The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-11
The Real Reason for Tunney's
Retiremcnt-'C'Est In
Femme
BY ALLENE SUMNER

Cleveland. Ohio. August ll::-Just
as we might have guessed. it, !
woman--c'est 10 femme-thst ex.
plains Gene Tunney's dignified and
sober exit from the ring which he
ruled as heavyweight champion Of
the world just at the time when
Dig purses were falling like the gen-
tie dew from heaven.
Only . few days after tho snort
world began asking "who Is de
cnamyun now!' dignifed announce.
ment came Of the engagement Of
the champion to Miss Josephine
Lauder Of Greenwich, Conn. heir.
ess, and = granddaughter Of George
Lauder who was associated with
the steel king, Andrew Carnegie.
she Is Junior Lacquer, . grad.
uate OF tho exclusive Finch School
1or Girls: and. all in all, 10 tho sort
OF girl whom the usual prize Nirhtar
doesn't marry. But Gene funnev
only puts 4 period with this mar.
rage to 2 prize fighting career ut.
terly unlike any other.
Now that the cats out Of the bar
and people are putting two and two
together. they surmise that the ro-
nance must all have started : wear
ago, or before Tunney's last fieht
with Jack Dempsey at Chicago.
Iunney had bought an old farm.
mouse at Greenwich, Conn. that
year. And Immediately after the
Dig tight he stepped to the radio.
Eseeted oil America, land especial.
y my good friends in Greenwich.
TO Marry and Retire
AT that time stalked Jane. 7
lunney, at his training Camp It
Cedarcrest Country Club at AZ
Villa, Ill.,, and he clearly indicstsd
when he decided to marry i" ,,o,,iJ
retire e. from the prize fight game,
Il have no prejudices toward mat.
rlmony," he said. But It ia i'm.
possible Tor q boxer to Be Z rood
family man. His entire self he.
longs to tho game while he's IN Il
and that wouldn't be fair to : wiz. !"
When pressed for specific onin.
ions on the sort Of girl he wc"id
marry. Gene SHE'D. but had this Is
say: ''''s "
I'VE would have to be mental and
spiritual and class equals. I couiS
never ret her be ashamed Of ma
ana could never feel her INV infs.
rior. She would b very feminirs
very, well educated, very comnan.
ionable, and very much = horne
woman. asking little mora ~ i;fs
tnsn ner domestic and mental IN.
eerests with her husband"
It would seem that Gene had
Mary Josephine in his mind q that
His statements on love and mat.
rimony then contrast sharply viii
what he told me . year nrevioms
leading US to believe that he fail n
iove between the first and second
Dempsey fights. N
His Former View
1t was Sept. 10, 1924. that y.r...
J: Tunney, swaddled in the Famous
blue bath robe presented him that
very day by the marines, sat On ~
veranda OF the Glen Brook club
mousse near Stroudsburg, Pa. and
reluctantly consented to emit SAGE
utterances on women.
And the kernel Of Genes phil.
osophy was
"There is neither time nor In.
clination in my busy objective and
subjective life tor that frippsry-
|
but. tell me. Mr.. Tun,ey." I
asked. rs there any one woman IN
the world anywhere, watching your
Tight with special interest 2"
mot one that I know o." came
back the answer quickly, except
my mother and sister. Of courre."
"womsn Are Mystsrious''
1T u true that you don't like
women!" ] continued.
Gene denied this IN these words,
mo. ! do not exactly follow the
belief Of Schopenhauer. l am no
uiSogyui0t. But I find than ouifa