Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-08-24 | Page 12 | Tunney Gets Greats Welcome by Irish Folk

Tunney Gets Great Welcome By Irish Folk DUBLIN Aug 24 Gene AP-Gene Tunney today was In the land of his ancestors and he was accorded a w welcome greater than any kIng ever has received receive at the hands of the IrIsh Notwithstanding a t typical Irish downpour thousands of persons waited on the streets to welcome and cheer the ex champion boxer When the steamer from arrived at at Kingstown nobody waS I permitted to land and untIl the reception recep- recep t ion tion committee which included John McCormack the tenor Major FItzmaurice FItz- FItz maurice transatlantic flier lHer and General chief t ot police had gone aboard to wish vish the visitor thousand thou thou- hundred gead mule mille a sand welcomes Gene landed amidst the strains rendered by a band of pipers and entered one of a fleet of decorated motor cars displaying the stars and stripes and the Irish tricolor