The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-07-27
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that Tunney has everything 10 make
him as great as only handful q
people recognized him To b. two
years asc when he won his title
from Jack Dempsey.
Tslnney's Cup Runs Over
YES, Tunney's cup IS running over
now. He's put over the killing and
blood extracting punches which
mark him Is man among men.
Whereas. up until today only n
minority had this ullassun1iIlg
AdonissIiks young man Of SO sum
nlers on pedestal pugiIist icai ly you
viii now find No doubters No SCOT.
fers. no walters Gene Tunney has
heaped Goals 81 ashes upon their
heads. The world today urderst ands,
like it never understood anything
before. thai Gene Tunney Is every
inch the champion Of Sullivan Cor
beft and Fitzsi1nrnons combined.
How he did keep that left hand
nelxed rs Ieeneya face! It WAS
enough ia make anybody mad. That
fellow Heeney couldn't do q thing
nut what His ja.w stopped 3 LEFT. u
you've ever seen cat paw a mouse,
linen YOU can visualize the annoy
ance Mr.. EIeenev must have felt. We
cal il nothing short of aggFav atinE.
III ANYBODY prodded us a. much with
& long human poker as Tunney did
Heeney III those 81 minutes wet pc
inclined never To speak ~ them
again as long as we lived.
Ana neither WAS Gene Tunney s
,.irIat arm tied behind his back.
Rather the contrary. il Heeney
doesnst see i doctor today about
thnse blows ne took under the
,heart then it'll be because ne
doesn't wake mp. That's al.
Heeney Has Courage
10 Gene Tunney II looked just
a. though NE WIS doing another
summers work and was In a bit Of
4 hurry to get It over with. He
hasn't taken hard breath yet.
he didn't begin to perspire freely
until the seventh round. And his
firhting trunks didn't reveal that
dampness around the thighs until
that round.
az he was, Iunney
wasn't 4 whit more courageous than
was the man which the British
Empire sent us to take that which
belongs to an American. KING an-
nails show no more stOnt.llea
fighter than Tom Heeney, d Gls-
hnmrne. King county, Australia.
He said he would SO down with
Ms boots on. and he did Tor 9 sec.
nrld there at the closing OF the
tenth round. IL he wasn't I'M.
conscious when his seconds carried
him back to the ring, then he was
playing 'possulll.
Jack Dempsey, in his palmiest
day. never showed more intestines
than Tom Heeney displayed. This
Is not to compare Dempsey with
Heeney. IL Heeney knew as much
about lighting in q mile as Demp
sew does In minute, he might be
IN there yet stopping Gene Tun-
neys artfuI stabs.
Licked Standing Up
YES. Heeney, has courage, but lac
doesn't know what to do with Il.
r. was licked standing up and
didn't know IL. He was out on his
feet. but his seconds wouldn't tell
him SO and Referee Eddie Forbes
mt OFF the painful notification cere-
monies until the latest minute pos.
sihle.
tough guy, who doesn't know what
IL "a with his strength. He would
make good bartender in some
circus sideshow. We believe he
co,,Id twist 4 street ! car track
around his neck and form II inlu
the shape OF pretzel.
Ha NAV 20 to doing that. He'll
never in the world be able to lick
! smart napier like Tunney.
Heeney fights as we schooIboys
out around Lanham. Md, used to
IA III was the school yard ethics
that anybody who ducked a blow
nos yellow. We were supposed to
lake It. and give 1t back little
I,order. but as for ducking. well,
only the girls did that.
Heeney's Unscientific Methods
And speaking OF girls. that's Just
the way Tom Heeney fights. There
q no rhyme or reason TO his
erantic fIurries. He simply flares
N and homes something happens.
n usually dOes-t0 him. But all OF
HE lInorthodox mawing and paving
nea ne nothing to Tunney. He stop
mad most of Heeney's poorly aimed
thrusts with his shoulder or his
gloves. 800.
WAS Heeney's best, full dozen
solid blows didn't land ON theG
81 4 = II