Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1927, Page 38

38 <. "SPORTS. THE EVENING TFRTIDAY.” SEPTEMBER 16, STAR. WASHINGTON, D. € SPORTSS oth Fighters Fit As Training Nears End for Battle in Chicago September 22 TUNNEY IS TEMPERAMENTAL, BUT A PLODDER NEVERTHELESS GENE HAS MELTED MORE THAN JACK Champ Is Fast and Ac\curate, but Has One Bad Habit— | Dropping Left Hand. BY JIMMY DE FOREST, Femous conditioner o traoer of Jack Dempses Copsright. 1 in all countries by North American Newspaper Alliance.) HICAGO, September 15.—Turn- ing into the home stretch, Gene Tunney. the champion. | the chal- | appear in pretty fine ! s they could | he by the methods they have followed | ck Dempsey. and lenger. physical condit n. as fit in_training. Tunney has than Dempsey. the champion more than the chal Jenger. Tunney's work ha him down rapidly too rapidly. for he hard work to taper him down so quickly. He has pounds But he seems in good form. He savs that he feels fresh, and is in the pink of condition. Tunney is fast. He is accurate. He | hoxes well. 1 am sure that when he | is put to it in the big fight, he will show even hetter than the best he has exhibited in his training bouts. But he has had one bad habit in his box- ing. which, if he carries it into the ring. will surely get him into_trouble. We all know that Jack Dempsey can hit hard with either hand. He can hit a mighty blow w hand. Tunney has shown a marked tendency to drop his left hand at his side. A Warning for Gene. Now. he can get like that when he is playing with a sparring partner. but when it comes to the real thing in the championship fight, it will behoove Tunney to keep that left hand up where it will he of some use to him, not drop it at his side. thus making himself an easy target for a right hook or one of the straight rights Dempsey can murder a man with. 1 like the way Gene goes at the hig | bag. The champion doesn't fry any | fancy stuff here, but just tears in and | fights the bag. Tunney m hoxer, but 1 have a suspi be only a with the best of them. Tunney has more ‘“barrel” than Dempsex. By that I mean that he doesn’t taper in at the waist as much as the challenger. He looks as if he could take a walloping about the body, and there is no doubt by this time in anybody's mind where Dempsey is going to center his attack. In his recent workouts, since he suffered the cut eve and had the consequent lay-ofi, Tunney has been praciicing for speed and accurcy in hitting. He also is doing quite a bit of footwork, and herein lies his big | Gene will need plenty of foot- against Demp: to move around. Tunney does not move back and forth in straight lines. Anybody who does this is doomed to sample some terrific wallips in the ring with Dempsey. But Tunney circles about, and in this way prevents a straight rushing at- fack from being very effective against im. 3 IU's a case first of catching him and then trying to measure him. Or of catching him and then steadying vourself. Where a man simply keeps hacking up without circling, all you have to do is to catch up t> him and let your punches go. There bound to land on him somewhere. But a circling target is one you have 1o “tag,” not merely catch. Eye May Trouble Tunney. 1 gave that injured eye of Tunney's the once-over and. while it is heal- ing as well as could be expected under the stress of boxing I am not so sure it won't give him trouble when he faces Dempsey, especially if Dempsey gets any kind of a smack at it in the early rounds. It will not do Gene any good in any case, for I think that when he gets into the ring he will be anxious o protect the eve against being re- opened, and so will be too much on the defensive, In a way this will be a good thing for Tunney, for 1 think his road to victory lies in a defensive battle at the start and through sev- eral of the early rounds, just as he fought in Philadelphia. I suspect, however, that he will find a much more formidable adversary in froni of him this time. However, Gene is supremely confi dent that he will win. He has had a :ittle the better of it over Dempse: when it comes to sparring partner: although both the champion and th challenger could be a whole lot| better off in this respect. I said some time ago that I didn't think Tunney's left jab was as good today as it was when he fought Tom Gibbons. I have not seen anvthing since then to make me change my opinion. MATCH FOR CHESS TITLE TO BE STARTED TONIGHT titleholder, will make the first move in the world chess championship when the series starts at 7 o'clock this eve- ning. His opponent is Alexander Alekhine of Russia. The drawingzs were made by Presi-| dent De Alvear, the champion get- ting the white: HOLLYWOOD, Calif., September 16 (). —Willie Davies, Charleroi, Pa., flvweight, who already has one n ot gage on the Ayweight crown, which the California Boxing Commission is to award to the winner of the tourna ment now in prozress, will attempt te make it two straight tonight, when he meets Johnny a scheduled 19-round 1match heve. i L RRE M Studebaker “Dictator”— Fully Phone Pot. 5718 hoxers and former | pelted” away more | he heat here affected | thinned | perhaps just a trifle | as not done enough | weated off several | h his right | way with a thing | DEAR S\R-YOUR AMBIGUOUS EPISTLE AT HAND- WE. DESIRE TO REFUTE YOUR OBNOXI0US INSINUATIONS WHICH ARE INDUBITABLY BASED UPON UNETHICAL. il RECEWED A LCT y OF WCRD, (@D @ LEARNIN - fi = B G-EHE WAS ONCE EMPLOVED JAS A STENOGRAPHER—AND SAM TO GET ABOUT 10N OUT OF FIGHT oo UNCI A MIL | tions from hring FRELIMINALY those | weight, the topliners. > || TONEY_Of dllars of the ich also S 10 BENNY LEONARD s Sicdia o il option of of his conquest is 1in INTC “BIG N TIME WHEN HE FOUGHT \N ONE OF , THE"PRELIMS BEFORE THE DEMPSEY— CARPENTIER He He pnt two rounds on the lizht bz TLOS A Jut PING CRTEISH! 