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Show "Grudge Fight" Is Latest Ballyhoo On Title Scrap, Remember that the Evening Herald will render the greatest fight service in the history of Utah county Thursday Thurs-day evening! CHICAGO, Sept. 19. (UP) The good old cry of "grudge fight" arose today over the heavyweight championship champion-ship fistic engagement scheduled for next Thursday night. Certain Dempsey-Tunney correspondence, curiously reminiscent re-miniscent in its May ,of the Willy-Nicky correspondence which created a furore in connection with another fight of some prominence in 1914 was published in morning newspapers news-papers today. Its first result was to make a hopeful public believe that after all Jack and Gene might be as interested in knocking each other cold as in the $450,000 and $1,080,080 purses, respestively, which they will receive for their public services. The letters came at an opportune moment when many fight fans were complaining loudly of the too gentlemanly air of sportsmanship which seemed to be surrounding the title dispute, and when Tex Rickard's tickets were reported to be selling less speedily than he had expected. The letter said the then champion "was tipped off before I got into Philadelphia that night that there's something phoney about this fight." Fftoncy Referee Claimed "I was told," it continued, "that somebody with some sort of political power or power in boxing affairs in Philadelphia Phila-delphia was going to see to it that a referee and one of the judges would be in there to assist you; that if we were both on our feet at the end. of the tenth, I'd lose the decision." The letter hastened to explain that a last minute shift in referees had put Tommy Reilly in as the third man. "I never fought with a man in the ring who was better or cleaner than Reilly," the letter said. "You (Tunney) whipped me fairly and squarely that night. I'll give you credit for giving me the worst beating anybody ever handed me in my lifetime. But since then I've wondered what would have happened that night if I had decisively outpointed you and if the first referee that I heard named as the official offi-cial for that fight had been in there." Tunney's reply, in full, was: "My Dear Dempsey: "Your so-called open letter to me was brought to my attention. While my reaction is to ignore it and its evident trash completely, yet I cannot resist that I consider it a very cheap appeal for public sympathy. Do you think this sportsmanlike?" |