The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-25
CHALLENGER'S
MANAGER AIDS
ARRANGEMENTS
Australian Is Not Easy Nor Is
He Cheap Fighter Is Man.
ayers Claim
GIBSON HELPED TOO
Charley Harvey Felt that
Heeney Had Markings of
Worlds Champion
BY HENRY L. FARRELL
(NEA Service Shorts Writer>

BY HENRY L. FARRELL
(NEA Service Sports Writer)
New York, July 25.-Tom Heeney
didn't get his chance to fight Gene
Tunney for the worlds heavyweight
championship through any influence
Of the champion, through any special
kindness on the part of Tex Rick.
ard or by any concessions Of any
kind. Charley Harvey. the veteran
manager Of the challenger insists.
1T is all wrong to say that Tun-
ney picked Heeney as the easiest
man of all the challengers and it is
wrong to say that Richard signed
him because he was cheap" Harvey
said. Nobody gave me any help in
getting the match. although ! felt
at all times that If his word would
do any good Bill Gibson would say
it for me and not for my man.
II got the match for Heeney be-
cause I took the time and spent the
money to 20 to Florida to talk d.
rectly to Richard. And had to talk
to him for two days and two nights
and he was won over by an argu.
ment with back spin on it.
Ducked Out to See Richard
"When / first got Heeney / felt
down in my heart that he had the
makings not only of q challenger
but Of q champion. but I had q hard
time to get him going for reasons
that do not have to be told. He
told me that he would take any
matches l made for him and our rec
ord shows that we didn't look for
any soft matches.
"Rickard went to Florida and when
he left there were four men in line
for the shot. They were Heeney,
Sharkey, Risko and Delaney. Heeney
had beaten Risko and we figured
that we were first in line. John
Chapman was acting for Richard at
the Garden and he asked me to come
and talk it over with Jess Mcmahon,
the matchmaker at the Garden.
They told me that a new deal
would have to be made and that some
more elimination matches would be
arranged and the survivor would get
the shot with Tunney. I kicked on
that and said Heeney had already
done enough to prove his right for
the match, but finally agreed that
I would go into it, knowing that Tom
would come through again.
Wanted Risko
"They asked me which one / want
ed and l said Risko. They said that
couldn't have Risko because
Sharkey wanted him. I got sore
then and asked them where Sharkey
came in to have first say about any
thing. We talked for some time and
was about ready to walk out when
they tried to force me q little.
"They said that I would have to
talk terms and sign right away or
would be out Of it. They said that
Danny Dunn was coming in from
Cleveland and that he would be
signed for Risko if ! didn't want their
terms. / then told them that
wouldn't talk business with them and
that ! would talk directly to Rick
ard. They said they would have
Richard on the phone that night and
told me to be there. I didn't tell
them that would talk to Richard on
the phone and I didn't show up.
II ducked out and got ticket for
Miami. No one knew had gone and
Chapman and Mcmahon looked all
over town for me for two days. The
newspaper boys thought that was
a great manager to be hiding out at
such . time as Risko was about to
get the match instead Of Heeney.
But l knew that Risko wouldn't be
signed.
Argued Two Days and Two Nights
II had q tough. time talking BUSH
ness to Richard. He didn't have his
mind made up and he couldn't decide.
argue4 for two days about what
Heeney had done but he was cool on
him for some reason. There was no
talk about terms. Richard was con-
sidering only what the public would
think Of a match with any Of the
challenRers.
FINALLY l switched around and
told him that none of the challengers
were sensational fighters and that
he didn't have to worry about the
show being a financial success with
any challenger in there. 1 told him
that the heavyweight championship
tight was an annual institution now
like the worlds series and the Yale
Harvard football game and that the
crowd would 20 regardless Of the
promise Of q sensational fight.
"Then slipped in the argument
that all things berg even Heeney
might help along by having the in
ternational color, that he was very
popular fellow and didn't have any
kind Of bad mark on his record and
| finally got the match.
II think ! got the match by going
to Florida and talking to the odd
man. himself. The others waited
around New York for promises"
Considering this tale by Harvey.
which checks with the stories told
by others. it would seem that Har-
vey's patience and industry and his
smartness, too, and not the work.
ings Of the Mortimers got Heeney
the match.
And now the Mortimers are try
1 ing to cut Harvey out Of his dough.
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