The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-30


per cent--even Monta Bell
would concede that point.
Up to the moment we saw the
pictures, we were under the i'm.
preston Tunney had been hit
by two lefts and one right.
Many and varying newspaper
accounts had this number of
blows that Dempsey landed on
Tunney's features more and less
than three. BY actual count
IN the slow-moving pictures,
Dempsey hit Tunney exactly
eight times, no less than six of
them being rained right to the
jaw and landing solidly, Tun-
ney being on the ropes, couldn't
get out of the way. One blow
even slid off Tunney's head as
he sunk to a sitting posture.
The slow movies show plainly
Dempsey going to his own cor
ner and then on the assistance
of Referee Dave Barry, sliding
along the ropes to a neutral
niche. Barry then returned to
Tunney, who, by this time was
looking at his corner and who
fixed his gaze consciously and
intelligently on Barry as the
latter's arm came down with
the count of one. Tunney looks
in these slow pictures, to be
knowing exactly what was going
on and he kept his eyes fixed
on that referees pendulum
swing until nine.
When he got up and did his
famous war dance, a war dance
which any Indian tribesman
might well emulate, it seems
reasonable to suppose, if Tun-
ney had presence Of mind enough
to turn his head slightly, blink,
and to look to his corner for
instructions, and then to watch
so accurately the actions Of the
referee, that he could have, had
the count started from the time
he sunk to the floor, pulled him
self to his feet when the ortho-
dox count commence, which
even the Dempsey hackers agree,
wasn't more than the fifth sec
ond after the Touchdown.
"He would still have been
weak enough for Dempsey to
floor him" you may argue.
Yes, that may be so, and Demp-
sey, who was all in in the sixth,
if not in the fourth, when he
took a terrific FASTING in the
head, would have had just that
much less time in which to re-
cuperate his strength for this
finishing business. There are
lots of arguments by and for
each party. If you inspect
these pictures carefully Demp-
sey's incessant rabbit punching
was no tribute to him and
counted heavily against him.
One should say that that bad
business just about counter
acted, in the mind of the true
sportsman, Tunney's backing
away after he got to his feet
in the seventh.
If Tunney didn't fight his
way out of the seventh, then
Dempsey surely didn't fight his
way fairly q dozen times dur
ing the engagement when he
to the rabbit punches.
Let us call their conduct "even
Stephen" in those instances and
then Tunney will have a big
margin on points. If you ask
us, Tunney has fought Denp-
sey twenty rounds in the last
year and has won seventeen
of them.
We didn't give Dempsey q
round in Philadelphia, and we
gave him only three in Chi
cago. Some Of those three,
outside the seventh, were called
draws by many, but we'd
rather given an even round to
somebody than throw it out
entirely, so gladly the doubt
full ones go to Dempsey.
Incidentally from the fight
aftermath we have been reading
in the Canadian papers, we
should not be at all surprised to
see Dempsey and Tunney meet
again next year. We still
believe Dempsey should hang up
his tools Of trade but the fight
business isn't always conducted
along the lines of what should
and what shouldn't be done.
Tex Richard knows there is
doubt about the last fight in
the minds of many. New York
was jealous because Philadelphia
got the first Tunney-D Dempsey
right, and this jealousy wasn't
reduced in the least when
Chicago got the second one.
Gotham, therefore, is just about
ripe for the final and conclud-
ing series of Examinations twixt
Tunney and Dempsey next
September in the new outdoor
stadium which Richard has an
and there will be many
a sucker in the enclosure that
night from Washington, Balti-
more, Richmond, Hagerstown,
Mullins and way stations.
Suckers who will tell you today,
in spite of the happenings of
the last two Septembers, that
Jack Dempsey is q better man
than Gene Tunney.
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