 to 1, at Largo, and Bladensburg took Marl- boro to camp, § to 3, in other con- tests, 1927, R. J. Reynolds -hla .'hnu-ldt-..rn FIREMEN TO FORM BASKET BALL TEAM ALEXANDRIA, September 12.—Co- lumbia Engine Company of the Alex- andria Fire Department plans to place a strong hasket ball team the court this Winter. Manager Leo Deeton is coraling ma- terial. Lecky Nowland, former cap- tain of Virginia Orioles, city champs, | has been signed. on { Tiger Athletic Club has organized | a 3-pound foot ball team, to he coached by Coodles Owens of Card- inal A. C. The squad was to hold its first drill on Haydon field this afternoon at 5:30 o'cloc Pirate A. C. foot ball team has changed its name to Virginia Preps. Bill Hammond. though he has moved |to 4324 River road, Washington, will continue to manage the team, which | will compete in the 135-pound class. | Leon Riley, former Alexandria High pitcher, who won three games and | lost 4 while pitching for Norfolk of | the Virginia League since his gradu- | ation from the local school last June, will return to that team next year. St. Mary's won the Alexandria | Junior Base Ball League champion- ship yesterday, defeating Clove 13 to 7. Johnny Goetz, on the mound ye! terday for Dreadnaughts, limited St. | Mary's Celties to five hits and his| | team was an 84 victor. September workouts win back the the glare of rin at Manhasset, last night, all but one new the camp. phia last Fall. r i bags for four correspondents depa P. Flynn, ‘Then ring pitched on any training Sharke. Roy Williams, a weight, ahout th, feet” from bardment. For clip, ev; practicing dling the the night of Sept body chear viously jabs low, Dem rather with either By the Associated Press, INCOLN FIELD, complete training for with Dempeey in 1921, went into effect when the former pion worked four vicious rounds after previous point campaign or Tunney left Tunney will buzz about his ears Jack has heen PLANS FINAL TOIL UNDER BIG LIGHTS Jack Foilowing Example of Carpentier in Deciding on Secret Practice. 1 men will be allowed to watch Jack Dempsey will his tle to hea’ g lamps s those that will light Soldier Field Sep- tember 22, This radical departure from ring custom, rivaled in heavyweight fight Listory only by the absolute seclu- sion of Georges Carpentier in training ¥, for yspaperman the night of the hig rain in Philade Earlier in Jack worked lightly at the punc rounds n a and f-h ning bee” without revealing the new rture worked out by Manager Leo | Works Out Under Lights. shortly before 9 all of the newspaper men but a lone guest for the day had departed, lights | suddenly blazed up over the auxiliar p. the race tr With all but camp attaches ex a half-dozen sparring partners warn up about the ring and Dempsey ap- | peared in full fighting regalia | ighting with a_speed and vicious- | ness that exceeded anything the former title holder has displayed at | in the for rugged negi ring for The bell found Williams “out on h: the slashing attack and| badly hurt from a searing body bom- a new jab Jac emher psey crude effo his right CRETE, mid sec strict that not even newspaper weight from Giene Tunney at night and under either Dempsey whaled 1., S0 crown imilar to his fight cham- had left | the ¢ ing the “fa met our .m., when ck lawn. ‘luded, ed comebac Jac 1o middle- a round, nother round Dempsey hoxed Charley Schear of Chicago at a fa manner of kK knov on Reverting to his old bobbing, weaving style with | evaded all of rts. Pre- catching left glove or chin, and more frequently with the latter. As the pace increased Allentown | and Cummings ran a dead heat yes Joe Gans, negro middleweight, pos- sessed of a splendid left hand, took over recelving duties. Gans landed scarcely a dozen lefts and in return took “the worst lacing Jack ever gave me in all the months of train- * Dempsey finished the workkou* v opening up with every gun on Allan Cole, a Boston light-heavy- weight, who stood up under a terrific lacing less than two minutes. With the workout over, Flynn then announced that Dempsey had boxed before the newspaper men for the last time before entering the ring against Tunney. Jack will work nightly next week and finish heavy training Sun- The scribes will be admitted only for the exercise work scheduled now for every afternoon until Dempses hangs up training gloves for the fight that probably will prove the last of the former heavyweight king's career—win or lose. “The coming bout with Tunney means more than anything else in the world to both Dempsey and