The Washington times., 1926-09-21
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ANSSAANAAtA%A AANAA AASh ~N-0~'S
something Of a vaudeville perfor-
nance with one man on a high.
wheel bicycle being pursued by an
other afoot.
What Mr.. Tunney anticipates
doing should the gentleman afoot
overtake him befora the five rounds
are concluded. is something you
may make your own books on
not being of the gambling persua-
sion, we are unable at this moment
to offer any advice or suggest any
odds which might be proper in
such a contingency.
Whether he has reached the con-
clusion alone or whether he has
been told by advisers, Mr.. Tunney
knows his worst chance to come
out of that ring in the role OF
champion Is to stand up and fight
Mr.. Dempsey.
Besides Mr.. Tunney has never,
in all of his professional ring his
tory, which embraces only few
years at best, been known to stand
up, give It and take 1t in the good
old.fashioned way made famous by
Jim Jeffries and Tom Sharkey. On
the contrary Mr.. Tunney Is the
evasive, cautious, careful soul who
is ever alert for an opening which
sometimes never comes.
Fight After Fifth
In the general scheme OF things
which has been evolved up here in
the Pocono fastness with such wise
heads as may be summoned from
far and near, the plan after five
rounds, in case the mouse is Lot
in the trap, is for Gentleman
Gene to haul to and begin taking
random pokes at Mr.. Dempsey's
proboscis, stomach, chin or any
other protruding portion OF his
anatomy that may be unguarded
even for an instant.
If, after five rounds of Charles
toning, the champion is not ready
to cave in from exhaustion, Mr..
Tunney will gladly gamble with
him for the crown and step up ana
give il or take it, as the case may
be in the aforementioned manner
adopted decades ago by John l..
Sullivan and Jake Kilrain..
This is to be a comparatively
short fight for championship
purse, one of the very shortest
schedules ever mapped out for such
an event, and if the half way
point is reached without success on
the part of the challenger than a
sudden right about face will be
executed, so far as Tunney is con-
cerned, and for the first time In
his life he will try to exchange
sock for sock.
At this moment Tunney will be
what may best be termed as des-
perate. He will know then that
Dempsey's tenacity is not under
mined by the last three years of
so-called fancy living. He will
realize full we'll at this moment
that the crown is not to be swept
lightly from it's present place and
that after all the calculating and
philosophizing about how to become
a champion has been completed,
the only true way to get anything
that is worth getting will be to
fight for it and to fight hard.
Gene a Novice
Were Dempsey a ring novice, had
he not been in the fight business
in one form or another ever since
he left the brake beams to ride in
better fashion to world champion
ship and the top of the ladder of
society along with one of America s
best known moving picture queens,
then Mr.. Tunney's figuring might
bear fruit.
But you can rest assured that a
man of the ring craft of Jack
Dempsey and his years of struggle
against every odd. is not going to
be spoofed out OF his title by almost
recruit whose very ring career
started about the lime Dempsey
won hts title--a mere begin ner who
theories that brain can completely
outwit Drawn. While Tunney Is
lheorizing Dempsey II more than
lilsc'v to do something impulsige,
as the saying goes. for Dempsey
doesn't wait to think. he acts and