The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
TUNNEY WINNER
 OVER J. SMITH
Light Heavy Champ Clearly Has Best Of
 Battle

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. S.-Gene Tunney of New York, American light heavyweight champion, had all the better of his fifteen round no-decision match here tonight with Jeff Smith of Bayonne, N. J.
 For the first 1me in a career ex- tending over fourteen years of fighting in nearly every country on the globe, Smith was knocked down when he sank to the canvass in the twelfth round be- fore wicked lert hand punches to the ribs.
 The blows seemed to make Smith weak and dizzy and the first knockdown soon was followed by another more se- rious one when Smith sank to the can vas and barely was on his feet at the count of "nine."
 Tunney appeared to have the advantage in eleven of the fifteen rounds while two were Smiths and two about even. Smith weighed 1661a and Tunney, 1S9.
 Round One
 Smith was careful in the first round. He walked in on Tunney and landed left hook to the body and brought cheer from the crowd when he smashed a hard left to the champions head. Tunney got in several left Jabs to the body, and also landed light Gross to the jaw. Smith ducked celever- ly, however, and made the big fellow miss many blows.
 Round Two
 Tunney opened up the second round by getting a few light rights and lefts to Smiths face, but again missed many blows. Gene apparently was afraid of Smiths left in the break away and held tightly.
 Round Three
 Smith sped up in the round and Tunney, welcoming the open fighting, landed a hard right to Smiths head. Smith missed couple of wicked blows, but he also made the champion miss many. Tunney danced around and seemed determined to keep all the fighting at long range.
 Round Four Smith started the fourth by seeking hard left hooks to the body and head, but had to cover quickly as Tunney began landing blows on his protecting elbows and gloves. Tunney succeeded in getting inside Smiths guard with several good punches. Round Five Smith was on the defensive in the | first part of the fifth and made Tun- ney look amateurish as he ducked blows | or blocked them, although the cham | pion succeeded in landing some of his punches. They swapped hard rights near the end of the round. Tunney getting in the last blow.
 Round Six Smith bored into close quarters and got in few rights to the body with out return. Tunney soon began beat ing him to the punch, however, and badly outpointed Smith at long range. Just before the round ended Smith smashed a terrific right to the head, the hardest punch of the fight.
 Round Seven
 Smith, biding his time, landed several telling punches, once mailing a hard right to the champions chin, but Tun- ney was right back and worked a left hook to the body and many punches to the face. The blows were light, however, but kept Smith on the de- fensive.
 Round Eight 1 Smiths judgment of distance was bad, and he missed many we'll meant punches. Tunney meantime kept throw ing gloves at Smith and while Jeff caught the great majority of them on his gloves there still were many which landed. Smith got home a few hard rights to the body and a left to the head, one hooking Tunney squarely on the chin, but the blow did not seem to worry Gene.
 Round Nine
 Smith smacked Tunney two wicked left hooks in the face and rocked him with a right to the face. Another right to the face brought blood to Tun- ney's mouth. Tunney started to jig 1 around. keeping out of the way ant