Evening star., 1927-10-25
BY ED VAN EVERY.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 25.--Gene
Tunney will be completely through
with the business Of pugilism inside
Of five years.
Until the heavyweight champion OF
the world has reached his thirty-fourth
birthday he will pay strict attention
to the perfecting of his physical and
fistlc equipment, stunning all stage
or similar work of title-commer-
cializing nature. When he hangs up
the gloves for all time the conqueror
of Jack Dempsey expects to be still in
possession of his pugilistic crown, a
millionaire several times over and
then free to devote his remaining
years away from the limelight and to
such purposes as he has planned for
his future.
In addition to the above decision
which was impaired to the writer in
an exclusive interview with the cham
pion, he also had some pertinent COM
ment to make on his last match with
Dempsey.
Spurns Stage Contracts.
Tunney gave it as his opinion that
he could have got up at a count of
intimated that the motion pictures of
the fight as now being shown have
been so arranged and cut as to make
the former champion appear to the
best possible advantage.
II shall leave for the Adirondack
Mountains on Sunday" said the cham
pion, land will spend very little time
in the city from now on. When /
next defend my title I will be in bet
ter trim in every respect than ever
before.
Never again will they get me in.
volved in any more contracts for
vaudeville or any work Of that nature.
I will do nothing that will interfere
in the finest of possible physical At
ness. I have learned two lessons from
my first year as champion. One Is
that sage work and that sort of thing
is best left alone. Another Is that
you must never go into the ring with
your passions aroused.
"Anger over the unsportsmanlik ke
tactics resorted to by Dempsey in his
open letter attack and the fact that
a dear friend stood to gain $4,000 on
my winning by a knockout caused me
to deviate somewhat from my unusual
cold attack, which Is necessary If one
is to have the requisite perfect COM
mand of oneself.
Could Have Risen Sooner.
'But even though my anger resulted
In flashes of careles 'ness. / could have
got up after J had been dropped by
Dempsey even If the referee had count.
ed so quickly that nine would only
have been the equivalent to four, and
no matter how quickly would have
been forced to come up, would still
have been In better condition than
Dempsey.
isn't it a strange condition of af-
fairs that when a man has been
knocked out, as some OF the experts
claimed happened to me, nevertheless
the man-kilhng Dempsey, with 2 min
utes of the round left in which to
finish me, could not move forward
as quickly as could move sideways
and backward, and isn't it evenamore
remarkable that of the IL or Is blows
struck during the remaining 2 minutes
Of that round. oil should have been
landed by me?
However, il is inmaterial to me
what they say or write about me or
my contests. I will be ready to take
on the best nun to be brought forward
each year. 6 will always do what
can to elevate the game while have
anything to do with it, and I know
that the real public Is with me. So
they can tamper with the pictures or
do anything else they want. Boxing
has been too good to me for me to
resent any little unpleasantness that
crops up. If some wish to misunder.
stand me, why I am used to difhcul'
ties.
II have worked too hard to get
where l am to be wrought up about
anything very much. In the first
fight with Dempsey I had to battle
in vain to get the chance for the title
in my own city. In the second fight
knew perfectly well that Rickard
was partial to Dempsey.
Says Dempsey Is Overrated.
tBut then Tex has q mistaken idea
as to the former champions value as
a gate attraction. He couldn't draw
$500 900 in New York against a con.
tender like Bill Brennan; and how
near to a million did he draw with
Miske? Was it Dempsey that drew
the more than O. million land a. half
gate with Carpenter? Maybe the
latter had something to do with the
gate, and maybe Tunney had some.
thing to do with the fact that my two
matches with Dempsey drew far be.
yond $3.000.0 900.
''And still Rickard has the pictures
play up Dempsey as best he can. Do
the pictures, as now exhibited. show
that every blow landed in the seventh
round after I got up Off the floor was
struck by me? And how many such
blows are actually shown? have
not seen the edition now being shown,
but IL you can find less than IL or Is
punches being landed on Dempsey
after I have been knocked down, then
you may know that you are looking
on Aim that has been tampered with.
However. I shall go on about my
fistic affairs just the same as before.
In 1889, when I have planned to re-
tire, I will have been boxing profess
aionally tor 10 years. I wiz haze no