Show TUNNEY TUNEY Y LACKS LACIS SHOWMANSHIP SI OF DEMPSEY DEl 1 BUT IS NOBODY'S AS THEY TIlEY SAY I ii lly By JOI IS I ISI P Pa 23 3 PHILADELPHIA I IGene Gene Gene Tunny Tunney may win the I IGene heavyweIght ch championship from Jacic Dempsey when they be- be begin In bc gin popping hostile gloves cloves at each other her In the bowl Sept ho 23 23 ho may but you arent aren't or ol It watching him work up here In tn the highlands of or Penn Penn- Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania Tunney's form Is deceitful Hooes He oes about his work with witha n a deadly earnestness that nt at times timeR amounts amount to downright sol sol- I j enmity Maybe Maybo Its ll's this absence I of flash and the fury fury the h showman ship that stuff stuff that leaves you uninspired uninspired uninspired At any rate yen are And yet Tunney Is Some ot of the boys bOs are aro saying he h Is tho the greatest fighter Dempsey Dimpsey ever over met and perhaps he Is has whipped some rat great fighters He lie started Harry Greb on his downward path pails stopped Carpentier and Gibbons 1 Tunney Is one of oC thos those fighters who always al Is winning Some Some- times lines ho lIe looks bad In the ring but at the end he h alas luas ah a Is the tho winner I thought thong lie he fought an ordinary fIght against the Frenchman but he lie won von I J dIdn't he looked particularly great ag against Gibbons but Jilt he ho HOIl on Tunney In some respects respect Is the most remarkable fighter tighter the game gamo has ever had He ha literally thought ht himself Into the position of ot the foremost challenger Possessed ot of an faith In his own pos pos- possibilities pos possibilities he Hi has developed de a win win- winnIng winning win nine nIng psychology that may actual actual- actually actually ly 11 carry earry him on to the cham cham- championship cham- cham championship Tunney looks you squarely In Inthe the eye and tells you he ho will willbe willbe be the next heavyweight chant cham cham- cham champlon champion pion plon as suro sure as the Creator made little green apples There Is something the way ho he tells you this the th deep sincerity and profound coO le conviction conviction tion that hat makes mikes you ft tHI Eel el that isis lis words will come true ue no how much higher you may be Inclined to to rate Dempsey as a fIghter You will wilt find yourself cx- cx ex experiencing ono one of those eurious motions that flint destiny or Ir fato Into or oron orone orone one on of ot tho the other unseen forces has decided to step In and crown this fine looking young man champion of o tho the v world orld OrId I dont don't mean to Infer InCer that isi i Incapable able ot or accomplishing accomplishing pUshing anything against Demp Demp- Dempsey Dempsay say sey without the of t f Destiny and nd Fate Ho lIe may nay not bo a a great creat fighter but IM I'M Is to repeat nobody Ho it Is 1 fast tart on his feet teet can box Is cool coolIn coolIn coolin In action game came anti and a II hitter You might call can Tunney a shot aone shot ono hitter Somewhere along the th line Uno In every fight he has Tunney gets celt over ovel o one one e good goodshot goodshot shot It seldom puts nn an end to tho the show but It turns out outto outto outto to be the tho turning point tile the blow that gives elves him the upper hand and leads to tl victor victory A left hook to the tha Tun liver Tun Tunney's ney's favorite favorit punch took punch took all the fIght out of ot Grab Greb the Ule last time they met and caused the then weight middle weight le-weight champion to go BO to Tunney iller after the fight with the tho declaration that he ho would never fight him again A right cross to the Jw In the tenth round dropped and promptly changed chanced the com corn complexion complexion of ot a a fight tight that had 1 been very mediocre up to that point A I left lett Ct hook to tho the liver In the round took all tho the fight out ot of Gibbons or most of at It any any ay way vay and the knockout as a II matter mailer of ot course In a a previous fight tight with the tho South American Tunney had bad gone conc along alon- for six AI round rounds In a slovenly methodical way show show- showIng show show-Ine Ing only limited hitting ability Then Jhen In the seventh ho let firO hander a right right-bander that caught just over I the he left eye ee It al- al almost almost al almost most scalped him so great was the power PO and violence behind the punch You never can tell when Ton Tun- Tonney Tun Tunney ney rey Is going to come corn up with one ot of those thOM kind of punches But Dut now and then ho he does docs come up with one and usually theres there's enough behind It to convince all alland alland and sundry that lr he can lilt hit |