The Washington times., 1926-09-21
Tunney To Dodge For
At Least S Rounds


And here, my friends, you have
the great difference between these
two battIers who meet so soon.
When we speak of brain and
Drawn. we do not mean to intimate
that either man is totally without
one Of those qualities while the
other is richly endowed with the
other.
Both men have Drawn and both
men are fairly smart. Tuney's
sn1artnees Is Of the professoria
type while Dempsey's is the Peck's
bad boy type. Each has an en-
viabIe physique and each can give
and take.
Then the only item left is the
psychological one and there Is al
ways a psychological moment in
every important fight, 1t generally
being accompanied by the lifting
of one OF the contestants hands in
victory.
Both Overtrained
AS far as the training Of thc
two is concerned, they are both a
little over trained. Each would
have been a little more ready TO
enter the ring about last Friday
night than they will be next Thurs
day. Four and five weeks. Of train
ing is too much for a ten round
fight, particularly when the pria.
cipals are the clean livers that
are Dempsey and Tunney.
ThAHy ~ l.
ton and two weeks of warming up
to perfect their eye, their aim, their
reach and their foot work would
have been plenty. But two weeks
Is not enough in which to stage the
ballyhoo and to prepare the country
for this enormous and momentous
event, which needs must have a
big blare Of trumpets and therefore
large seat sale. That is the
colorful part of planning cham.
pionship fight in the heavyweight
division and the ballyhoo ahead of
the big parade Is Just as important
as the caliope behind.
This last day in Tunney's train.
ing camp convinces US that you
can tell less about a fighter by
watching him against his sparring
partners than in almost any other
way because no sparring partner
Is going to wade into the man who
Is paying him for sparrtng, and re
man Is going to ruin his sparring
partners because he would soon
have none left.
No sparring mate In Stroudsburg
is of the same weight nor build as
Dempsey and none in Atlantic City
any way can emulate the work OF
Tunney.
Wit VS.. Brawn
The system of comparison is very
unsatisfactory and if we were
asked to give an opinion as to the
outcome based solely on the sparr-
ing partner gag, we would, ninety.
nine chances to a hundred. answer
in some such trite appropriate and
unintelligent phraseology as:
Thanks for the buggy ride"
And not that anybody cares. we
still like Dempsey. Not because he
has already accomplished what Gene
is trying to accomplish; not because
of the record books, for they will
have to have Dempsey's last sad
chapter added sooner or later any
how; but because Dempsey has a
system and fire and zest and a
wallop to his work we have seen
little semblance around here,
He Is aggressive and willing: his
challenger Mr.. Tunney. Is con-
servative and calculating. We do
not believe Dempsey will permit
any such circumspect an attitude
when he once gets Tunney within
24-foot square.
One great battle Of the present
80
much watchful waiting. While
Dempsey was not in that battle,
he never adopted the slogan as a
war anthem in or out Of uniform.
Other observations OF Kirk Mil.
fer, Times sporting. editor, Will
he found in today'S sporting sec
ton under the title Of his daily
coIrmn, 'Today's Sportorial."