The Washington times., 1928-07-28
By Davis i Walsh

BY LAWS y WhAslA
NEW YORK, July Is.
Ccrroborative testimony pur-
porting to support the conten.
fion that Gene Tunney, having
finished all unfinished worsteds
ii the heavyweight division
might be about TO retire TO z
life Of ease and great refine
n,ent was advanced today By
several authorities, including
will Gibson, the young man :
manager at odd or maybe
unique moments.
NiI,iam who Ii an authority OIl
4his subject and just about a.
others AYERS that he Wouldn ps
sa,rbrised at all Il the gentleman
decided 10 withdraw himself from
r,,srency. samuel III. Pryor one
AZ runners millionaire associates,
sa understood to be expressing
much the saIns idea. But
yhere was 4 negative vote entered
a tIna matter under discussion ana
FIhe funny thing about this was tnat
II was cast by the boy friend AIM
Il have no idea Of retiring, he
Informed one 81 his closest trlends
~ the BiItnnore yesterday. g 2
what other line of endeavor conln
hope to make 4 half million dol
lars every year.
And right there the sponsors
IL his apparently unsuspected
refirnnAenf point ont, II where
they make their story stand up.
Tmnney. they say. won't make
: half million dollars net year
- any other, unless elsal-
LONGER with considerably more
nI,ISlic anrDeal than Tom Heeney
Il deyeloped in the meantime.
T1srraIlv Won do trick like this
with fI1e same facility with
rvI,iel, v0n swallow 4 mega &
plloae, starting from the wrong
end.
Anvhow, the Tunney pa1lbearers
cav that, with no fighters to tight
and. thus no money to acquire. the
champion has little idea Of fighting
next year in spite Of the fact Inat
he has signed TO do 80 for Hickara.
IN fact, they point to the stralgnt.
percentage nature Of that document
AZ proof that Tunney means go
make himself absent from pupiic
view and only, penned the papers
with the idea Of protecting him
self in the event that chaHeneei
with appealing ways and = winning
nature popped out OF the some dOor-
way on dark night.
Just at this moment, there NAre
AMY q few OF the museum pieces
Pauline. Sharl<ey or LoughraIl--
who might be sent in there with
Tunney next year without laying
themselves open to charges OF mis-
representation Not one OF the three
figure to get Tunney his hslf mil.
lion, either.
But stay; likewise pause, wait,
gesifaie and Be lost. There ".
~ was 4 fellow they call Jack
Dempsey. At least there is some.
falnr strangely familiar about
The name and. II 4 remember
correctly, the last time he spoke
Tor public ufferance, he said he
was through or due. Maybe ne
said both. for he would - the
slightest prOv0catiOn.
lie they are going to take the
alpaca off the old antique or antle
rext year, Brother Tunney could
eign ali the contracts at As percent
that we're placed before him and
finish ahead of any guarantee UP
10 $3.50 900. But probably we are
getting yards beyond the situation.
The good man himself processes L.
noranas about all plans for the i'm
mediate future and even indicates
establishment that anyone should
imagine he was concerned about
the matter of building up another
challenger.
"Challenaer?' he echoed with
4 vast disbelief Of his own ears.
why should dorry about chai-
lenger? That is something Tor
Richard to worry about.
But, as q matter OF fact, much OF
moment depends on the type Oh
man who may come forward to
challenge. On this g0ssa mer thread
or circumstances probably hangs
the question Of whether Gene Tun-
ney will fight again next year,
the year after or never again. It
Is difficult TO believe that the last
condition il the one that will be
fulfilled.