Show SPORT SPORT- LIGHT LIGHT THE By fly GRANTLAND RICE s- s l 1925 25 New York Tribune Inc Ine Trademark l U 8 8 Pa Of- Of Of floe CLOSING TUg TIIE GAP GAPIt 1 P PIt It may be bo that Gene Gen Tunney will never be enough to 10 whip Jack but In th the last lut thirty months lh the Marin Marine has closed u up upa a big bit part ot of the tho th gap cap On the th day d y that fought Firpo he h would undoubtedly have havo stopped Sopped Tunney or Wills In fairly short order older lIe II h had d a 0 wide wido gap gal over any but bue In these last Ian thirty months he has let Itt Tun- Tun Tunney Tun-ncy Tun ney ne make mak heavy heiTy headway In th the direction of his crown Where Dempsey has haa ha been out ot of the game came Tunney has been on the way hill up-hill Since Dempsey lut tart start Tunney has fought Gibbons Carpentier Madden Greb and six fix or eight others and bo- bo bt tween tights he has hns been boxing with sparring r partners punching the lIght and heavy bag bai doing roadwork and building up speed skill stamina and punching power month by month 1 I EXT TYPES Tunney at nt the th start lacked Demp- Demp sey's speed strength weight and hittinG power Dempsey was as a 0 natural athlete Tunney Tunney wasn't Dempsey ei ed and worked as hard as anyone any one In ring history up to a few years yenn ago but Tunney has bas been train train- trainIng training Ing and working ever since Tunney has always had unUm untim- determination and unlimited patience lIe II made mad himself Into a good food boxer and a much harder hit hit- hitter hitter tar ter He lie hit Greb harder than anyone any one ever hit lt him before lie II knocked out Gibbons and Carpentier and Madden He lie hit harder arder than Delaney Dulaney or Stribling It if lUsko HIsko Is to be the tho th judge and he ought to be On his wa way up Tunney Increased ed Id his speed and built himself from 17 to Ho Improved his timing and his more than anything else and whIte whIle he ha neVer had the th physical qualifications lions to Co o be a II Dempsey thes these last lut thirty months have brought th the tho two much closer together than any one on might have havo once Imagined I TIll V TWO STYLES TYLIS A Wills Dempsey fight tl ht It If ever held would not last long lone Wills W would have hav to ge Dempsey In a hurry or fade fale fad out before the th heavy body punishment ho be would tak take Tunney has n novel never vcr tried to 10 be bo a quick finisher II Ito Ho h has s always be believed be- be believed In out-boxing out his hi man and wearing him down as he did Torn Tom Gibbons Few believed he lIe had any chance chanc to knock Gibbons out lie He H did Ills IUs Ill plan or of t campaign against Demps Dempsey y would bo be b to keep aWaY avray all as a Gib- Gib Gibbons Gib Gibbons bons did at t t Shelby tor for seven s-iven or eight rounds rounds and and then go 10 after his chance lie He Is I willing to bank on superior physical condition and to hold hoM him up until p p ey y begins to tire lire after a fighting vacation which has dirc i three thirty months And whatever any one on else els ma m MI Tunney l Is absolutely confident dent that ho h can do just this thing thins and and win YANKS Y IN i THE WEST tESt No 20 ono ever believed that a big league Iague ball club could go 0 tearing Its way along alone with a young Innel which the Yankees Yankee carried in Gab Gab- rl Geh-rl rl rIg Koenig LanerI and Yet Yet they took that infield through h the th better better part art of sixteen straight Now the corn como come to lh the main story atory In their Invasion of tho west went where four clubs club ha have been waiting t to haul them back They started weSt with a good rod lead and If they can nn hold part parl ot of It pending a 0 re turn to the th homo stadium they will take tak a lot of catching before the summer la Is over r There Thre Is no reason for any slump If that young Infield can hold to to- to gether which few young Infields do Rut Hut there them ther must always b be an al OO ao so this mav may he b the spot THE REVS Once more moro there ther comes the tho th rata rata- rata plan Of Helen Hlen versus M Suzanne Will they met meet or ont they meet And If It they do who'll meet defeat lm not so 0 sure sur either cither way And so 80 theres not much mor more more to toay say eay ay Herr Paul still h b be believes ho h Is going to take tak Mr Strib- Strib Stribling Sl St rib rib- rib line ling to pieces to ace soe c what makes him tick lick And Mr Ill St still believes that herr Paul Is la not nt go- go goIng going iro-Int iro Ing to hit at au all where It hurts a lot From Fr m this distance It has many of the earmarks o of an enig enigma enig- enig enigma ma m unless some ome on one Is wrong A golf colt shot lint int hard bard unless one ke i It so 80 sas sa's says an expert This ought to 10 mean nean something and we hope to figure It out before the next round Some Som one on must have hav been mono mon mon k keying with the he batting averages Isn't lending leading the league The m miscreant If It caught be properly punished 00 00 |