m. self,” Flynn said. “I cannot risk sending him into the Soldier Field ring in any but the best shape of his career. He must be the Dempsey of his greatest days, To Work With Jack Alone. “To do that I must work with Jack alone, without the distraction of news- men and ‘friends,’ who form owd of at least 500 at the most e of workouts, This move will ke him many enemies for us, I'm afraid, but I must think of the wel- fare of Jack Dempsey alone. Pledging the scribe to secrecy just | “Then there is the risk of Jack for the day, Dempsey outlined the |losing confidence when he hears of plan-he believes will lead to 1 n- | newspaper stories that ‘pan’ his ing of the laurels lost to Tunney on | fighting ability, even though we both know that practice along these new lines alone makes perfect. Every ounce of Dempsey's strength and determination is in the fight to re- gain the title. We're going to suc- ceed, but we must do it alone and re- gardless of the expense.” Flynn added that this new policy would include announcement to news- paper men at afternoon workouts of the bare happenings of the night be- re. He said Dave hade, California middleweight star and one of Demp- sey’s chief sparmates at Saratoga, would start work with the former champion tonight. U. S. RUNNERS IN DEAD HEAT, ANOTHER SCORES HALLE 12 (#).—The Schol September runners terday in the 50-meter sprint, on: of the features of the international games. The time was 5.9 seconds. Dr. Wichmann won the 100 meters in 10.7 seconds, with Cummings aec- ond, and Scholz third. Wichmann also won the 200 meters in 22.2 sec- onds, with Scholz and Cummings sec- ond and_third. Ray Conger, Illinois A. C., won the 1,500 meters in 4 minutes 17.6 seconds. MILWAUKEE, Wis.. September 12 (#).—Sale of Harry Riconda, second baseman on the Milwaukee American Association team, to Brooklyn has heen announced. Three players and an amount of cash not disclosed fig- nred in the deal. The cigarette that offers the utmost in refreshing pleasure The Camel blend of choice tobaccos makes a smooth, cool, mild, refresh- ing smoke. No special treatment for throats—Camel tobaccos don’t GENE-T0 PERFECT NEW RING TACTICS To Bar Even Manager Gibson and Writers From Work- outs Hereafter. | By the Associated Pro AKE VILLA, 11, September 12. —Secret tfraining, hidden even from Marager Billy Gibson and newspaper men, is Gene Tun- | ney's program from today on | for the remaining 10 days' prepara- tion to defend his heavyweight cham- | pionship. [ have my own ideas of training.” said Tunney “There are certain punches 1 want to perfect and the {is no use letting the entire world | know the style of attack I am going to use in the Dempsey fight. I made a study of Dempsey when he defeated Jack Sharkey and 1 intend to fight him according to the deductions I have made after seeing that fight. “Then there are other things I want to do in private, aside from boxing. I have less than two weeks before the fight, and I intend to put in a stren- uous week and take things easy for the last few days before the contest.” The champion said the secret wor out w a part of his training which | he had followed for several years. Works Hard in Heat. In midsummer heat, Gene traveled at a dizzy pace through five rounds 3 y in what may be his last public ring appearance before Septem- ber 22. More than 4,000 fans, men, women and children, the largest | erowd to see the champlon in action | since he arrived at the Cedar Crest | Club, watched Tunney speed through | two snappy sessions with Jackie Wil- | liams, and then punch Billy Vida- beck around as usual for three more, The rounds were shortened to two | minutes each because of the heat. Before the hoxing he did four full rounds with the light and heavy bags to warm up, but he went to church instead of doing his daily 5 miles on the road in the morning. Photographers Are Busy. Keen for such a great opportunity, the photographers pounced upon Bachelor Gene and had him hold the baby for several snapshots. Gene man- aged the pose without much embar- rassiaent, but he was obviously glad to hand the little girl back to her mother. - | James J. Jeffries, who came out of |retirement to lose the heavyweight jerown to Jack Johnson in 1910, also | posed for pictures with the present- {day champion, and in a private talk with Manager Gibson, he said he was |impressed with Tunney's chances to win. 1™'S5 s Gene, for he said after his |day's \corkout that he never in his lite felt more confident of winning than he does today.