Show X INSPIRED TO DETHRONE TUNNEY F FOR R CHAMPIONSHIP HONORS t o t t- t MUST K O. O PUNCH FIRST sent Title Holders ow- ow now how w Tendency to Get Knocked Down By Frank Getty United Press Sp Sports ts Editor ta YORK Jan 17 Tommy H.-Tommy Tommy hran n worlds world's light heavy- heavy ht champion announces lie tle willIW will w IW n fl the footsteps of his ors and seek the heavyweight Ss as well rn 10 hews is not particularly dising dis- dis Ing to the present champion of unlimited division but in any an- an y year ar or so Gene T Tunney may 0 r reason to take ake Tommy seri seri- I C first thing thinS the Philadelphian t do Is Is to develop a knockout rh h You ou have t to td hit the big bigard ws Ws hard ard to get anywhere In Heavyweight he classIE class IE NOT A Wy HITTER jitney Is the tho first light hea heavy heavy- liffin twenty years year to build up Into a heavyweight Plon of the world HI His 3 immo- immo Dempsey Wiland Wil- Wil and d Johnson who reigned over I two decades s all were ero big bigl bigI l I start with once e was tr traditional that the Jt championship should lg hands only through a or a foul Tunney proved Philadelphia that it could coul be 4 by a decision h If it Gene could get title from De Dempsey y by hl him lr Loughran might some day It from Gene Gele in ln the same man- man Tommys Tommy's ambition is by no Ins ludicrous JS s CRAVE RE SOCK o ox ngo fans ate are beginning to wish ish ish our leading champions would little knocking out or at least eking l i down of their opponents t the e trend a of the pro pro- lo is away from froth brute strength ards science n e. e have havo been some k knockdowns jn In in championship championshipS isIl S l tely hut but in n every case it the champion who dusted the tho I 1 as wIth the seat of ot his tights re ro getting up to to fight t ton on and ran and Tunney both have haye trl the unpleasant sensa- sensa beIng knocked h. h heels els over I In li a. a title bout l p 1 trip to the canvas in the tho thon n th round at Chicago remains g lassic other night Leo Lomski i kd d Tommy Loughran down tte o in n the first round only to tp 1 the thc decision 0 reactions o of the champions d d. d INEY NEV WORRIED OVIE FILM what I 1 was war doing and patching the timekeeper anding and ing ng to the count said Tun- Tun w lose ose chief worry afterwards 0 17 the Hie goofy expression lon on onal ons fage al as IlS s shown by the motion res g. g h head ad didn't get clear until I yi UI h round said Tommy I have kept on fighting by Int In- In t be because ause when I 1 came to in inI I thought we still sUll were ing in th the first I couldn't bey bey be- be tny y seconds when when they said out was onE third one third over ovel and andr r better get busy if I wanted n. n |