The Washington herald., 1922-01-16
GENE TUNNEY NOW
WANTS CHANCE AT.
MONSIEUR GEORGES.
Fulton Out of Running as
Result of Poor Show
ing Against Madden.
BY WESTBRooK PEGLER.

- . S@NOS SN
NEW YORK. Jan. l5.-Young
Gene Tunney, the first OF the army
trio-Tunncy. Rob Martin and Bob
Roper-to amount 10 much in the
rinE. will go right after Georges
Carpenter. Tunney doesn't claim
TO be bad medicine or tough tur-
key. but hghting is his business
and he just reckons he might bust
the chin strap that holds the
worlds light heavyweight diadem
firm on the Frenchman's blond
coiffurc. He doesn't say he would
he reckons he might.
Frank Bagley. manager of Tun-
ney. meets Tex Rickard again Mon
day to discuss the chances Of put
ting Gene into the ring with Car
pentier, perhaps at Jersey City
next July 4. Anyway, Tunney will
send a personal cablegram to Car
pent'er Monday demanding that
Georges give him a fight for the
worlds light heavyweight cham
pionship.
Tunney got s4.s76 for defeating
iSSN INC udllitE ItNSlNC
$4,000. incidentally. Tunney has
decided to be known no longer as
Gene but as James J. Tunney. his
true name. He likes the sound OF
James J., for IL smacks of Corbett
and Jerfries.
That was very progressive
fight program in the old Garden
Friday night when TUnney finally
retired Old Bat Levinsky as the
American light heavyweight cham
pion. and hartley Madden got a
draw with Fred Fulton. 1t cleared
up several doubts about the heavy
weight division.
Tunney Has strong Claim.
Tunney now has a far stronger
claim to a fight with Carpenter
than Tom Gibbons has. although
Tommy is matched to battle the
Frenchmsn sometime this winter
or next spring for Tex Rickard.
Gibbons. having signed for big
money to fight Carpenter. took to
playing the safe game-boxing set
ups for moderate money in the small
cities. He accepted" the American
light heavyweight. championship. for
getting that Levinsky. despite that
OF Carpenter in the fall OF 1920, was
still the owner OF that title.
Then Tunney, victim Of glass
knuckles. suddenly came out OF the
woods where he had been WORKING
to tougher his hands and build up
his health The Marine saw the op-
portunity to take the title. and he
took 1t with almost casual ease. Thus
Tunncy has slipped in before Glib
bons. for all Of Tommy's many bat
ties in the West and his long strinG
of knockouts over unknown plungers
But assuming that the Carpenter
Levinsky fight was on the square
Carpenter just played with Levinsk =
and beat him to the ropes in the
fourth round. Tunney used every.
thing he had to get decision over
old Bat in twelve rounds
As challenger OF Jack Dempsey.
Fred Fulton was utterly disgraced in
the bout with Madden. a light heavy
weight. 80 pounds lighter than Fred
Fulton was awful. And though Mad
den did lick him. the victor's stock
has not advanced very much. He
is a slugEer. likely to stand ur Il
anyone except Dempsey. hut likely
also TO be outpounted by the clever
light heavies.
Fulton Disgraced.
Fulton's removal leaves very little
prospective trade for Dempsey There
arc Bill Brennan. Bob Roper. Bot
Martin. now injured but hoping "a
return to the ring sometime. and
Harry Wills. the negro. whose recent
performances have been very $3.50.
But Corbett and Fitzsimmons were
light heavies who defended the heavy
weight title against real heavy
weights, and in time it may be neces-
sary TO pick another little fellow
to tackle Dempsey. They seem to
be the popular model now-Tunney,
Madden. Jack Renault. Harry Greb.
Martin Burke and Tom Gibbons. to
mention the most prominent