New Britain herald., 1926-12-21

fin revising his opinion of Jack De- laney Bridgeport battler. who holds the title of light heavyweight cham pion of the world.
 yust a few days ago. Tunney gave the opinion that Jack Dempsey would have to hit Jack Delaney only once and there wouldn't be any more fight. Tunney then went on to say that he would knock Dempsey out the next time they met. It was a case of Dempsey is the greatest fighter in the world except one and and that happens to be me.
 Last night, Jack Delaney took Bud German, considered the tough est test for any fighter entering the heavyweight ranks, into camp by a knockout punch in two rounds. In fact. the bout was stopped just a minute and 52 seconds after the sec ond round had begun. German had been knocked down twice and was hanging on the hopes helpless when the referee stopped the fight.
 German was a sparring partner of Gene Tunney's and he has made the crack that he can beat Tunney if the two ever meet in the ring.
 Now we may be off in our deduc- tions and those packers of Tunney, who because of his war record, con- sider that he should be heavyweight champion for life. may not agree with us, but We still consider Tunney as an unknown as far as champions go.
 Tunney's supporters will ask Wasn't the fact that he beat Demp- eey enough to show that he is the greatest fighter in the world?" but in the same breath they will go on to tell you that the reason they knew that Tunney would beat the former champion was because q three years layoff hurt Dempsey so much that he couldn't come back.
 Tunney, according to them, is the greatest fighter in the world simply because he beat Dempsey who was nothing more than a shell after a three years layoff. Of course, he has beaten others, too, Tommy Gibbons, for instance, but that is neither here nor there with regard to Tunney- Delaney match. Gibbons was not the same fighter of a few years back. Tunney beat Carpenter also, another wreck.
 Looking back over the flistic pages. we find that Tunney hasn't met anything In the ring that has been good.
 What has Delaney done? He has knocked out Tiger Flowers twice in succession. He has knocked out Paul Berlenbach, lost a decision to him in IS rounds and then beat him for the championship in third fight. He finished Jamaica Kid in three rounds and last night, he put Bud German away in two. Besides these, he has beaten King Solomon and a few lesser lights.
 Tunney in fighting trim, weighs 1s7 pounds Delaney scales less than 175, yet, we venture the prediction that if the two ever meet, and cer- tainly Delaney has started on the right road, Delaney will be the heavyweight champion of the world.
 We have nothing against Gene Tunney except that we don't think he Is the great fighter some people would make him out to be. Then again, his supercilious attitude kind of gets under ones skin and makes 1t appear as If he is trying to ignore the greatest menace to his throne, Jack Delaney.
 Connecticut is going to have a heavyweight champion, barring all untoward accidents or illnesses. That has been Delaney's greatest hin- drance, sickness and accidents. Jack wasn't blessed with rugged consti- tuition and several times he has re- ceived serious setbacks through ill- ness.
 He is slowly overcoming this ob- stacle and his work of last night, his second fight since he won the light heavyweight championship from Paul Berlenbach, shows that he lacks nothing of his speed and punching power.
 We have seen Delaney in action on several occasions and though We haven't seen Tunney we are inclined to think that we would lay our bets on the Connecticut boy. We will be interested in seeing whether Tunney has any answer to the riddle that Jack Delaney set up for him last night. Bud German, never knocked out before, put to sleep in two rounds by the pride of the Nutmeg State.
 Pete Reilley, Delaney's manager.