Show T TUNNEY NEY SHOULD GIVE DEMPS DEMPSEY YV BEST BEST BATTLE BATTLE OF V PROSPECTIVE I OPPONENT OPPONENTS J AMBITION WITHIN t t G GRASP RASP I S Gene Gen Finally Ready Beady After Three Years' Years t 1 Preparation i. ij J V By Robert Edgren 2 Ge e f h YORK June NEW will have a better chance auy atty S against Jack Dempsey than other the champion ever man fi figure fig fig- outstanding the fought He is champion IS the ure tre t today day among challengers For three years Tunney has has' been beenS een S S and pr pro pro- S developed abl i worlds world's d to fight for the w r Pared Three years year ago agoS g S h weight title S r Billy Gibson Tunney Tunney's manager campaign to lead to the he d a S planned pl when Gibson Gib Gl- Gib- Gib 1 Ch championship h Tunney first took him in charge was wasa s son 1 with some ski skill l weight r a a light heavy I plenty of fighting spirit and a habit S 1 of breaking his lila hands in his t v to land knockout punches He vas He was boxer boxer box- box an ah an unus unusually ally Intelligent young et er er and nd Gibsons Gibson s experience has led lea S him to consider i intelligence more 5 Important than bulk built or S 'S Tunney's trouble with his hands started with his early matches He S 5 S was was in the marines during the warS war and a arid d began boxing while in active S service s He lie developed eloped quickly quickly and and fought some of the biggest and lest best men men in the army arthy He defeated Bob nob Martin lartin in four rounds winning the Si S d decision anc and also be beat t Ted Jamison JamisonS on S d in in ten rounds taking the heavy weight championship from the war warS S When he came back S professional boxer he started as a S and aid knocked out a lot jot of well know n J light heavyweight At that time Genes Gene's ambition was was was' to work hisS his S V way 5 y to the top by tipping over all 5 vho who stood in inthe the way and he ST swung sung ung his punches A swinging punch is 5 to be slightly Inaccurate and 5 Gent Gene broke his hands on two two- or three e hard haid heads when he was S shooting for the chin GOES TO LUMBER CAMPS CAMP CAMP- S S When hen Billy Gibson took charge he ne Into the Maine woods S sent Gene up t tb han handle le an ax in a lumber camp campf campS S f f for r r a few months to strengthen his hish S 2 l' l h hands and forearms so 50 that he could hit effectively with a short punch Then he h had him hint study stud tie the knack of hitting straight short shortS S blows and using hard driven hooks S. S f for r t the body He made macic Tunney stop trying to knock his opponents out outi i 1 r hurry made him learn the art artof rt of ot of defense had him hm box a lot c cf fast last and clever then men so that he wo would ld learn how to avoid being hit S and r d how to take tako instant advantage advantageS S of cf f openings All the time Tunney TunnY y was tas improving his own hitting S j The The result showed in several of S his fights last ast year when he eat beat artin Burke knocked out and Georges Carpentier d de decisively doS do- do S Harr Harry Greb for forthe the third time and clever cr cleverS S Jeff Smith in a fifteen round n n fl S. S bout at New Orleans TanS Tunney Tunney Tun Tan S ney n-ey n was was was' beginning to show that he id could either box or fight He was wa wasS S taking a college course in fighting S Professor Gibson who has Had liada a score score of champions fighting in hl his his' clubs during the past thirty y years r has made thousands of or watched matches matches watched thousands of boxers boxers box box- S ers ers training in his gymnasium has hag S studied them all keenly and who S developed Benny Leonard from a aS S novice without a punch to one of 5 the cleverest fighting S champions In ring history S This year Tunney i id is ready to o go goS S after fter the big title The bout with Gibbons was taken on to bring him into a ch challenging position for fori forS S r i Dempsey Gibson that if TunS Tunney Tun Tun- S ney b bOat beat at Gibbons Gibbon Tunney's lenge would t be e by the 5 if if the promoters make a s d suitable off offer r. r S In knocking out Tom Gibbons in twelve velve rounds the first time time- Gibb Gib- Gib b tons ns ever was knocked out or ev even en dropped dropp d to the floor In his fourteen fourte n ny y years ars of fighting Tunney showed'S showed S the e public the the- result of scientific preparation He fought like lik a champion charnS cham charn- S pion pon through round There ThereS S was not a single weak spot in his work I 1 Tunney went into that fight with i a a carefully laid plan and never for- for gok It The fight had hardly gone gon three rounds before the crowd felt S. S that Tunney was master an and that S Gibbons was In Iii for or a beating All the craft of the veteran who stood up up to Dempsey fifteen rounds was wasS S useless against Tunney t PENETRATES DEFENSE Carpen Carpentier tier couldn't t lay a glove loye gloye on 1 Gibbons Toms Tom's defense defenso was good good against Dempsey But Tunney penetrated penetrated pene pene- his defense ea easily eaily ily and often S r Gibbons has a trick of forcing his nis r way in both arms protecting his hisS S chin his body drawn back out of ot S range swaying to offer an elusive 5 S target t rg t and to add force forc to his punch when he he ho finds an opening S L When he tried tried- this Tunney did cUd S i something that no other fighter has ever ver been able to do to Gi rHe He HG stood straight refusing to take a a a. backward step and peppered Tom i continually about the head with a aS S hort ort Jarring left that held n hm m away cay threw V him off balance kept ept I from setting setting- for a punch and gradually wore him down WhOn h n S Tom Torn rushed in desperately Tunney shifted a bit to one side or Jie r S other and drove In terrific bod body S' S punches Only once in the fight was j Tunney in danger Then a hard smash mash h In the body slowed him ap up S vi visibly for a minute or two but he fought so steadily that Gibbons couldn't couldn t press his his' advantage and andin in Inthe the next round Tunney was fast and strong as IlS ever S 5 S 'S Throughout the bout T Tunney was too fast to be hit effectively HeS He S had the defensive skill developed Inmany Inmany in inmany InI I many cautiously fought bouts when Billy DUly Gibson Gibsob wouldn't wouldn t let him cU cUt cue t loose his heavy punches He had baa the speed and skill to land punches almost at will And when Tom dazed and weary relaxed for a a. single single single sin sin sin- gle moment In the twelfth round Gene shot over the hard straight right hand punch to the jaw that he had been reservIng Deserving for the knockout That hat punch was a para- para It might have have dropped any other heavyweight Tunney today is is' is a no much better fighter than Gibbons was at Shelby Shel Shel- by He He- Heis is fast faster r stronger 11 Dieter elger and a harder hitter Jack Dempsey always says when you ask him that he likes to light right big men men Thoy They move nove slowly and they're easy to hit Dempsey has hns a punch in either hand that discounts strength and bulk But h Ii cadmUs that its it's much harder to place that punch right on swiftly moving targets tar tar- gets He Ho pictures Harry Grob as his idea of a hard man to fight be because because because be- be cause Greb is always moving If Gene Geno Tunney fights Dempse Dempsey It will vill be a real championship battie battle bat bat- cat cattle tle tie and very lil likely ely it will go ten rounds or more more I dont don't t think Tunney Tun ney has developed far enough yet yetto yetto yetto to have a chance in the world to 10 beat Dempsey as Dempsey Demsey was wa at Toledo oledo but Jack never will vill bo be in his Toledo condition a again ain Ho He has grown bigger His ambition isn isn't t tso so keen He has sort years behind him now instead of the lean years before the Toledo fight If he has slowed up appreciably through not fighting lighting often enough and through h living too luxuriously Tuney may beat him |