1 HE'S GOWNG TC RUIN A FIEHT B trains method- | ieally and casi bleeding, Tunney vords ered- | said TWEEN AD STONE ), unlike TUNNEY was AFRAID { WOULD TOSS A WRENCH HARRY GREBR GAVE GENE THE HARDEST™ FIGHT™ HE EVER HAD— INCLUDING HIS BOUT™ WITH DEMPSEY AND ME hedying here today is a hetier hoxer than mpared | oy by title. He punches out with more | ing of the Capit al City Soccer L he | e; er from | cjose. Fighting in cle reasons for choosin: next day I received this dear Thornten: minute talk every into instant Enjoy your One thing mhiey stepped u lis- | if they landed. all right. It may he ard you com- that Gene i< ving to inure himself the 'to body punchin easy are liable to spoil fighter on earth never cor a question then whether later > UPT | (). —With his teeth knocked out. his ion that if | he has to. Gene can fight and mix it | He will have | NOS AIRES, September 16| ) ose R. Capablanca of Cuba, the | McCoy of Cleveland in | e e Get the New ; REDUCED ~ PRICES Now in Effect on All Models of STUDEBAKER The Studebaker “Commander” will out-speed, out-climb, out-live!—any other automcbile made, selling under $3,000! Make us prove it! Studebaker “Commander”—Fullly Equipped and Dy Equipped and Delivered, $1.450 JOSEPH McREYNOLDS, Inc. 1636 CONN. AVE. STUDEBAKER BUILDING 14th and R—Phone Pot. 1631 BY THORNTON FISHER. REENWICH Village is provincial. Flanked by aring elevated systems and burrowing subways. skirted and shadowed by towering skyscrapers. the once proud, aristocratic village rapidly is succumbing to the resistless in- trusion of trade and pretenders to art. The curious, low-roofed stables of McDougall Alley no longer house thoroughbred horseflesh nor shelter the latest models in gay coaches. Artists, writers, idlers and dreamers have transformed the quaint structures into studios and paint and speak things that perplex the old inhabitant Damp, dark, unventilated cellars, lighted dis. mally with tallow candles, are referred to as “The Rabbit Hole,” “Devil's Den” and “The Blue Cs Belligerent at first, thé old-timers at last have resigned themselves to the inevitable and accept the new order of affairs which they no longer can control. In this colorful environment James Tunney was born years ago last May. He still lives in the same house, and probably will re- main there. Until a vear ago his me was listed in the telephone directory, but since that Septem- ber night 12 months past only his intimates can reach him by phone. In this there is no attempt to “high-hat” the public, for only champions know what the price of glory is. For some reason, boxing champions are assailed on every hand by beggers, ‘“phoney-stock” salesmen and other nuisances. How He Became “Gene. Tunney was named James, and not the well known “Gene. A young brother of Tunney when a baby was unable to pronounce the name “James,” and fell into the habit of calling the present cham- pion “Gene.” The appellation has remained. By one who has known Gene Tunney intimately for eight years, it can be said that much that has been written about him either has been exaggerated or misleading, unintentionally perhaps. He is neither a purveyor of “50-cent words” nor a gentle, soft-hearted fighter. He learned to scrap in the Marines. He began to develop as a boxed in the Marines, although he had been exchanging punches among the simon-pure around New York since bovhood. He won a mediocre rating as an amateur among the hoys’ clubs in the city, .and never had considered the sport one in which he eventually would scale the crest and snare a for- tune. / It was not, as a fact, until Gene went abroad with his division that he seriously took up the game. Any one who has witnessed an in- terservice boxing contest knows that such matches are slam-bang affairs. Gene promptly set about to learn how to defend himself. That he does not bear a mark is testimony to the fact that he learned the lesson well. He became so pro- ficient that he won a service cham- pionship over there. It was the acquisition of that title which urged him to enter the profes. sional ranks upon his return home. And then I met Tunney for the first time. Tall, strapping, a good-looking though not handsome fellow, Gene did not promise much. A good amaetur, perhaps, but not the sort to mix it with the rough boys fc mone He weighed -about 175 pounds and was 21 vears old. He knew just enough alout hoxing to evade "a potential knockout wal lop. but not enough to hazard a risk in the ring with a wise fighter. “I'm going to learn this husi- ress,” said Gene to me back in those days. i ered, $1.69% Gl Pier the “big time,” and Gene disposed of him in three rounds in Jersey Roberts was ‘so badly scared