The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-28
IAtKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS
New York, Dec. %.

TT must give Mr.. James Joseph
IL Tunney intense mental anguish
and swelling sense Of the futility
OF enforced righteousness as he sits
among the silences Of his Con-
necticut retreat and ponders the
present immoral trend Of the prize
fight industry. You may recall that
Mr.. Tunney in the days of his re-
fined ring posturings was looked
upon as square chinned young
evangelist combining the best
qualities Of Billy Sunday and an
Annie Mcpherson whose blazing
purpose in life carried him among
the delinquent caulifowers where
he preached the stern gospel Of
leveling.
/ think it was william Muldoon
who issued something approx
mating a diocesan paper jim which
he declared Tunney had contributed
more to the moral uplift Of the bust
ness than any champion in the past
forty years.
So jealous was Mr.. Tunney in his
crusade to make this the best Of all
possible worlds for the left hook and the
right cross that on frequent occasions he
addressed boys club and young mems so
daEties the rscy subject of manliness
In sport and not even sporadic hecklings
on the part Of a narrow minded press de-
handing to know. How about that waltz
with BARLEY Madden out In st. Paul en-
how about that one?" we're sufficient 10
deter or disturb him.
TT seemed reasonable in view of
l. all this that when Mr.. Tunney
left for the blue book and the
romantic coast Of Italy at least
few scattered strands of his splendid
influence would endure and that
when and if sinister temptations
lured., the boys would have enough
honor TO turn their heads and
murmur: mo, our Gene wouldn't
like it, But 1t appears that the
boys are not a great deal different
from the jungle heathens who wait
until the missionaries have caught
the boat back home before they
toss their gideons high into the air
and start looking around for a nice,
plumb, squashy travelling salesman
with pink joUls, from the states
10 barbecue.
This. Of course, is quite depiOrAble and
II II we're not for the fact that Mr.. Tun-
ney managed to make q million or SO out
Of the racket while striving to giId II with
the soft pigments of virtue I can well
Imagine that he would be completely in
eOnsoIAble. Within the past two weeks.
for instance. Madison Square Garden has
been the scene OF two of the strangest
speetacles the eYes of man or beast ever
looked upon.
EIRST there was the stirring pic
Il ture of Mr.. Phil Scott of Eng
land falling to the floor with Bar
rymore dramatics in the second
round after taking a slight swishing
caress on the panties from Mr. Otto
Won Porat and both of the gentle
men walking almost Immediately
thereafter to the payof window and
splitting s35 900 with scarcely crack
ing smile.
And 9 week later in the same ring Mr.. |
Benny Bass. who 1t de-elops was named
after the customers. commonly known as
fish. who patronize his theatricsIs, took a |
sOuDle OF good natured shOts at the jaw
Of Mr.. Tod Morgan In the second round
and the party OF the second part promptly
rolled over and played dead. thereby
forgetting all legal and family rights to
the Junior lightweight championship which
MP to that moment he owned and
operated.
From betting angle the affair
was most unsatisfactory because so
many people seemed to know in ad-
vance precisely what was going to
happen and when that even the
extraordinary proposition of to 1
being offered against the defending
champion was not sufficient to be-
guile the wagering gentry.
ITO me this was the most regret
Il table phase Of the development
because, what with one thing and
another. this has not been a very
profitable. winter for the hard work
ing gamblers around the Garden
and here when they get a swell
chance to recoup the thing blows
right up in their faces and just
because the proper amount of
f1nesse and dexterity was not en-
Moved