Show I L Gene Tunney's Tunney I s Was Fifth S Comeback in m History 0 I II I J t E f LYNCH fjON BA I t I BANTAM FROM KETCHEL LOST Ib J 1 j 1 THAN MONTHS V E EV BACK I e. e If A 4 i s. r r I. I r I 15 1 I I 1 i. FIFTH irti BATTLE To i dr L M l i 6 Rt OH f K Oct u COT ooT L LOc Oc OI IG BACK l Hi 5 rr ru i Ketchell Britton Herman and Lynch Are Others Who Wh Came B Back k 1 They used to do say you ou cant can't come back once you lost Jost a J pugilistic title title- And they tiey always cited poor old Jim debacle at Reno In 1910 1910 as proof But nowadays comebacks lire area Brethe the rule ruie rather than the the- exception No No less lees than f five lve world titleholders who out from under their crowns have com back to regain their titles Gene Oene n ei Tunney's r r recapture ot of t th the world gns l ight heavyweight t championship In a a. f if- if teen-round teen bout with Harry Greb a a. few nights t ago la Is the e latest s notable example J Just nine I months n t after Oreb r gt took the title Yf Tunney made a a. comeback qt t Madison Square Garden The bantam division offers the greatest proof of ot the old saw that you tant cant keep leep a good grood man down Within thre years It hI has ha been won lost and by two different r f fighters Ia Kid Herman Hennan who took the title title- from Kid Ki Williams In 1917 lost it to Joe Lynch In f fifteen rounds in 1020 1920 Six months later Inter t the he pair mot mat again In New York Herman l left eft the ring a champ once more Heres Here's where Lynch does his comeback s tuff stuff After Herman retrained regained the title from f rom Lynch he ha lost to Johnny Buff Durr In fifteen fit fit- t teen een rounds at New York September 23 1 1921 1121 Lynch got Grot busy again and nd made marie his c comeback by beating beating- Buff Butt Hes He's still stilt holdIng holdIng hold- hold i Ing ng it It while Tremaine Curtin and others a are re being groomed to spill him Old Jack Britton famous welterweight c champion was waa bereft of ot his title by Ted Lewis in a a. furious twenty-round twenty fight tight at Dayton 0 O. In 1917 Two years years years' later the welters met up again for tor the title Britton Britten r retrained his laurels by a knockout Stancy Stanley Stanley Stan Stan- I ley cy Ketchell greatest middleweight of hi his d day ay was another comeback Bill Billy k knocked him out in twelve rounds at ot Varon Vernon Vernon Ver- Ver n non on Cal Ca September 7 7 1908 1905 Just three months later he came by stopping In the same number of ot rounds athe at atthe atthe t the he old Colma arena In California It has been done But this Is no rio dope to a apply P to Jess Willards Willard's V a. a cherished ambition m to t 1 o attain again a be pointed out as s th this f hl heavyweight a I 11 c champ hamp So far tar no heavyweight ha has ever regained r 1 a lost title |