before the bell rang that he almost when Tunney's then uneducated fist breezed by the Staten Islander’s beak. Then followed Ed Kinley, who as stopped in five rounds: I an, one round; Jeff Madden, bu his pr card for the Dempse: hattle, Tex Rickard ar Tunney against a Canadian named Dempsey, the cham- nteed the sum Tunney for his per- formance that afternoon probubly much as $1 was grateful that there real a Santa Claus, the million-dollar receive next week. Always Had Confidence. Soldier Jones. pion, had been guar: of $300,000. received as On the contrar the words off. against Jones ldier out in Boyle's Tunney began to local reputation. mora knockouts with C blown over nchman’s haymaked At any In 1919 he succeeded in getting match with a third-rate name of Bob Pierce. less than two rounds iene knocked out Whitey Allen in two rounds. 'ban was the next victim and he by the e staved The follow- Jimmy Mon round. Al nd heavy croomed for o. three, and mith, two. These contests are ment show that Gene was a_quic isher, although none of these oppo- more than a ham-and- ned to fin- some circumstance, Gene had astute eye of “Doc” Bagley, who was managing a string of boxers, among them of ithe best liminary Carpenti Contrast this with purse he is to 3 met Gene that fternoon just as he was tering Boyle's Thirty Acres. Smil- confident, he called de and whispered, “I'll be in there in a main bout some stated boastfuily. he rather lau, He knew he v from such en- preliminary bout scheduled to He knocked rounds. but the ating “the to follow paid little victory. time” debut at achieve He accumu- “Dumb Dan’ who was managing Bat- tling Levinsky, hegan to ballyhoo light-heavyweight champion of America,” for which the loquacious Daniel received loud and raucous chuckles. had crossed gloves first appearance® in this fourth round with Bat in 1920 one of the the breeze that subjected him to a reclining posture in the ring that evening. though the victor for ( pentier meant for the Frenchman “light-heav. championship of the world Bat ate, r weight " Mer- still re- title, even ©A.S &Co.,128 If fashion | youd change your garters oftener PARIS GARTERS NO METAL CAN TOUCH vou Time for a fresh pair? ’ ne heavyweight ead he met Firpo de which of the Almost any sort DE PAOLO' TRAVELS FAST. | natural plensure of eatin CHARLOTTE. N. C., S¢ 1 shattered the speed record of the a-quarter bowl in | riding. ran into a meat truck belong- 3 seconds for a speed of 138 miles |ing to Armour & Co., against whom the action is brought. 1333-37 14th St. Main 5780 md the mile-an ont with dispatch ness—the only fighter, by the way, to score a knockout over the impreznabie Johnny Dundee. nged to pit the, that BIG oun;of)fi nms_cnnn mcKARD’is RE>LATIVE7$_ I AT O I WANTTOSEEFIGNT it don't rain tonizht Chicago is prom- ised the busiest program of outdoor card since the | By the Associated Pres ized in JHlinois. | CHICAGO. Sept are 15 four-round matches | Josenh Portes K. ¢ with My Sulivan. €t. Paul.| fore,” Tex Rickard ha wpie Tremble, Chicazo welter- and his cousins and his au v ail want to see the | elass is ineluded in the 65 younds | pext Thur: ¥e scheduled Rie d. visiting the old how "y of his father. Springfield, HL. o fe b, met many lonz-1 1 them all ti ts mnex spec the to the Dempsey sh of other was ised compiimentaries rela oiei SIS tives sent Tom Rickard. a cousin. as g | 2 5 a commitee ne to get the fickers L BY BENNY LEONARD. Early tedav Cousin Tom re AKE VILLA. Tl September | pursning Cousin George Tex for 1 was fortuna to 20 free pastehoards glimpse of Gene Tunney e of his workonts here ves YOUTH%UL BOXER DIES get in ¢ rda 1 AW = ek wiseine ani | AFTER BEING FLOORED » ronnds each aheck for ¥ september 16 (#), of | ami tavo rounds of hard work en the —Harold Williams. 17-yvear-old in | heavy Iag. died in a hospital here followir his was the first time T have scen | failure to revive after collapsi the rush- | Gene in training since he won the | the first round of a tuled three | title and really the first time that I round hout with Jimmy Blake at Fel il pave od look at him since | Williams was floored by h to v to him in Philadel- | the head soon after the epening I where he won his champion- |rang. His skull was fractured. No He 1 it to say here and | arvests have been made, but the d Tucation. and his | phow that Gene looked . He trict attorney's office announced ar nt looked better than T expected to see investigation was under way One him after reading of the reports of Spectators questioned by police <3 down- | the workouts that have heen left un- | Blake was blameless and that the concern done by both the champion and his |fishtss were evenly matched. sene | ek lienger. — ns The Gene Tunney that I saw in the SOéCERISTS TO MEET. the one that 1 saw train at Specula- | Officers will he elected and a « v the fights that won him the | stitution drawn up tonight at a m e. He ties up his opponents in | to be held in Room 2 of the District e. of course, | Building, at § o'cleok. Teams wish sey’s great habits | inz to join the Recreation Leazue will I noticed particu- ther at 7:30 o'clock at the same larly was that Tunney did not try | place | to protect his body against hlows. 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