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Show I Prefers Men of His Own Style jl ''T T'HETIIER Tom Lloeney, sturdy New Zealand fighter, who was fJ the loser In dene Tuimey's last appearance us heavyweight X champion, retires from the ring depends on his opponents I more than anything else, neeney said that he was very uncor- Z :ain ubout continuing his ring career, but that he would like to keep z on if lie could fight only men suited fto his particular style. "I want to tight some more and then again I don't," Heeney ex- plained. ".My wife wants me to get out while I am sound in body and mind. I fool that I've fought them all. There's no new ones around for me to tackle and 1 have a little money. I'd like to get Into some business which would bring me a satisfactory Income. That's one side of it. "let I'd like to keep on if 1 could fight men suited to me and my style. I 'don't mean that I wan: I I to pick opponents. But what I Tom H I mean is to fight men near my own size and more closely related to me in style, fellows like Sharkey, j Itisko, Paulino and Dempsey, any one of the four or all four of them, $ ! J That would be better than if I fought somebody like Tunney, bigger I fhan me and given to boxing rather than fighting." j f Apparently discounting the possibility f wading through an elim- I ination tournament to the heavyweight title, Heeney did not think f I x much of the money to be won In the ring. J "I suppose I could earn about $10,000 in a year's fighting," he said. I 'And against this there Is the idea of exposing yourself to injury." |