Evening star., 1928-05-02

cial and artistic development denied TO
his youth. leeturing on Shakespeare 70 8
group OF young men who have had al
the opportunity he has missed and who
nearly mob him in their admiration for
those qualities he is most anxious as the
time TO forget Yale was somewhat
diScourteouS in looking for q heavy
weight champion when rather light
weight ShakeSpearean critic vas pre-
sented 70 them"
Recognizing that the public has been
somewhat slow in accepting Mf. Tlnney
as the scholar in the prize ring" the
Albany Evening News Stin believes that
this new business Of having q student
Of literature as the heavyweight cham
pion is refreshing and uplifting" while
the Dallas Journal remarks: This IS
supposed 10 be 3 day when the most
representative Americans have highly
cultivated minds and tastes. II We
must have prize fighters. one with .
liking for literature and the arts isn't
SO badly out OF line" The Scranton
Times holds that the champion is do
ing more TO increase respect fOE the
boxing game than any one connected
with the business today"
There was n note Cf naive wt$tf>ll-
ness" observes the New YORK sun. in
Tunney'S speculation over whether
Shakespeare was fight fan and his
wonder what the poet might have
thought and done IN the seventh round
OF the second Dempsey fight Il h had
seen Tanney lying on the eoor. al but
cut Those OF Us more sophisticated
know very we'll what Shakespeare would
have done and said. He. would have
arisen in his rinxside seat and yelled,
Come out OF Il. Gene Get 10 there
and knock his block of, Shakespeare,
dear Mr.. Tunney. was precisely that
kind OF bird"
But what holds our attention Tight
est, aTfirmS the Little Roc& Arkansas
Democrat. lis what the erudits nauleg
said about his experience in STUDYING
winters Tale He read il 10 times
before he got the real value os L. To
understand the Immortal Bard Of Avon
one must, Of course. turn 20 ones own
life. Then, after that ChIcagc eastse
with Dempsey why should S,lch lines as
the following nom Winters Tafe' ap-
pear. ambiguous 70 Or, Tllnney. When
you do dance, I wish you wave o the
sea, that YOU might ever do nothing bat
that'sH
"wh&tever may he thought q the
literary standing ot Gene TOlnNey.
states the Pittsburgh PoSs- Dispatch.
he described am excellent rtlle fol
reading. II Is 60 read thoyO&lgAly, With
determination to set the fSlil meaning
Of the author. or course, Solnethl,lS Is
10 he expected " the author towaTT
making himself as clear AS possible
Hut he cannot be expected Gu furnish
diagram With every sentence"
Similarly. the Boston TranScytpg a.,
vlSeS, Thousands ~ oar yputA hole
fanney as their idol That they nes
can admire him also as one whose eN,
ample they can prortSely follow in Aa-
other field than puSiliSm Is clear
Sain,
Nov many in lNanneyS place would
have perSeyereda" asks the RarrtSnurx
Telegraph, with the eeaeluSion Here
We have the aifereaee between the
mediocre and the champion Ii sx~
plains MANY more things about TNlnasy
than merely why ne likes 60 read
"A scene delightful to the minds eve
Is the eNkAFcSSiol Of appf0Sal that comes
ttem the Alfalfa Journal as Il contenA-
plates Gene TMney taking on Sfake~
SpeaSe 70 class In English literature al
Vale, That paper feels tha, Ii could
not have happened with professor
less human than nr William Ivon
Phelps, nor With = poet less shake
NpeareaN than Shakespeare An sorts
and conditions ot men for more than
800 years have been paving tribute 20
The creator az Hamlet ard FalstAff Nf
lear and pegNerFv. eas none more
heartily than the worlds heavyweight
champion,