New Britain herald., 1926-08-25
(BY JOE WILLIAMS)

B JoEs Nll4IlA AoJ
 Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)
 The first good man Gene Tunncy met as q professional beat him. That man was Harry Greb, the rings most celebrated Good Time Charlie" Greb won on points and became the American light heavy weight champion. You might say he also won on jolts, butts, rolling falls and drop-kicks. It was that kind of a fight.
 Naturally d foul fighter, when in the mood, Greb fought particular ly furious fight that night against the inexperienced Tunney, roughing him in the clinches, hitting at the break and putting whenever he pleased.
 Not that he had to resort to such tactics to win because at the time he was obviously Tunneys superior, but the referee, Kid Mcfarland, was 0 tolerant soul and Greb seemed to realize he could run the gamut of fistic crime without official inter- ference.
 Tunney was severely battered in this fight. His ear was cut, his lips were split and his nose was frac- tured, During theclosing rounds he bled with great fluency and when the final bell sounded he was, a tragic looking figure.
 His Last Defeat
 The fight was held in the old Madison Square Garden. It was Tunney's first defeat and his last. The metropolitan papers were none too gracious to him the following morning. They damned his ring potentialities with such left-handed 1atteries as-'A good strong boy who can take it but hardly cham pionship prospect"
 Tunney then took on Charlie Weinert, the Newark Adonis, and won a 12-round decision. A lot of the boys had been bouncing Vein ert on the carpet and Tunney ex- pressed his private disappointment that he had not been able to score knockout.
 T went back to the gymnasium and tried to figure out why I hadn't stopped Weinert," relates Gene. "I fought the whole fight over again both in my mind and on my feet. shooting punches at an imaginary opponent. I resolved to get another match with him and concentrate on body attack"
 In the first fight with Weinert Tunney had concentrated on head attack. Weinert had consistently blocked his left hooks and right crosses to the jaw. And in doing so had left himself fairly wide open for crashing body blows a weakness Tunney had ignored.
 They were matched again and Tunney sent Weinert sprawling on his back in three rounds. The campaign, conceived and carefully worked out in the murky silences of the gymnasium, had done the trick. Here was S triumph for applied study as distinguished from what the ring knows as fighting in- stinct."
 It was at this time or thereabouts that Doc BagIey typical Broad wayite, began to weaken on Tunney. There was not enough color to Tun- ney to slake Bagley's thirst for the theatricalism. The promoters weren't elbowing each other out Of the way trying to sign him either.
 So when Billy Gibson, persuaded by two of Tunney's friends, came to Bagley and offered him $5,000 for the reformed stenogfapher's con- tract, Doc executed q graceful curt sey and invited Gibson to establish a new speed record in laying the dough on the line.
 Made Benny Leonard
 Thus Tunney became the second heavyweight of importance to come under the management of Gibson, the man who had previously taken Benny Leonard as raw. unskilled youth and brought him along by easy degrees to the lightweight championship of the world.