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Show i MftTEfllflL SHORTAGE N HENf HGHTEKi Gene Tunney and Bob Martin Are Both Aspiring For Mit Honors. Since Jack Denipsey won the title from Jess Willard and tlien retired with it, as all new champions do, there has been some slight progresc I made in tho never ceasing hunt fort new material. During the winter months half a dozen big fellows began to attract attention. Two ot them Gene Tunney and Bob Martin are i- I above the average and perhaps some ! day one or the other will develop suf-t suf-t ficicnt ability to brittle Denipsey for a the championship, f Both Tunney and Martin were A. B. F. champions. Since the war Tunney f """has represented the cast, while Mar-f Mar-f j tin's stamping ground is the mldd'e-a mldd'e-a west. Eventually they mayo be match- il ed and the winner will be looked upon r ii3 the runner-up for the title, a Tuney appears to have the better -prospect of the two. Gene Is veryj fast and clever and a short snappy hitter like all real fighters are. Since H he returned from France he has won all his nine houta eight of them by il "knockouts. While on the other side 1 "he met and outpointed' Martin on one Li .occasion. Martin its much heavier, H -however. In tho chaTnplbnships Tun-I Tun-I r ney was not allowed to go out of his II :xlass to meet Martin, do the latter V ; won the title in the heavyweight divi- sion, while Tunney became tho light I heavyweight champion of the army I . abroad. |