Show Rumor Gene Tunney May Attend Oxford Is Interesting to Britons Relations With Undergraduates Studies and Ga Games es Come in for Speculation LONDON ONDON Oct Ot 22 Now NEA-Now Now that fiat Monsieur Gene Tunney has won his little debate debate with Signor Jack ack Dempsey Britons ar aT are tremendously tremendously interested in a Tumor rumor that has as come ac across ss the ocean that the h champ is thinking o of go goIng going gong go- go Ing ng to college One Onel rumor minor mor says he heis heis hes is s going to Notre Dame Danie In Indiana Another says spurred purred on by his pal al Jimmy Egan who went to to Oxford Oxford Ox- Ox ford ord that Gene too is dreaming of oC coming to the world-famous world British university Wherefore one clever newspaper writer takes akes up the idea and arid has consIderable fun with It Firstly As Firstly As to tD Genes Gene's relations with his fellow undergraduates It ItIs Itis Its Is s always a wholesome thing for a fell fellow ellow w it takes some o of the tilE pride and bump out o of him to be be told to toils his ils face by bv his fellow that hat he Is a fool when fool when he Is oneGO oneGO one GO ON YOU TELL HIM But there is a drawback in Genes Gene's case I If Gene made a fool of self elf who wh would tell teU him so Kotone Not Kot one lone undergrad remembering that hat the American packs a punch in both oth mitts Not two or 01 three Perhaps a whole battalion o of students students stu- stu dents lents would have to td armed with pickaxes es and bats and muskets They would surround Genen Gene in n a compact Then at t the tle sign o of the cheer he leader they would voL IJ shout In unison Gene you have ha been a a. fool tool to today today today to- to day I lat What would he study stud Economics is suggested because a aman aman anan man nan who has just earned a million iron ron men is Jg or o ought to lo be beery very ery much interested in ec economics Or Ur perhaps Humane Letters with ancient fighting as his special topic He lIe could run all through classic Greek and Roman literature and could re revel 1 in the story o of the fight Odysseus had with the bully vho ho paid suit to the formers former's wife wiCe Penelope Penelope Pe Pe- Ie when the hero here was as busy be before before before be- be fore the walls of Troy Then there A Is the old yarn about Castor and ard Pollux and many more Thirdly What Thirdly What t games would beplay he be play Perhaps you OU dont don't K g Kt t t the importance o of that to Britons This true story will illustrate Not long Jong ago gO when I daughter in ill an English school the principal did not write me asking what studies I wanted her to pursue Oh no mere study was a minor matter mattel The rue I weighty matter that was troubling the principals principal's brain was what games did I want her to lo play Now ow it is suggested that Gene would be no good In a rowing crew unless they gave him two oars and let him scull with one man short on the team At football he would be too rough lough at cricket unthinkable at at running too heavy and slow They could not let Iet him box There would be too many broken noses and missing t teeth eth and cauliflower ears ars earsIn earsin arsIn In the young ung of lit Oxford So it is about settled that tnt if it Gene Genet confes Cones to Oxford they vill let him himi t j i work t trying Ing to win the championship champion champion- ship with putting pulling the shot And nobody II hus been found anxIous anxious anxious ious to 10 board him In Ii tim the first place they thInk it would he be too ex expensive expensive ex- ex pensive to l lodge dge it to t fellow who might want to stow three breakfasts under his belt for a mere light breakfast And I if the soup were salty alty Gene would daru dar say so whereas the or- or or ordinary ordinary I dinar student would be Ie far too timid to lo tell lell landlady about it to lo loher her face |