The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-20
CHALLENGER IS
SURROUNDED BY
COLONY ESTATE
Tom Works Gut on Well.Kept
Estate in View of Rich
Followers
TUNNEY IS sCoRNED
34.Year.Old Northumberland,
Hoagland, Has Taken Lik.
ing to Thomas
TUNNEY IS SCORNED
BY HENRY L. FARRELL
(NEA SApuiea Cnn.A. yI.sA>.N

marked contrast in every way to the
mountain retreat in the Adirondacks
where Gene Tunney is secludinr
himself is the duchy-like stretch Of
seven hundred and ten acres Of pic.
turesque pastoral land where the
commemorative Tom Heeney is pre-
pairing for the approaching worlds
heavyweight championship fight.
You can spend a week around the
Tunney camp without having your
ears grated by the coarse language
OF the racket, without hearing q
mention Of the other fellow name or
a discussion of the business and with
out recalling for q moment that the
champion is not at all times and in
all his moments person who never
has lifted his hand in any motion
other than that of an oratorical
gesture.
In a Fight Camp
But once inside the imported
hedge that screens the path Of the
tourist from the feudal layout of
the Hoagland baking powder
kings you never can mistake that
you are in fight camp. It is true
the castles of the kings are fenced
off from the barn were the fight
camp is located and that the gates
are locked against trespassing even
into the kennels of q hundred thou
sand dollars worth of prize pointers
and settlers, but that fact is not
mentioned by the guides who show
the stranger around.
It is q real fight camp, one next
to the heart Of the old timer, that
young Mr.. Hoagland has permitted
to be pitched on soil never before
defiled by the hoof marks ,of prize
fighter.
isn't this a sweller joint than
Tunney's?" you are asked the mo-
ment you step inside the yard
fenced off for the fight camp. You
are forced, even after q casual
glance, to admit that it is .
sweller joint. And after you have
are forced, even after 4 casual
roundkeeper Of the estate to use !
secret door into the other part Of the
estate you wonder whatever influ-
enced the duke to turn over even the
barn for such purpose.
You don't have to wait long for
the reason to be volunteered.
Hoagland Likes Tom
"Mr. Hoagland never saw q fight
BEFORE" you are told. "He's only "a,
he's not married and he's worth
about $2O,O00,000. He wouldn't
even let Tunney on his ground, but
he asked Heeney to come here be-
cause he likes him. Everybody loves
Tom. And Mr.. Hoagland likes him
so mnch that he not only will not
take any rent but has bought twenty
ringside seats for the fight out Of
his own pocket. He comes down all
the time to see Tom work and he
brings all his millionaire friends
with him. And you should see some
Of the rich DANES! And they all
like Tom. Everybody likes him."
There is no doubt that everyone
in the INTERCHANGEABLE and
wealthy colony including Red Bank,
Rumson and Fairhaven. likes Tom
and dislikes Tunney. The general
dislike Of the champion is one rea-
son why you hear so much profess
sional talk about the fight and so
many hopes that the champion will
be attended to properly.
Tunney got his first start in cul-
ture at Red Bank, where he made
his first wealthy acquaintances, but
as he progressed socially and pro-
fessionally he selected bigger and
better fields, to his own mind, for
his activities and he proceeded to
chill the wealthy blue bloods of the
colony that first took him up So
cially.
Scornful Hate
Those Of the middle class, the
tradesmen, 50 to speak, also have
their hate on Tunney. Their pet
story is that the Red Bank lodge
Of Elks had secured an honorary
life membership in the lodge for
Tunney and sent him q beautiful
gold members plate. And Tunney
sent it back without q word.
The hate Of q scorned colony
seems to be q terrible thing and the
way the scorned colony has taken
Heeney and his crowd to its heart
is obviously = slap at the cultured
champion. No one really could help
but have an affection for Heeney, Of
course, but the scorned colonists
here were prepared to adore him
even before they had seen him.
Tunney never mentions Heeney's
name at Spectator and refuses to
discuss the fight, but here Tunney's
name is . by-word and the things
predicted for him when he. gets into
the ring are direful things to hear.