| Show IMPS Y TUNNEY COMPLETE STRENUOUS WORKOUT Dempsey Opines Some something hing Was Shady About Philadelphia Bout Tunney High Hats Jack in Reply Squabble Will Aid Rickard to Sell Cheaper Seats By C. C C NICOLET I United Press Staff Corr CHICAGO Sept 19 The 19 good old cry of grudge tight fight arose today today to- to day over the heavyweight championship championship cham- cham engagement scheduled scheduled sched- sched for next Thursday night Certain Dempsey Tunney correspondence correspondence corre- corre curiously reminiscent In Its way of the NickY Willy-NickY which created a furore In connection n with another tight fight of some prominence In 1914 was published published pub pub- In morning newspapers to- to day Its first l' l result Ruit was wag to make a hopeful public believe that after all Jack and Gene might be as interested interested in- in In knocking each other cold colds s In the and purses respectively which they will receive for their public services The letters came at an opportune moment when ny 1 fight fans were compla complaining loudly of the too gentlemanlY gentlemanly gen gen- all air of t sportsmanship which seemed to be be surrounding t title dispute and when Tex tickets were reported to be selling less Jess speedily than he had expected The expensive seats were sold out weeks ago according to official an- an but It was admitted the 5 10 and 20 O seats were not In gre great t demand Dempsey's letter intimatEd that something funny happened at Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia just before Tunny won the championship in n. n ten round decision fight Tunney's reply clearly W was as hIgh hat In Intent as as' as the champion chain cham- pion has been charged Y syth th being otherwise though it was somewhat less dignified than Is is r customary when members of the set out cut cutto outto to sqUElch the lower orders It referred to Dempsey's letter I as trash and a a very cheap ap appeal appeal ap- ap peal for public sympathy The letters t seemed emed to convey comey the Idea that lack Jacl Dempsey and Gene Tunney ached for tor a chance to beat each other up But grudge fights have been plentiful in the history of the ring and to date none of the pairs of sworn toes ever has so far forgotten the proprieties as to battle except before the public So It is possible after all that ambulances may not be needed at Soldier field when Dempsey and Tunney hold their second Thursday 1 Dempsey's letter linked the names of at Tunney Abe Attell notorious gambler and Max l Boo Boo Hoff It suggested something mysterious might have occurred to explain why a flood of Tunney money appeared In Philadelphia just before the tight fight there last Septem September er and just after Tunney Hoff and Billy GIbson Tunney's manager had one of those conference things The letter said the then the then champion champion cham- cham pion was was tipped of off be before ore I got Into Philadelphia that night that theres there's somethIng phoney about this fight I I told It continued that was I somebody with some sort of cal power power-or power flower in boxIng af- af fairs In Philadelphia was going to see to It that a referee and one of the judges would be in there to assist assist as- as you ou that It we were both on our feet at the end of the tenth Id I'd lose the decision l The letter hastened to explaIn that a minute last shift in referees had pu put t Tommy rommy Reilly in as the thIrd manI man I never fought with 1 man in inthe inthe the ring who was better etter or cleaner than Reilly the letter said You Tunney whipped me faIrly and squarely that night Ill III give you credit for giving me methe the worst bEating bEating bEat bEat- ing anybOdy ever h handed nde me in my lifetime But since then re wondered wondered won won- dered what would have happened that night it if I had decisively out out- pointed you and It if the first referee I that I heard named as he official ther-f. ther 1 1 for r that fight had been in there Tunney's reply in full was rry My Dear Dempsey Your tailed so-tailed e o open letter to me I Imy fe n w was brought u to my attention While h my reaction Is to Ignore it md and Its not evident id resist I trash a saying 1 completely that I consider yet I cannot can can- if f J Ja i ia a very cheap appeal for tor pUblic sympathY sym sym- sym sym- pathY Do you OU think this manlike 1 I Signed GENE rE TU TUNNEY NEY v l I P S.-I S. might add that I wrote this letter myself |
