Show if jf it Ii t t fi tt 9 r. r r. r T no J GENE TUNNEY HAS NO WELL COLOR CO JUST THINK THIS OVER A flub New ew Champion Fools Them Tm l nand and Out of f fight Ring Takes s First Airplane Flight With Two Million Gate Waiting Waiting Waiting-That's That's Nerve I By Robert Edgr Edgren n A lot of people Ive I've met have said mournfully that Gene Tunney Isn't a a colorful champion like the rushing walloping Jack Dempsey Just what does a fellow have to do to be colorful In my humble opinion Gene Gone Tunney is one of the most striking figures in the long list of champions N What other champion In any class rushed Into K he ho marines before the United States States States' gt got int into the ther r f World war var Just because he ho wanted to go where here the V k was was was' wasand and the marines were reputed to be beI 1 t. t iri i I he est outfit in the entire service t p What other champion starting with a few w un un- un un- un 1 r- r w. w bouts as a bo boy developed Into a tA J lon ion while in the service and won on a n. championship t where every man in sight was a n. fighting man man f Old time fighters like John L. L Sullivan for In Instance In- In 3 fr- fr stance were supposed to be picturesque figures because o of ot their wild exploits between fights when I u K tl they were trying r to drink all iM the liquor in sight I L 1 junney H s a a. figure because he has persistently gone to the other extreme He doesn't know the taste of ot liquor and he wouldn't k kow low a wild lId woman if it he ho saw o one t Tunney's Tunney's Tun- Tun ney's heys strict morality is entirely novel no In his profession profession proCession might be uc Just as novel In ia tt score of ot other professions Colorful Great Scott Didn't Gene Tunney hop Into a plane piano for foi forthe the tho first time in his life and fly from Item Stroudsburg to Philadelphia to fight the most sensational of ot all champions Beat that for a colorful colorful colorful color color- ful exploit A two million dollar gate tickets all sold out for the fight that night Demps Dempsey y coming corning I up Ui under guard in a covered car And Gene Tunney comes down by t plane never plane never in the air before to before to fight a tattle he ho had trained an and studied for through seven years RICKARD FRIGHTENED Ask Tex Tex- lUckard Rickard 1 If there was color in that exploit of Tunney's s Tex was was in his counting room counting up up hl his hla money down there thereIn In the at Philadelphia A A. newspaper man called Tex on the phone from Stroudsburg s going down by plane bes he's n flying ing to the fight said the Its It's a lie exclaimed n ck startled out of or his cool complacency complacency complacency ency for tor the first time in his life liCe I just saw him leave the ground 1 lies lie's he's hes in the air all now said the newspaper man ClIck Click The wire went dead Whether RIckard fainted or Just jus dropped the receiver and ran to loo loos 3 out out of ot the window nobody knows Two million dollars paid in and Dempsey to fight tight and this fresh young Oung challenger hops down blithely blithe blithe- ly Jy through the air A snap snapping ring wire a broken wing a p poor or landIng land- land Ing and back goes the two millions millions mil mil- lions to the ticket holders holdel's back go thousands to their horne homes all over the world without seeing any Ci fight ht No excitement at all except perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps reading about where Gene Tunney crashed in newspaper ex ex- tras DEMPSEY DISBELIEVES Did Dempsey think Gene wa was so lacking In color when he heard about that careless flying trip from Stroudsburg Ask him I didn't believe It says Demp Demp- aey ey And the fight Dempsey crouching crouchIng crouch- crouch In Ing low rushing headlong Across the ring to pin Tunney in a corner and nail naU him with the first Just as he tried to nail naU Firpo And AndT T Tunney calmly slipping aside and ami hitting at Dempsey's chin with every ounce of ot strength he could put ut into nto the first blow following it almost instantly with another right that landed better and dazed sey for fop ten rounds to follow fonow No lack lacle of color in the supposed sacrifice being led to the ter tel when the sacrifice e kicks over he altar and k knocks the high priest bf t pugilism dizzy with one Listen Asten to what the th placid and colp col- col p e s Tunney says ab about ut that J GENES GENE'S PLAN IFor For weeks says sas Gene I planned lanned to throw that first right rito o Dempsey so hard Id I'd break my Jirm 1 intended to knock him out with one punch if It I could I knew hed he'd ed think Id I'd be afraid of him andS and S Back ck away from his first rush I 1 hed he'd rush I grazed him with that right but the fio second cond time When hen he lie turned and plunged at me again I t got him hard liard enough to daze aze him through the rest of ot the X tt j fight My IY punch caught him a lit lit Ht- e high or It would have knocked turn Jim out But It had one effect Jo io 4 1 It jarred and hurt hl V showed him that I meant to beat beats s m and wasn't afraid and g ga iv n m me a a lead tead I 1 never lost Take Gene Tunney after the fight N Next da day he walks down alone an and visits the battered Dempsey Dempse in In hi hii his i om drops lii iii with a friendly lly handshake for tor a friendly chat No color olor In that is there Oth 4 never thought of doln doin i i 1 like It They were ere ere- usually I to too busy having a glorious celebration cele cole celet t bration to think of the beaten man I But Tunney isn't like other e s I WANTS TO FIGHT ZAnd nd the days after aCter the fight Xo No scramble for vaudeville contracts I H He turned down one offer joffer of or for eighteen weeks on the stage Eod loid Od Billy Gibson Gibeon he lie didn't like ilke the y I pw business and didn't think It I was s as good for Cor a fighter fighter and and he In Intended In- In I tended to be a fighting S aid ild anyway anway that he had lang enough and wanted to meet a afew few of ut his old and play A little golf golt Gene escaped the promoters promoters pro pro- oters and advance agents and ind m ment went sent ent to the country Other new always flayed 1 In the bh bis city posing enjoying the th lh sensation of oC being lionized by the multitude Gene went quietly away lj la 1 a retinue of trainers fight fol- fol hangers on He a L' L governors and the like of that tha I and played golf He lie stayed in the 1 country Said he didn't like to gl go I the streets and be followed by a a. crowd Billy Gibson trie tried 1 to show V Gene that it would be good business busi busl- riess ness gess to stand at second Forty street and and stop troCHe traffic lo to figure on p pic- pic S if i i t i ture Lure contracts vaudeville boxing exhibition tours capitalize his new popularity before the crowd forgot him No Xo No said Tunney re remember remember te- te member me when I 1 fight again Tunney Is a puzzle to managers promoters and fighters He always A does toes the unexpected thing 1 I. I will wUl willbe willbe when he rightS fights 1 be e the same way again And when he has bas pulled a a a. afew few tW more stunts that no one olle evs thought of before the world will b be begin gin to think It must have ha been color blind when It first began beJan to notice Gene Copyright 1926 1026 by the Belf BeI Syndicate Syndicate Syn- Syn In Inc s- s L |